{"id":3457,"date":"2021-12-03T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpropeller.com\/blog\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:39:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:39:24","slug":"local-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Beat iBuyers by Leveraging the Home-Field Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>iBuyers have HUGE advertising budgets and are paying big bucks to outcompete local investors.&nbsp;They&#8217;re doing&nbsp;<em>everything<\/em>&nbsp;they can to squeeze out the small guys. Still, companies like Opendoor and Offerpad continue to lose deals to people like you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s because local investors have the home-field advantage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Sellers want to work with local buyers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most homeowners are more comfortable working with local buyers than with a faceless corporation, which is why&nbsp;<strong>you should leverage the home-field advantage whenever possible<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tailor your blogs and website copy to fit the local flavor. Include pictures of popular local places on your website. Don&#8217;t just tell sellers that you&#8217;re local; show them with the website content you create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, as you continue to customize your website, sellers will simply assume that you live and work in their area; this makes lead conversion <em>so much easier<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But what&#8217;s the one thing you can do <em>today<\/em> to leverage the home-field advantage?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve found that utilizing a local number on your investor website is one of the easiest, most effective ways to accomplish this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, thanks to our software team&#8217;s behind-the-scenes engineering efforts, you can acquire and integrate a local phone number&nbsp;<em>in minutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Get a local phone number via LeadPropeller<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a phone number with a local area code listed on your LeadPropeller website, you&#8217;re doing yourself a disservice. With a local number, you&#8217;ll get more calls and more conversions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a LeadPropeller user, getting a local number is quick, easy, <em>and inexpensive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For just a few dollars, you can <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/app.leadpropeller.com\/phone-numbers\" target=\"_blank\">purchase a local phone number directly from the LeadPropeller dashboard<\/a>. And since call forwarding is part of the configuration process, you won&#8217;t need a new phone <em>or<\/em> a new SIM card; it just works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBuyers have HUGE advertising budgets and are paying big bucks to outcompete local investors.&nbsp;They&#8217;re doing&nbsp;everything&nbsp;they can to squeeze out the small guys. Still, companies like Opendoor and Offerpad continue to lose deals to people like you. Why? It&#8217;s because local investors have the home-field advantage! Sellers want to work with local buyers Most homeowners are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[20,77,3],"tags":[66,25,84,50,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3460,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions\/3460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpblog.leadpropeller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}