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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.

Do you want to blanket a neighborhood with direct mailers that expand your brand awareness? Every Door Direct Mail postcards help prospective clients connect with you while you’re still building your mailing list. According to a GeoFactor survey, about 42% of recipients open EDDM pieces, and the exposure is even greater for real estate EDDM postcards. This article discusses how EDDM works, the advantages of investing in this marketing strategy, and how to get started with ReaMark EDDM services.

What Is Every Door Direct Mail?

The USPS offers EDDM as a marketing tool to local businesses. All you have to do is choose a neighborhood or zip code, purchase your mailers, and let the USPS deliver them. If you’re looking to build your customer base or seeking referrals, EDDM is a great way to disseminate marketing and contact information. Additionally, your ReaMark representative can help you filter your list by age, income, or household, using resources available through the USPS website.

Why You Should Consider Realtor EDDM

With EDDM, you can easily target a wide audience, making it perfect for realtors who want to grow their customer base quickly. The ReaMark team can walk you through the process of selecting zip codes in your farm area. You won’t need a postal permit if you send less than 5,000 EDDM pieces a year, and you’ll pay lower postage than normal. Learn more about the advantages of EDDM!

No Mailing List? No Problem!

When you use EDDM, your mailers are dropped off to houses and businesses along the chosen route. This eliminates the need for a mailing list. It also presents an effective way to reach target audiences affordably.

Easy Way to Grow Your Business

With EDDM, you can reach out to everyone in the neighborhood. Your newsletters, postcards, and calendars provide important information, such as your name, email, website, and contact details, to potential buyers and sellers. This simplifies the marketing process because you don’t have to curate or buy a mailing list.

Expand Your Reach

You can send up to 5,000 mailers to a specific zip code. You can also narrow your mailing to 200 addresses along a specific route. This gives you many options to customize your campaigns!

Lasting Impressions Make EDDM Even More Effective

Work with the team at ReaMark to design your mailers to make a lasting impression. You can include recipes, home maintenance tips, or your latest listings and sales to advertise your experience. Choose from full color jumbo postcards, sleek door hangers, and greeting cards designed with your target audience in mind.

Every Door Direct Mail Postcards

Colorful postcards grab your audience’s attention quickly. A real estate EDDM postcard can build brand awareness at all stages of the client journey. Postcards immediately convey information, helping to ensure recipients see your contact information and content.Contact ReaMark today to learn more about this effective marketing tool. We have in-house experts who can help you choose the right realtor EDDM postcards for your neighborhood!

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!

According to Gallup research, a whopping 95% of people enjoy receiving actual mail. About 92% of them believe that reading print marketing is easier than reading digital content. There’s the notion that real estate direct mail is junk mail. That just means it didn’t get to the right person. Below, find the best practices to consider when preparing your campaigns to improve the chances of success and a strong ROI.

What’s Your Real Estate Direct Marketing Plan?

Planning is the blueprint of your direct mail campaign, and you should include some way to track your progress. For a successful real estate career, ReaMark helps you produce a direct mail campaign to compete as a top-producing agent with mailers that appeal to your targeted customers!

Identifying Goals & Objectives

The critical stage in preparing a successful campaign is to define a set of clear objectives such as:

• Send direct mailers at least twice a month. Repetition is key.
• Choose your farm areas carefully.
• Showcase your local expertise by including information about recent sales.
• Share your just listed/just sold properties nearby.
• Tell the prospective client more about you.

A real estate direct mail marketing strategy is designed to aid in the achievement of your set goal. It can assist you in the following ways:

• Produce leads
• Increase sales directly
• Increase consumer loyalty and retention

To meet your lead generation objectives, you must carefully target the appropriate people with the correct messages.

Integration

Make sure your direct mail strategy is in sync with your emails, web ads, and social media promos. It creates synergy and keeps customers on track, regardless of where, when, or how they first came into contact with your business. Remember that direct mail gives customers something to hold in their hands, helping to cement your branding in their minds.

ReaMark pros can help you with:

• Selecting postcards, calendars, newsletter or other mailers that suit your needs
• Building lasting relationships with prospects and past clients
• Designing and printing postcards and other content
• Navigating Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) campaigns (They work!)

All the different things you’re doing today need to work together to create a highly effective marketing campaign. Real estate direct mail works best when it is integrated.

Choose Your Real Estate Marketing Tools (Lots to Choose From)

At Reamark, we strive to provide our customers with the best products and services possible so that they can be successful within their businesses.

Top real estate marketing tools include our:

• Real Estate Postcards
• Magnetic Calendars
• Real Estate Newsletters
• Real Estate Calendars
• Holiday Cards for Real Estate

Contact us today to create and implement a solid real estate marketing plan!

The beginning of the year is the perfect time to plan out your 2022 real estate postcard marketing campaign. It’s important to stay in touch with your current and future clients and there’s no better way to do that than with direct mail pieces with your contact information. Keep your name and skill set top of mind when your buyers and sellers decide to get serious about their real estate goals!

January

Buying or Selling? Get buyers and sellers out of holiday mode with this reminder that it’s time to get back in the market. The suggested message encourages prospective clients to reach out to you for help. You can customize your own message letting them know about your latest sales and offering tips on how to get the best deals.

February

Show your clients a little love with 2022 real estate marketing ideas centering on holidays. You can go for the Home Is Where the Heart Is postcard that underscores the importance of finding the right place to live. More traditional themes, such as Valentine’s hearts, convey warmth and charm and may help your clients warm up to the idea of using your services.

March

March into spring with postcards celebrating your most recent sales. Just Sold in Your Area postcards accomplish two things:

• First, they give prospective sellers an idea of what they can list their house for.
• Second, they remind clients of your expertise and success.

Choose one of our stock photos or customize your postcard with a photo you provide.

April

Help homeowners gear up for spring cleaning with postcards featuring a home cleaning checklist on the front and your name and contact info on the back. You can also include a prescribed or customized message relating to spring cleaning to getting the house ready for sale!

May

May is the perfect time to help buyers and sellers gear up for the busiest time of the year for real estate. Prospect for new customers by taking advantage of Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) campaign postcards on offer at ReaMark. Just tell us the zip codes and carrier routes you wish to target, and we’ll take care of everything else.

June

Show your regard for the health and wellness of your clients with full-color Summer Health Tips. As always, the back gives you plenty of room to add your contact information and a message reminding them of your professional services should they be ready to buy or sell a home.

July

Use our other fun summer postcards to inspire additional 2022 real estate marketing ideas. For example, we have both patriotic and real estate-themed July 4^th postcards!

August

Establish your expertise in a particular neighborhood with area expert postcards offering free home valuations for current and future clients. This is a great way to motivate sellers who have procrastinated to get their homes on the market while the selling season is still hot.

September

The fall time wreath postcard has useful tips for fall maintenance and a reminder to turn back the clocks. This is just one of our postcards that are likely to hang around on the fridge or countertop.

October

There are many options to continue your 2022 real estate marketing in October. Choose a spooktacular Halloween theme, send fall time change reminders, or go with a pumpkin patch theme. (Why not try all three!)

November

November is the perfect time to send out holiday postcards for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Our inclusive holiday greetings postcards allow you to reach potential clients of all faiths. Or, you can choose a customized postcard featuring your latest sales or listings.

December

Gear up to end the year strong with EDDM calendar postcards that reach every home in the chosen postal code! Choose attractive designs to increase the likelihood these postcards will remain in use throughout the new year — all customers have to do to find your information is turnover the calendar on their desktop. Still, need more 2022 Real Estate Postcard Marketing ideas? Contact our team today!

Variety is the spice of life  ̶  and your real estate direct mail marketing campaign! Many real estate professionals start off their direct mail campaigns with beautiful full-color postcards with their contact information and recipes, home maintenance tips, and more.

Postcards are a fantastic way to break the ice and repetition is key when it comes to grabbing the attention of your prospective clients. However, to keep your name at the top of their minds when they finally decide to buy or sell real estate, it’s important to change up your routine.

At ReaMark, we offer a variety of ways to draw the interest of your future clients!

Custom Memo Boards

Magnetic custom memo boards are easy to display at work or school. This makes them an effective form of real estate marketing. Your current and future clients can use them for to-do lists and reminders. Every time they look at their custom business card or school memo board, they will see your contact information — and so will anyone passing by!

Sports Schedules

Make it easy for baseball, football, and NASCAR fans to keep up with the most exciting games and races of the year! Sports schedules are an effective way to connect with your target audience. Put this fun real estate direct marketing method to work for you!

Greeting Cards

You don’t have to wait till the holidays to give greeting cards to your loyal customers. Whether you want to connect with your entire demographic or pinpoint a carefully curated mailing list, greeting cards are a great way to add variety to your Realtor marketing campaign.

Send out happy first-year anniversary messages to customers you have helped buy a new home. Greet prospective clients on holidays and welcome new arrivals to the neighborhood with a personalized greeting card.

Newsletters

What’s up? Newsletters provide a unique way to update your clients on your latest just sold and listed properties. This could generate referrals and serve as reinforcement of your reputation. To take full advantage of this real estate marketing technique, find out what your clients are interested in and address that in your newsletter.

What goals do they want to reach and what problems do they need to solve? The more useful recipients find your newspaper content, the more likely they are to read it and pass it along to friends and neighbors.

Calendars

Magnetic school calendars, tear-off calendars suitable for an office environment, and stapled wall calendars to adorn home office and kitchen walls all make great gifts for prospective and current clients. Do you need help determining which calendar would make the most effective real estate direct marketing piece for you? Reach out to the experts at Reamark for advice and help to brainstorm what would work best for your farm area.

Contact us today for assistance in planning out a comprehensive Realtor marketing campaign. We can help you choose postcards, calendars, newsletters, gifts, and more that will resonate with your target market.

As you know, real estate marketing in the fourth quarter can help you meet or exceed your sales goal for the year. Luckily, it’s still a sellers’ market — if you can just get homeowners over their uncertainty about listing their homes! Keep your name top of mind with tasty real estate direct mail marketing.

ReaMark’s recipe postcards are easy to read — especially when you use jumbo sizes. They are also easy to follow and easy to pass on to family and friends. Increase your listings, buyer contacts, and referrals with our wide selection of recipe cards. Here are six choices, including recipes we’ve tried and served to our own families, to get your customers’ taste buds singing!

Six Highly Effective Recipe Postcards for Q4 Realtor Marketing

• Looking for October recipe ideas for your end-of-year marketing blitz? Try this apple-cranberry crumble recipe postcard. Apples are fresh, crisp and sweet during the autumn harvest. So, remind your clients and prospects that the real estate market has never been sweeter with this yummy recipe card. 
• Cranberry spiced cheesecake makes a welcome addition to your Thanksgiving meal. This delectable recipe is easy to customize to the tastes of individual homeowners or prospective homeowners. This real estate direct mail piece is sure to stay on the refrigerator door and make its way into the recipe files of many clients. So, make your messaging count!
• Unforgettable holiday glazed ham will have guests asking for the recipe. There’s no finer compliment than having your name come up in a dinner conversation. So, set tongues wagging with this delicious glazed ham recipe postcard that also makes a great centerpiece for Sunday dinners all year long.

December Blitz (It’s a great idea to order ahead and start early!)

As December approaches, so does your opportunity to nail your target sales and get a fresh batch of leads to start the new year strong. Amp up your real estate direct mail marketing game with delicious entrees and desserts such as:

• Make restaurant-quality Beef Wellington achievable with a simplified recipe postcard that cuts corners on prep time but not on taste. Perhaps your accompanying sales pitch will leave your clients’ mouths watering for fast sales before the holidays hit.
• Roll into the final weeks of the year by pumping up your farming list with this chocolate cake roll recipe postcard. It’s easy to get young professionals and new parents to think about expanding their living space with a new home by giving them a recipe they can use to create their own family traditions.
• For your final postcards of the year, choose a unique recipe that best reflects your demographic. Need some more help choosing recipe postcards? Contact our marketing team for input on popular recipes that have worked in other regions, but that hasn’t been plastered over your neighborhoods yet.

You can save time and money by ordering a batch of six postcards today. To make the deal even tastier, we have a buy five, get one free promotion running throughout the end of the year. Time is of the essence as some recipe postcards sell out quickly.

Contact ReaMark today with all your end-of-year real estate marketing needs!

Hello I’m Richard Brown, President of ReaMark. I have been in direct marketing for over 30 years with the last 18 years helping real estate professionals like you, to substantially increase their listings, sales, and ultimately, their income.

There has never been a better time to improve your business by using a consistent strategy to contact anyone who knows you and can refer clients. All signs are pointing to a steady rise in the real estate business since interest rates are at record lows. In addition, home inventory  is still low so listings are being sold quickly and for top dollar.

Each year I take hundreds of calls from realtors. The same question comes up time and time again, “Rick, what works best? How can I make more money?”

So, last week I sat down, got away from the kids, and really thought about all of the success stories, trials and errors that realtors have told me during the past two years.

• With all being equal why are some realtors more successful than others?
• What does actually work?
• What makes top agent?
• How can my business survive when I have less money to spend because I am making less money?

One fact that kept coming up is that my business only makes money if the programs we recommend to you makes YOU money. To that end, I came up with a few things you should be doing if you are serious about increasing your yearly income.

Four Real Estate Marketing Strategies for 2019

Reach Out to Past Clients

You MUST reach out to your Past Client contact list at least every month. Over 50% of your business should come from referrals. If you are not mailing to this specific contact list you are losing money. Your Past Client contact list should includes your colleagues, past buyers and sellers, friends and family. The larger the list, the more successful you will be. You really need to sit down and put this lists into a workable database.

Utilize Postcards to Market Yourself

Announce your success! Since referrals are the largest part of your business and you want to build up your contact list, these are the second most effective tool at your disposal. You should mail the entire neighborhood and also your current contact list. Our Just Listed/ Just Sold, Market Updates and Open House postcards are a great way to showcase the strength of your business. If your budget is limited, these could be part of your planned monthly marketing, but for maximum results, you should be doing these mailings in addition to the ones you send out to your Current Contacts.

Track Your Results

The beauty of direct marketing is that is affordable and track able. If you have 400 contacts, you could be mailing them twelve times per year for as little as 47 cents each or $188 per month. One sale and you’ve paid for the entire year!

Become Known as the Specialist of Your Farm

A business with no prospects will die. You need a reliable, consistent source of leads. Since most consumers perceive all real estate professionals to be pretty much the same you must find ways to differentiate yourself. I get calls every day from past customers offering thanks for orders placed two years ago. These agents and brokers tell me they now get 50% plus of all listings in their neighborhood because of our marketing materials!

Walk your neighborhood twice per year, create compelling online content, submit articles to local publications, and/or advertise in neighborhood newspapers, send out newsletters and be the one to consistently educate your community on the local real estate market.

I feel great about sharing these strategies with you for a very simple reason: if we can help you become more successful in your business then ReaMark will be more successful in our business. Call one of our Marketing Specialists today at 1-800-932-2957 and we will work with you to create a real estate marketing plan to help you meet your budgets and sales goals!

I hope this letter has been helpful, confirmed the efforts you are already making or inspired you to call us. If I can help, please don’t hesitate to call me directly.

Regards,

Richard J. Brown
President
ReaMark

Photo credit: by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash

Marketing activities during the weeks leading up to the back to school rush offer real estate professionals excellent content ideas for connecting with your farm. Real estate agents who publish monthly or quarterly newsletters will want to use some of the same strategies online retailers use to attract attention to their products and services.

Attract Kids to Influence Adults

One thing marketing gurus recommend is getting the kids involved. Since school is all about the kids, focus some content on their needs during this time. For example, if you are using a newsletter template, consider adding campus diagrams (or photos) that show the layout of the school grounds in the customization sections.

Suggest parents and their children take the diagram with them when they visit the school as a way to familiarize themselves with key areas – the nurses station, administration office, lockers, cafeteria, water fountains and vending areas. This is especially important for children attending a new school this fall.

Partner With Bloggers and Social Influencers

Another successful tactic marketing agencies use is to get some help from well-established bloggers who understand the excitement and stress that surround the back to school period. Agents who have an online presence – and, who doesn’t these days, right? – know the value of combining different media channels to promote local properties.

This time of year, along with highlighting homes on the market near neighborhood schools, invite a guest blogger to write a piece about transitioning from summertime schedules to school day routines for your online blog. Then, promote the piece across your other social sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Remember to check with your local paper to see if they might be willing to post the blog – with the author’s approval, of course – and include your blog address in your print media, such as newsletters, postcards, flyers, and direct mail pieces.

Highlight Local Mark-Downs

Everyone loves a bargain. Double the pleasure by marketing recently reduced, deeply discounted property information and back to school free tax day notices at the same time. At last count, 18 states offer a tax break on school-related purchases. This is a great way to show prospects you want to help them get the most value out of every hard earned penny.

We hope these three marketing tips inspire you to create award winning back to school campaigns. ReaMark offers hundreds of beautiful, customizable marketing solutions to help you build relationships. We also offer a wide area of soft-sell promotional items to keep your brand in front of neighborhood residents all year-round including magnetic school memo boards and refrigerator magnets.