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Hey Listing Agents: Go after these BUYERS

Oct 25, 2021

Millennials and baby boomers own the real estate market. While the former comprises the largest buyer pool (37%), the latter comes in quite close, at 32%, according to NAR’s 2021 Generational Trend report.

The problem with agents being so hyper-focused on millennials is that few have homes to sell. In fact, only 22% of them are sellers.

Boomers, on the other hand, are large and in charge of the seller’s market, owning 32% of it, right behind them, however, is that forgotten generation, Gen X.

While many veteran listing agents typically don’t actively pursue buyers, it may be time to change your strategy.

Members of Generation X, (age 45 to 56) are among the most likely to consider selling and for several reasons. Chief among them is to find a home that better fits their new normal: no more commute, working from home, homeschooling kids, and finding a large home so Mom and Dad can move in.

Gen X is in the house

While baby boomers hold the most money, Gen Xers earn the most of all living generations. They lost a lot during the recession – more than any other group. But, they’re currently the only generation to reclaim all the money lost.

Here’s what our research has turned up about Gen X’s home shopping wish list:

Most want a single-family home, single-story, 3 or 4 bedrooms, 2,315 square feet of living space or more.
The top 3 features on the wish list include exterior lighting, a laundry room, and Energy Star® rated appliances.
They crave extra storage space and room for a “relaxed” home office.
They care more about the home’s features than the neighborhood.

If you list a home that fits this description, hold it open, at least virtually, and laser-target Gen X buyers because the chances are good that they’ll be visiting or viewing.

How to reach these buyer/sellers

Chances are good this cohort has a house to sell as well, so targeting them is a brilliant strategy.

Suggest that the homeowners create some obvious storage solutions in the garage and stage them just enough to show that they truly are storage solutions. In other words, don’t pack them full of stuff.

If clients are replacing any appliances, convince them to go with Energy Star® certified appliances.

When staging the home, ensure that your clients’ laundry room looks amazing. You’ll find brilliant tips at:

If the home would work as a multi-generational home, let buyers know that up front, in your listing description and other marketing materials. Gen X is the largest cohort seeking these homes and their numbers grow every year.

As the generation most likely to have children younger than 18 living in the home, Gen X also craves space for the youngins.

This is why they’re the generation purchasing the largest and second most expensive homes.

Finally, if you sell real estate in the following cities (listed in order of popularity, most popular first), you’d be crazy not to target Gen X. These cities are getting the most searches from this generation, according to Lending Tree research:

Memphis, Tennessee
Jacksonville, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Washington, D.C
Orlando Florida

Are you ready to go after a specific generational niche? If so, create your targeted list HERE, then launch a scheduled Campaign in just minutes.

The Call to Action postcard campaign is the perfect direct mail marketing tool to get prospects reaching out to you. And, right now, get 10% off Call To Action Campaigns.

Shown above: Call to Action postcard campaign, available in the FARM campaign section. Learn More, **HERE**.

HOW TO LAUNCH A CALL TO ACTION CAMPAIGN.

Hit the “CLICK HERE” link, below (from a desktop or laptop computer) and choose the Call to Action Series.

USE PROMO CODE: ACTION10 to get 10% off the first month of a Call to Action Campaign.

Schedule a Call to Action postcard campaign, now, CLICK HERE!

This sale expires on 10/30/21. Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 12-Month-Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do when. Four key market segments are included, Niche Marketing, Get More Listings, Geographic Farming, and Sphere of Influence. –Click Here

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

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

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

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The Real Estate Mailing List Guide outlines the top tools for generating targeted prospecting lists including Baby Boomers, Empty Nesters, Investors, Lifestyle Interests, High-Income Renters, Move-Up Markets, and more. The Guide also defines done-for-you marketing campaigns to match these markets. –Click Here

5. 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

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

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Consistency and automation are the keys to success. Discover how effective direct mail marketing can dramatically increase your bottom line. Enter your statistics in our Free online ROI Calculator and click the ‘CALCULATE MY ROI’ button to see your results instantly! –Click Here

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

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The “Crush It” Guide includes easy steps to launching an effective direct mail marketing campaign, how to create a targeted prospect list, the perfect way to layout marketing materials for success, seven opportunities available to target in your area right now. –Click Here

This Week’s ProspectsPLUS! $120 Gift Card Winner (OCT. 22ND)

Oct 22, 2021

Shown above: Nancy Strickland’s Get More Listings postcard and other Get More Listings postcard designs. See more Get More Listings postcard designs HERE

Congratulations, Nancy Strickland you are the winner of this week’s $120 gift card!

Nancy had the following words to say about her success after sending marketing from ProspectsPLUS!,

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-Nancy Strickland

Thank you, Nancy!

NEW CONTEST STARTS NOW: Get the FIRST MONTH of Any Scheduled Campaign For FREE! ($120 value)

FARM, *Get More Listings* Scheduled Campaign shown above. Learn more, HERE

Enter this week’s contest for a chance to win a $120 gift card covering the first month of ANY Scheduled Campaign.

The scheduled campaign includes 150 jumbo-sized postcards, sent standard postage (excluding data and tax. Includes only the first month free of a new campaign).

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

Mention a “scheduled campaign you’ve launched” in your review and your entry into the contest is doubled.

Leave a review on Google, HERE.

Leave a review on Facebook, HERE.

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

**Ready to Schedule an SOI, Farm, Get More Listing, Holiday or Absentee Owner Campaign?**

*Holiday* Scheduled Campaign shown above, learn more HERE

Launch a Scheduled Campaign today and save time on your marketing by automating it!

You Can Launch a Scheduled Campaign to any of the following Markets in Just Minutes:

Sphere of Influence
Geographic Farm
Just Sold Follow-up
Holiday
Renters
Absentee Owners
Expireds
FSBOs
Fence Sitters*
Get More Listings*
Empty Nesters*
Move-Up Market*

(*Located under Farm Campaigns)

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change each mailing up until the night before mailing goes out. The price shown at check out is per mailing, not campaign total).

TO GET STARTED:

STEP 1: Create your prospect list using our mailing list tools, HERE.

STEP 2: Then, once you have your list, choose your Campaign, select your start date, and add your list, HERE or hit “Launch a Scheduled Campaign”, below.

Launch a Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you in your success.

Direct Mail Marketing on a Budget: How to Get the Best Bang for Your Buck

Oct 19, 2021

Why direct mail?

According to a CMO survey (a company that collects the opinions of top marketers), only 16.3 percent of marketers “are confident about recommending investing in social media marketing.”

If professional marketers aren’t able to justify spending their clients’ money on social media marketing, then you may want to pass for now, specifically if you’re working with a tight budget.

So where do you spend your marketing dollars when you’re funds are limited?

The proof is in the numbers

Direct mail marketings response rate, according to the DMA Response Rate Report, stands at nine percent to warm leads and five percent to cold.

In addition, the DMA states 56% of consumers believe print marketing is the most trustworthy of all marketing channels.

The email marketing response rate is one percent. Online display ads are even worse, at 0.30 percent.

Clearly, if you are looking for the best place to spend your limited marketing dollars, the answer is direct mail marketing.

How much should you allocate

Before getting clear on your budget you must understand your revenue goals and objectives.

As a guide, businesses spend, on average, 9.8 percent of revenue on marketing, according to the aforementioned CMO survey.

We see you wincing. But consider this: according to NAR, the overall budget item that agents spend the most money on every year is on their automobiles.

Cars aren’t exactly lead-generating machines, yet there you have it.

So, determine a percentage that you can feel comfortable with, based on your goals, and commit to spending that budget during the remainder of the year.

The following are three tips to get the most bang for your direct mail marketing budget

1. The List

For any marketing campaign to be successful you must know your audience. This is even more critical when you’re on a tight budget. Now is not the time to attempt to be all things to all people.

Call to Action Postcard Campaign is shown above

The easiest way to whittle down the audience is by first figuring out if you’re going after buyers or sellers. Make a choice.

This not only ensures that what you mail is relevant to the recipient, but helps you choose a farming area (subdivision vs apartment building, for instance).

Be very picky who you mail to. Throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks is a sure way to burn through your budget with nothing to show for the time and money spent.

Once you have defined your target markets, use our mailing list tools to create your prospect list.

2. The marketing pieces

After taking into account how many mailed pieces your budget will allow you to send, it’s time to determine an economic format. Postcards are most likely your best bet. They’re inexpensive to print and mail.

If your budget is super tight, consider foregoing postage costs and delivering door hangers. The advantages to using door hangers include that they stand out more and because you’ll save on postage your list can be larger.

Disadvantages include the labor intensiveness of having to visit each home on your list. Also, door hangers aren’t quite as effective when used in neighborhoods where people routinely enter their homes through the garage.

3. Offer something

Come up with a compelling offer and feature that on your direct mail postcards. A free home price analysis, buy first vs sell first evaluation or a free home equity analysis are all effective options.

The idea is to move recipients to act or, at the very least, hang on to your postcard until they’re ready to act.

Bottom line

Now, when your budget is tight, isn’t the time to take chances with marketing your real estate business.

Jumping on time-consuming and costly social media bandwagons that don’t deliver your target audience or wasting time and resources on an email that may not be opened, let alone read, can wait.

Use your budget on marketing that has the highest response rate – direct mail marketing.

The Move-Up Market is a great market to target right now. Especially since, with our current sale, you can get the first 100 prospects on a Move-Up Market list for FREE!

Discover Move-Up Market prospects in Your Area and Get the First 100 for **FREE** with the Demographic Search Tool.

HOW TO FIND MOVE-UP MARKET PROSPECTS IN YOUR AREA.

Hit “CLICK HERE”, below (from a desktop or laptop computer) and choose the Demographic Search Tool.

USE PROMO CODE: MOVE100 to get the first 100 prospects free.

Discover Move-UP Market Prospects in your area, now, CLICK HERE!

This sale expires on 10/23/21. Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

This Week’s ProspectsPLUS! $120 Gift Card Winner (Oct. 15th)

Oct 15, 2021

Shown above: Hansel Duran’s Just Sold postcard and other Just Sold postcard designs. See more Just Sold postcard designs HERE

Congratulations, Hansel Duran you are the winner of this week’s $120 gift card!

Hansel had the following words to say about his success after sending marketing from ProspectsPLUS!,

“They are less expensive than the previous company I used for mailers and better software to upload your own file or edit their templates. Also, a lot of great material for free if you signup for their emails. The scheduled campaign I’ve launched was a great experience!”

-Hansel Duran

Thank you, Hansel, for all of your kind words!

NEW CONTEST STARTS NOW: Get the FIRST MONTH of Any Scheduled Campaign For FREE! ($120 value)

Enter this week’s contest for a chance to win a $120 gift card covering the first month of ANY Scheduled Campaign.

The scheduled campaign includes 150 jumbo-sized postcards, sent standard postage (excluding data and tax. Includes only the first month free of a new campaign).

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

Mention a “scheduled campaign you’ve launched” in your review and your entry into the contest is doubled.

Leave a review on Google, HERE.

Leave a review on Facebook, HERE.

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

**Ready to Schedule an SOI, Farm, Get More Listing, Holiday or Absentee Owner Campaign?**

Launch a Scheduled Campaign today and save time on your marketing by automating it!

You Can Launch a Scheduled Campaign to any of the following Markets in Just Minutes:

Sphere of Influence
Geographic Farm
Just Sold Follow-up
Holiday
Renters
Absentee Owners
Expireds
FSBOs
Fence Sitters*
Get More Listings*
Empty Nesters*
Move-Up Market*

(*Located under Farm Campaigns)

TO GET STARTED:

STEP 1: Create your prospect list using our mailing list tools, HERE.

STEP 2: Then, once you have your list, choose your Campaign, select your start date, and add your list, HERE or hit “Launch a Scheduled Campaign”, below.

Launch a Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you in your success.

Listing Agents: Steal These Home Staging Tips for Your Clients

Oct 7, 2021

If I were to ask you which room in a home is most important to stage, what would you say?

Kitchen, right? Or, perhaps, bathroom.

According to a NAR survey of buyers’ agents, however, “Staging the living room was found to be most important for buyers.”

So, the kitchen and/or bathroom must be second in importance, right?

Actually, slightly more than 40% of buyers’ agents recommend staging the master bedroom.

Staging the kitchen came in third.

The folks at homelight.com surveyed nearly 1,000 buyers’ agents and learned that more than half of them feel that “… staging increases a home’s value from anywhere between 1% to 10%.”

Nearly 30% of the aforementioned NAR survey respondents claimed that staging a home had no impact on the sales price. Twenty percent of them claimed that “… staging a home increased the dollar value offered between one and five percent, compared to other similar homes on the market that were not staged.”

While the Real Estate Staging Association claims that staged homes sell 73% quicker than homes that aren’t staged.

As you can see, whether or not staging is valuable to the seller depends on who you ask. If you have a challenging listing, however, staging should be a must.

If you don’t offer staging as one of your sellers’ services, at least give your listing clients some tips on how to do it themselves.

Who will likely buy the home?

Read any staging website and you’ll learn that most stagers aim for the impossible: “universal appeal.” You, as a real estate agent who works with real estate consumers on a daily basis, know how impossible this is. Nothing is universally appealing.

Perhaps what stagers are alluding to are aspects of staging that appeal to a broad spectrum of homebuyers, such as:

The homes and the closets are light and bright.
The home has been depersonalized. Despite what many real estate bloggers claim, this doesn’t mean removing personal items such as photos and certificates. It means personal items, such as toiletries, toothbrushes, feminine hygiene products and even used bars of soap, according to a study by Andrea Angott, Ph.D at Duke University.
Each room’s purpose is immediately evident. Remove office paraphernalia from the dining room and baby stuff from the master bedroom.
Each room gives the perception of lots of space. Remove excess items from the pantry, closets and cupboards so that they appear larger. Ensure the lighting is bright in closets. Remove oversized furniture.

As the listing agent, it’s important that you have a good idea of who makes up the buyer pool for each listing you take. Often, it’s obvious. Others, not so much.

If the home is a penthouse condo with a city view the buyer won’t likely be a family with young children. If the home is in a good school district, on the other hand, you can almost guarantee a family will buy it.

Once you have a good idea of the buyer pool you can offer more specific staging tips.

How do you get those new listings that you’ll be helping stage? How about launching a Get More Listings Campaign?

Get More Listing Campaigns are ON SALE 10% OFF the first month – 3 More Days!

*Get More Listings* Postcard Campaign (shown above). Learn more, **HERE**

TO LAUNCH A GET MORE LISTINGS CAMPAIGN:

Hit the “CLICK HERE” link, below, to schedule your campaign (from a desktop or laptop computer).

USE PROMO CODE: LIST10 to get 10% Off at check out.

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change up until the night before the mailing goes out). This sale expires 10/9/21.

Launch a Get More Listings Campaign Now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

Want More Listings? Become a BIG FISH in a Small Pond

Sep 30, 2021

Social media. Pay-per-click. Email.

Digital marketing is hot with real estate agents. This provides an amazing opportunity for the agent who decides to take a different approach and become a BIG FISH in a small pond.

How do you do this? with direct mail.

Oh, I know what you’re thinking. “She works for a direct mail marketing company, of course, she will say this.”

Statistics, however, don’t lie. Direct mail marketing is not only strategic, but it can also be laser-focused to a particular audience and it works.

Why fish for listing leads in the huge ocean that is digital? Think about it; doesn’t it make more sense to cast your net in a smaller pond filled with people who you are certain ACTUALLY OWN HOMES?

Some things to consider

In a recent survey of real estate agents, 82% said their marketing goal this year is to “improve their social media presence,” according to Becky Brooks at theclose.com.

A worthy goal, but not very focused. Think about this: while they are chasing after Facebook leads, you’ll have little competition vying for attention in homeowners’ mailboxes.

With targeted direct mail you will not only reach homeowners. If you narrow your mailing list to only homeowners who have lived in their homes a certain number of years, or who live in starter homes or any other preferred criteria, you will have a far greater chance of taking listings than by randomly posting on social media.

For instance, by targeting homeowners who have been in their home for seven or more years, you’re creating a great list of potential fence-sitters to go after.

*Fence Sitter* postcard campaign shown above. To learn more, click **HERE**

Another thing to consider is the pandemic. In a recent USPS study, slightly more than 40% of Americans said that since the pandemic began, their excitement about receiving mail increased.

Nearly half of respondents said that a direct mail piece prompted them to go online to get more information about the sender.

The volume of direct mail plummeted from “… 213 billion pieces …” in 2016 to 120 billion last year. Interestingly, despite the drop in volume, the response rate skyrocketed nearly 200%.

You’ll have far less competition for eyes on your mail pieces and a better response rate than ever before.

Who makes up your potential seller audience?

Now that we’ve got you looking for listings in all the right places, what will you be sending? Keep in mind your audience – older generations, such as Baby Boomers and Gen X make up 75% of the real estate market combined.

When considering your direct mail marketing piece, don’t take valuable time out of your day to create marketing from scratch.

ProspectsPLUS! offers hundreds of marketing templates targeted specifically to your niche audience and designed by direct response experts.

Next, determine your recipient’s needs (boomers may want to downsize or move near their grown children) and offer a solution that is compelling (don’t worry ProspectsPLUS! has this covered for you as well). Check out the Empty Nest Series located under Farm campaigns.

Decide on the compelling offer to get those homeowners reaching out

A market update is always a good way to break the ice. Yes, it may be time-consuming, but it doesn’t have to be.

Direct Response Report, *Advice For Cash-Strapped Landlords*.

A simple chart of recently listeds, under contracts, and solds, along with bedrooms, baths, square footage, and prices, is something that hits my mailbox once a quarter. Do I read it?

You bet I do!

Then, there are the absentee owners to consider. Many have been hit hard by the rent moratorium and want out from under their investments. Take a look at what we offer to market to these possible listers.

If you have a freebie they can download or you can deliver, all the better. Offer them the Direct Response Report, Advice For Cash-Strapped Landlords.

Consistency is key in any lead generation campaign, so send just-listed and just-sold postcards when appropriate. Keep reminding them just how much their neighbors are getting for their homes in this on-fire sellers’ market.

FOMO (fear of missing out) is real.

Another way to keep those listings flowing? A YEAR ROUND Holiday Postcard Campaign. Staying top of mind with Your Sphere & Farm is easy with a Monthly Holiday Campaign.

And, Holiday Campaigns are ON SALE 10% OFF the first month – 3 More Days!

*Holiday* Postcard Campaign (shown above). Learn more, **HERE**

TO LAUNCH A HOLIDAY CAMPAIGN:

Hit the “CLICK HERE” link, below, to schedule your campaign (from a desktop or laptop computer).

USE PROMO CODE: HOLIDAY10 to get 10% Off at check out.

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change up until the night before the mailing goes out). This sale expires 10/2/21.

Launch a Holiday Campaign Now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

Stop Struggling to Get Listings! Put Your Focus HERE Instead

Sep 22, 2021

So, what methods are you using to get listing leads? Cold calls? Pursuing FSBOs and Expireds? Throwing random methods against the wall to see what sticks?

If you’re like many other agents, employing one of those methods is how you spend a good portion of your workday.

There is another, way to go and it includes hanging out with people who know, like, and trust you.

Maybe it’s time to concentrate on SOI marketing for real estate.

That advice you got as a rookie to depend on the people in your sphere for business was spot on and remains so to this day.

If you’ve been running your business intelligently, you have a CRM full of warm leads to which you can make warm calls.

All the time and energy convincing a stranger to like and trust you is better spent tending to your sphere of influence, nurturing the amazing possibilities in your CRM.

The *SOI, Inspiration Series* Scheduled Campaign is shown above. Learn more **HERE**

For the newbies

The term “sphere of influence” didn’t originate as a sales term, but a political one. It first popped up in the late 1880s and it described a country that exercised “… exclusive or predominant control over a foreign area or territory,” according to britannica.com.

Today, the term is applied to a “business model” in which the aim is to attract customers and clients from people one knows instead of strangers.

Yes, it can be a terribly long list. It should include relatives, friends, friends of friends, the parents of your children’s friends, your parent’s friends and more.

Everyone you know. That is a lot of prospects.

These are people who will recognize your name on a direct mail piece and who won’t hang up on you when you call.

What can happen when you focus solely on your SOI?

Year after year, the NAR reports that home sellers sign up with the first agent they speak with. There are most likely a number of reasons that they do so but, primarily it’s because they forgot which agent sold them their home.

I recently read a blog post and, I apologize because I can’t remember who authored it and the website on which it appears.

In it, the author mentioned a real estate team whose coach advised them to focus on growing their SOI.

At the time, their CRM contained around 280 members of the team’s SOI. Within four years after heeding their coach’s advice, the team’s revenue skyrocket from zero to nearly $100 million.

It’s inspiring, isn’t it?

Like most lead generation methods, this won’t make you an overnight sensation. But if you’d prefer doing business with people you know, making warm calls instead of cold, it just may be the perfect way to generate listing leads.

Another way to grab your audience’s attention and keep it is with a Fence Sitters Campaign.

The Fence Sitters Scheduled Campaign is currently on sale for 10% OFF the first month – 3 More Days!

Fence Sitters Scheduled Campaign (shown above). Learn more, HERE

TO LAUNCH A FENCE SITTERS CAMPAIGN:

Hit “CLICK HERE”, below, to schedule your campaign (from a desktop or laptop computer) and select the Fence Sitter Series.

USE PROMO CODE: FENCE10 to get 10% Off at check out.

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change each mailing up until the night before it goes out). This sale expires 9/25/21.

Launch a Fence Sitters Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

Get More Listings by Offering the Seller Services That MATTER MOST

Sep 16, 2021

Most real estate agents know that staged homes sell faster and for more money. Some, however, go beyond merely suggesting staging to their listing clients.

Rather than lay the burden of staging on their clients, these agents bring in a staging team, at no expense to the homeowner.

What seller services do you offer? Does that list on your real estate website include the usual?

“Complimentary home value analysis!”
“Open Houses & Broker Tours”
“Your home will be entered into the MLS”
“Your home will be featured on our website”
“Place a distinctive [name of brokerage] for-sale sign on the property”
“Active promotion to my expansive network”
“I will bring the buyers to you” (for more information on how to do this by becoming a Market Maker, watch this video)

These are actual “Seller Services” offered by agents on their websites.

If you are tired of not getting the listing and want to truly offer value, thereby standing apart from the crowd, it’s time to change things up. Read on for some tips.

Complimentary Pre-Sale Home Inspection

As you know, when a problem is unearthed by the inspector, the entire transaction is at risk.

Why not be proactive and head off as many challenges as possible before putting the home on the market? Offer your listing clients a free, pre-market home inspection.

Yes, some agents balk at the idea, claiming that the inspection now becomes a disclosure item. And that’s true.

The flipside to this is that the items on the pre-sale inspection list will most likely show up on the buyer’s inspection report as well.

A pre-market inspection allows the homeowner to make the repairs that the lender or buyer will most likely demand.

If for some reason your client can’t or won’t make repairs, you’ll have the time to determine upfront how to deal with repair requests and to have that heart-to-heart about lowering the asking price.

Professional Photography

I don’t need to tell you that there are far too many agents out there who are still snapping listing photos on their smartphones.

Since the first showing of a home typically happens online, it needs to be ultra-compelling.

We know many successful agents who have left the old ways behind and offer the services of a professional photographer to snap the marketing photos. Yet, that service isn’t listed on any of the websites we researched for this blog post.

Virtual Tours

Over the past few months, the popularity of 3D tours has outpaced other types of virtual tours, including video.

In fact, a recent study by the NAR claims that “Consumers Strongly Prefer Listings With 3D Tours.” Here are a few other things you should know about virtual tours:

“About 55% of survey respondents say they’d even consider buying a property sight unseen if there was a 3D tour available in the online listing.” (NAR)
Agents who use 3D tours in their marketing of listings sell them 20% quicker and for 9% more than agents who don’t use them. (Matterport survey)
Almost 80% of real estate consumers say they would switch to a real estate agent who offers 3D tours of homes for sale [Matterport survey]

Consumers are demanding more than a video of a home’s interior. They want the ability to virtually tour homes without someone else deciding what they can and cannot view.

If other agents in your market offer this service and you don’t, the chances are pretty good that you won’t get the listing.

Do yourself a favor and earmark some marketing dollars for at least one, true, seller service before the end of this year.

Another way to grab your audience’s attention and keep it is with a Get More Listings Campaign.

The Get More Listings Scheduled Campaign is currently on sale for 10% OFF the first month – 3 More Days!

Get More Listings Scheduled Campaign (shown above). Learn more, HERE

TO LAUNCH A GET MORE LISTINGS CAMPAIGN:

Hit “CLICK HERE”, below, to schedule your campaign (from a desktop or laptop computer).

USE PROMO CODE: LIST10 to get 10% Off at check out.

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change each mailing up until the night before it goes out). This sale expires 9/18/21.

Launch a Get More Listings Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

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

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. The Automated Way to Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. The Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

This Week’s $120 ProspectsPLUS! Gift Card Winner (August 27TH)

Aug 27, 2021

Shown above: Jennifer Penrose’s recent Upload Your Own postcard design. Learn more HERE

Congratulations, Jennifer Penrose you are the winner of this week’s $120 gift card!

Jennifer had the following words to say about her success using ProspectsPLUS! marketing materials as part of her strategic marketing plan to get more clients,

“I absolutely love my custom folders, ProspectsPLUS! did a great job. I also like the fact that you can upload your own design. Working on my postcards next!”

Thank You, Jennifer!

NEW CONTEST: Get the FIRST MONTH of Any Scheduled Campaign FOR FREE! ($120 value)

FARM, *Get More Listings Series* Scheduled Campaign shown above. Learn more, HERE

Enter this week’s contest for a chance to win a $120 gift card covering the first month of ANY Scheduled Campaign.

The scheduled campaign includes 150 jumbo-sized postcards, sent standard postage (excluding data and tax. Includes only the first month free of a new campaign).

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

Mention a “scheduled campaign you’ve launched” in your review and your entry into the contest is doubled.

Leave a review on Google, HERE.

Leave a review on Facebook, HERE.

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

**Ready to Schedule an SOI, Farm, Get More Listing, Holiday or Absentee Owner Campaign?**

*Animal Series* Scheduled Campaign shown above, learn more HERE

Launch a Scheduled Campaign today and save time on your marketing by automating it!

You Can Launch a Scheduled Campaign to any of the following Markets in Just Minutes:

Sphere of Influence
Geographic Farm
Just Sold Follow-up
Holiday
Renters
Absentee Owners
Expireds
FSBOs
Fence Sitters*
Get More Listings*
Empty Nesters*
Move-Up Market*

(*Located under Farm Campaigns)

TO GET STARTED:

STEP 1: Create your prospect list using our mailing list tools, HERE.

STEP 2: Then, once you have your list, choose your Campaign, select your start date, and add your list, HERE or hit “Launch a Scheduled Campaign”, below.

Launch a Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you in your success.

Looking For Listings? How to Stir-Up Homeowner Interest

Aug 17, 2021

Anecdotal evidence claims that when one home in a neighborhood goes on the market, another three or so will be listed within the next few months. Whatever the mysterious reason behind this phenomenon, I’m sure that you’ve seen it in action.

The trick is to reach these thinking-of-selling homeowners before other agents do. They’re already curious and possibly considering selling, so you’ll be reaching them at the most opportune time.

How do you reach out to these possible sellers? Cold call?

Come on, how does that intrusion make you memorable?

Here’s one way to stir up some interest that begins with a Just Sold postcard, then takes your game to a whole new level with a subsequent Follow-Up Campaign.

*Just Sold* postcard, *Color Series*, **HERE**

Still doubt the effectiveness of direct mail?

Agents are fond of reminding people that they aren’t salespeople because “real estate is a relationship business.” In fact, we typed that phrase into Google, and here is just a very small sample of what we found:

The Secret to Building Relationships for Your Real Estate Business
Real Estate is, Indeed, a Relationship Business
Stats Don’t Lie – Real Estate is a Relationship Business
Real Estate: Relationship Business Built on Trust
Real estate is all about building relationships

Since building relationships with prospects is so critical, the initial approach must be well-thought-out. And a cold call isn’t always the wisest use of this über-important task.

Especially now, when Americans are feeling more than a bit beat up by real estate agents. Ready for another Google search? “Why are real estate agents calling me?”

I Had a Client Ask… Why Are All These Realtors Calling Me?
Why am I getting texts/calls from a million realtors all of a sudden?
Real Estate Agents, Stop Calling Me Darn It
How do I stop Realtor Harassment?

Ok, cold calling doesn’t help build relationships. And, yes, this may sound self-serving because I work for a real estate direct mail company, but the Just Sold postcard and Just Sold Follow-Up Campaign are probably the most effective listing tools for you right now.

According to the U.S. Postal Service, nearly 70% of Americans feel that “… direct mail is more personal than the internet.” Nearly 80% of millennials say that they actually read direct mail ads.

The stats about the effectiveness of direct mail are astounding.

How to Launch a Just Sold Scheduled Campaign video, shown above

Targeted marketing via direct mail works

Narrowing down the audience is a must for all marketing campaigns. Since we are talking about listings here, homeowners are the target.

Let’s narrow down that audience even further: homeowners within a certain radius of a new listing.

You decide on the radius, but agents we’ve spoken with who use this method usually choose the entire subdivision or within a 1-mile radius.

Wait, we aren’t done yet. Let’s make this mailing list ideal: remove homeowners who recently purchased their homes (again, you decide on the time frame). We’ll use 5 years for this scenario.

Now you have a list of homeowners who live in the same subdivision (or within a 1-mile radius) of a just-sold home and who have owned their homes for at least 5 years, some of whom are most likely considering selling.

What better way to catch their interest than to let them know one of their neighbors just sold their home with a Just Sold postcard?

What better way to get them to realize how much equity they’re sitting on than to see find out what other homes sold for (if that’s cool in your market)?

Then, continue the momentum by routinely reaching out to the prospects on this mailing list. Consistency is key.

And, there’s no better way to do this than with a Just Sold Follow-Up Campaign.

Happy new listings!

Ready to Turn Curious Homeowners into New Listings? Launch a Just Sold Follow-Up Campaign!

*Just Sold Follow-Up* Campaign is shown above. Learn more, **HERE**

TO LAUNCH A JUST SOLD FOLLOW-UP CAMPAIGN:

Hit the “CLICK HERE”, link below (from a desktop or laptop computer).

And, remember, YOU DON’T PAY for each mailing until it actually goes out (cancel or change each mailing up until the night before it goes out. The price shown at check out is per mailing, not campaign total).

Launch a Just Sold Follow-Up Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you with your success.

PLUS: When you have time…here are some helpful resources we’ve made available to support your success.

1. The Free 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

2. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan

3. Become a Neighborhood Brand

Become branded in a specific neighborhood with a 12X15 marketing piece sent automatically each month to an exclusive carrier route. Watch this video to learn more or Click Here.

4. The Free Real Estate Mailing List Guide

5. Become a Listing Legend Free eBook

6. The Free Online ROI Calculator

7. The Free Real Estate Marketing Guide “CRUSH IT”

This Week’s $120 ProspectsPLUS! Gift Card Winner (June 26th)

Jun 25, 2021

Shown above: Just Sold postcards similar to the one Sheryl Hunter sent out! See more, HERE

Congratulations, Sheryl Hunter you won this week’s $120 gift card!

Sheryl had the following words to say about her success using ProspectsPLUS! marketing materials as part of her strategic marketing plan to get more clients,

“I’ve been sending ProspectsPLUS! products for 6 years. My returns are countless! I can’t count the number of listings I’ve obtained that have told me they called because of a postcard they received (Just Sold). On average, I get at least 2-3 calls per 200 postcards sent.”

Thank You, Sheryl! Congratulations on an incredibly successful marketing strategy!

NEW CONTEST: Get the FIRST MONTH of Any Scheduled Campaign FOR FREE! ($120 value)

*Get More Listings* Scheduled Campaign shown above. Learn more, HERE

Enter this week’s contest for a chance to win a $120 gift card covering the first month of ANY Scheduled Campaign.

The scheduled campaign includes 150 jumbo-sized postcards, sent standard postage (excluding data and tax. Includes only the first month free of a new campaign).

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

Mention a “scheduled campaign you’ve launched” in your review and your entry into the contest is doubled.

Leave a review on Google, HERE.

Leave a review on Facebook, HERE.

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

**Ready to Schedule an SOI, Farm, Get More Listing, Holiday or Absentee Owner Campaign?**

Launch a Scheduled Campaign today and save time on your marketing by automating it!

You Can Launch a Scheduled Campaign to any of the following Markets in Just Minutes:

Sphere of Influence
Geographic Farm
Just Sold Follow-up
Holiday
Renters
Absentee Owners
Expireds
FSBOs
Fence Sitters*
Get More Listings*
Empty Nesters*
Move-Up Market*

(*Located under Farm Campaigns)

TO GET STARTED:

STEP 1: Create your prospect list using our mailing list tools, HERE.

STEP 2: Then, once you have your list, choose your Campaign, select your start date, and add your list, HERE or hit “Launch a Scheduled Campaign”, below.

Launch a Scheduled Campaign now, CLICK HERE!

Please reach out to our support team at 866.405.3638 with questions or if there is anything we can do to help you in your success.

New Agents: Fill Your Pipeline Quickly with Facebook Real Estate Leads

May 26, 2021

Has cold calling officially become a thing of the past? There are more than a few agents out there and several well-known real estate coaches that would say NO.

I would say minimally, it might not be the most efficient option. Unless you consider spending 7.5 hours to make 209 phone calls to get one appointment efficient.

Generating real estate leads on social media, if done right, is not only efficient but pleasant as well.

Facebook can be a goldmine for new real estate agents.

Why Facebook?

The platform’s demographics are one of the most compelling reasons to use Facebook for real estate lead generation. The largest age group among Facebook users is 35 to 54 (right in line with the average real estate consumer). Next, nearly 75 percent of users earn more than $75,000.

Finally, a study of CRM data from various companies across the planet finds that while the highest lead conversion rates come from referrals, the second-highest can be attributed to leads generated on social media.

If you understand the power of Facebook when it comes to real estate lead generation but haven’t quite figured out how to tap it, consider starting with Facebook groups.

A Memorial Day Super Sale is going on right now! Get 10% off on ALL postcards.

Use promo code: MEMORIAL10 (excluding postage, data, tax, and EDDM. Offer expires 6/4/22).

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Join some groups

Start by finding some groups that Facebook thinks you might like. You can do that by going here and then clicking on “Discover.”

Naturally, if you post frequently to Facebook, the algorithm is going to assume you are interested in real estate so be prepared for lots of real estate-agent-related groups among the suggestions.

There’s nothing wrong with joining these groups but to generate real estate leads, however, go where consumers hang out.

You’ll find a “Categories” list on the left side of the page. And, since “all real estate is local,” the best category for a real estate agent to peruse is “Local.”

Here you’ll find some interesting groups. Mine includes one for a popular neighborhood in my city (with 31,000 members). As an agent, I would join that one. But there are tons of others to join as well.

Choose groups with interests that you can blog about because that’s one of the ways in which you’ll be using these groups to generate real estate leads.

Don’t be “that annoying real estate agent”

When interacting in your Facebook groups, keep your focus on the “social” aspect of social media. You’re not there to sell yourself or your business but to build relationships and get your name in front of people.

Don’t just use the groups to share your blog posts; interact with other group members.

And, keep in mind that some groups have rules, so learn them and abide by them.

It’s also important to keep in mind that interacting in groups is not about getting a flood of leads right now. Like most lead gen strategies, you’re building future business.

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 esthetic. It includes compelling, direct response-driven articles written by real estate industry experts, combined with 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 12 Month Done-For-You Strategic Marketing Plan

The Real Estate Marketing Planner is a powerful 12-Month-Guide that strategically defines what marketing to do when. Four key market segments are included, niche Markets, geographic farming, sphere of influence, and past clients. – Click Here

3. The BusinessBase, SOI building system

The most effective thing you can do to build a real estate business is to become more visible, more likable, and remembered more often. The BusinessBASE™ not only checks all of these boxes, but it is a business building machine. In two easy steps, you can begin to build a robust sphere of influence that will provide you a lifetime of repeat business and referrals. – Click Here

4. The Free Interactive Real Estate Business Plan