More Than Real EstateEpisode 81: How to Make Instagram the Bread and Butter of Your Business
Episode 81: More Than Real Estate Podcast — How to Make Instagram the Bread and Butter of Your Business
Anita had 200 followers and a license she was barely using. Eighteen months after taking the course she is full time in Dallas, Instagram is her main lead source, and her own sphere is watching her win. This is the conversation about what happens after the first lead, when most agents have already stopped paying attention.
✨ The number that took eighteen months to build. Anita went from 200 followers to almost 7,700 and from part time to full time in the Dallas market. She is honest that it took her longer than some of her cohort to see closings, and she names why. "Why is this not working for me?" is a question she sat in for months before it clicked. The agents who quit at month four never find out what month eighteen looks like.
✨ She almost quit, and one thing stopped her. A group of women from her cohort kept posting alongside her when nothing was landing yet. Her words: "otherwise I think I would've maybe have quit." Ashley talks about why running a real estate business is lonely, why you cannot hand your strategy to the agent one desk over, and why a group scattered across the country solves a problem your brokerage cannot.
✨ The three phases every agent moves through. Beginner, growth, then set it and forget it. Ashley breaks down what changes at each stage, and clarifies the one people get wrong: set it and forget it does not mean you stop posting. It means you finally know what works. Anita is candid that she still considers herself in the growth phase and posts two times a week minimum, five when she is rebuilding her pipeline.
✨ The sphere you already have and the strangers you don't. Anita expected nothing from her sphere and got the opposite. People who have known her for years now see her as the agent in her area. Ashley walks through both arms of the strategy, the 100 people who already know your name, and the audience that finds you later, and why running only one of them leaves money on the table.
✨ Why she will not hire someone to post for her. Anita started using voiceovers specifically so people know a human made it. "People don't really know what's AI generated and what's not." Ashley goes further: "I'm actually anti-AI for social media, and I'm anti having a social media manager." Hire the transaction coordinator. Hire the popby service. Keep your own voice.
About Anita
Anita is a full time real estate agent in Dallas proper, licensed six years. She took the Instagram course in early 2025 when she was still working part time and posting almost nothing, and built her entire lead generation strategy on Instagram from there. She is a Socially Sold alum from the original cohorts, back when the program was called Insta Agent.
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