Atomic Open House

It’s time to get excited because I’m going to talk about the Atomic Open House. The Atomic Open House is my best open house strategy ever.

This starts with the preparation of the house. (Please see Photo Seduction class or How to Make Your House Sexy too.) I recommend hiring a home stager, but it’s up to the agent to reinforce these principles. When you’re putting the house online it needs to look its best. I talk about selling houses like online dating because if you were trying to get a date you would want to look your best.

MARKETING YOUR OPEN HOUSE

I think that open house directional signs are crucial because you need to direct people to the house, but I don’t use as many signs as most realtors because I don’t think it brings in good quality traffic to sell the house. My goal with an Atomic Open House is to sell the house.  The key to the Atomic Open House is making sure your house is marketed on all of the top websites: Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, and Realtor.com. Also, make sure you schedule your marketing in your MLS by Wednesday or Thursday.

Atomic Open House is a mindset that you are trying to sell this house and that you are going to do everything possible to generate as much traffic through this house as possible. This is not just something that you do to placate your seller. Your job as a marketer is to create high-quality traffic.

CAPTURING DATA

When buyers come to the open house, you need to capture their data. I believe individual forms to capture information are better than a sign-in list. I believe having a flyer ready to hand to the people entering the house shows that you’re attentive. Hopefully, before the open house, you’ve already done your research and you’ve identified off-market properties for that neighborhood, but even if you didn’t, some neighbors may come to the open house. When neighbors come in, ask questions about the neighborhood and ask if they are considering selling. Those neighbors then also become potential clients with potential off-market properties for sale.

Put this all together and you have an Atomic Open House. You’re doing a great job for your seller and you’re maximizing your end killing it at the open house!