Showing Up When Competition Slows Down

Nov 21, 2016

3 Great Strategies for Creating PRESENCE This Season

By Julie Escobar

It’s that time of year. The holidays are here and with them much of your competition is settling in – for shorter days, slimmer work calendars and that ‘wait ‘till the first of the year’ slump. Not you. You’ve got your eye on a new year filled with promise and kicked off with momentum-right?

Here are three things you can do to create vital PRESENCE now that will carry you through the holidays and long into the New Year with powerful, forward, full-steam-ahead strength.

Commit to Consistency

You know what you see a lot of? Agents who ONLY send a postcard or greeting card once a year. Start now and make it a point to ‘touch’ your sphere and farm at LEAST once every 21-30 days for the duration. Consumers today are savvy – they’re not swayed, influenced or impressed by the ‘one-and-done’ marketing efforts. From their perspective? If you’re that lax in how you market YOURSELF – how will you be at marketing THEIR property? Show the consumers in your market place that you’ve got the chops – and the commitment to be front and center not just once, but again and again and again.

Community Counts

Want to be known as the neighborhood resource or the market specialist? Get out of the office, out from behind your desk and out in FRONT of the people in the community you serve. Make it a point to calendar at least ONE community event in your market per quarter – or even per month. It’s an edge that will set you apart, win favor and create a presence that you’re the top agent to talk to. Team up with your local schools, libraries, chamber of commerce, or even a network of like-minded business professionals to help create awareness, increase attendance and bring a wide spectrum of information to those who want it most.

Think AHEAD

The smartest agents in the business are never satisfied with doing things the ‘same old way’. They’re keeping their ear to the ground, eyes open, and thinking ahead. What can you do to make a splash? How can you best keep the ‘buzz’ going? I love Tony Robbins who has served up the motto ‘Constant And Never Ending Improvement’ for years. In a 24/7, 365 world, you can’t let your skills, your top-of-mind awareness, or your passion to coast or slip to the back burner.

Need help? Call us at 866.405.3638. We’ve got answers you can count on. From direct response postcard marketing that keeps you top-of-mind, to Holiday messages that make a difference, to real world resources that you can adopt and make part of that empowered new marketing and business plan for 2017 that we know you are ALREADY working on! Have a great week!

Have It Your Way!

Jul 11, 2016

Expanding Your Marketing Options and Opportunity

By Julie Escobar

it’s good to have options–right? Especially when you are building a brand, and growing your business. That’s what our customers tell us every week — and it’s why we continuously work to deliver exceptional options to agents all across North America. One of the features of our site that our customers tell us they love having is the Upload Your Own option. Why? It gives those of you who’ve already had branded materials created and just need print resource and those of you who are pretty handy, creative and tech-savvy to create the exact pieces you want for your marketing and STILL have a means to get them printed, shipped and sent to your book of business or to yourself quickly, easily and best of all – AFFORDABLY.

Let’s face it. Printing up all your materials yourself and getting them the way you want them on your home printer isn’t always a walk in the park. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve hit crunch time only to find my printer is (NATURALLY) out of INK. And for agents who like to have their marketing materials on-hand and professionally printed and looking sharp – this really is the best of both worlds.

What are agents printing using the UPLOAD YOUR OWN option on our new site?

Pre-listing packages: (This is a great one because all that collated and matching everything up is a pain for most agents! And now we have really cool, branded presentation folders as well that they can just tuck each one into!)
Feature Property or Open House flyers: This is especially handy if you’re using an InfoBox and need to print a lot of them at a low cost so you can keep replenishing your supply.
Pre-designed and branded marketing pieces: Many of you have spent considerable time, effort and energy to create branded personal brochures, notecards and stationery – but just need a reasonable source to get them printed that you can rely on for short-run ability, good pricing and reliability.
Large files: No burning up your ink jet with large files that need printing – we’ve got it! (For Less!)
Brochures: Having the right brochures on hand for open houses, presentations, leave-behinds at local businesses and more is vital to your business.
Invitations: Invites to community events, fundraisers, client appreciation parties or real estate workshops are easy and fast to reproduce.
Posters, Postcards and Print Outs – Oh my! Anything you need printing – we can find a way to
Spaccommodate. From the postcards or printouts that you design yourself to the event pieces you might need for your sphere, farm or community.
Magnets: Many agents like to print out sports event calendars, regular calendars, recipes, top marketing tips with a magnetic back (way to STICK around for your sphere.) By the way – our Football Schedule Series is a super popular marketing tool. See them here. It’s easy!

There are so many options you can now choose and we’re thrilled to bring them to you. Whether you would like ready-made marketing tools such as our free reports, postcards, stationery, niche kits, presentation folders or if you prefer to create your own and just choose to print it offsite – we hope you’ll discover how simple, affordable and service-focused we are to work with.

Make sure your artwork is sized to fit our printing requirements by visiting our Artwork Specifications Link here.

And if you are NOT a do-it-yourself kind of guy or gal — head over to our Specials Page and see what agents across the nation are sending this month!

Got questions? Call us today at 866.405.3638 to get the help you need printing the marketing pieces you want to help you grow your business and get those phones ringing!

The Best Kept Secret…

May 9, 2016

That’s Not REALLY a Secret

by Julie Escobar

I had a long conversation with an agent the other day who was interested in putting to good use all the tools and strategies we’ve been sharing on the blog, and those he’s been reading about in the Master Marketing Magazine.

He loved the idea of downloading free reports and pdf’s of the postcards that he uses to put into his pre-listing packages, as opt-in’s for his site, and as direct response tools for his postcard marketing and open houses. We got to speaking about all the pdf’s he wanted to download and the best way of going about that so I told him about our terrific membership tool, that is kind of the best kept secret around here — it’s called SupportPLUS!

As a Monthly SupportPLUS! Member Your Benefits Are:

Free PDFs each month of every piece on our site! Valued at $19.95 each, you can choose from hundreds of marketing pieces that are easily customized and saved to your personal files as a PDF for you to print or use whenever you like!
A Special VIP customer service line. Your satisfaction is our top priority. That’s why you’ll have access to our VIP service line to ensure that your questions get answered quickly and to help make your job so much easier!
Exclusive offers! NO ONE gets a better deal or deeper discounts on products, services or tools than ourSupportPLUS! Members. They are higher than ANY OTHER offer on our site month after month (think 17% off products rather than the standard 10%).
No limits – our new site offers far more than postcards and flyers – you have access to direct mail solutions, business cards, stationery, newsletters, market dominators, door hangers, brochures and so much more!
Personal Marketing Assistance. Our talented team of Inside Account Managers are skilled in helping real estate professionals find EXACTLY the right marketing tools for their business — and their budget and they’re happy to walk you through finding just what’s right for YOU.
List Assistance. One of the biggest challenges for today’s agents are getting the right LISTS to mail and market to. Our exclusive MapMyMail product is perfect for helping you find the right marketing list for your business. Our staff can help you manage your lists, purchase a specialty list or give you advice on how to build the perfect database foundation for growing your business.
Access to new pieces as soon as they come online! We add 4-8 new marketing tools EACH MONTH. You’ll have access to all of them and have the ability to download any at no cost with your membership!

We let him know that SupportPLUS! was available for just $99 per year and he said, “that’s a bargain all year around!” I agree, so I wanted to share it with you as well!

Click Here to join this club of top professionals – or call our team today at 866.405.3638! But hurry – the savings won’t last long!