“Working with Luxury Presence… I could pick up the phone and it didn’t matter who I talked to. Everybody knew what was going on with our site.”
— Lauren Henss, FirstTeam vice president of marketing and strategic initiatives
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95,602
more website visits in month one, demonstrating increased visibility
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81.8%
increase in leads after the 1st month, boosting conversion opportunities
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4.7k
automated API actions in just one month, offering real-time efficiency
The challenge
Rebranding. Replacing your tech stack. Growing your agent count by 25% in one year.
Each is a major lift. FirstTeam Real Estate of Newport Beach, California — one of the nation’s largest privately held brokerages — took on all three at once.
“We realized we had to redo our entire tech stack and choose the best,” said Lauren Henss, the company’s vice president of marketing and strategic initiatives. Also, “we needed to redesign our corporate site to better reflect our brand.”
She knew it would be a challenge for sales associates, but also that they couldn’t afford to be stagnant. “The main thing with agents is they hate change,” said Henss. But “we need to make sure that they’re equipped to be the best that they can possibly be to be in a competitive marketplace.”
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Nov. 12
Luxury Presence begins building corporate website
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Jan. 10
Designers mock up agent and team subdomains
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Feb. 21
FirstTeam’s corporate site goes live
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March 4
All 2,200 agents are active on the platform
The strategy
As FirstTeam’s new website partner, Luxury Presence came up with a multifaceted plan to ease new agents onto the platform, reduce the brokerage’s administrative burden, and relaunch the overall brand to a wider audience.
Luxury Presence’s bespoke plan for FirstTeam:
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Build a custom API that connects FirstTeam’s internal agent roster directly to the LP platform — cutting data maintenance work in half
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Develop a tailored training series, including detailed decks, product walk-throughs, and seven live webinars to help agents get up and running fast.
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Integrate storytelling that engages both consumers and agents. “That was the real pinnacle of the rebrand,” Henss recalled. “It was the launching pad for everything else.”
The impact
Luxury Presence’s targeted plan helped FirstTeam relaunch its corporate site and onboard its entire agent network in record time. Now the brokerage has:
- A comprehensive corporate site that Henss said “brought our brand to life,” powered their PR efforts, and drove 225,000+ sessions and 820+ leads in the first two months.
- 100% of agents using their Luxury Presence subdomains and tools, including nearly 500 branded presentations.
- An API that automatically retrieved, updated, added, and deleted content 4,700 times in just one month
“When you have four major system changes, that’s a lot for” agents, Henss said. Luxury Presence “knew what we needed to do, and it was a true partnership.”
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