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Welcome back. Let's talk about the O under hop. This is the whole plan for you to grow your business even more through 2026 by focusing on your past clients, your core sphere, those people that absolutely love you. This is the secret I use to grow our business and continue to help out agents all across the United States. It's hop. Yesterday was H, your brand needs to meet them at home. Today is oh, your brand needs to meet them online. Let's break down all of the different options you've got. I'm Tristan. This is your daily real estate. It's a podcast, it's a show, five to ten minutes every single day on things you should be doing for your business. Let's get right into this one. This is O under the HOP acronym that I created. It's in the book. If you need to dive in deeper into this. The book is real estate prospecting. It's on Amazon. It's best selling book I wrote about two years ago. Oh, meeting people online. Here's the core idea. I'm just going to read it to you based on what I wrote here. Own the scroll or stop the scroll. When prospects open up their phone, their laptop, their inbox, whatever it is, your brand greets them with instant relevant help. The core word there is relevant, right? That's what value is, not a sales pitch. It's consistent. It's micro content. It's designed to always think about the things that they need based on who they are as your audience. So think, where do they live, right, that community, do they own a home? Most of the, most of your past clients still own a home, right? And your sphere, your core sphere, if they don't own a home, they rent somewhere. So they're part of the community. Those are the two key things when you're thinking online. Now you've got a lot of options because online can be a newsletter. It can be you going through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and doing like comment message and connecting with them through liking all that and connecting and emailing them as well. A newsletter, right? Retargeting, where you can spend some money and follow them all across the Internet. Or you can start a whole, like my friends have a whole media company where you're reporting about the community, you're reporting everything that's happening. And it's in the form of YouTube, it's in the form of short video, it's in the form of articles, graphics. There's a lot you can do here. And my, my favorite reason for this one is it's the Easiest, simplest, cheapest one you could do. Because all of you, all of you real estate agents have a phone. If you're watching on YouTube, I'm just picking up my phone. All of you have this device and it's. You're already paying for it. I was gonna say it's free, but you're already paying for it. And that's where you would start. I think of who's on there already. Do you have their email address? Because if you do, it's time to export it. With a simple app called MC Mother Charlie, mc, MC Backup Pro, you can export your whole list into an Excel sheet. And then from that Excel sheet, you can say, well, who am I going to import into my CRM and Target through an email? Because I'm going to create a newsletter once a month. That's it, once a month. I mean, at this point, you can go to ChatGPT and have it help you or get you started and say, hey, ChatGPT, I needed a newsletter that has three sections for it. What's happening in the community, what's happening in real estate locally, and then something about you that's pretty easy. Then you would send that out once a week. You can use. I think you can use mailchimp and it might still. Don't quote me on this one. It might still be free for under a certain amount of sends, but if not, I think it's only like $20, very inexpensive. So start thinking of a newsletter. The other one, well, most of us have friends on social media, so you can go on your phone and you can purposefully scroll on Facebook and Instagram and LinkedIn daily, 20 minutes a day, and be purposeful and connect with people and say, I love that you went there. Congratulations. Or happy birthday. Like I do every morning I go through Facebook and I see the birthdays that come up. I think I've got like around 8 to 12, depending on the day, and I just go, happy birthday. Happy birthday. And if I miss somebody, some people, which sometimes I do some days, then I go back and I'm like, happy belated birthday. Happy belated birthday. And then I can go, if it's a really close friend or a past client that we got along with really well, then I would privately message them outside of that and say, hey, happy birthday. What'd you end up doing? Just go further into that conversation, Right? So that's, that's social and your phone on top of that. I mean, we've got that list of nine reasons you should be reaching out to your core sphere and core past clients. Now you've got to spread this out throughout the year. And on top of that, you layer in retargeting where your messaging, whether it's your videos or your IDX feed with different properties is following them along. Once they saw your website, once they saw your ads. See, that's important. This is how you start breaking in. This is how you start growing long term. And of course, if you want to do, you know, more Google ppc, you can definitely do that and target your community, target your audience so they can kind of come back in in that way. You'll probably get a whole bunch of new ones as well, but the old ones will be there as well. The whole purpose of this is remember to focus on your really core sphere. But there's so much more you can do here. One of my friends, Matt, who's also a coach with us, he has a Facebook group that he has his past clients in, only his past clients. And he rewards them every quarter and does a giveaway for gifts. And does everyone tune in? Yes, they all do. You see, you have so many opportunities here and for me online, I know I have a few. Let me see. I have a few ideas on this one on this sheet, but if you need this one, this one's episode 712 through 7 14. This is O for meeting people online. There is so much to this one and I outline it some of on this doc, but mostly in my book Real Estate Prospecting. Tomorrow we're going to be talking about the last one on this acronym hop. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have an awesome day.
Podcast: Your Daily Real Estate Podcast with Tristan Ahumada
Host: Tristan Ahumada
Episode: 713
Date: November 12, 2025
This episode dives into the "O" of Tristan’s HOP strategy for building a successful real estate business—specifically, how real estate professionals can effectively connect with their sphere of influence and past clients online to generate more business in 2026. Tristan focuses on practical, low-cost online methods and shares actionable steps to keep your brand relevant, visible, and top-of-mind.
Next Episode Teaser:
Tomorrow’s episode wraps up the HOP acronym—Tristan will cover the final step for effective, long-term real estate prospecting online and offline.
Reference:
For deeper frameworks, check Tristan’s book, Real Estate Prospecting, available on Amazon.