Story Selling Secrets: Turning Your Daily Real Estate Work Into Content That Sells

Getting found online by the right people at the right time often feels daunting as a real estate agent. If you’re anything like most real estate agents, you probably think you need to sink thousands of dollars into ranking at the top of search results and getting real estate leads from bots like ChatGPT.

But what if I told you getting quality real estate leads online from your content is less about fancy SEO tools or big marketing budgets and more about the stories you tell?

What if I told you that telling stories from your daily work is one of the fastest, easiest, cheapest ways to start getting real estate leads from Chat-GPT and Google?

Well buckle-up Buttercup, because you’re going to walk away from this edition of The Elevated Agent with:

• The 3-Step formula for writing stories that stand out and stay with your ideal clients

• The confidence to consider yourself an entertaining and engaging storyteller

• The biggest storytelling mistake most agents are making right now

• A list of stories to tell to create repeat buyers out of passive followers

• The exact method I use to monetize my daily action steps through stories

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The Science Behind Why Storytelling is Essential for Selling Real Estate

Before we go too deep into the nuances of creating stories that sell, I want you to understand just how powerful this strategy is and that it is based in scientific fact, not theory. 

The human brain is uniquely wired to process and retain information in the form of stories. One of the reasons so many real estate brands aren’t memorable is they refuse to create relatable and relevant story-based content their ideal clients can remember. This ability to be remembered is a key function of the emotional connection stories create. 

Well-told narratives actually activate multiple areas of your ideal clients’ brain, a process known as neural coupling. This activation triggers the release of oxytocin, a bonding hormone that forges an emotional link between the reader and your real estate brand.

The Statistical ROI Of Storytelling In Real Estate Marketing

• Listings with videos that tell a story about a home and the lifestyle it offers receive an astounding 403% more inquiries than those without. 

• Strong brand stories correlate with a 5× higher ROI on content.

• Story-infused content receives 4× more social shares.

• Businesses that switch to a story-driven content strategy often see massive and rapid organic traffic growth. Some have reported a 100% increase in organic traffic in just two months, while others have seen traffic jump by 2.7 times in a year.

• Newsletters with storytelling components enjoy 42% higher CTR

• Blogs using storytelling retain readers 50% longer (Medium)

• One case study showed that a single story-driven piece of content converted at a 340% higher rate than the company’s average.

Why These Stats Matter For Your SEO and Organic Lead Generation

• Conversions & Sales: A 30% uplift in conversion rate directly boosts revenue. Storytelling transforms casual interest into action.

• Trust & Advocacy: Better trust (4%) and loyalty (20%) translate into repeat business, referrals, and brand resilience.

• SEO & Traffic: Story-driven content not only attracts readers longer (dwell time) but also improves organic ranking through engagement and backlinks.

• Engagement: Higher retention, shares, and newsletter engagement amplify your content’s reach and lead generation power.

• Business Growth: Strong storytelling can yield faster growth, higher profits, and better customer acquisition, demonstrably improving ROI.

At this point, I think it is abundantly clear that if you are serious about streamlining your real estate business so you can scale it more sustainably, storytelling needs to become the centerpiece of your content strategy. But if you are anything like most real estate agents, you’re still a bit worried about your ability to execute this strategy. Let’s overcome those worries next. 

You Don’t Suck At Storytelling As Much As You Think You Do

It’s no secret that the majority of real estate agents are women, which means the majority of real estate agents have been told by society their entire lives that they are terrible storytellers. 

That is not only not true, it is contributing to limiting beliefs that will prevent you from ever being able to scale your service-based business.

So if you’re coming into this edition of The Elevated Agent with an underlying doubt in your ability to be an amazing storyteller, now is the time to call that limiting belief out as the bullshit it is!

Everyone has the ability to tell a sensational story that sells, as long as you follow the right formula. 

What Makes A Story Stand Out and Stay With Someone?

Some stories tighten a vice-grip around us and stay with us forever.

Others seem to evaporate from our memory the moment they’re over.

Worse yet, some stories are so terrible they feel like they will never end.

So what is the great differentiator between a story that stays with us versus that just plain sucks? Let’s unpack the 3-step formula for stories that stand out & stay with your ideal clients.

The 3-Step Formula For Writing Stories That Stay With Your Audience

1. Start With Someone Relatable - Whether you’re talking about a client, yourself, or a vendor, the best stories start with a character the audience wants to see themselves in in some way.

2. Take them through a Transformation - The best stories are the ones that take the hero through a dramatic transformation. Maybe your client went from “we’ll never find a house we can afford” to “we just got the keys.” Maybe you went from burned out and working 70-hour weeks to running a business with systems that give you freedom.

3. Make It Emotional - Facts tell, but feelings sell. People remember how your story made them feel. This is why it is so important to understand the psychology of your ideal clients and their emotions. 

   
   

The Biggest Mistake Most Real Estate Agents Make When Trying To Sell With Stories

The biggest mistake most agents are making today when it comes to selling through storytelling is they try to sell rather than to tell a story. 

The key to selling with storytelling is to tell a story the audience wants to see themselves in rather than reciting yet another real estate sales script. So before you sit down to write these stories, make sure you’re coming from a place of genuine, altruistic service, rather than sales. 

5 Types Of Stories You Should Tell On Repeat To Convert Followers Into Buyers

If you’re anything like most of my clients, it’s not that you suck at storytelling. It’s that you just don’t know what stories to tell to captivate your audience and move the needle.

1. The Story Of How You Solved A Common Client Challenge: The most profitable stories you can tell are the ones that showcase how you leverage your unique strengths to help clients solve common challenges. 

2. Your Solution-Discovery Stories: Being vulnerable isn’t easy but when you open up about the challenges you faced to create the solutions you offer in your service menu, you create a widespread opportunity for people to trust you and relate to you as humans.

3. The Story of Your Systems At Work: Each of your systems serve an important purpose in creating that elevated client experience you’re known for providing. Each of them also has a back story and examples of how they have come through for you, your team and your clients. Share those stories. 

4. Hyperlocal Stories That Sell The Lifestyle Of Your Niche: From community events to news that matters to your niche, covering these topics when they are urgent and important can go a long way for your local credibility and online authority. 

5. Personal Growth Stories That Show Your Vulnerable Side: Trying to come off as perfect and polished all the time alienates your audience more than you think. Stop trying to sound polished and start talking to your audience the way you would your inner circle of friends. Open up about your failures and struggles and allow your audience in on your professional growth journey, including the real ups and downs, so they can get on your side and root for you to win. 

As you begin journaling about these memories you will probably realize you have far more stories showcasing your unique value than you realize. 

My Storytelling Strategy To Monetize Your Daily Action Steps

In a previous edition of The Elevated Agent, I gave you The Elevated Agents Evening Routine. In that routine, I showed you how to journal about your day to extract the valuable takeaways from your daily work to spark stories that sell. 

How I Scaled My YouTube Channel From 0-1K Subscribers With This Strategy in 100 Days

In the Summer of 2024, I was craving a confidence boost so I challenged myself to record myself as I designed 100 digital products in 100 days and publish the whole process on YouTube. The idea was that by simply hitting the record button while I completed my daily digital product design work, I could scale a YouTube Channel from zero fairly quickly. 

The result? 

A cool 1,000 organic subscribers and a huge boost in my confidence not to mention a library of videos showcasing my work that my prospects can see to help them decide to hire me to design digital products for them. 

So my question for you is, which of your daily tasks can you simply hit record on to showcase your unique value like I did last summer?

My Best Storytelling Tip Of All Time

This one is going to surprise you.

My all-time favorite storytelling or writing tip of all time is to put pen to paper.

Our brains are hardwired for us to process information through physical reading and writing which can’t be replicated by typing in a Google Doc. This is why I have poured so much energy into designing gorgeous and functional printable paper journals and planners.

The best pieces of content you will ever write will start by putting actual pen to paper first, then refining the draft later on the computer.

Your Next Steps:

1. Create a “Hype File” filled with all of your past testimonials and reviews including screenshots of positive remarks via text and email that were never published in a review. These will seed some of your most profitable stories. 

2. Implement the evening routine for extracting stories that sell from your daily actions.

3. Start putting pen to paper about the 5 types of stories you should tell on repeat

   
   

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