How a New Leasing Broker Jump-Started his Career with PRO

Success Stories

The Crexi Team

March 22, 2024

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Meet Ryan Van Dulman

A sales and leasing associate for NAI Bergman. He is passionate about building relationships and creating opportunities for others. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ryan has rich connections with a wide array of individuals and a deep knowledge of the city and its trends.

Painting the Scene

Ryan first entered commercial real estate as the owner/operator of a Jersey Mike’s franchise, where he gained an appreciation for the commercial side of the business. When he started with NAI Bergman in May 2023, Ryan encountered Crexi as one of the agency’s tools available to brokers. As a new agent eager to learn and thrive, he dove headfirst into the platform and quickly realized its usefulness.

Ryan posted his first lease listings on the platform and immediately received dozens of highly qualified leads who requested more information and directly contacted him through the platform, all without him lifting a finger.

“We’ve never seen this kind of activity immediately on a listing! Over 250 people reached out, and it had JUST gone live! And not only views but inquiries themselves: leads opening up the brochure and reaching out.”

Within a couple of weeks, Ryan closed his first lease deal through Crexi. Additionally, Ryan connected with each Crexi inbound lead he received and partnered with them on their search, earning more business and ultimately generating success for himself and NAI Bergman.

Simplified CMS: Crexi’s contact export tools and leads lists make it easy to keep track of tenant leads and organize all interested parties’ information into a single source of truth.

Intuitive Search Tools: Ryan loves that Crexi’s platform empowers retail users to search for space in a simple, intuitive way. It showcases potential for lease spaces and makes it easy for leads to reach out when they’re interested—a huge benefit for Ryan's inbound volume.

Sales Prospecting: Using Crexi Intelligence’s insights into loan and mortgage data allows Ryan to easily research which buildings may be changing landlords, raising rent, or other upcoming events that might impact the viability of their space – and allows him to reach out when the time is right.

After joining NAI Bergman and using Crexi’s Lease PRO, Ryan and his team have achieved lifetime metrics of: