TalkHomey Week 2: The Search for Users Continues
Plus exploring some ways to extract info from websites
Greetings from beautiful Utah! A little late this week due to being in a different time zone, but I’m going to claim consistency based on my local publish time as opposed to the global publish time. Current at the Copy.ai company off-site.
Well, I started my cold outreach to realtors near me and unfortunately, haven’t had any success yet. I’ve done a combo of cold emailing and submitting forms via realtor websites when their email address wasn’t listed directly.
Here’s the email I’ve been sending:
I've noticed a problem that some realtors have: their business is built on relationships, but websites end up being really impersonal. You need to have them, but how much do they really do to foster that relationship?
That's why I'm building out TalkHomey. TalkHomey is a chatbot that you can easily add to your site and it can have conversations with the visitors to your site. It can answer questions about your listings and include information from outside sources that you specify. And ultimately, the goal is to start building that relationship with potential clients from the moment they hit your site until they reach out and you can take over the relationship.
If your website isn't doing the job for you, I'd love to see if TalkHomey would help. I'd be happy to show you a demo.
I’ve tried two different subject lines up to this point:
Is your website building relationships for you?
Engage & Impress Website Visitors with Our Relationship-Building Chatbot
But after throwing those up on Twitter and discussing them with others, I think my next batch will use the subject line
is your website helping you build relationships?
I also want to tighten up the copy in the body of the email a bit.
And I’m debating: do I want to start using some sort of tool that allows me to track the emails I’m sending and the people I’m sending them to? Right now, I have just set up a simple Notion CRM, but maybe as I think about upping my efforts, a tool that lets me see more analytics on the campaign might be helpful.
Tuning the Bot
I also spent a little time trying to make the bot better at scraping websites. It was a fun challenge: basically, I wanted to determine whether or not a given page was a property listing or not, because if so, I wanted to extract the property information from the page, so I could pull that out into a different search space and choose it when needed.
If this problem interests you, check out my YouTube channel tomorrow: I’ve got a video premiering that shows my thought process of comparing various approaches using GPT-3.5 and GPT 4 to see what I could get working.
Content Corner
I also released a new YouTube video on my 5 keys to taking back control over your internet experience: