This is a business question.
I have primarily exclusive listings. This is where the owner signs up with only my company to represent them on my website as well as other OTAs.
I have recently brought in several properties that are listed by the owner on other real estate broker websites.
If I book the property, I get the full commission. Out commission usually is 15%.
Recently, a property that is exclusive to me has wanted me to list their property on another real estate broker's website.
What would you do?
Are any of you dealing with this sort of competitive market?
How do you handle ensuring that the pricing is consistent if I am using an algorithm and the agent is not?
How do you keep the calendars synced when the agent does not use anything that can handle iCal?
None of these other realtor websites have any of OR's features.
I want to take advantage of any best practices you may have, and I appreciate your reading this post and sharing your knowledge.
The first thought that crossed my mind is to have a link on the realtor page that goes back to you.
How do you keep the calendars synced when the agent does not use anything that can handle iCal?
Can you get an email from the realtor when a reservation comes through with them? If so then this would be relatively easy to do using zapier which could pick out the details from the email as soon as it comes in and then add it to your calendar.
The first thought that crossed my mind is to have a link on the realtor page that goes back to you.
>> They won't do that as their listings are built inside of their proprietary software
How do you keep the calendars synced when the agent does not use anything that can handle iCal?
>> Manually
Can you get an email from the realtor when a reservation comes through with them? If so then this would be relatively easy to do using zapier which could pick out the details from the email as soon as it comes in and then add it to your calendar.
>> Not consistently
>> one of the brokers uses a google sheet which I don't think that Zapier could easily pick out details from