Complex delivery · Outsourced marketing leadership · Real estate
A €2,300 website brief that became outsourced marketing leadership for an estate agency: more than 40 pages, a CRM dependency, a staging-to-production migration and an ending I’m not going to dress up.
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InmoYael was Andrés’s client, not mine. He brought me in because improving the website was part of his CRM rollout strategy, and we worked on the brief together. I spell this out because a portfolio that blurs who did what isn’t worth much.
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It started as a €2,300 website project. It became marketing leadership because, as soon as you ask where enquiries go once they arrive, the website stops being the whole question.
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An estate agency website isn’t a brochure: properties change, the CRM is the source of truth, the property search has to work with real data and everything has to survive a staging-to-production migration without losing anything.
The website was never the hard part. The hard part was that the website depended on a CRM, the CRM depended on the client and the timeline depended on both.
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Treat the website as part of the sales system: SEO architecture by area and service, conversion tracking from day one and CRM integration so no enquiry got lost.
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The hard part. Production is where digital projects are won or lost. This one had a migration, property data that had to arrive intact, CRM dependencies outside my control, Consent Mode behaving differently in production, CDN caching hiding fixes and bugs that only existed in production. One of them was mine: a capital letter in a permalink broke a form, and it took me longer than I’d like to find it.
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The client ended the relationship in August 2026, dissatisfied.
The technical work and deliverables are verifiable and listed above. What there wasn’t was a clear line between that work and measurable business results: not every dependency was in my hands, and the engagement stopped before the parts that would have produced those figures were finished. I won’t argue it in public or present it as a growth story.
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Accountability in an ambiguous context and at real scale: more than 40 pages, a live CRM dependency, several parties involved, a round of 82 feedback points and a migration that had to work.
And what I’d want a client to check before hiring me: that I’ll tell them what really happened.
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