Real Estate Doesn't Have To Be Frustrating

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.

Rather than delivering a newsletter through mail, effective real estate professionals are delivering e-newsletters via e-mail. Based on a current research, many effective real estate brokers prefer sending out e-newsletters than sending them out via postal mail. Real estate brokers save lots of time by sending newsletters through email apart from saving cash on the cost of postage and printing. Many potential buyers and sellers who ask for a newsletter want it to be available at once.

Previously, real estate agents also contacted potential buyers or sellers by phone to determine if they were looking to sell or buy. Not too long ago, stringent Do Not Call regulations are making it virtually impossible for Realtors to perform a telemarketing campaign. Do Not Call policies do not allow the real estate brokers to contact those placed in the Do Not Call list. The real estate professional should first look into the Do Not Call list just before calling a person and making a telemarketing campaign. In the event the real estate broker will contact someone who is in the Do Not Call list, he will be reprimanded and fined for disobeying the rules. The penalty sums to ten thousand bucks.

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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