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Real estate postcards are the quickest method to delivering your information to a potential client. This article will discuss the three most important items that should be included on every real estate postcard. Ive been helping agents and brokers with their direct-mail marketing campaigns since 2005; specifically with their real estate postcards. My clients postcards have featured new listings, recently sold listings, and a few cards have simply been nothing more than a promotional tool for the agent or broker. Since my business is promoting real estate agents, Im always studying the competition and scrutinizing every postcard I get my hands on. Ive seen the very best postcards (and the very worst) that southern CA real estate agents use for marketing. The most effective real estate postcards feature a combination of three specific items. If you can include all three on your postcard, youre assured to deliver a card that will benefit both you and the postcard recipient. Here are the three items found on the most effective real estate postcards:1) A photograph of the agent or broker. If youre going to spend the time (and money) to design, print, and mail a postcard, you need to include a photograph of yourself. This is important. Its branding. The more often a resident sees your image, the more they will feel like they already know you. Now, you cant just throw any old picture onto your postcard. You should hire a professional headshot photographer to take your photograph. This will cost at several hundred dollars at the minimum, but the photograph will be well worth the money. You could also build a specific scene for your photograph. For example: you could sit at the table with a friend and go through the normal process of explaining how a real estate transaction works. While you are doing this, have a professional photographer shoot pictures of the entire event. Setting up a photoshoot like this can get expensive but the images will be priceless because they will show you interacting with a client in a positive atmosphere. If you add these types of images to your postcard, your potential clients get to see you in action explaining and helping a client with their real estate transaction. 2) Something that is personal to the resident. This can be information that pertains to their neighborhood (or city) such as upcoming events, politics, or news. For my postcards, I feature a photograph of the recipients house on the cover. This is about as personal as a postcard can get. Homeowners are typically shocked when they realize their home is featured on the front cover of the postcard. Needless to say, this has tremendous shock value and instantly gets an agent or broker recognition in the neighborhood of their choice. Although you dont need to go to this extent to get a recipients attention, you must remember to always include something personal on the postcard. Otherwise, why should a resident even look at the card? Every postcard should contain something personal about the recipient. The personal touch on the postcard, in my opinion, is by far the most powerful of these three essential components for an effective real estate postcard. 3) Something of value to the resident. This can be in the form of free consultation, free real-estate report on recent sales activity within their neighborhood, or even a free cup of coffee! Coffee? Yes, coffee. If you include a coupon for a free cup of coffee at the local coffee shop, that coupon will dramatically increase the shelf life of a postcard, which in turn increases the marketing power of your postcard.Copyright 2007, Christian Blake. This article may be freely republished as long as the author's byline and hyperlinks are retained.
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