Want to advertise and marketing my services as a Realtor and a Mortgage Broker in Florida. Anyone knows what is the best way and for free? I just started in the business.
Thank you
2006-07-07 05:12:06 · 9 answers · asked by Investments in Real Estate 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Think about where you would look for free listings if you were in a position to buy or sell. I would start with craigslist and the recycler. They are both free. To get any real exposure you will have to invest some money. You local papers, pennysaver, real estate guides are great places for paid advertising. Good luck.
2006-07-07 05:16:54 · answer #1 · answered by JustJake 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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:
* 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas: From America's Most Innovative Small Companies by Sam Decker
* Off The Wall Marketing Ideas: Jumpstart Your Sales without Busting Your Budget by Nancy Michaels, Debbi J. Karpowicz
* Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits by Jay Conrad Levinson
* Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide: Over 1500 Great Marketing Tricks That Will Drive Your Business Through the Roof by James Stephenson
Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
2006-07-07 07:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by TM Express™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are a mortgage broker in Florida you would do well to place some adds on a new web site www.disasterconstruction.com
It was set up less than a month ago and in the first 2.5 weeks had almost 1000 hits. It is very informative for the consumers and contractors alike. Good luck in your search.
2006-07-07 05:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every time you are in a place that has a cork board leave one there . When ever you go out to eat leave a few on the tables. get you self involved in the county fairs. Run adds in the news papers. Set up a web site the are not that expensive. Try Yahoo they have a great web site section.
2006-07-07 06:46:54 · answer #4 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-07 05:58:16 · answer #5 · answered by Paul D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try posting your buissness card on grocery store boards laundrymats they all usrally have a cork board where people can put p stuff like that
Just had them out to your friend to pass on to people they here that are looking
put it on your car you can have a magnet made up so it can be removed if you need to
Leave cards on tables in break rooms or by the sink in public bathrooms
Put up a sign in your yard
2006-07-07 05:19:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Direct advertisment. Walk door to door in a neighborhood introducing yourself. Do it enough and they'll remember you. If they're interested in talking to you, dont leave until you get a name and number...then you follow up. Also, check with your colleagues and offer to hold open houses for their listings, trust me you'll meet plenty. Always always always get a name and number and follow up. Get creative. If this works for you, find me on answers and thank me! :-)
2006-07-07 05:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by Skywalking 3 · 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!
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2006-07-10 03:17:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi,
i think i can help you in this. if you want to show off your real estate and mortage businee to 30,000 people. just join our construction forum and start advertising.
http://newconstructionworld.com/forum/index.php
if your product is really worth then we may not mind giving you a personal board for free!!. enjoy!!
2006-07-07 06:45:13 · answer #9 · answered by anupam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋