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Empathy mapping: winning your customers hearts and minds

In real estate, knowing your client goes beyond demographics and property preferences, itโ€™s about understanding their emotions, fears, and motivations. Empathy mapping is a proven technique to help agents gain these insights and tailor their communication accordingly. With AI tools like ChatGPT and Crystal Knows, the process becomes faster, more accurate, and highly personalised.

Understanding what motivates your clients is essential for connecting with your clients.

While itโ€™s easy to focus on property features, the emotional drivers behind buying and selling decisions are what truly matter when it comes to building a relationship with your prospective client.

This is where empathy mapping comes in – a powerful technique that AI can help streamline.

NB For extra AI Powered Personalisation, use the prompts in this post combined with the power of Crystal Knows – you can find more on that tool in the post ?

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What is Empathy Mapping?

Empathy mapping is a framework that helps you understand your clients’ perspectives by exploring:

  • What they’re thinking and feeling
  • What they’re hearing from others
  • What they’re seeing in the market
  • What they’re saying and doing

Traditionally, gathering these insights required expensive market research.

Now, you can develop these insights quickly and affordably with the prompts I have outlined below.

Practical Prompts for Real Estate Empathy Mapping

Here are some effective prompts to try:

Creating a Detailed Persona

Using the empathy mapping process, define a customer persona for a [age]-year-old [gender] living in [suburb], who is [relevant details]. Include what they might be thinking, feeling, seeing, hearing, saying, and doing when considering selling their home.

If you test this prompt with a scenario for a 70-year-old male in Runaway Bay who was recently separated, the AI will produce an incredibly detailed profile that will probably reveal concerns you might not have even considered.

Uncovering Client Concerns

Once your persona is defined, the next step is to dig deeper into these specific concerns with this prompt:

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*This article was originally published by AI Powered Agents and can be read in full here.

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Samantha McLean

Samantha McLean is the Co-founder and Managing Editor of Elite Agent, Australia's trusted platform for real estate news, insights, and community connection. With over 20 years in sales and marketing across respected global companies, Samantha brings practical expertise and thoughtful leadership to the industry. Since founding Elite Agent, Samantha has grown the brand from a magazine into a dynamic media hub that includes the Elevate podcast, daily newsletters, and engaging industry events. Her approachable style and genuine curiosity have earned Elite Agent recognition, including multiple Mumbrella awards for excellence. Samantha is passionate about exploring how technology, especially artificial intelligence, can improve productivity and client relationships without losing the essential human touch. She regularly discusses these topics with industry experts on the Elevate podcast. She holds a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney. Connect with Samantha at Elite Agent or aipoweredagents.com or visit her personal website samanthamclean.com.