Friday, March 29, 2024

    We recently gave you some ideas on how to reach out to the people in your CRM over the holidays. And, we promised you more, so let’s dive right in.

    We left off talking about holiday blog posts

    Blog posts should never be permanently rooted on your website. Propagate them and share them on your social media platforms.

    “Cross-promoting your content on social media can help drive traffic to your blog,” according to Melanie Tamble at socialmediaexaminer.com. It also helps generate additional exposure for your brand.

    Whichever platforms you use, ensure that what links back to your blog contains a catchy headline. Then, engage, engage, engage with commenters.

    The quick pop-by

    If you’re short on cash (and who isn’t right now?), save this one for the hottest of the hottest leads and referral sources in your CRM.

    Here are some ideas for the seasonal pop-by:

    • Deliver boxes of cookies or confections (homemade are especially appreciated).
    • Toys for the pet(s)
    • Goodies for the kids
    • Boxes of sparklers for New Year’s Eve
    • Champagne or champagne glasses to toast the New Year
    • Hot chocolate kit. You can make these yourself to save money. Open hot chocolate mix packets into a small cellophane bag and use a shiny twist tie to secure it. Place this in a basket or larger bag along with a peppermint stick and small marshmallows.

    A handwritten tag that simply, and with class, wishes the best of the holiday season or a fantastic 2024 will cast you in a non-salesy light.

    Go traditional

    There is a reason our mailboxes fill up with holiday cards every year: it’s a relatively inexpensive way to reach out.

    ProspectsPLUS offers numerous holiday postcard options for the coming holiday.

    Consider scheduling an automated monthly holiday campaign to make your real estate marketing easier in 2024.

    You can schedule a holiday campaign in just minutes, and once set, holiday postcards will go out every month throughout the year, keeping you in front of your market and reminding them who to call for real estate assistance.

    Heading into the holidays can very often be a hectic time for agents, what with trying to close before all the lenders, title and escrow folks, and attorneys take time off.

    If you start now, however, you can get those holiday touches taken care of and reap the benefits in 2024.


    PLUS: When you have time…below are some marketing tools to help support your success.

    1. Put Your Real Estate Business a Step Above with Your Own Branded Magazine

    Homes & Life Magazine is a customizable magazine with rich, full-color content and a sharp, professional aesthetic. It includes compelling, direct, response-driven articles written by real estate industry experts and engaging lifestyle content. Send out Homes & Life Magazine in Just Minutes – No Minimums Required. Or we’ll ship it to you. Homes & Life Magazine is the ultimate “Coffee Table Lingerer”! …and it costs less than sending a greeting card!Click Here

    2. The Free 6-Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

    The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 6-Month Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do and when. Four key market segments include niche Markets, geographic farming, sphere of influence, and past clients. – Click Here

    3. The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review

    The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review allows you to enter your business goals for the remainder of the year and get a breakdown of how many prospects, listings, closings, and so on are needed to reach your goals.   – Click Here

    4. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook 

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    Ready to take a vertical leap in your real estate career? If you’re looking for inspiration…and the tools and methods to dominate a market and go to the top in real estate…you’ll find them in this free book. – Click Here


      Over the past few years, direct mail real estate marketing has seen a resurgence. Experts chalk it up to the overuse of email marketing, but direct mail outperforms most digital marketing tactics, according to the Association of National Advertisers (ANA).

      Direct mail marketing’s “response rate ranges from about five to nine times greater than that of email, paid search, or social media,” according to the pros at datatargetingsolutions.com.

      Pretty impressive, right? Yet, at least in the real estate industry, it’s still not utilized like it could be.

      This leaves the door open for agents seeking an additional marketing vehicle and a way to stand out.

      Niche real estate postcards

      A few years ago, scientists at Temple University’s Fox School of Business Center for Neural Decision-Making teamed up with the Postal Service to study the circumstances under which email or direct mail was more effective.

      Postcards were more effective in five of the nine tests performed.

      The most popular postcard agents are familiar with are the time-tested Just Listed and Just Sold postcards, which are still highly effective. To stand out further in this market, consider a local market update on the postcard back or a QR code leading to a valuable direct response flyer opt-in.

      To think outside the postcard box, there are a multitude of real estate niches that you can drill down and focus on to stir up interest.

      Some popular niches include baby boomers, high-income renters, expired, absentee owners, FSBOs, move-up markets, and investors. The more obscure niches include divorce, foreclosure, estate sale, and notice of default.

      ProspectsPLUS! has postcard designs available in all of the niches listed above, already done for you with the perfect message for the niche market.

      Education Direct Response Reports

      Direct response reports are a great educational tool, filled with valuable information homeowners appreciate.

      You can share them on social media as a “free offer”, include them in your email newsletter as a free offer, add them to your website as an opt-in in exchange for an email address, or add them to your listing presentation folder and pre-listing packet.

      Personally branded agent magazines

      Consider a personally branded agent magazine to level up your real estate presence in a way that few agents do. Homes & Life Magazine is a done-for-you magazine with rich, full-color content.

      It includes compelling, direct response-driven articles, and engaging lifestyle content, and costs less to send out than a greeting card!

      Sphere or farm scheduled postcard campaign

      When clients need a real estate agent, it pays to have an easily recognizable name at their fingertips. But coming up with fresh, eye-catching content and sticking to a regular schedule of sending this content out is incredibly time-consuming.

      A scheduled, recurring postcard campaign is the easiest way to maintain brand exposure and stay relevant while freeing time for more high-level tasks.

      According to Lenskold Group, 78% of marketers reported that marketing automation increased revenue.

      And 75% of brands saw a return on investment within 12 months due to using automated marketing campaigns (Focus Research study).

      Launching a scheduled marketing campaign is the best way to make every moment count in your business, raise your brand profile, and stay relevant.

      ProspectsPLUS! offers over 40 scheduled postcard campaigns, including sphere, farm, renters, absentee owners, holiday, and other niche markets.


      PLUS: When you have time…below are some marketing tools to help support your success.

      1. Put Your Real Estate Business a Step Above with Your Own Branded Magazine

      Homes & Life Magazine is a customizable magazine with rich, full-color content and a sharp, professional aesthetic. It includes compelling, direct, response-driven articles written by real estate industry experts and engaging lifestyle content. Send out Homes & Life Magazine in Just Minutes – No Minimums Required. Or we’ll ship it to you. Homes & Life Magazine is the ultimate “Coffee Table Lingerer”! …and it costs less than sending a greeting card!Click Here

      2. The Free 6-Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

      The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 6-Month Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do and when. Four key market segments include niche Markets, geographic farming, sphere of influence, and past clients. – Click Here

      3. The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review

      The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review allows you to enter your business goals for the remainder of the year and get a breakdown of how many prospects, listings, closings, and so on are needed to reach your goals.   – Click Here

      4. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook 

      This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Become-A-Listing-Legend-3D-Book-White-274x300.jpg

      Ready to take a vertical leap in your real estate career? If you’re looking for inspiration…and the tools and methods to dominate a market and go to the top in real estate…you’ll find them in this free book. – Click Here


        DaRhonda’s latest postcard mailing is from the Real Estate Times Series (shown above). To learn more, Click Here.

        Congratulations, DeRhonda Morgan, on winning this week’s contest!

        DaRhonda had the following words to say about her success sending marketing out from ProspectsPLUS!,

        “Great quality postcards. They offer a large selection of postcards to choose from, and the site is easy to navigate. Very pleased with my purchase.”

        -DaRhonda Morgan

        DaRhonda, thank you for this wonderful review. We truly appreciate you and your support!


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        HOW TO ENTER: Just leave feedback regarding how using marketing from ProspectsPLUS! has impacted your business, and you’re automatically entered into our next contest.

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        Don’t forget to watch for next Friday’s email announcing the weekly winner!


        PLUS: When you have time…below are some marketing tools to help support your success.

        1. Put Your Real Estate Business a Step Above with Your Own Branded Magazine

        Homes & Life Magazine is a customizable magazine with rich, full-color content and a sharp, professional aesthetic. It includes compelling, direct response-driven articles written by real estate industry experts and engaging lifestyle content. Send out Homes & Life Magazine in Just Minutes – No Minimums Required. Or we’ll ship it to you. Homes & Life Magazine is the ultimate “Coffee Table Lingerer”! …and it costs less than sending a greeting card!Click Here

        2. The Free 6-Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

        The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 6-Month Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do and when. Four key market segments include niche Markets, geographic farming, sphere of influence, and past clients. – Click Here

        3. The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review

        The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review allows you to enter your business goals for the remainder of the year and get a breakdown of how many prospects, listings, closing, and so on are needed to reach your goals.  – Click Here

        4. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook 

        This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Become-A-Listing-Legend-3D-Book-White-274x300.jpg

        Ready to take a vertical leap in your real estate career? If you’re looking for inspiration…and the tools and methods to dominate a market and go to the top in real estate…you’ll find them in this free book. – Click Here

          Yes, the real estate market is a bit confusing for the average American right now. Prices are still somewhat high, interest rates are through the roof, and it doesn’t appear there is any end to either in sight.

          Yet, people still want to sell and buy homes. Going into the slowest season in real estate, what can you do to encourage them to enter or stay in the market?

          What do your blog followers need to know about buying a home (in your town) during the fall? 

          There is always a silver lining

          Sometimes, we just need to look a little harder for it. About 550,000 people enter the term “real estate housing market” into Google each month. Another 450,000 searches for “housing market.” That’s one million people interested in knowing what’s going on with the housing market.

          While sharing the national outlook is good, nothing beats a deep dive into the local market from a buyer’s perspective. This is your opportunity to remind your readers that all real estate is local and that what the national market looks like doesn’t necessarily reflect local conditions.

          For inspiration, check out this amazing post from Sammamish Mortgage in Bellevue, WA.

          Is now a good time to buy a home?

          The folks at Leonardi Real Estate in Folsom, CA. show readers why it is the best time to buy a home by comparing what they will pay now instead of what they will pay if they wait a year. It’s a brilliant infographic.

          Veterans need to know

          “Fewer than 12 percent of the country’s estimated 24 million veterans are currently using their VA loan benefits, according to government data,” claims Chris Birk at veteransunited.com. Most of them either don’t think they qualify or don’t understand how to apply, Birk adds.

          Since November is the month we celebrate our veterans, help get the word out about their home loan benefits.

          Sadly, many surviving spouses aren’t aware that they, too, may qualify for the loan. So you have lots of topics to cover during Veteran’s Month. 

          “Why we Love [name of city] in Fall” 

          While not explicitly buyer-related, this hyper-local topic is a share magnet.

          What are some of the wonderful things about your town in the fall? The chances are pretty good that others feel the same way. 

          This topic, especially when shared on social media, marries your brand to your town in a way that no other agent can.

          Need some examples of how others have treated this topic?

          Remember, don’t let these posts sit on your blog. Cross-post to social media to increase traffic to your website.

          Happy Fall!


          PLUS: When you have time…below are some marketing tools to help support your success.

          1. Put Your Real Estate Business a Step Above with Your Own Branded Magazine

          Homes & Life Magazine is a customizable magazine with rich, full-color content and a sharp, professional aesthetic. It includes compelling, direct, response-driven articles written by real estate industry experts and engaging lifestyle content. Send out Homes & Life Magazine in Just Minutes – No Minimums Required. Or we’ll ship it to you. Homes & Life Magazine is the ultimate “Coffee Table Lingerer”! …and it costs less than sending a greeting card!Click Here

          2. The Free 6-Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

          The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 6-Month Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do and when. Four key market segments include niche Markets, geographic farming, sphere of influence, and past clients. – Click Here

          3. The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review

          The Free Interactive 6-Month Real Estate Business Review allows you to enter your business goals for the remainder of the year and get a breakdown of how many prospects, listings, closings, and so on are needed to reach your goals.   – Click Here

          4. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook 

          This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Become-A-Listing-Legend-3D-Book-White-274x300.jpg

          Ready to take a vertical leap in your real estate career? If you’re looking for inspiration…and the tools and methods to dominate a market and go to the top in real estate…you’ll find them in this free book. – Click Here