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Amanda Newman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
373 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

No.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Oh, because we don't know everyone in our city.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

So we sell we sell directly to the real estate agent and we've learned that going to the broker first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

And that's a lot of suggestions that we get normally from people as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

You go right directly to the broker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

But real estate agents, they really do their own marketing strategies themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

They don't normally include the brokerage in their decisions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

So we go directly to the real estate agent and each one of them have their own strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

And like I said, the ones who are community focused and the ones who do build their business on relationship and referral, those are the ones we work with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

And we spend a lot of time qualifying them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

So the initial call is really just asking them how they get their business and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Figuring out if they're a good fit for us, because if they aren't interested in meeting people and if they're not interested in actually going around interviewing businesses and becoming that local community leader, we call them, we know that we don't even want to spend time wasting their time or even wasting our time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Um, so we have thought of that and being bootstrapped, we have to move fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Um, so we've, we've kind of gone around and we've tried it once or twice where we've talked to the, to the brokerage and they take a lot more time than just going directly to the individual sales rep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

Hey, everyone's, everyone's going to get 25% off if you all sign up within a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

I mean, we don't have that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

We have to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench

So we're in 500 startups right now.