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Real Estate Marketing: Send Just Listed and Just Sold Cards

Real Estate Marketing: Send Just Listed and Just Sold Cards

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Get exposure for your new listings and begin establishing yourself as "the neighborhood's real estate agent" by faithfully sending "just listed" cards to everyone in the neighborhood every time you take a new listing. If you're consistent with your mailings, before long you'll be known as the neighborhood expert - the one they call first! Use Publisher or a similar product to create a greeting card that fits into an invitation envelope... because people's curiosity will force them to open it. On the front of the card, use a photo of your new listing, with the words "Just Listed." Inside, explain that you're sending it to them in case they have friends or family who would like to move near them. If you've set a time for an open house, invite them to attend. Otherwise, invite them ...
Marketing Countrywide Property For Sale Effectively

Marketing Countrywide Property For Sale Effectively

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Are you selling your property as an FSBO? If yes, you are probably encountering the difficulties in marketing. Does your property market effectively? Usually, most home sellers deal with real estate agents in order to ensure that they will market their properties effectively. Another importance of the realtor is that they will do all of the real estate marketing procedures. But, if you want to sell it by yourself, then it is a must to read this article to help you how to market your property effectively. As you notice, most of the sellers hire real estate agents and because of that, you will firstly think that selling your own property by yourself is a hard task. But, you are wrong. In fact, it is more of a challenging job to do. In addition to that, you will not get difficulties in sel...
Real Estate Marketing Mistakes: Poor Follow Up Letters

Real Estate Marketing Mistakes: Poor Follow Up Letters

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Sometimes in my research for real estate clients I check out their competitors. And, as part of that research, I sign up to get follow-up emails from them. A few are well written and informative. The rest are... definitely not. The majority ask if I'm still looking for a house and invite me to call if I see one I like. Never mind that I didn't identify myself as a buyer or a seller - and that no one asked which I might be. If I'm a seller, I'm definitely not interested in that message. And if I'm a buyer, the agent hasn't given me any reason why I might want to use them to help me with the purchase of a home I've already picked out. Most home buyers have no idea of the reasons why they should consider using a buyer's agent rather than the listing agent. In fact, most don't k...
Important Questions To Ask A Real Estate Agent For Countrywide Property Investment

Important Questions To Ask A Real Estate Agent For Countrywide Property Investment

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One of the best ways to secure your money is to interview first a realtor before deciding on whom to hire. Wise customers are measuring the agent through asking questions for good and high income. Be careful of realtors who don't want to be asked and investigate their marketing process. Remember that one of the keys of having a successful investment is by dealing with a knowledgeable and trusted agent. There is nothing wrong to be selective particularly when it comes to the person whom you must trust in handling transactions. Here are some sample questions that you may ask them. First, what do you know about real estate? Asking about property is a basic question yet a very important query because the business that you and the agent are venturing is all about real estate. With this quest...
Commercial Real Estate Tips – How to Position Market Your Business

Commercial Real Estate Tips – How to Position Market Your Business

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To build your commercial real estate business as an office in your local town or city, and to gain the right market share for yourself, you are going to need a 'Strategic Marketing Plan'. Before you create the plan, you will need a 'Strategic Marketing Position'. In this way will you make an impact on a consistent basis with the right prospects and players of the commercial property industry. Simply you want the market, the business owners, the property investors, and all the local tenants and buyers, to know that you are the best out there and can help them with their special property need. So before you start to consider your marketing plan it is worthwhile considering what makes you better than the other agents and brokers in the area. You should have a real reason in being differ...
Real Estate Flyers That Work

Real Estate Flyers That Work

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Real estate flyers are now regularly delivered to letterboxes in an effort to attract more buyers and sellers. In such a competitive market, it's challenging to stand out from your competitors. Here are some tips on real estate flyer design that really will make an impact. Design for your target market The flyers are not about you or for you. It's about your customers or potential customers. So the flyer design needs to reflect this. This means turning "features" into "benefits. For example, instead of "We have 20 years experience in the real estate industry", try a different angle like "With 20 years experience in the industry, you're guaranteed expert advice and high selling value". Consistency and frequency is key You know from your own experience that seeing the same adver...

Cash Buyers Most Wanted

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Negotiating with a buyer is the second half of real estate investing that needs just as much care - if not more - than negotiating with a seller. When you're selling, you want to make sure that you're getting the most money that you can out of a deal, and that you can take it closing quickly. Show your prospective buyer documentation of the recent sales otherreal estate investors are currently paying for properties in the area similar or exactly like yours. This will give them more of a reason to do business with you because you are showing them the TRUE BARGAIN deal.Properly screening and qualifying your buyers is one of the most important things you can do to "flip" your real estate and turn a dollar. You don't want to be sitting on your investment or contract for a long time; you want t...

Marketing Money: How Much Do I Need?

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One of the most frequent questions new investors ask is, "How much do I need to start"? Well, to answer that question it all depends on what your trying to achieve. In the beginning you want to start off by marketing and using the most inexpensive ways to market for sellers. You can easily do this by marketing on the internet. Such as Craigslist, Backpage and other real estate classified ads. They won't give you the best results, but in some cities they work better than others.You do need to plan out a budget for your marketing however to achieve success quicker than later. Budget doesn't have to be huge. I personally work on a small budget. You can have ad printed out in the newspaper for fairly cheap. Get flyers made to post up around the city. Another way is to do direct mail such as le...