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Want more leads and to grow your brand?

101 Things are a passionate team of marketing consultants, helping real estate and financial services companies generate leads and grow their brands. In prior lives, the 101 Things team have run marketing teams at Ray White, Westpac, CBA and Virgin amongst others, and recently executed a campaign that generated over $1.75 million in leads for a client.

We regularly see real estate agents and mortgage brokers:

Struggle to generate enough leads;

Are too busy to do any - or more - marketing and;

Whose fees are squeezed down by competitors.

The solution?

We develop marketing campaigns that attract new customers to your brand and improve your business opportunities with existing clients. And we execute these campaigns for you, so you can stay focused on what you’re good at.
We also build your brand so you’re seen as the authority in your area and differentiated from your competitors.

Results

What our clients say

  • Karen injects sound insights and strategic direction into any project that she tackles. She forms wonderful relationships with her agency partners, nurtures ideas and is passionate about producing great creative work and most importantly inspires her team to do the same.

    Rebecca James - Director, Lavender CX

  • Karen has been very helpful with ideas and understanding what our team has wanted with marketing requests. She is very responsive to all correspondence.

    Peter Chidgey - Director, Ray White Kurrajong

  • Energy, competence, capability, intelligence, initiative, positivity, intuitiveness...'gets it' ability. Happy disposition, can do attitude/nothing too much trouble, honesty/frankness (sometimes challenging!).

    Rick Rodwell - CEO, Ray White Marine

  • 101 Things are reliable and understanding of what we need, even when we are not quite sure. They ask us the right questions and keep things progressing so we do not get sidetracked. "Things" get done!

    Matt Debreczeni - Director, Ray White Menai | Sutherland

  • I am the principal of a niche Financial Services company and was amazed at how quickly Karen got the business and went straight to "doing" my communications in a professional manner that totally excelled. I highly recommend any business to talk to Karen.

    David Manchee - Director - Belvedere Shares Manager

  • Karen runs all my marketing campaigns and is an amazing asset to have on my team.

    Daniel Pym - Senior Mortgage Broker, Loan Market Double Bay

  • Karen is the Superwoman of all things marketing. My wife and I have been using her for two years now for both of our businesses and nothing is ever too much trouble!

    Matt Roffe - Sales Agent, Ray White Concord

  • A true professional in every sense of the word. Karen and her team's ability to simplify projects to ensure efficient and effective management of priorities is a genuine asset to any business. Highly recommend 101 Things.

    Todd Alexander - Marketing Manager, Ray White Double Bay

  • I have been using Karen for over 12 months now for all things design and marketing. They have come up with amazing pieces of art for us that have helped us grow and expand through new business opportunities. Extremely happy with the service and output.

    Sam Brincat - Principal, Ray White Norwood

  • What impresses me most about how Karen operates is her commercial mindset - her ability to put herself very quickly in to the position of the Company she is representing and come up with specific ideas to drive growth. She works from the viewpoint of increasing client engagement and having a positive impact on bottom line. Karen is highly personable and quite genuinely a joy to work with. I couldn't recommend her highly enough.

    Ruairi Flynn - Owner, Devote Recruitment

  • Unlike most marketing consultants, 101 Things knows when to listen, when to nudge and direct and when to simply do without argument (even if we are wrong)! They make it easy and deliver quality outcomes. Very accessible too. As Fund Managers our requirements are at times exacting. Each time they deliver. The beginning of a rewarding long term relationship.

    Grant Pearson - Director, Insync

Your Team

Karen Hall

Karen is the founder of 101 Things and a career marketer, with over 20 years experience including running Marketing teams for Westpac, Virgin Money and Ray White. In 101 Things, she has assembled a team of passionate specialists to provide you with the resources and expertise to build your brand and get more leads.

Karen Smillie

You don’t have to be called Karen to do 101 Things, but maybe it helps! An extensive background in product management and FMCG marketing, with a passion for customer service, pitch perfect comms and a zealous eye for detail, Karen delivers amazing outcomes, quickly, for our clients.

2020 Australian Enterprise Awards

Most Innovative Marketing Consultancy in Sydney

Need a brochure or graphic design ninja? Want to upgrade your photography? Or a copywriting guru?

Tracey, Patrice, Seb, Jessamy, Jessica, Danielle, Marcel, Jordan, Courtney, Indy, Zel & Diane

Are on hand to get the Marketing items ticked off your to-do list. From defining your objectives to developing Marketing plans, lead generation, improving customer experience, brand management and marketing brochures and communications (print and digital, events and social media).
Because once they’re done everything else becomes easier to do. Things takes less time, become more profitable or less costly. One off marketing projects or a whole to-do list? We’ll get it done.

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