Brokerage marketing agency

More qualified clients. More completed transactions. Predictable growth.

That's what brokerage marketing should deliver. Northic Media helps brokerages generate qualified leads, win higher-value transactions, and build the client pipeline that makes revenue predictable — strategy, advertising, local SEO, websites, and client-source tracking handled by one team that knows the sector.

Built for brokerages, not generic businesses Residential, commercial & investment expertise Tracked in signed clients, not clicks Month to month
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Discovery call
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Let's find your brokerage's biggest growth opportunity

Tell us about your brokerage. We'll look at how you're getting clients today and show you where the biggest opportunities are.

Two short steps. No card, no contract, no call unless you want one.
What are you looking to improve? * — pick any that apply
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Built for brokerages Local search Google Ads Service pages Call tracking Client attribution
01The problem

Brokerages don't have a lead problem. They have a client-quality problem.

The brokerages we talk to are usually getting enquiries. The problem is the mix. Too many low-value or unqualified leads, too few high-value transactions, and no clear line of sight from ad spend to the signed clients that actually move revenue.

01

Enquiries that never convert

Forms filled in by people who never answer the phone, never qualify, and never transact. Your team's day disappears into a black hole.

02

Not winning the high-value clients

Commercial, portfolio, and investment clients are where the recurring, high-margin work lives — but you're invisible for those searches.

03

Out-ranked on Google Maps

Local map-pack visibility is where high-intent clients choose. If you're not in the top three, you're effectively invisible.

04

Website that doesn't sell the firm

No service depth, no team bios that build trust, no case studies, no evidence of outcomes. Visitors bounce to a competitor with a stronger online presence.

05

Wasted spend on the wrong searches

Google Ads driving clicks from students, job-seekers, and out-of-area enquiries rather than real clients ready to sign.

06

No client-source attribution

You know how many enquiries came in. You don't know which channel produced the highest-value transaction — or the one that produced nothing.

Find your growth opportunity

Want to know where your brokerage is losing high-value clients?

Tell us about your business. We'll look at your current marketing and show you where we see the biggest opportunities to win the right clients.

Get My Free Brokerage Audit → Free · no obligation
02The growth system

Everything a brokerage needs to win the right clients and close the right transactions.

Brokerage marketing is a trust, transaction-value, and long-consideration category. It has its own rules — and the whole system we build has to respect them.

01

Get found locally

Google Business Profile, local SEO, service pages, and map-pack visibility in every market you serve.

02

Get the consultations

Google Ads, LSA, and Meta campaigns targeting high-intent searches — "commercial real estate broker", "investment property advisor" — not generic brokerage terms.

03

Book the consultation

Fast-loading service pages, click-to-call, and booking flows that turn a search into a scheduled call in under 60 seconds.

04

Win the bigger transactions

Case-study depth, market authority, and clear fee positioning that convert a general enquiry into a high-value engagement.

05

Track it properly

Call tracking, recording, and client-quality review so you can see which channels produce signed clients — not just enquiries.

06

Grow profitably

Reporting on cost per signed client and cost per service line, so you can put more into what pays and stop funding what doesn't.

Most agencies sell brokerages one of these six and hope the rest works out. The whole point is that they work together — and that someone is accountable for the signed clients at the end, not the clicks at the start.

03What we do for brokerages

Six service families. The mix is different for every brokerage.

A residential brokerage needs very different work to a commercial or investment-focused firm. Here's what each service includes — and which type of brokerage it suits best.

01

Local SEO & Google Maps

Where clients look first — usually within minutes of deciding they need a brokerage. If you're not in the map pack for your market, you're losing the easiest transactions in the market.

  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • Map-pack ranking
  • Service pages
  • Review generation
  • Local citations
  • Website local signals
Best for

Any brokerage that wants to be the default choice in the markets it already serves.

Typical timeline

Map movement in 30–60 days. Compounds from there.

What you get

Free, high-intent consultations you don't pay per click for.

02

Google Ads & Local Services Ads

Speed to enquiry. We put you at the top of the results the moment someone searches for a broker — and we filter out the searches that never become clients.

  • Google Search Ads
  • Local Services Ads
  • Performance Max
  • Call-only campaigns
  • Negative keyword filtering
  • Geo targeting
Best for

Brokerages that need consultations inside 30 days or want to own a specific service line in their market.

Typical timeline

First consultations in days. Optimised from week two.

What you get

Consultations from real searchers — tracked to the client level.

03

Websites Built to Convert

Most brokerage websites are online brochures. They list services and stop there. Ours are built around one job: turning a visitor into a consultation booking inside 30 seconds.

  • Fast-loading mobile design
  • Click-to-call on every page
  • Consultation booking integration
  • Service & sector depth pages
  • Team bio & results pages
  • Trust signals & reviews
Best for

Brokerages with decent traffic whose site isn't producing consultations.

Typical timeline

4–8 weeks to design, build and launch.

What you get

More consultations from the traffic you already have.

04

Call Tracking & Client Attribution

You can't improve what you can't measure. We install call tracking that shows which channel produced which call, how long it lasted, and whether it turned into a signed client — so every marketing decision is made on evidence.

  • Dynamic call tracking
  • Call recording
  • Lead-source attribution
  • Transaction-value reporting
  • Cost per acquisition
  • Channel ROI breakdown
Best for

Any brokerage spending on more than one channel — or who can't say which one produces signed clients.

Typical timeline

Set up in weeks 1–2. Reporting from month one.

What you get

One page a month tying spend to signed clients.

05

Creative & Content

Brokerage is a trust and credentials category. The creative has to look like a real, competent, established firm. We produce the assets that earn the call.

  • Ad creative
  • Team photography
  • Case studies
  • Market reports
  • Client testimonials
  • Brand positioning
Best for

Brokerages competing against larger firms and directory-listed competitors.

Typical timeline

Ongoing, refreshed with each campaign.

What you get

Creative that wins the tap over the firm next to you.

06

Strategy & Growth Planning

Every brokerage has one bottleneck that's costing them more than any other. Our job is to find it, fix it first, and build the rest of the work around it — service mix, market focus, pricing, and growth strategy.

  • Market analysis
  • Competitor research
  • Service-line focus
  • Market positioning
  • Fee positioning
  • Growth planning
Best for

Partners who want to grow the firm, not just fill next week's pipeline.

Typical timeline

Weeks 1–3 of any engagement.

What you get

A one-page plan you can actually act on.

Not sure where to start

Not sure which of these would actually move the needle for your brokerage?

That's exactly what the first conversation is for. We'll look at where your clients come from today, where they don't, and what we'd prioritise first.

Find My Opportunities → Two questions to start
●Your turn

You've seen how the system works. Let's talk about your brokerage.

Same free audit. Same straight answers. No obligation, no generic pitch — just a clear look at where we'd focus first if it were our money on the line.

Where your consultations actually come from
Which service lines you're invisible in
What we'd prioritise first, and why
Free · no obligationStep 1 of 2

Let's find your brokerage's biggest growth opportunity

Tell us about your brokerage. We'll look at how you're getting clients today and show you where the biggest opportunities are.

Two short steps. No card, no contract, no call unless you want one.
What are you looking to improve? * — pick any that apply
Used only to put your audit together and send it to you. We don't sell or share your details.
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04Brokerage case studies

Real brokerages. Real signed clients.

Four different firms, four different bottlenecks. In every case the partners already had a good business — what they didn't have was marketing that could be traced to signed clients.

Case 01 — Residential

Residential brokerage

Single metro · 90 days
The problemLots of low-value enquiries, few high-value clients
What we changedGoogle Ads + LSA + a rebuilt consultation site + call tracking
Signed clients / month8 → 29
Average transaction value↑ 62%
What the partners didHired a second account manager
Business outcome: fewer tyre-kickers, more signed clients, better margins.
Case 02 — Commercial

Commercial brokerage

Regional · 6 months
The problemInvisible in the highest-value commercial searches
What we changedCommercial-specific landing pages + Google Ads + local SEO + LinkedIn
Commercial enquiries / month7 → 32
Average engagement value↑ 78%
New business lines3 → 11
Business outcome: dominant position in the highest-margin commercial category.
Case 03 — Investment

Investment property brokerage

National · 5 months
The problemInvisible for high-intent investor searches
What we changedInvestment-specific landing pages + Google Ads + content + CRM sync
Qualified investor leads / month12 → 41
Average portfolio value↑ 82%
ReportingOne page, cost per signed investor by channel
Business outcome: pipeline of investors that didn't cost anything per click.
Case 04 — Multi-office

Multi-office brokerage

Regional · 4 months
The problemWasting spend on out-of-area and job-seeker searches
What we changedMarket-focused targeting + negative keywords + landing page rebuild + call tracking
Wasted ad spend↓ 55%
Signed clients / month↑ 154%
ReportingOne page, cost per signed client by office
Business outcome: same budget, client pipeline more than doubled.

Want to know how these were tracked? Ask us and we'll walk you through the method — what we count as a signed client, how we attribute calls to channels, and how we separate a marketing number from a business number.

05What brokerage owners say

Brokerage owners, in their own words.

Partners at brokerages across different sizes and service mixes — in their own words, not ours.

★★★★★
"I'd been burned by two agencies before this. The difference here is that nobody sends me a report full of things I don't understand. It's consultations, signed clients, and what each one cost me. That's the whole report."
Marcus WhitfieldWhitfield Brokerage · Columbus, OH
★★★★★
"We were getting lots of enquiries that never converted. They rebuilt our consultation funnel and added call tracking, and the quality changed within a month. Average transaction value is up by more than half."
Gareth HollisHollis Brokerage · Denver, CO
★★★★★
"Commercial real estate is the highest-margin work in our business and we were invisible. Six months later we're the first name most local businesses think of. That was worth the fee on its own."
Priya ChandrasekaranChandra Commercial · San Jose, CA
★★★★★
"Half our ad budget was going to searches for broker jobs and out-of-area enquiries. They tightened the targeting and doubled our signed clients without spending a penny more."
Tom BexleyBexley Realty · Austin, TX
★★★★★
"I was skeptical about call tracking — thought it was for bigger firms. Turns out I'd been funding a channel that never produced a single signed client, for eleven months."
Rosa IbarraIbarra Brokerage · Phoenix, AZ
★★★★★
"The website was the problem, not the ads. They told me that up front instead of taking my money for more spend. Two months later we'd doubled the conversion rate and the same ad budget suddenly worked twice as hard."
Danny WhelanWhelan Brokerage · Atlanta, GA

Written and video reviews available on request. Names and locations shown with permission.

06How it works

A simpler way to grow a brokerage.

Five stages. The first one is free and it's the one most agencies skip.

01

Understand

We learn your service lines, your market, your average transaction value, and where the consultations come from today. No assumptions.

02

Build

Website, booking flow, service pages, tracking, and ad accounts — set up properly the first time.

03

Launch

Campaigns go live, tracking starts recording, and you start seeing where your consultations actually come from.

04

Optimise

We cut what's producing rubbish and scale what's producing signed clients. Judged on closed work, not clicks.

05

Grow

As the numbers improve, we expand into new service lines and new markets — without losing the basics.

This is not a set-and-forget process. Anyone who tells you brokerage marketing runs itself after month one is either not paying attention or not telling you the truth. The work is continuous — the point is that it compounds.

See the difference

Wondering what Northic would do differently for your brokerage?

Give us a look at your current marketing. We'll tell you what we'd keep, what we'd change, and where we'd focus first — whether or not you end up working with us.

See the Difference → Takes about 10 seconds
07Questions

What brokerage owners ask us before they start.

No — we work across multiple industries, but brokerage is one of our core verticals. We understand the sector: long consideration cycles, transaction-value focus, referral dependency, and how the value of a single signed client justifies a much higher cost per lead than a general agency would assume.

Referrals are great — but they're unreliable and they cap your growth at whatever your network happens to reach. What we do is build a second, predictable channel: your website, your service pages, your case studies, your call tracking. Firms that do both grow faster than firms that rely on either alone.

Paid ads and Local Services Ads can produce consultations within days. Local SEO and map-pack visibility take longer — most firms see meaningful movement around day 30 to 60, and it keeps building. Both work best together: ads bridge the gap while the organic asset compounds.

Yes — and we usually insist on it. A residential campaign and a commercial or investment campaign should not share a landing page, an offer, or a keyword set. Service focus, geo controls, and negative keyword filtering are core parts of what we set up from day one.

Both, plus investment-focused firms. Each has different unit economics, different creative, and different sales cycles. What changes is the campaign architecture and the offer — the underlying system is the same.

Yes — this is one of the biggest opportunities in brokerage marketing right now. High-value clients come with better margins and more referral value, but only if you show up for the specific searches and have the case studies, market authority, and fee positioning to convert. Most clients see meaningful movement within 90 days.

Dynamic call tracking records the source of every call, how long it lasted, and whether it turned into a consultation or a signed client. Website enquiries carry the same attribution. Every month you get one page tying spend to signed clients — not charts that look busy but don't tell you anything.

It depends on your market, your service lines, and how much work is needed. A solo broker and a multi-office firm are not the same job. You'll get one clear monthly figure in writing, for your situation, before you ever get on a call with us.

No. We work month to month. If we're not bringing you work, you walk. That's the deal, and it's the thing that keeps us honest about which brokerages we take on in the first place.

No, and be careful with anyone who does. How many enquiries turn into signed clients comes down to your fees, your team's capacity, how well you close on the call, and your service quality. That side is yours. Ours is bringing the right enquiries to you, and showing you the numbers every month so you can see the connection yourself.

08Get started

Your brokerage should do more than keep the pipeline busy. It should grow.

Tell us where your brokerage is today and where you want to go. We'll show you where marketing and advertising can make the biggest difference.

Free, no obligation
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If we're not a fit, we'll say so

Rather talk it through? Call (877) 517-0423 and tell us what you're trying to grow.

Free · no obligationStep 1 of 2

Let's find your brokerage's biggest growth opportunity

Tell us about your brokerage. We'll look at how you're getting clients today and show you where the biggest opportunities are.

Two short steps. No card, no contract, no call unless you want one.
What are you looking to improve? * — pick any that apply
Used only to put your audit together and send it to you. We don't sell or share your details.
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