Day: February 3, 2022

Now in order for me to help you understand this first, let me really explain a very evident distinction between the differences of a sphere of influence and an audience. You see a sphere of influence is really defined in real estate as all of your connections as a real estate professional. These connections can be friends, family, colleagues, prospects, clients, you know, the list can go on. An audience, on the other hand, is really defined as a specific group of customers that want your product or service. 

If you do a post to your sphere about, let’s say, first-time home buyers, but the majority of your sphere already has a home. Or if you’re posting about luxury listings, but everyone in your ear can only afford a sub-million dollar property. 

To really generate a lead, a solid qualified lead, which really then you have to ask yourself the question, who exactly are you creating this content for? Or more specifically, who exactly are you talking to? If you’re posting daily, but it’s not resonating, then it’s likely because you haven’t identified an audience to talk to. 

Let’s say you’re doing a post about selling income properties and only about 5% of your sphere can afford an income property. Then you’ve pretty much already tapped into your entire qualified sphere. So then the question becomes, where are you going to get some new business from.

Therein lies the problem and why I’m making this big distinction between the words, sphere and audience. Going back to the definition of audience, which is a specific group of consumers that are most likely to want. She had a sphere of about 300 people and an audience of really inevitably about five people in therein lies the issue. 

That was the big problem. Her audience just was not big enough. You see, at the end of the day, if your audience is not big enough, then how are you going to attract new leads and new prospects. You’ve effectively tapped out who to market to.

Running the numbers based on our data. You have about to 2-5% conversion rate per every hundred leads. This then begs the question. Do you have a small sphere and an even smaller audience to make the numbers work?

All she needed to do was increase her audience size to be able to acquire more leads and prospects. Your sphere is small, which means your audience is even smaller. That means when you’re creating these content and posts and you’re kind of blanketing your audience, but they’re all not qualified and you’re only talking to one person.