Start from sales capacity, not budget
The most common planning mistake is deciding the media budget first. A team of four executives who can each handle twenty meaningful conversations a week has a ceiling, and generating leads beyond that ceiling does not produce more bookings — it produces unreturned calls and a damaged brand.
Work backwards. Bookings needed, conversion rate from site visit, conversion rate from qualified lead, and only then the lead volume and the budget that supports it.
Channel mix by buying stage
Search captures people who have already decided to look. Meta creates interest among people who were not looking this morning. A project needs both, in a ratio that depends on how established the location and the developer already are.
A new micro-market needs demand creation. An established corridor with active search volume rewards Google far more.
Distribution decides everything after the click
Leads must reach a named person within seconds, with the source attached. Round-robin is fine; territory-based is better when locality knowledge matters. What matters most is that assignment is automatic and that unattended leads escalate.
A lead sitting unassigned in a platform inbox for six hours has, for practical purposes, been thrown away.
Follow-up is a system, not a discipline
Property buying cycles run for weeks or months. Expecting a sales executive to remember a seventh follow-up on a lead from six weeks ago is expecting too much of anyone. Scheduled cadences and reminders convert a personal quality into an organisational one.
Attribution that survives scrutiny
When the CRM holds the campaign, ad set and creative alongside the booking record, the monthly review has a defensible answer to "where did this sale come from". Without it, every channel takes credit for the same deal.
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