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.

Research has shown that real estate agents are prepared to invest typically over a hundred dollars per month on different direct mail advertising. Nonetheless, the research also showed that Realtors who use only direct marketing mail aren't earning just as much as real estate agents who're utilizing the internet in earning prospects. A new study verifies that the top earners are no longer using traditional direct marketing approaches. Instead, the leading agents are utilizing the Internet to generate leads.

Rather than delivering a newsletter by means of mail, effective real estate brokers are sending out e-newsletters via e-mail. According to a recent study, the majority of successful Realtors prefer delivering e-newsletters than transmitting them out by means of postal mail. Real estate agents save a lot of time by delivering newsletters through email aside from saving money on the price of postage as well as printing. There are lots of potential buyers and sellers that request for a newsletter and want it to be sent 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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