Loss
This was supposed to be the smart version of turnover marketing. Two buildings, 20 units total, three repeating floor plans. Rather than paying for a shoot every time a unit goes…
Win
Selling a small inherited house next spring and I decided to run the marketing myself rather than take whatever package comes bundled. Hired copy and photo separately. The copywri…
Discussion
An owner forwarded me a screenshot of a caption on one of our rental listings: "ideal for a young professional couple, walk to the brewery." She drafted it in an AI tool and it we…
From the desk:
This is the first marketing contract I've had to read rather than a loan document, so tell me if I'm looking at normal industry terms. Situation: I'm on the capital side of a smal…
From the desk:
Five years running content for agents and a couple of small investment shops. Standard package is 16 posts, 4 short videos, and two listing writeups a month at $1,450. Since sprin…
From the desk:
First rental I'm putting on the market to lease, small two bed in a decent suburban pocket, asking $1,650. The agent handling it sent me the listing draft. Eleven photos, four of…
Discussion
An agent I know pays someone for "listing content" and pays someone else for "media." When I asked what the difference was she said the media guy shoots and the content person doe…
Discussion
Sitting with a proposal I'm about to sign as the buyer, and the structure is bothering me more than the price. It's $1,900 a month for a mid size agent team and the deliverables a…
Discussion
I buy this kind of work, I don't produce it. I asked two content people for a quote on writing descriptions for a small portfolio of notes-backed rentals I help market, and one of…
Loss
Six months, $800 a month, one email a week to my buyer list. 2,340 names, mostly people who inquired on listings over the last four years plus a chunk from a local investor meetup…
Discussion
Looking at a small content shop as a bolt-on. 18 retainer clients, blended $1,400 a month, $302k trailing revenue, owner draw $95k, two contract editors doing the edit volume. Sel…
From the desk:
Buyer list build, seven months of data, and I'm at the point where the next dollar has to go somewhere specific. Spend: $1,150 a month all in. That's $650 to a part-time editor at…
From the desk:
Signed a content retainer in July to feed an off-market seller funnel. $2,400 a month. Deliverables are 12 short videos, 20 static posts, and one email a week to a list of about 1…
Loss
Sold a 1970s three bedroom in a soft suburban submarket in the spring. Agent's standard package was included, and I paid an extra $2,750 out of pocket for what got sold to me as t…
Discussion
Running a small content team, four people including me. Our per piece production time on short form has dropped hard over the last year, editing and drafting assisted. A reel that…
Loss
I own a 12 unit and an 8 unit, both older walkups in a working class part of town. Last year I decided the buildings should have a presence, so I hired a content person off a refe…
Discussion
We run listing content packages for agents. Three people including me, 42 packages last month, $180 each. A package is the long description, six captions, and one vertical reel cu…
From the desk:
First rental, closing in three weeks, two bed one bath in a decent part of town. Asking $1,300. A woman who does listing content for a couple of local agents offered me a package…
Loss
Started posting in June while my coursework was still in progress. The plan was to have an audience ready the day my license came through so I wouldn't be starting from zero. What…
Discussion
I've been trying to build a model for content spend and I keep producing two models that disagree with each other, so I'll put both up rather than pick. Model one treats content a…