Victor Kimathi, founder

Real estate content & marketing systems built to convert.

When you need more than a social media manager and less than a full agency, that's exactly where I come in. I embed inside your business, learn your market and voice, and build content and marketing systems that turn visibility into pipeline.

Accepting 2 retainers for Q2 2026
proof of work, 2023 to 2026

01
$28M
Total property sales influenced across the client roster
02
174
Raised hands from Onward Exchange pre-launch, zero ad spend
03
28%
Pipeline-to-paid conversion at Onward Exchange launch
04
#1
From 48 followers to being awarded the Best Real Estate Agent in Wellington, NZ, 2025
05
3
International markets: NZ, Canada, USA
06
100%
Niched in real estate. Nothing else.
selected work, Four stories

Four short stories,
told properly.

Each one a campaign. What the brief was. What we made. What happened next.

Rupert Kemeys 12:35 AM pinned

I have been using Victor to create media content for my personal brand Rupert Kemeys under my business Ray White Kemeys Brothers, we are one of the largest real estate companies in Wellington. I have been using his services for more than a year now. Victor has taken our social media presence to a new level. His professionalism, communication and of course the quality of what he produces is second to none. I would highly recommend Victor to any real estate professional looking to elevate their brand above their competition.

case 01 / 04
Personal Brand Reels Strategy Brokerage SMM
Wellington, NZ · 2024–2025

From 48 followers
to Agent of the Year.

Ray White Kemeys Brothers

When Rupert Kemeys came to us he had forty-eight Instagram followers and a brokerage doing real volume in real silence. The market knew Ray White. The market did not know him.

We built a content engine on a single hypothesis: in Wellington, the agent is the listing. We made the property tour reel the spine of the strategy, which allowed him to show up consistently without the pressure of talking in-front of the camera. We then layered open-house graphics and client testimonials around it. Every week, without fail, for a year.

By month four, the sub-thousand follower account was posting reels at 10 to 15K views. The algorithm rewarded conviction.

The numbers speak, but the better metric is what they translated to in the world. Buyers walking into open homes who already felt they knew him. Sellers who had watched twelve property tours before signing. Across our window of working together Rupert has sold dozens of homes, with even more sellers signing on the back of the content alone.

I cannot personally take all of the credit. Rupert is an exceptional agent, and the work translates because the operator behind it is the real thing. Our job was to build the stage. He performs on it.

In 2025 he was named Best Real Estate Agent of the Year in Wellington. 

15K
Avg. reel views
from a sub-1K following
#1
Best Agent of the Year
Wellington, 2025
14×
Audience growth
organic only
the receipts · @rupert.kemeys
From 100 followers to 1,400+ and growing.
Same agent. Same market. Different operating system. Real Instagram screenshots, before we started and today.
Before · day one
Rupert Kemeys Instagram profile before working with Onyx Maple, 100 followers
100followers7posts
After · today
Rupert Kemeys Instagram profile today, 1,402 followers, 313 posts, No.1 rated agent in Petone
1,402followers313posts
The receipt · 2025
Rupert Kemeys named RateMyAgent Agent of the Year 2025 for Petone, New Zealand
#1Petone, NZRateMyAgent · 2025

The storytelling around the house tours hit hard enough that Rupert handed the brokerage's entire video output to us. We now produce content for his wider team's listings and personal socials, and across the brokerage sales have lifted significantly on the back of constant, compounding visibility.

listing teaser
walk-through
testimonial
the deeper read

This was never just a content role.

Reels and edits are the surface. Underneath, the work is positioning, audience, theme and a repeatable production system. That's why the numbers held month after month, and why they keep compounding.

01 · positioning
Built for the buyer who actually buys.

Wellington's volume is not in the trophy listings. It's in the middle-class household trading up, the first home buyer finally making the leap, the family upgrading their school zone. We tuned every frame, voice-over and on-screen line to that audience, not the luxury fantasy, the real market.

02 · theme
One look. One voice. Every post.

We built a content theme the brokerage now lives inside: a defined colour treatment, type system, edit pace, music palette and an on-camera tone for the agents that reads as Ray White Kemeys before the logo lands. Distinctive, repeatable, ownable.

03 · the system
Agents → videographer → us.

Production runs on a tight loop. Agents bring the listings and the talking points. The videographer shoots to a brief. We handle the post production. Roles defined, hand-offs clean, output predictable. That's how a small team posts at brand-agency cadence.

04 · what's next
The runway we haven't touched yet.

Paid amplification: the organic numbers are already strong; a modest paid layer would push proven creative to in-market buyers and sellers in their suburb, on demand. The give-back story: Kemeys Brothers run quiet community work that local audiences would love to see; that footage is sitting on the shelf. There's a second act here.

If you're a brokerage or a small team of agents ready to elevate your presence online and become the go-to authority in your market — I'm the right person for the job.

Book a call
case 02 / 04
GoHighLevel Build Membership Site Branding Pre-launch
Edina, MN · 2025

190 raised hands.
Zero ad spend.

Onward Exchange 

Onward Exchange was an idea: a broker-agnostic membership community for real estate professionals, founded by Becky Quinby and Jen Briggs. They had the vision and the network. They had no infrastructure.

We built the entire stack. GoHighLevel: workflow automations, pipeline configuration, a clean import of 174 contacts, Smart Lists, and the email and SMS template architecture that would carry the membership for years. Squarespace and Circle for the front-end and the community layer, with custom HTML embeds wiring it together. A full brand system. YouTube channel setup and content creation. Onboarding flows that made the first week of being a member feel intentional.

Then we ran a pre-launch campaign with no paid media. Email, organic social, network.

One hundred and seventy-four raised hands. Eighty-two pipeline sign-ups. Twenty-three paid subscribers at launch. A 28% pipeline-to-paid conversion rate, in a category where 5% is celebrated.

community layer · circle
A members-only room with its own voice.

Onboarded 27 members through pre-launch with an 84% MAU rate. Founding cohort runs in here every day.

member feed Onward Exchange Circle community feed showing welcome banner and Kirstin Showell's introduction post
audience dashboard Circle audience dashboard — 27 audience, 16 active members, 84% MAUs
automation layer · gohighlevel
CRM, pipeline, workflows, email — one stack.

73 opportunities through the pre-member pipeline. 157 contacts segmented into smart lists. Four published workflows running nurture and confirmations. 44% open rate across 24,548 sends.

pre-member pipeline GoHighLevel opportunities pipeline showing 73 opportunities across Reached Out, Appointment Set, Appointment Held, Paid, and Not Right Now stages
contacts · smart lists GoHighLevel contacts smart lists — 157 contacts segmented by Newsletter, Link Clicks, Email Nurture
workflow automations GoHighLevel workflows list — Email Nurture, Form Lead Booking Nurture, Newsletter Signup, Zoom Registration Confirmation
email campaigns · 44% open rate GoHighLevel marketing email performance — 24,548 delivered, 44.29% open rate, 12% click rate
the system map
Every CTA, form, workflow, and platform on one page.

The blueprint we drew before shipping a single asset. Entry points feed forms, forms trigger GHL workflows, workflows route members through Circle and the nurture sequences. Everything on one map, constantly optimized.

visit onwardx.org
case 03 / 04
Luxury Listings Multi-phase Campaign Squarespace Build Paid Media
Minneapolis, MN · 2024–2025

Three luxury listings.
Three offers accepted.

Quinby Partners · $1M to $3.5M

Becky Quinby came to us with three premium Minneapolis listings, raw footage already in the can, and a website that was not doing the work it needed to. The properties were between $1M and $3.5M, the kind of listings that do not sell themselves on a single open home.

We built each listing into a multi-phase campaign. - Phase one: short-form teasers cut tight, designed for the scroll. - Phase two, on launch day: the long-form property tour, and the main reel/short house walkthrough. - Phase three, the long tail: neighbourhood, lifestyle, amenities, the unique positioning of the home, extracted from the same shoot, run for months.

One shoot. Three phases. Months of visibility. Every listing sold.

In parallel we built property-specifc landing pages for the three listings, built for trust, personality, and lead capture, with paid social driving qualified buyers into it. 2 Platforms [Meta & YouTube], moved as one voice.

All three luxury listings sold. The site remains the firm's portfolio piece.  Keep scrolling, the full playbook is in the next section.

long-form property tour
property tour, cut 02
phase 1 teaser
the playbook

One shoot. Three phases. A funnel underneath.

Each property was filmed once. From that single shoot we built a content library that ran for months across organic and paid — not three posts, three phases, each with its own job. The best-performing pieces from each phase became the entry point to a private DM funnel that fed qualified buyers into open houses and appointments.

the
receipts
Elena Quinby hanging a Quinby Partners SOLD sign at a Minneapolis listing. hanging sold signs
1621 W 25th St, Minneapolis — sold. Quinby Partners launch announcement. 1621 W 25th · sold
phase 01 · the hook
Short-form teasers, cut for the scroll.

9:16 reels under 20 seconds, designed to stop the thumb. Top shot, signature angle, address withheld — curiosity, not information. Built to seed the audience two to three weeks before launch.

phase 02 · the centrepiece
Launch-day property tour, long-form.

The hero asset. A two to three minute walk-through for YouTube and the listing landing page, plus a 60-second vertical cut for Reels. Released the day the listing went live, with co-ordinated posts across every channel.

phase 03 · the long tail
Lifestyle, neighbourhood, amenities.

The same footage, re-cut into fifteen to twenty supporting posts — the school catchment, the morning coffee, the primary suite, the lake view at sunset. Released over six to ten weeks, keeping the listing in feed long after the open house.

the conversion layer
The best-performing pieces from each phase fed a private DM funnel — qualifying buyers in conversation, then nurturing the serious ones to an appointment.
01 · signal
Track the winners.

Across the three phases we measured saves, shares, watch-time and DM rate — not vanity views. The posts that pulled hardest organically became the candidates for paid.

02 · boost
Meta ads on the best.

The top performers were boosted into a tightly targeted Meta audience — Twin Cities zip codes, household income bands, buyer-intent and lookalike layers.

03 · dm
Straight into the inbox.

Ads sent every click to Instagram DM, not a form. Conversation opens with a real question. Tyre-kickers self-select out; serious buyers tell you exactly what they're looking for.

04 · qualify
Filter, then hand off.

We qualified in DM — budget, timeline, financing, area. Serious inquiries received the private listing landing page, the full media package, and the agent's direct line.

05 · nurture
Open house or 1−to−1.

From there, a short nurture sequence moved every qualified buyer to the next concrete step — an open house slot, or a private appointment with the agent.

Same raw footage. Three phases of content. One funnel underneath. Every listing sold under offer.

Run this playbook on my listings →
case 04 / 04
Print Design Brand Continuity Older Demographic
Canmore, AB · 2024

The mountain
on the page.

Canmore Real Estate Group
the deeper read

Brand-led. Audience-led. Omnipresent.

Devin and Colby, the founders of CREG didn't ask for a content schedule. They asked for an identity. Print, social, email, web - every surface had to feel like one brokerage with a point of view.

01 · brand identity system
Bold against the grey, and every template to keep it that way.

Canmore is a mountain town with long, cold winters and a muted palette to match. Devin and Colby wanted the brokerage to feel the opposite, confident, warm, distinctive. We leaned heavily into brand identity: bold messaging, deliberate colour, typography that holds up across newspaper print, postcards and social. Contrast as a creative strategy.

Then we redesigned the entire brand guidelines to fit that identity and built the production library underneath it. Print: templates for flyers, postcards and newspaper ads. Social: carousel templates for listings, activities and news reports, plus reel covers, listing layouts and banners. Pick-up-and-go assets for every recurring piece — so the brand looks the same on day one and day three hundred.

02 · audience-led socials
Speaking to people moving in, not living in.

Canmore is a tourist town. The social audience is largely future residents and investors, not locals. So we built the feed around lifestyle & amenities, community, year-round seasonal activities, the landscape, plus investment education on why Canmore is a strong long-term play, with occasional market insights for the investor segment. Strategy first, posts second.

03 · positioning, not posting
Not basic social media management.

Most agencies start with a calendar. We started with the question: who is the buyer?, what do they need to believe?, what proof closes the gap?. Every piece of content had a job inside that. The output looked like social media; the work underneath was positioning and message strategy.

04 · omnipresence over virality
17,000 residents. Vanity metrics don't matter.

In a town this small, virality and likes are the wrong scoreboard. Omnipresence is the right one. We ran traditional media — newspaper, flyers, mail postcards — alongside Instagram and Facebook, a monthly email newsletter for the tech-savvy older demographic, and a weekly blog on the website. Wherever the buyer looked, CREG was there.

Want to become a brokerage that owns its market - in print, in inbox, on every feed not just one that posts? Let's talk.

Book a call
print artefacts
social designs
reels · 3 selects
in their words

What clients
actually said.

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I have been using Victor to create media content for my personal brand Rupert Kemeys under my business Ray White Kemeys Brothers, we are one of the largest real estate companies in Wellington. I have been using his services for more than a year now. Victor has taken our social media presence to a new level. His professionalism, communication and of course the quality of what he produces is second to none. I would highly recommend Victor to any real estate professional looking to elevate their brand above their competition.
RK
Rupert Kemeys
Ray White Kemeys Brothers, Wellington NZ
Victor Kimathi, featured on the Onward Exchange team page Onward ExchangeTeam feature
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Victor is the reason everything looks as good as it feels. Behind every polished video, seamless system, and “wait, how did they do that?” moment is Victor. Quietly building the infrastructure that makes this community run.

He's the kind of person who figures out the hard stuff before anyone else knows it was hard. Equal parts creative and technical, he brings order and magic to the mundane.

We couldn't build this without him. We also couldn't explain half of what he does. And honestly? We're fine with that.
OX
Onward Exchange
Head of All the Things · onwardx.org
services menu, 2026

Do you have a BUNCH of different marketing needs but you don’t want to hire 5 different contractors or bring on a full-time employee? I can help!.

Pick the depth of infrastructure you actually need, and the engine runs the same way underneath. Anything project-based sits on its own line at the bottom.

tier 01 · 
The Presence

The brand-and-content engine. Get found, stay visible, run every listing as a multi-phase campaign.

monthly retainer
  • Personal brand build — strategy, identity guide, & content calendar
  • Full social media management, 2 platforms
  • Listing campaigns — teaser, tour, long tail
  • ManyChat integration for DM automations
  • Monthly KPI reporting & review
Start with The Presence →
tier 03 · 
The Operation

The full stack. Brand, content, paid, plus the CRM and automation plumbing every serious operator needs underneath it.

monthly retainer
  • Everything in The Engine
  • GoHighLevel infrastructure — pipelines & workflows
  • Email & SMS sequence builds, Smart Lists
  • Lead capture, nurture & appointment automations
  • Ongoing CRM ops & reporting
Start with The Operation →
3-month minimum on all retainers, without any additional set-up charges — the system needs runway to compound. Need something custom? Let’s talk →
also available, one-off
Website & funnel design, brand identity, print media
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Portrait of Victor Kimathi the operator
about

nice to meet you, I'm Victor.

Most content strategists understand creative. Most marketing agencies understand systems. Very few understand both, and a handful understand real estate.

I've spent the last four years working exclusively inside the real estate industry, and what I've learned is this: being an agent or running a brokerage is fundamentally a local, relationship-driven business. People don't hire the agent with the best listings. They hire the one they already know, like, and trust.

My job is to help you build that trust at scale, before the conversation even starts.

What sets me apart is how I work across the full stack. Most creatives can't touch your backend. Most technical people can't tell your story. I do both. That means your content, your brand, and your marketing infrastructure aren't three separate things fighting each other but rather a system working together.

Your Instagram and/or Youtube feeds into your funnel. Your funnel reflects your brand. Your brand sounds like you.

And that last part matters more than people admit. I build something that revolves around who you are, what you stand for, and what you actually want to say, not content designed to chase an algorithm at the expense of your reputation.

If you want to become the most trusted name in your market — let's talk.

4 yrs
In real estate marketing
3
Markets · NZ · CA · US
Nairobi
Working globally
let's get specific

Tell me about
your listing.

A 30-minute call. Bring footage you have already shot, a listing you are about to launch, or a brokerage that needs the marketing muscle rebuilt from scratch. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit.

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