Should a leasing coaching program lead with student results or with the curriculum
A common setup for a small paid leasing program, six weeks, aimed at people managing their first few doors, forces a real decision about what goes on the sales page. One route is results. Track every student, publish the number: average days to lease before and after, how many finished, how many did nothing. That is the standard a careful buyer would want to see, and the coaching industry has earned every bit of skepticism aimed at it. The problem is that a leasing outcome depends on the student's market, their unit, their price, and whether they actually make the calls. Publishing an average hands anyone who comes in below it a grievance that has little to do with instruction quality, and a published average tends to get read as a floor no matter how it is worded. The other route sells process only: here is the curriculum, here is exactly what a student will be able to do at the end, here are the templates, with a plain statement that outcomes depend on factors outside the program's control. That version is cleaner and harder to attack, but it is also weaker against a competitor claiming their students triple their rents, whether or not that claim is defensible. A middle version, publishing completion rates and testimonials but no performance numbers, risks landing as the weaker half of both approaches rather than the strength of either. The more durable version of the results route publishes a range with the variables disclosed alongside it, market, starting rent, and effort, rather than a single average presented as a guarantee.
What goes on the sales page for a six week leasing program
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