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Nat Daniels

Chief Executive Officer at Angels Media

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About Me

Founder and publisher of this site as well as www.angelsmedia.co.uk, a digital marketing business in the space. We have some cool stuff for agents and can help any business raise their profile in this space. Looking forward to connecting :-)

my expertise in the industry

27 years this year in all things property so I'm properly a property person now.

Nat's Recent Activity

Hi Andrew, I guess you could use any figure here, 1% or less, either way its a lot of commission generated! All of the leads (Almost 100k) completed at LR originated using ValPal. Valpal converts traffic from an agents site to leads. Almost 1 in 5 go on to complete.

From: Nat Daniels 21 October 2018 12:33 PM

Hi Christopher, thanks for the comment. With all the talk of a cashless revolution and the advent of a cashless society at some point in the future, I got to thinking the other day - while out and about on the high street and travelling to and from London - how much do I actually use cash anymore? Could I get away without it? Do you need it in the modern world? There are obviously dangers and risks at play, but I think we're most of the way towards a cashless society already. And, before long, the desire for a paperless society will be strong as well, particularly with the current environmental concerns regarding global warming and wastage. It's a bit scary, but if done right - and in a regulated fashion - a cashless, paperless society could work. I think the move towards digital mortgages is also an interesting one, and could save a lot of time, hassle and stress for a lot of people.

From: Nat Daniels 07 September 2018 16:05 PM

Great article James. Very proud to have one of the worlds leading PropTech commentators appearing here. I too am frustrated beyond belief. I don’t normally comment (on my own website here!) but had to agree. I launched this site 10 years ago and have seen others imitate (flattered yes, but it's not innovation). More importantly agents are coming into a whole new world right now, with many challenges ahead. They need to look forward and not be so closed minded. Whilst this may seem like a plug it's not – When I launched ValPal, agents were like…’yeah but we are the valuer, not a damn robot’ … Until the penny dropped that I was just using it as a lead magnet (yep that's a w@nky marketing term you and I know so well) to generate leads and put them (agents) in MORE front rooms than their competitors, that’s when ValPal took off, and now our agents share on more than 50,000 vendor leads pm. If a lead is out of area, (OOA) it goes to the nearest agent, thus our agents share and all get more leads. Now this is innovation I couldn’t do thus until I had got agents on board (now 4000+ branches) to work together. They didn't know they were going to do this but now they get it. So what am I gonna do next…I know and I have some great ideas that are in build in the ‘Angels secret lab’, and we have an awesome team working on them. But… What I've experienced is people copying ValPal with this that or the other ‘Val’ and simply under cutting price, that’s not innovation. You can’t run a decent business and invest into the future of online marketing by just take a few quid from an agent who ‘thinks’ he is getting a deal. It won’t work and never will and as such is a false economy for the agent. One of the hardest things when you are trying to effect change is to get everyone on-board. If any val tool is to work, you need to drive traffic to it. If you don't have traffic it won’t work. And if you don't have traffic, that not my fault, that’s yours. Use FB ad’s. What we are about to do will see agents receiving commission cheques from US! It's new, agents won’t get it and they won’t like it, just like they didn't with ValPal. But I will leave you with this … The Online Valuation tool is now a mainstream product, you look ‘so last year’ if you don't now have one! Agents: Get on-board and embrace the innovators who are pushing change. nat@angelsmedia.co.uk

From: Nat Daniels 22 August 2018 12:11 PM

Hi Trevor, what is clear is that the online agents who do the business - and have significant backing - stay for the course, as the ones who have been around for a decade (or longer) prove. As we can see, "cheaper" agents or ones who don't have significant investment, PR machines or financial clout, tend to disappear fairly quickly. Online agents don't have much of a market share at the moment, although it is growing slowly but surely. Even within that market share, it is dominated by five or six major online agencies, who have rather cornered the market. It's very difficult for new online agencies to make an impact, unless they have significant investment or well-known backers - as YOPA and PB have proven. As the first two comments by Russell and Chris show, people have different opinions about how much market share onliners will have in the future. We shall have to wait and see. Their market share has jumped quite significantly since 2014, but PB might have had something to do with that. A few years from now we will have a better idea.

From: Nat Daniels 24 August 2016 15:18 PM

Hi Mark. EstatesDirect will be featuring in a future Natter, which is why I didn't mention them here. I didn't include EweMove because they have actual branches as well as an online operation. While Purplebricks and YOPA both think of themselves as hybrids, they don't have any actual branches - which, to me, is what would separate a hybrid from an online agent. I love the EweMove name, though - still not sure what a sheep has to do with estate agency, however! As for Visum, I hadn't actually heard of them until now - which suggests their PR hasn't been as good as the others.

From: Nat Daniels 24 August 2016 15:16 PM

Hi James, I'll be interviewing Sam Tyrer - Managing Director of Countrywide - in the next few weeks. So watch this space.

From: Nat Daniels 14 January 2016 16:12 PM

I think I've been done.

From: Nat Daniels 08 June 2015 16:23 PM

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