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Visit Marketing Artfully for great niche marketing ideas for Realtors and small businesses. Learn marketing tips and tricks to help increase your business TODAY! How The Heck Do I Get A Home To Sell?!?!?!
1. Add your home to Zillow
2. Add your home to Craigs List
3. Hold an open house - invite the neighbors by walking around personal invitations
4. Hold a brokers open house - invite realtors (make sure you have food - realtors like food!)
5. Send just listed postcards
6. Make a property flyer to put on the sign post
7. Order custom sign riders highlighting the features of the house
8. List all your comperable listings on the backs of your flyers
9. Market in Listing magazines like The Real Estatee Book or Home Search (get together with other agents and split the cost of the page)
10. Call other agents and tell them about your listing
11. Send your just listeds to the top buyer's agents in the target area
12. Identify move up buyers and send them your just listeds
13. Add your listings to your company's website
14. Ask other agents in your office if they would like to feature your listings
15. Get enhanced listings on Realtor.com - people like pictures
16. Make sure you have a home tour on your site - people like home tours
17. List your homes on Point2Agent
18. At your team meeting hand out your new listings
19. Attend any pitch session you can
20. Attend as many brokers open houses as you can - the other agents will notice and come to yours
21. Know your inventory - when you get a sign call make sure to tell them about your other listings that may be a good fit
22. Send out a neighborhood newsletter highlighting a couple of your listings
23. Lots of open house signs - if you think that you have enough put out 2 more
24. Price your home within $5K of what it should sell for - it is better to turn down offers than to never have anyone see the listing
25. Consider hiring a stager - having the right touches can make all the difference in the world
26. Clean your listing/house! Immaculate houses get $5-10K more!!
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Dollars $$$$$$
I know - that is not exactly how that quote goes BUT in the case of real estate marketing it is TRUE! Since you use pictures to get people excited about possibly coming to see your listing/home make sure your pics are FABULOUS! If you do not have the ability to take great photos - hire someone. If you are a great photographer make sure to take your time and get great photos for EVERY HOUSE.
My photographer is my husband (John Jacobsen) so my costs are low! BUT I can say that EVERY house that he has taked pictures of gets more Realtor.com views and has sold faster because of his fabulous photos. Only one is still on the market and it was just featured in Style magazine as a Premier Listing - WITH his photography highlighted!
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Fabulous Waterfront Listing!
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Anthony Ave - Under Contract In 6 Days - Closed
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Let me know if you like this lens or if I can add anything!!!
Kaguglia wrote...
Hey Tara, great lens. I have a lens on Internet Marketing For Realtors. Please check it out when you get a chance. Thanks.
Posted April 13, 2009
Crystal Johnson wrote
Hi, I agree with your idea about postcards and I found a really neat site that I have recommended to my fellow agents called www.savethedatemagic.com. It might be a really good site for realtors who want to design something a little more unique for their sales efforts in these hard times for little cost.
Posted October 23, 2008
TARAdactyl wrote...
Dang - 140 Characters, have you read anything else I have written...hehehhe. A blog is robust, a lens is one page focused on a particular topic! I like the lenses (lensi) for specific things but would recommend www.wordpress.com or www.wordpress.org if you are going to have a true blog. Even seth has single page lensi and then his main blog...:) (347 characters - I was SO brief!!!)
Posted August 30, 2008
@RealtorLefebvre wrote
Tara-
Like the lens. How are you finding Squidoo? I a big Godin groupie (see: http://vimeo.com/1632475). Like the reading list as well. In 140 characters or less, please tell me the difference between a Squidoo lens and a blog.
Posted August 30, 2008
niicki wrote...
I liked your lens! I enjoyed your list of 26 things on How to Get a Home to Sell, and am going to recommend some of them to my agents. Thanks!
Posted August 09, 2008
