shane_morgan•1mo ago

Met a guy at a coffee shop in Austin who said all freelance real estate work is just glorified cold calling... and I kinda argued with him about it.

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blairm771mo agoMost Upvoted

I mean, I just told him my best deals came from referrals, not cold calls.

xena_hernandez981mo ago

Sounds like someone's still reading the real estate playbook from 1998. Cold calling is the spam email of the sales world, everyone just hits ignore.

kai8391mo ago

Seriously, that guy sounds clueless. I read a whole study showing most agents build their business through repeat clients and word of mouth, just like @blairm77 said. Cold calling is just one tiny tool, not the whole job.

fionanguyen23d ago

Hold up, let me play devil's advocate for a sec. That guy in Austin has a point. For a new agent with zero network, what else is there? You can't get referrals from people you don't know. Cold calling is the grind that gets you your first few clients. All those "word of mouth" agents started somewhere, and a lot of them started by picking up the phone. It's not pretty, but it's real.