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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

By Becky Purdy


Over the past years, real estate brokers have taken advantage of direct marketing strategies to make prospects and to keep in touch with their buyers and sellers. Real estate professionals can also send direct mails to different people outside and within their locations to create much more business apart from brochures, newsletters, flyers, holiday cards, and postcards. Although a lot of real estate agents encountered good results with these primary marketing techniques during the past, these advertising strategies are less effective now. As a result, a lot of real estate professionals are no longer relying strictly on conventional direct marketing strategies to acquire fresh prospects as they have previously.

Real estate professionals spend an average of over a hundred bucks in a single month only on direct mail advertising as shown by one study. Then again, many of the Realtors who rely on direct mail marketing are not generating as much income as real estate brokers who use the Web to acquire prospects to get to buyers or sellers. Research has revealed that those who are no longer use the direct mail marketing strategy are the top earners. Instead, the leading agents are utilizing the Web to acquire prospects.

Good real estate professionals normally distribute e-newsletters using email rather than delivering their newsletters via traditional mail. Based on a recent research, most profitable real estate brokers prefer delivering e-newsletters than sending them out via mail. Besides saving money on printing as well as the cost of shipping, real estate brokers can conserve time by sending out newsletters via e-mail. Most prospective sellers and buyers who ask for a newsletter wish to obtain the publication immediately.

Realtors in the past tried to get in touch with possible buyers and sellers utilizing the phone and inquire if they're attempting to buy or to sell. It is no longer feasible due to the Do Not Call policies that make it almost impossible for a real estate agent to begin a telemarketing campaign. Do Not Call regulations do not allow the real estate brokers to call people placed in the Do Not Call list. If a real estate agent decides to get in touch with a possible customer over the telephone, the real estate professional must first ensure that the individual he will be contacting is not in the list. The real estate agent will be punished and will be penalized because of not following rules if he contacts a person that is on the Do Not Call list. The fine sums to ten thousand dollars.

Although many real estate professionals continue to use traditional direct marketing techniques to entice buyers and sellers, real estate brokers who make the most money are using the Internet to bring in prospects. Real estate brokers can combine the direct mail marketing tactic and Internet marketing to get good leads. As revealed by figures, the amount of money that a real estate broker makes can be affected if he relies exclusively on direct mail marketing. Realtors can use a mix of old and new marketing techniques and discover which one works for them.




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