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As we head into the fourth quarter of 2024, it’s time to make plans for the upcoming year. If you are like most real estate agents and brokers, you’ll be looking to getting the biggest bang for your marketing buck and ReaMark is here to help with our 2025 wall calendars. It’s time to order from our proven effective selection of calendars.

Here are six tips as to why Reamark calendars are both a powerful marketing tool and a cost-effective way to reach customers and prospects.

Six Tips on Using Wall Calendars for Real Estate Marketing

1. Perfect Timing
Offering calendars to customers leads and prospects during the fourth quarter gets them “first in home” which is important for calendars. These first calendars are more likely to be kept and displayed. Ordering calendars too late in the season can make you appear to be a “Johnny come lately” when it comes to promotional products.

2. Exceptional Value
Calendars provide valuable information for families for 12 months or more. They are put on walls, displayed on refrigerators, desks, and in wallets for a full year giving you valuable visibility for an extended period. That is value!

3. Wide Selection of Designs and Styles
At ReaMark, we have over 300 different designs of real estate calendars in 10 different styles. This means you can choose a design and style to best fit your message and how you want to brand your business. Want a customized edition? Our professional team can help with your message and graphics!

4. Calendars are Appreciated
While some real estate items are throwaways, calendars are appreciated by those who receive them. They help families plan for vacations, schooling, and celebrations. They place your name front and center every time they are looked at.

5. Multiple Marketing Uses
Our ReaMark real estate marketing calendars can be used as a “thank you” or holiday gift for current customers, sent out as direct mail pieces, hung on doors or given away at community events. You just may be surprised with how often you are asked, “may I have another for a friend?”

6. Proven Effective
Many real estate professionals have built their business on real estate marketing calendars. It is a staple of their marketing plan each year. As new agents move toward more digital marketing, it increases the value of a tangible item like a calendar. You can even combine the two, offering calendars to those who respond to your email or social media marketing!

Now is the time to act as we are offering 2025 wall calendars at terrific savings during our New Year Sales Event. You can save 20-30% on everything from our magnetic calendars to our desk and 2025 wall calendars. Deck the walls, refrigerators, desks, and wallets this season with a selection of real estate marketing calendars from ReaMark!

Happy Holidays from our Reamark family to yours. We want to wish you a season filled with joy, success, and satisfaction. If you’re looking for ideas to draw your year to a prosperous close, it’s not too late to incorporate holiday greeting cards, postcards, and calendars into your real estate direct mail marketing strategy.

We can’t wait to embrace 2024 and all the challenges and joys it may bring. With new relationships growing, you’ll have even more reasons to celebrate and have a Happy New Year.

Holiday Values Your Customers Love

Christmas is a great time of year to offer ideas for your clients and prospective clients. Holiday postcards with snowy landscapes and cozy homes accompanied by market updates remind homeowners that is time to enter the market. Our Christmas postcards feature traditional themes of holiday cheer as well as cheeky tropical and animal themes that are sure to make your clients smile.

You can also offer practical gifts such as holiday postcards that double as decorations. Christmas notepads provide a convenient way for recipients to check all their lists twice. No matter what direct mail pieces you incorporate, your name and other contact information will remain top of mind every time potential buyers and sellers look at them.

You can also mix calendars, postcards, and greeting cards for multiple touchpoints over the holidays.

Happy New Year!

Ring in the New Year with ReaMark postcard calendars in full-color, celebratory designs. We recommend peel and stick styles that stay in place throughout the year. Choose from standard or jumbo sizes, black-and-white or full-color backs.

Here are just a few of the themes you’ll find on our site:

• Welcome New Year
• Happy New Year
• Champaign Glasses
• Real Estate New Year
• New Year’s Financial Resolution
• Firework Clock
• New Year Clock
• New Year Cheer

One of our best sellers includes a tear-off calendar featuring fireworks and a Happy New Year greeting. Your customers can use it to track important events throughout the year. There are many products that allow you to express your cultural sensitivity and expertise. If you would like to discuss specific demographics or themes, reach out to our team any time.

Contact Us for Holiday Campaign Help!

If you need assistance finding just the right theme for your brand, we can help. Our marketing pros have decades of experience and, as you can tell from our customer testimonials, we do everything we can to help you succeed.

Direct mail is a great way to put your contact information into the hands of prospective buyers and sellers. However, you can combine this traditional form of real estate marketing with your digital assets. By creating postcards with sold/listed properties, neighborhood market updates, home improvement tips, recipes, and your social media handles, you extend your engagement with potential clients.

Postcards Can Connect Clients to Your Realtor Social Media Marketing

You may have to do some research on which social media platforms your target audiences frequent (The ReaMark sales team can help you with this!). For example, young adults often use Instagram or TikTok, whereas older adults are more likely to be active on Facebook or X (formerly Twitter). If you want to attract young professionals, you may even want to include your LinkedIn profile.

Make Connecting to Your Social Media Easy

Younger people may respond to QR codes on your real estate postcards. On the other hand, those who are less tech-savvy might need clear instructions, such as “Find me on X @yournewrealtor.” or “Check out my Facebook page: facebook.com/myfacebookpage”.

Social Media Marketing Best Practices

Here are a few tips and tricks to apply when adding social media info to your realtor postcards:

• Use social media icons. Incorporating the f logo for Facebook or X for the renamed Twitter can help you save space. These symbols are also highly recognizable to recipients scanning your postcard.
• Promote online content. Have you recently written an article or post that would interest your prospects? Flaunt your online content by including the links on your real estate postcards. You can even blend it with unique, related content on your postcards.
• Find out what works. You can use Google Analytics, Mailchimp, and other tools to find out how your strategy is working. Of course, you’ll need dedicated landing pages to track leads that found you via ReaMark postcards.

How Can You Combine Social Media and Postcard Marketing?

If you want to attract prospective clients to your online spaces, keep the following tips in mind:

• Use custom URLs or QR codes you can track for performance. Short, customized URLs or QR codes are the easiest to use and remember.
• Use consistent branding and messaging. Ensure that your realtor postcards and realtor social media marketing have the same font, colors, style, and tone.
• Use postcards to promote your social media pages. Tease valuable content without giving it away. Share links to blog posts, videos, podcasts, and books that current and future homeowners can use.

If you need Creative Real Estate Marketing Ideas, head over to our blog. You can also reach out to a knowledgeable ReaMark representative to connect your social media and postcard campaigns effectively.

Summer is the prime time for real estate sales in many markets and, with the average sales price at $389,000 in May, that represents a hefty commission for each sale. To maximize your sales, incorporate realtor postcards in your marketing plan. A tight housing market means both demand and prices will go up. To make sure that you get the best listings on condos and homes, work with the team at ReaMark to choose the perfect postcards for your brand.

Best Themes for Summer Realtor Postcards

Choosing the right theme can help you form a deeper connection with prospective clients. As always, repetition is key. Along with sending multiple real estate postcards to establish brand recognition, you can vary the messaging and mood, intermixing market information, helpful home tips, and fun themes.

Here’s a winning combination recommended by top marketers at ReaMark:

• Recent Listings: Show potential sellers the current demand and value of neighborhood homes. Highlight your experience selling homes in the area.
• Just Sold Cards: This is a direct way to build credibility as a real estate agent. Create a sense of urgency and scarcity to muster referrals and repeat sales. (See more neighborhood marketing postcards and ideas here!)
• BBQ Recipe Cards: Lighter themes take the pressure off clients and deliver genuine value. You can also send cards with popular dessert recipes that will go right up on the fridge for continued exposure. (Find your favorite recipes to share with clients.)
• To-do lists: Getting ready to buy or sell a home is no small task. You can create a custom checklist or choose one from ReaMark to help prospective clients stay organized.
• Fall Home Checklist: This is a great forward-looking tool that will deliver value and potentially stick around on desks and counters or get passed along as a referral.
• Free Home Valuation: Do you want to attract potential sellers dying to know their home values? Showcase your skills in pricing homes accurately and competitively with this tempting offer.

Make Your Postcards Effective — and Memorable

Use summer themes, such as flowers or beaches, and incorporate colorful graphics and other warm-weather features. You can also use eye-catching headlines, such as “Let me sell your home in 30 days.”

Showcasing your success is always a good way to market your brands and postcards are a great way to get the message out on recent achievements. If you need help targeting specific markets or blanketing your farm area with realtor postcards, our team can help. Ask us how Every Door Direct Mail makes it easier to move into new markets.

We encourage you to include your name, email address, and phone number on both sides of your real estate postcards. Perhaps most importantly, you’ll want to include a clear call to action such as calling you, coming to an open house, or visiting your website.

Contact the ReaMark team today to enhance your summer marketing campaign with the perfect combination of real estate marketing postcards!

Baseball is back! Score big with fans with magnets or laminated wallet cards featuring schedules for Major League Baseball or local teams. Help sports fans get to the ballpark on time, despite the curveballs thrown by the pandemic. ⁠This easy real estate marketing solution can keep you from striking out and keep your name on the minds of baseball fans and homeowners looking to buy or sell properties in your territory. So, make baseball schedules an important component of your real estate direct mail campaign!

SAVE up to 30% OFF 2022 Real Estate Baseball Schedules

Baseball schedules make a great promotional swag for your customers and prospective customers. These promo products make great handouts for open houses, sports events, and grand openings. You can leave them in restaurants, hair salons, and anywhere that baseball fans can pick them up.

Generally, home sales pick up in May through August, coinciding with many baseball schedules. This alignment can help you provide a service to fans, show your support for local teams and drive more business through the crucial second and third quarters. This is a big win for you, your favorite teams in the area, and baseball fans who would make ideal clients.

Choose from four styles that you can tailor to your realtor marketing:

• 4 x 7 Full Magnets
• 3.5 x 9 Full Magnets
• Magnetic Business Cards
• Laminated Wallet Cards

Where Can You Distribute Baseball Schedules?

There are many ways to share these valuable gifts as part of your marketing. Send them as part of your realtor’s direct mail strategy and partner with local businesses to get them into the hands of your target demographic.

Coffee shops, doctor’s offices, and pubs make great partners and often have memo boards or counters for local businesses to post business cards and other promotional materials.

Hand out a stack to friends and family members to give to coworkers, colleagues, and employees. Barbershops, hair salons, and nail salons are all great places to leave your baseball schedules, which, of course, also include your contact information so that home buyers and sellers can easily reach you.

It’s crucial to maximize your realtor marketing while staying within your budget. However, it’s equally important that your giveaways resonate with potential clients. So, choose one of the styles above to upgrade your baseball schedule.

Do you support local high school or college teams already? Be sure to incorporate baseball schedules into your marketing plan!

Contact Us Today for Assistance with Preparing Your Baseball Schedules

Not sure what will impact your audience effectively? Use our pre-written messages or work with our team to maximize the space on branded magnetic or laminated baseball schedules.

Call 800-932-2957 or contact us online to pitch your campaign today!

Don’t let your real estate direct mail end up in the trash! Instead, learn the elements to include on every direct mail postcard to grab the recipient’s attention and keep your name on their radar when it comes time to buy or sell their homes — or recommend you to a friend.

Keep it Simple

Incorporate graphics and photos of you and homes you’ve sold rather than stock photos, and create a clear message on what your clients should do next. Can you offer them a free home warranty or other promos that will make it worth their while to contact you? This blog will help you create amazing real estate direct mail postcards.

Craft a Strong, Bold Headline

The headline is the trick. Clear, simple, and captivating headlines are ideal. It should be the largest text on the front side of the postcard. A single image can convey an idea. Including great photos can help support your text message. It also helps to have clear text that includes a call to action. Additionally, a reasonable rule of thumb is that the headline should take up at least 15% of the front of the real estate postcard.

Agent Branding

Agent branding is the strategic presentation of your real estate business in such a manner that your intended audience of property buyers and sellers develops a sense of trust.

Your brand identification must go beyond merely informing potential prospects that you specialize in residential or commercial real estate negotiations. To establish your brand positioning in real estate, you must go deeper into your competence: What do you do better than/differently from the other agents and brokers in your area?

Use High-Quality Imagery that Supports Your Message

Great imagery can help your postcard stand out, reinforce your message, and generate a favorable emotional response. The photographs you select should be carefully considered. Ensure the photos are high enough resolution for clear printing.

The graphics should be simple to interpret and add to the message conveyed by the title. For example, if you’re attempting to persuade somebody to market their property, you should show them a house with a SOLD sign prominently displayed in the front yard.

Subheads That Lead into Text

There’s nothing to persuade folks to read the copy if it’s just a couple of paragraphs of text with no lead-in. A subhead will direct readers to where they can begin reading.  

Promote a Compelling Offer

An offer is always a smart idea, and it should include a specific reason to call right now, such as “limited supply” or “increasing interest rates.”

Your Company Name & Logo

Your direct mail realtor postcards should include your name and logo for easy reference.

Have a Single Clear Call to Action

You should only have one easy-to-complete call-to-action on your mailer. Sure, you want the recipient to go to your website, like you on Facebook, and buy something, but the point of the postcard is to get a response. Choose the one that best fits your campaign’s objectives, and then make it stand out. Any marketing idea you have can be conveyed through a postcard.  

Contact Information

Following the call to action, provide your name, phone number, and website address. Give prospects the tools they need to do whatever you ask of them.

Return Address

A return address ensures that you receive returned mail from the post office and communicates that you are a seasoned professional. People feel more secure when they know the company they’re working with has a physical address.

Even for simple direct mail realtor postcards, deciding what to do is difficult. At ReaMark.com, we have a team of experts who can help you with your real estate direct mail postcards. We can assist you with selecting the appropriate postcard and customizing a campaign to match your specific requirements.

Real estate direct mail marketing is a traditional technique that works wonders when it comes to building your clientele. Whether you have just received your license or have been in the business for decades, direct mail marketing is essential for anyone who wants to become an industry leader.

Did you know that up to 90% of all direct mail gets opened? Compare this to fewer than 20% of emails sent to your mailing list. Those statistics alone are enough to open your eyes and pique your interest in real estate direct mail campaigns. However, there is ample data to convince the skeptical.

By combining personalized direct mail pieces with solid digital marketing, you can experience a huge boost in your ROI that includes:

• 68% boost in website visits
• 63% rise in response rates
• 40% improvement in conversion rates

The Secrets of Personalization in Real Estate Marketing

You can personalize your postcards, calendars, and other real estates direct mail marketing by including your photo, contact information logos, and URLs. It’s also important to segment your mailings by the following criteria:

• Geography: This includes physical location, county, town, and zip code. Every Door Direct Mail campaigns are perfect for wide local geographic reach. The ReaMark team can help you automate these effective real estate marketing campaigns.
• Demographics: Age, gender, occupation, income, and education level all play a part in the type of home prospective customers can buy.
• Behavior: Knowing the habits, interests, and preferences of your customers and prospective customers can help you connect with them on a deeper level in your direct mail campaigns. For instance, sending recipe cards and home tips to young families or new homeowners can provide real value and help your message resonate with recipients.
• Psychographics: Paying attention and keeping your notes updated can help you connect with existing clients based on their activities, interests, lifestyle, and values

Personalize Your Real Estate Direct Mail Marketing Message

You can build brand loyalty by welcoming new customers to the neighborhood and recognizing milestones. For instance, if you helped a family get into a new home, don’t forget to send them a one-year anniversary card on their move-in date.

Why Mail Marketing Works for Real Estate Professionals

According to the USPS, 93% of users are satisfied or very satisfied with the results of their direct mail campaigns. Additionally, 94% would recommend direct mail as an effective campaign to others.

The statistics just tell one side of the story, however. Real estate is a personal business. If clients do not trust you, they will not hire you to list their property or find them a new home to live in. Consistent, positive, and useful real estate direct mail marketing pieces work.

Contact ReaMark today to discuss any of our products or to put together a real estate marketing campaign to uniquely promote your personal brand.

Are you wondering if you’re taking advantage of the full potential of real estate direct mail marketing? Avoid rookie mistakes such as inconsistent branding, forgetting to add information or services of value, and failing to follow up.

Our direct mail marketing experts at ReaMark are always excited about helping real estate professionals come up with a winning marketing strategy for their personal brand or brokerage. Keep reading to find out what faux pas to avoid in your real estate direct mail campaigns!

1. Assuming Direct Mail No Longer Works for Real Estate Marketing

This is not true. Direct mail is still a fantastic way to connect with clients and potential clients. From postcards to newsletters to school or sports calendars, direct mail gives you a way to put something of value into the hands of potential clients. It also gives clients a way to pass on your information to other home buyers and sellers.

2. Sending Out General Content

Buying or selling a home is one of the most emotionally fraught experiences of a person’s lifetime. Sending out generic content does not establish the kind of emotional connection you need to win someone’s trust and business. Instead, keep your message focused and on target and start with a solid goal in mind. Then, share a clear, personalized message.

Here are some examples:

• A real estate agent wants to attract new clients. Instead of sending postcards with stock photos and general information about your brokerage, consider inviting them to an open house. Make it clear that they are welcome whether they are currently buying or selling a home. Welcome the opportunity to get to know them.
• Instead of sending out generic postcards with your information and random pictures, consider matching the content to your goal. Do you want to increase your listings? Consider sending a postcard that contains information about recently listed and sold homes in the area. Preferably, these will be transactions handled by you or your brokerage. However, sending specific information for their area establishes your authority and generates interest.

Hint: Branding matters! Including a recent, professional photo and your contact information helps recipients connect with you on a personal level.

3. Forgetting to Include a Call to Action

This isn’t the time to be shy. Sending out multiple mailers with your information keeps your name top of mind when sellers or buyers are ready to make a change. However, a call to action gives them clear instructions on what to do next. Great calls to action also offer them something for their trouble.

Here are a few examples:

• Call today for a free valuation of your home.
• Thinking about selling? Contact me for staging advice on selling your home faster.
• Enjoy the free recipes/home tips/marketing info on this postcard. Contact me to get started with your listing or to find your dream home.

Do you need more ideas to create the perfect content? The pros at ReaMark can help you customize your message on various real estate direct mail marketing, including postcards, greeting cards, and newsletters.

4. Sending Only One Real Estate Direct Mail Piece

As with other types of marketing, direct mail requires several touchpoints to achieve the greatest effect. A steady drip campaign provides consistent communication and reminds your prospective clients that you remain ready to serve their real estate needs. It also takes several mentions for your name to resonate with your audience. That’s just how the human brain works.

So, start with affordable postcards that you send to your distribution list every month. Add in school and traditional calendars to share your connection with the community and provide something of value that your clients are likely to display prominently in their office, kitchen, or business.

5. Only Sending Postcards

There’s no doubt that postcards are one of the most effective ways to reach your target audience through direct real estate marketing. However, it’s important not to neglect other mailers that can provide additional value to your clients. Sending calendars with the schedules for local sports teams is a great way to connect with the community and show your team spirit. Additionally, sending newsletters allows you to showcase your expertise and success over the last quarter.

Now that you know what to avoid and how to correct real estate direct mailing mistakes, it’s time to go to work. Contact ReaMark today to put together your direct mail campaigns for the rest of the year.

If you’re looking for fresh real estate marketing ideas in 2022, you’ve come to the right place. ReaMark has innovative direct mail products that will help you stay in touch with recurring clients and prospect for new ones. Keep reading for innovative ways to connect with your prospects. And, remember, the more times people see your face and contact information, the more likely they are to remember you when it comes time to sell their home and buy a new one.

Let’s start things off with a simple postcard.

1. Send a Postcard

From time change postcards to holiday themes to inspirational postcards that will motivate and help your clients, we have a wide selection to choose from:

• Want to build a custom postcard? Reach out to our team for assistance and ideas.
• For an easy, breezy marketing plan, check out our monthly menus and choose the patterns and themes that best meet your needs.

Postcards are a cost-effective way to provide some useful information such as home maintenance tips and recipes. They’re also a great way to highlight your achievements throughout the year (Just Sold/Just Listed postcards).

Find out more about our jumbo-sized postcards by browsing through the site or contacting us directly.

2. Include Swag Inside Envelopes to Get Prospects Excited

As people sift through their mail, they have a low tolerance for what they consider junk mail. So, in order to get them to read your marketing materials, it’s important to pique their interest. You could do this by adding small, flat objects that won’t skyrocket your mailing costs. We have a few ideas and many products that will help with this campaign:

• Magnetic-backed baseball and other sports schedules are always popular and provide valuable information to fans/prospective clients.
• House-shaped hand fans can both amuse, intrigue, and keep clients cool when temperatures rise. With your information and photo on one side, they also become walking advertisements when clients take them to the beach or a neighborhood barbeque!
• Real estate professionals from across the country report to us that notepads are one of the most popular giveaway items and a great way to spread information about your services. They also tuck nicely into envelopes for direct mail purposes.

Choose promotional items that are easy to mail for one of the best real estate direct mail marketing strategies you can employ in 2022.

3. Send Existing Customers Home Anniversary Cards

Browse through our holiday cards to choose from a wide selection of greetings that you can send to your clients and future clients. Thank you cards and referral cards are a great way to add an old-fashioned touch that customers appreciate. It also gives them a tangible way to connect with you and to pass along your information to new home buyers and sellers.

4. Give Customers Something to Keep

ReaMark has numerous magnet products that provide a useful, attractive way to keep your contact information in front of current and potential clients. We also have other items that you can hand out, such as pens showcasing your contact information and brokerage. Our staff can even help you put together a cookbook of delicious recipes as a housewarming present or teaser for future business.

Use these ideas as a springboard for your 2022 real estate direct mail roadmap. Need more ideas? Contact the pros at ReaMark for a plethora of ideas on effective real estate direct mail marketing tools!

Whether you are new to realtor marketing or just farming a new neighborhood, real estate direct mail is a powerful way to reach prospective clients. If you haven’t had time to build your own database of customers, you may wonder where to start.

Two of the main sources for lead generation include the USPS Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) service or buying a mailing list from a reputable mail list company. Consider the following pros and cons for each of these options.

EDDM Real Estate Marketing

When you use Every Door Direct Mail, you can skip the hassle and the expense of buying a mailing list. The mailer goes to every address in a specified route or zip code. Unfortunately, you cannot provide instructions to exclude businesses and other non-residential addresses. However, the US Post Office does deliver your postcards, newsletters, and other realtors direct mail marketing pieces to every home. This is a great way to save money when you want to saturate a neighborhood.

EDDM Benefits

• Save money.
• Include oversized postcards and flyers.
• Target an entire zip code or just a postal route.
• Pay one discounted flat rate.
• Create a campaign online in less than 10 minutes.
• Save a trip to the post office.

This is ideal for brokers and agents targeting geocentric audiences. Limitations include the inability to personalize the mail. EDDM delivers these pieces to “Local Postal Customer.” You cannot refine your list, so your greeting cards, recipe cards, and other real estate direct mail pieces hit every mailbox. Envelope mail is not an option for the service.

Mailing Lists for Real Estate Direct Mail

For in-house database or purchased mailing lists, sending your home maintenance tips and Just sold/Just listed postcards direct mail let you personalize your content. When you want to engage in a highly targeted realtor marketing campaign, this is the best option.

Mailing List Benefits

• Allows you to target who will receive the direct mail.
• Mail letters, flyers, and other mail requiring an envelope.
• Outsource delivery service to your in-house database or purchased list of prospects.
• Enables you to target very specific demographics.
• Potentially provides a higher response rate because of its targeted nature.

Although mailing lists have many advantages over EDDM, they do not guarantee you a higher rate of return. Customized real estate marketing also tends to cost more than EDDM. Keep in mind that some people don’t like to see their personalized information on unsolicited marketing pieces.

Which One Should You Choose?

That depends on what you want to accomplish. With EDDM, you can get your name out quickly and reach every resident in the zip code. If you already have a curated database of prospects or have purchased a mailing list, direct mail is the way to go, even though it costs more without the EDDM discount.

ReaMark can help you choose the right postcards, newsletters, calendars and other real estates direct mail marketing pieces. We can also mail them out to your potential clients as a value-added service. Contact us today for more realtor market tips and strategies or to order postcards, newsletters, and other real estate direct mail pieces.