Thoughts on Real Estate Marketing…

The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 is set to expire on December 31. That means that if your clients short sell or go into foreclosure on or after January 1, 2013, they will be liable for Federal Income Tax on all the equity they lost in the housing crash. It’s not bad enough to [...]

This week I’ve been thinking about “Coming late to the party.” Our county and state election primary is next Tuesday and this week our mailbox has been filled with “Vote for me” ads – but a whole lot of people have already voted absentee, so those ads are simply wasted paper, ink, and postage. It’s [...]

Today Money News reported that home sales aren’t going to rebound “in our lifetime.” Reading on, it sounds as if these folks wish for a return to the boom years, when prices skyrocketed so fast that people were buying in a panic. And of course we all know how that turned out. I don’t think [...]

If you have a real estate specialty, or niche, then yes, your real estate agent bio should mention it. Sometimes real estate agents tell me that they don’t want to advertise their niche – or even have a niche – because they’re afraid that they’ll lose business. But think about that. When you go looking [...]

Yes, a new real estate agent can have an effective agent bio. The purpose of a real estate agent bio is to give your website visitors a reason to choose you as their agent, and they’re looking for more than just years of experience or professional designations. What people are looking for when they choose [...]

In this week’s real estate ezine I urged my readers to get out there and make themselves more visible online. It might be by: finally creating their own website joining Active Rain and blogging or commenting commenting on blogs that allow them to leave their URL answering real estate questions on real estate portals setting [...]

Plenty of business people do. I see it online. I see in in print ads. And it’s not just real estate people telling it – it’s everyone from our local accountant to garage mechanics to insurance salesmen to building contractors. It annoys me first because it’s a lie. It annoys me second because it’s a [...]

Readability and communication are more important than proper grammar in marketing copy. And yet, amateur marketers still pay too much attention to the rules their High School English teacher taught. The result is dry as a bone, stiff copy. And you know, nobody reads dry words until they’re required to do so. At the same [...]

If so, how can you shove them off that fence and into a buying mode? First, show them how the law of supply and demand dictates that rents will continue to rise. In some communities it is already cheaper to pay a mortgage payment than a rent payment. If foreclosures continue, so this trend should [...]

Your goal in writing real estate ads is to “Put the buyer in the home” and cause them to need to see it in person. To do that, you need to paint some word pictures of both the physical and the psychological benefits of the home. That means instead of writing “large kitchen” you should [...]