Commercial Real Estate Brokers: Cold Calling Advice

I'm curious to hear from current and former commercial real estate brokers on their typical best practice cold calling techniques.

1) How many calls a day do you aim for? 2) Typical time of day you cold call? 3) What's your standard elevator pitch? 4) Do you recommend leaving voicemails? 5) Do you utilize cold emails when you can? Or are you a traditional dial-for-dollars cold calls by phone only? 6) Do you utilize a CRM database to organize your contacts? If so, what do you use? 7) What's your best practice for creating your call lists?

I'd also be curious to hear from those on the receiving end of a broker's cold call. What's most effective to get your attention and potential future business? And conversely, what drives you batshit crazy about a broker's cold call to you?

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I focus on multifamily/mixed use properties in the NYC area.

Target 50 calls per day

Time Frames: 12-2pm 5-8:30pm

CRM are a plus (Hubspot,salesforce) or you can build out a basic google sheets and keep track there

Cold Emails kinda suck (getting accuracy down is tough/especially for building owners)

Process:

Step 1: Build prospect list (Old School geographic farm, block/lot identification) -Use the various databases available (i.e. propertyshark) - Get phone numbers

Step 2: Call - (Intro/initial hook -> pitch -> CTA*usually appt)

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Sales training is key.

 
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