I just obtained my license and want to know an effective way I can advertise myself as a professional real estate agent. :)
2006-06-23 06:32:22 · 9 answers · asked by sshurly17 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing
Have you thought about pay per click programs? The two biggest, I think, are Yahoo! and Google
A few free resources – check out the sources box for links:
1) Create a blog pertaining to your field
2) Use Yahoo! Local & Yahoo! Groups – Be sure to read the TOS for each one!
3) Write articles pertaining to your field and/or expertise.
4) Advertise on Craiglist
Also, consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to advertise on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are paid a commission.
I listed a few handy sites & articles relating to marketing, promotion & advertising. Here are some book titles that are relevant:
* The Complete Idiot's Guide to Marketing Basics by Sarah White
* The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries, Jack Trout
* Creative Advertising: Ideas and Techniques from the World's Best Campaigns by Mario Pricken
* Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson
* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
2006-06-24 06:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by TM Express™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Network - just like in real estate location, location, location is the theme.
As an agent see the people, see the people, see the people is the theme.
Especially as a new agent you need to get name recognition.
Use real estate promotional products for cost effective way to promote your name.
Visit
http://www.custom-business-promotional-products.com/real-estate-promotional-product.html
Read about using promotional products.
2006-06-25 15:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by JLMelvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Bye
2014-08-29 15:00:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get involved in the communities in which you operate, sponsor little league, fashion shows, park bar b cues, and make sure everyone you ever smile at gets your business card. Make sure you let everyone know your job is to improve their community and thus increase the value of their homes. And spend the extra money on web design to get flash components.
2016-03-15 17:38:11 · answer #4 · answered by Barbara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would take an ad out in your local newspaper. Congrats The test is a killer
2006-06-23 06:54:06 · answer #5 · answered by confused7873 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations!
www.craigforte.com
(no I don't get any money from this, but I do know his stuff works)
2006-06-23 06:40:19 · answer #6 · answered by scott.braden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please check out the yahoo 360, blog and craiglist.org, which are all free. Only less than 10% will stay in the business. Good luck.
2006-06-23 07:30:59 · answer #7 · answered by Roll_IRA2RealEstate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best to invest in a good website. NAR's 2005 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers showed 77% of buyers used the Internet in their search! This is a HUGE number!
Everyone wants to be on page ONE of search results! If you think it will be EZ, I have a good deal on a bridge for you!
Best to....
I personally used a firm (link below) that did a 250,000 site submissions for my site. It worked great. But, results now take a few months.
Also, Get HIGH placement for your KEYWORDS!
Even when indexed by the search engines, it's not going to help you if your keyword shows up on page 987. Sure, everyone would like their keywords to show up on page one, two or three of the returned results. But, I want to win the lottery! So? What are you going to do? One thing for sure....it will NOT be EZ!
You need GOOD/Informative content! Without this you will be wasting your time on other methods.
Below is some info that can assist you......
When someone types a specific phrase into a major search engine usually the results will show 10 site per page. These 'organic' sites are boxed in, usually on all sides by pay-per-click site ads.
So, in SEO theory you have to have your site placed on page one, two or three of the returned organic results to really benefit from the power of the Internet!
As an example. If someone in NY wanted a San Diego real estate broker, they would, perhaps type "San Diego real estate brokers' into GOOGLE. If you do this today (standings change all the time), after the pay-per-click and the 'local results' you'll see the first site is: www.brokerforyou.com You will also see (upper right)
"Results 1 - 10 of about 5,080,000 for San Diego real estate brokers."
So, you will see that this one broker's site (not a major real estate firm) has out ranked over FIVE MILLION other sites for this VERY POPULAR real estate search phrase!!!
Quite impressive!
After looking into the site, I also noted lots, of timely useful info in an EZ to follow site. This is VERY important! As without good ORIGINAL content you'll NEVER have a top ranking site!
But, I also found on one of the internal pages, the name of the company that does the SEO for this site. They are:
http://www.websitetrafficbuild...
I also visited their site, and found it too had a high Google pagerank. Plus, they had great articles on SEO and software for learning to do your own SEO.
The bad news is that any true SEO work to get on page one of Google is VERY time intensive. www.websitetrafficbuilders.com has a guaranteed results program...but, as it starts at $3,950.00, it's really not for the little person.
I have downloaded their free trial SEO software, just a few days ago, so have not used it yet! But, I'm really learing alot for the free software. If they put this into an ebook, I'm sure they could sell quite a few copies!
*Also, on first link below is a website that offers about ten website and blog awards. They are FREE & even provide a link back to your site! Plus, they show the visitors that your site is a noch above the rest. Keep in mind, to get the award you have to have good info on your site and not just junk w/jumping graphics and tons of AdWords!
So, bottom line, GET THEIR FREE TRIAL SOFTWARE and even if you do NOT do anything else...you'll learn a great deal about SEO from people who make their livelihood DOING IT!
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http://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com
http://www.brokerforyou.com
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http://www.san-diego-for-sale-by-owner.com
http://www.la-jolla-ca-del-mar-san-diego-real-estate-encinitas-california.us
http://www.la-jolla-real-estate.info
http://san-diego-coastal-real-estate.blogspot.com
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2006-06-26 03:22:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
search engine placement is the way to go.
2006-06-23 08:31:15 · answer #9 · answered by Finda Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋