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How To Dominate Buyer And Seller Leads And Leave Cold Calling Behind w/Dustin Fox

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Dustin says 4k YouTube ads work because one suburb can be targeted as a single homeowner audience.

1. Real Estate Uncensored features Dustin Fox discussing seller leads, Google reviews, and YouTube ads. 2. Matt Johnson introduces Dustin as a friend and client who is launching Ambitious Agents and bringing a very specific lead-generation system. 3. The episode asks how a real estate agent can stop cold calling and still dominate buyer and seller leads through reviews, direct mail, and video. 4. Dustin says he has been licensed for 8.5 years and ran a team for three years. 5. He says the team has done about $400 million in business in three years, reached $170 million last year, and is on pace for over $200 million this year. 6. Dustin says his wife noticed he was walking 15,000 to 20,000 steps a day and constantly giving advice to agents. 7. He says that pattern pushed him toward team leadership after years of retail management at Bed Bath and Beyond and Pottery Barn. 8. Dustin says his first major insight about reviews came during COVID when his father switched from mocking Amazon boxes to choosing products by review count. 9. He says that moment showed him buyers and sellers will default to the easiest trusted signal, which pushed him toward Google reviews. 10. Dustin says he moved from a few hundred reviews to 1,635 reviews as of the recording. 11. He says the team collects reviews under one heading and uses that scale to win Google local service ads and website calls. 12. Matt compares the strategy to Zillow review farming and asks why Google is better for seller leads. 13. Dustin says Zillow is mainly where people go to search for homes, while sellers are more likely to use referrals or Google searches like "realtors near me." 14. Dustin says he spent his first two years focused on Zillow reviews and only later started pushing into Google reviews and the Google local pack. 15. He says Google local service ads now capture attention before the local pack and he would rather pay 50% to 60% of a commission for a strong seller lead than 30% to 40% to portals like HomeLight, UpNest, or Dave Ramsey. 16. Dustin says he rejected expired and withdrawn cold-calling because it gave him heart palpitations and did not fit his personality. 17. He describes switching to handwritten lumpy mail, a seven-letter sequence, and a line from David Ogilvy about advertising to "a moving parade." 18. Dustin says one prospect called after receiving calendar magnets and asked whether he had stopped sending them, which confirmed the campaign was working. 19. Matt says the episode is a fit for agents who want practical marketing, especially those willing to build one suburb at a time. 20. Viewers who want cold-calling scripts, theory-heavy business talk, or long motivational detours may skip this episode.

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