Real Estate Farming Webinar on Demand

May 31, 2016

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We had a great showing on our timely webinar last week — How to Pick the PERFECT Geographic Farm for Your Market. It was filled with terrific tools and step-by-step strategies for choosing the best geographic farm based on turnover ratios, home price points, and homeowner to renter ratios.

We then shared some of the tools and strategies top producers across the country are using to effectively, and consistently market to their geographic farms to gain market share — and a steady stream of referrals and commissions.

We’ve got it for you on demand now! Watch below!

Interested in finding out of if the ReboGateway tool for choosing farm areas is right for you? Call their support team today at 866-887-0206 or email them today to set up a one on one demonstration at sales@benutech.com.

Interested in finding out whether the Market Dominator System is available in your preferred carrier routes for exclusivity? Call Todd Robertson at 702 683-1867.

As always – if you have questions about any www.prospectsplus.com products or services – please contact us at 866-405-3638.

Three Strategies to Put Yourself at the Top of Your Market

May 16, 2016

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Think and ACT Like a Top Producer

By Todd Robertson

There’s something I say at the end of every speech I give when presenting to sales professionals – “If the game is scheduled and you’ve decided to play, you might as well win.”

What I mean by that is that if you’re going to do the work, be in the game, and put in the time – you might as well give yourself the absolute best chance to knock it out of the park. That’s exactly what I wanted to talk about in this week’s quick post. There are three powerful ingredients to putting yourself at the top of the game in your market. They are…

Make it easy for people to find you. If you’re playing to win in today’s market you have to have an internet presence. That said, what you DON’T want to do is to put ALL of your eggs in that basket. Make sure you have a presence, are ranking, driving traffic, and showcasing not only your listings, but your credentials as the specialist in your area and can back that up. Opt-ins that keep your listing growing are a great add in as well. Make it easy for people to find you when they are searching and you’re one up on your competition.
Skills. There are SO many great trainers, speakers, courses, and connections these days, many even on demand so you can learn at your leisure. There’s no reason and frankly no excuse for an agent who is eager to succeed to not be playing at an extraordinary level. Tony Robbins calls it CANI – for Constant And Never Ending I What do your skill levels look like in terms of presentation, negotiation, pricing, prospecting – or all of the above? Never stop learning and fine tuning. You can have all the internet leads in the world or all the referrals in the world – if you don’t have the skills to close – then you are leaving money on the table.
Good ground game. What I mean by this is modern day farming. It’s easier than ever and so important. To pull it off though you have to deliver Ritz Carlton quality and service. That means picking the right area – then creating a dominating presence. To do that I suggest you…
1. Pick the absolute right area. Don’t just choose your carrier routes or neighborhood without doing your homework. In fact, we have a webinar coming up this month that shares exactly how to do that with the help of our friends over at Benutech. In it you’ll learn all about turnover rate, sales price, homeowner to renter ratios and how to use that data to find the right farm for you. Register to attend here.
2. Send out the largest legal size mailing possible (12×15). That sends a message to local homeowners that you are in the game to win. Show up BIG, and let them know you mean business.
3. Make it a campaign. In other words, if you’re going to be like 90+% of agents and drop one or two marketing strategies then call it a day, farming is not going to work. If you do however decide that you are going to commit for the duration and consistently show up month after month after month with a strong message and direct response offers – you’ll be positioning yourself to win.

Now if you’re ready to knock it out of the park, give me a call today at 702-683-1967. I know we’ve got the systems and tools to help you do just that.

Visit us online at www.prospectsplus.com or give us a call today at 866.405.3638.

A Smarter Way to Use Every Door Direct Mail®

Apr 8, 2016

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Insights From ReboGateway

By Julie Escobar

We just had an amazing and informative webinar with our friend Brian Fox from Benutech and ReboGateway that got a lot of agents buzzing about using a BETTER way to leverage EDDM®.

For those of you who are new to the concept, EDDM® is a system provided by USPS that allows you to literally get in EVERY door in a carrier route for a low postage cost of 18.3 cents per piece – and you have the ability to send out marketing pieces of all sizes, which is big plus when you choose a BIG size!

What we’ve found is that one of the toughest challenges is deciding where to start. Almost daily we are asked by customers, “What’s the best way to pick a carrier route?” Fortunately, our friends over at Benutech figured that part out for us!

In this webinar you’ll learn how they can help you pinpoint not only which carrier routes have the highest turnover rate, but also those with the highest dollar homes, and largest percentage of homeowner to deliverables. That’s huge for agents, because up to now, most agents have chosen carrier routes more based on location to their office, or the neighborhood they live in, or just randomly – without really knowing which would have a higher probability of yielding the best results. Now, they can be much more strategic in their approach to carrier routes.

The great thing about EDDM® is that you don’t need a list – it literally gets in every door. However, the savvy agent knows that marketing should be layered. So they can also pull the list from their ReboGateway system to add additional marketing touches such as Just Listed postcards, Just Sold postcards, Open House cards and more.

To learn what our customers top picks for Every Door Direct Mail®, we asked our Director of Business Development Ramona Williams who works with our customers every day. She shared, “I’d say, by far, the most popular piece hands-down is the Panoramic Postcard featuring a new listing. It’s sleek, beautiful, markets the new listing and is a great way to showcase the agent’s results as well. Secondly, we’re seeing a lot of agents who are using a little bigger piece to spotlight multiple listings on one mailer. It might be for a series of open houses or just to showcase that the agent is the turn-to person to call for listings in an area. And third, we’re seeing agents use panoramic postcards featuring direct response offers such as a Free CMA, List of Homes, Consultation, etc.”

Some links to get you started:

Use promo code EDDM10 to save 10% on your www.prospectsplus.com EDDM® order!

To save on ReboGateway use promo code PROSTUA (make sure it’s all capitalized).

This promo code will provide ReboGateway annual for $399.95 with the Tract Utility (turnover tool) provided for FREE (saving $120) via the Promo Code.

If you are thinking of using this powerful tool, consider choosing just one or two routes to start. With the average carrier route running anywhere from 300-500 homes, it just seems like a manageable area for most agents to not only connect with – but have the ability to follow up on.

And follow up is important, as is consistency. If budget is an issue, then you may wish to choose a smaller route and be consistent in sending to that route often. One-shot mailings – even ones that saturate a market area are not normally very effective. The agents that are seeing the best results from this system are sending every one to two months for at least six months.

Watch the video:

If you’re interested in learning more about the tracking data from Benutech and ReboGateway, call them today at 866-887-0206 for a free demonstration of the data that is available in YOUR area.

If you are a real estate pro and you’d like to learn more about what EDDM® tools we can help you with, give us a call at 1.866.405.3638 today.

Fifteen Facts About Every Door Direct Mail™

Mar 28, 2016

Getting the Inside Scoop to See If EDDM is Right for YOU and Your Business

By Julie Escobar

Wow. We’ve had a lot of calls recently about this powerful (and affordable) service now provided by the U.S. Postal Service. It allows you to literally get in EVERY DOOR in a geographic area for as low as 18.3 cents in postage per piece. But there are a LOT of questions out there – and a lot of folks unsure about which way to go in terms of getting their message in the right hands to help brand themselves in a market. So I put on my fact-finding hat so that I could give you guys the inside skinny on some things you need to know about this service to determine if it is really right for you.

Fact #1: According to direct marketing statistics, businesses which get the majority of their clients from within a 3 mile radius of their office are: REALTORS®, mortgage brokers, insurance agents, dentists, chiropractors…(the list goes on – but did you catch that first one?) Love that!

Fact #2: This is the most cost-effective means to deliver your message to an ENTIRE market area. As a SATURATION mailing tool – you can literally send up to 5,000 pieces each day (to be delivered to EVERY SINGLE mailbox on your chosen carrier route) still pay no more than 18.3 cents in postage per piece.

Fact #3: There is no postage permit necessary – only the required indicia which is fairly small needs to be placed on your mailing piece. (We’ve got that for you- no worries!)

Fact #4 – You don’t need a mailing list. This is a biggie! One of the toughest components that agents find in building their book of business is developing their LIST. While it IS one of the best practices you can ever do to build long-term referrals and keep your customers and clients calling YOU back for the duration of your career – it is a stumbling block for many. So while you’re waiting to get your list together (go ahead and hire a broke college kid to start data entry today – they need the money and you need a database!) – the EDDM™ system is the perfect way to start branding yourself and discover NEW PROSPECTS to put into your sphere!

Fact #5: You can send standard mail flats, irregular parcels, periodicals, and bound printed flats. But – your
mailing piece cannot be more than 15′ long, 12′ high and .75′ thick.

Fact #6: The common mailing pieces for EDDM™ used by REALTORS® are newsletters, open house postcards, just listed postcards, just sold postcards, introduction/neighborhood specialist announcements or workshop invitations (first time home buying seminars, short sale seminars, workshops for seniors, renters. buy workshops, etc.)

Fact #7: You can select whether or not you want your mailing delivered to P.O. Boxes and Farm mail routes!

Fact #8: Your mailing will saturate every consumer within your carrier route AND it can also include delivery to businesses. However – you CANNOT just send to businesses.

Fact #9: When choosing your carrier routes – remember to choose WISELY. With this system – you must mail to EVERY home on the carrier route. So it’s important to look at the market you want to saturate and budget accordingly. If your route has 1,000 homes in it – then you’ll need to provide mailings for every home. The average carrier route has about 250-500 homes in it. When using the carrier route selection tool from USPS – we always recommend ‘de-selecting all’ first – when you get to that screen so it doesn’t pull up every route in your zip code (that can be a little intimidating!) Then, based on YOUR budget, you can choose the carrier routes in your market with the number of homes you can comfortably afford to send to repeatedly.

Fact #10: To piggyback on #9, while this is a much more affordable mailing option for most agents, remember this is still direct marketing. So if you can only afford to (or care to) send a mailing ONCE to an area – then it will more than likely not glean you the results you are looking for. Keep that 3-7-27 rule in mind. It takes 3 impressions for someone to recognize your name, 7 impressions to put your name with your business and 27 to become a ‘top of mind’ brand name in someone’s head. So better to mail to 300 people ten times for example than to send one mailing of 3,000 if you want to build that awareness and trust.

Fact #11: You’ll need to include a form (PS Form 3587) with your mailing that identifies the carrier routes, number of homes in the route, etc. It’s a government form so – while it’s a little mind-boggling – it’s not too bad! (And with our service we’ll even fill it out for you so no worries!)

Fact #12: Your mailers have to be bundled and banded in groups of 100 and include a “facing slip” on each bundle. So that’s not a lot of fun – but again – we do that for you if you like. Besides – you’ve got to think about those delivery folks! Can you image if you gave them one giant stack? Yikes!

Fact #13: If your best target market is actually in other cities or states, you can use Priority Mail® to ship your Every Door Direct Mail mailings to the Post Office in that area. How cool is that? This is especially helpful if you are working with vacation properties or investors.

Fact #14: You have OPTIONS. Whether you’re an all-hands-on-deck kind of person and want to do everything yourself or whether you just want to choose your mailing piece, pick your routes and have the rest all done for you – we’ve got a solution that works for you, your market and your budget. Learn more about how Every Door Direct Mail – just click here!

Fact #15: You don’t have to do it BY YOURSELF. The truth is, this is an exciting and affordable opportunity to saturate a market with your message but there are variables, budgets and geographic areas to consider. Sometimes (all right – most of the time) it’s good to have another person to help walk you through the process. Our EDDM specialists have the experience and knowledge to do just that – just give them a call at 866.405.3638. They’re happy to help.

Hope that helps! Happy marketing!

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