The Listing Presentation Nobody Throws Away
Sellers interview three agents and forget two of them by dinner. The one who leaves a book behind is the one they remember.
Dictate is a book-writing service for real estate agents, brokers and team leaders. You talk with an AI interviewer by phone for up to 15 hours; we write a full nonfiction book from your own words, in your voice, about your market and how you work. You own 100% of the book and its royalties. Our goal is a finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks, at your pace.
Every agent has the same problem
To a seller, most agents look alike: the same portals, the same photos, the same promise to work hard. Your experience and your process are real differences, but they are hard to show in a 45-minute listing appointment.
A book makes the difference visible. It explains how you price, how you prepare a home, how you negotiate, and what you have learned in your market, in the way you would explain it across a kitchen table.
How agents use their book
A real estate book is a working marketing tool you will use every week.
- Listing presentations: send it before the appointment, and leave it behind after.
- Your sphere: a book is a far better touch than another magnet or calendar.
- Open houses and seminars: first-time buyer and downsizing workshops built from the chapters.
- Referral partners: lenders, attorneys, financial advisors and builders hand it to their clients.
- Local media: reporters call the agent who wrote the book on the local market.
The rules your book still has to follow
A book you hand to prospective clients is advertising in many states, so your license and brokerage rules apply to it. Most brokerages want their name and license details in materials you distribute, and some want to review them first. Ask your managing broker before you print.
Fair housing applies on the page too. Describe neighborhoods by facts like schools, commute and amenities, not by who lives there. Avoid promising sale prices or timelines. We write that way by default, and you review every chapter before it is final.
Built from your conversations, not your evenings
You spend your days on the phone and in cars, not at a desk. Phone interviews fit that life: you talk through what you know between showings, and the chapters are written from your transcripts. Your stories, your market and your voice, without a year of late nights.
How the interview process works
Your part is talking and reviewing. Everything else is done for you, remotely.
A strategy call
We talk about who the book is for, what it needs to do for you, and what you already have: talks, notes, articles, recordings. We confirm the scope of your book on the call.
Research before you talk
Before your first interview, Dictate researches you and your field, so the questions start where your expertise starts instead of at the basics.
Phone interviews with Silas
You talk with Silas, our AI interviewer, by phone at times you choose, usually once or twice a week. Up to 15 hours of conversation in total. No writing and no homework.
Chapters from your own words
Chapters are written from your interview transcripts as you go, in your voice. Nothing is invented: every story and claim comes from you or your uploaded material.
You review and approve
You read every chapter in your author portal, leave notes and approve it. A sentence only you can confirm, like a date or a number, is flagged for you to check.
Ready to publish
You get print-ready and ebook files, a custom cover, Amazon copy and an Author’s Toolkit, set up to publish in your own accounts.
A realistic timeline
Our goal is your finished manuscript in 4 to 8 weeks. Your interview and review pace sets the timeline, so a busy month moves it and a free week speeds it up.
- Week 1Strategy call, research on you and your field, and your first interview.
- Weeks 2 to 5One or two interviews a week. Chapters arrive in your portal as you go.
- Weeks 5 to 8You review, ask for changes and approve each chapter. Then the files are prepared.
- After approvalYou publish in your own accounts, on your own launch date.
Books for Real Estate Agents: Questions
Can I buy copies in bulk for listing appointments and open houses?
Yes. You publish in your own account, so you order author copies at the printer’s cost, in whatever quantity you need, with no markup from us. Agents often keep a box in the car.
Can I print a family edition too?
Yes. You own the print-ready files, so you can print a private family edition through a print-on-demand printer without listing it for sale, alongside or instead of a public edition.
Can local bookstores and libraries order it through IngramSpark?
Yes. Your files are prepared for Amazon KDP and for IngramSpark. IngramSpark lists your book in the Ingram catalog that bookstores and libraries order from. Both accounts are in your name, so royalties come straight to you.
Who owns the rights, me or my brokerage?
You do. You own 100% of the copyright and keep 100% of the royalties. Dictate claims no ownership of your book and takes no royalties, and your publishing accounts are in your name. If you change brokerages, the book goes with you.
What does the speaking help include? I want to run buyer and seller seminars.
Every book comes with an Author’s Toolkit: bios, Amazon copy and quote graphics. Optional marketing packages add a speaker one-sheet with talk topics, and the largest adds a keynote outline and speaking pitches. We help you get ready to be booked; nobody can honestly promise the bookings.
I’m an agent, not a writer. Can I really do this?
You don’t need to be. You talk on the phone with Silas, our AI interviewer, and the chapters are written from your own words, in your voice. Your job is to talk and to review.
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