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Why I Have Not Responded to Your Direct Mail Marketing

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In the past 48 hours, I received two direct mail marketing pieces from local real estate agents here in Northwest IN. If you list with me and I bring you a buyer, you pay only 3% commission……. 1 Reason Why I Have Not Responded to Your Direct Mail Marketing. Direct mail marketing is the first step in prospecting.

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Real Estate Agents Why Aren’t You Personalizing Your Direct Mail Marketing?

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Now is the time to accept the fact impersonalized direct mail marketing has gone the way of the Dodo Bird. Personalized direct mail marketing has always known to be the better path. Some of the residential real estate agents’ direct mail messages have attempted the old tricks of: Use fear.

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Realtors – Leading with Price Is a Bad Sales Strategy

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For example, after listening our home as For Sale By Owner (FSBO) one of the first marketing direct mail pieces I received from a local realtor here in Northwest Indiana had the following headline: How about 3%? This direct mail piece came without personalization and from a complete stranger. However, he never called.

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Are Your Real Estate Marketing Messages Missing the Sales Target?

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Probably because these real estate marketing messages have worked in the past with less educated sellers, realtors continue to engage in the same marketing channels such as direct mail postcards, advertising banners on Internet real estate for sale websites. How about 3% commission?” stated one such direct mail piece.

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Realtors Are You Losing Sales Because. Part 3 Hungry

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After we decided not to renew our contract with the realtor, I personally called the five plus realtors who had sent me direct mail marketing. commission if potential buyer they brought would buy our home. Each one of them said they wanted to sell my house. I would be willing to pay them a 2.5%

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In Sales Thinking You Are Different Does Not Mean You Are Different

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I was impressed by this direct mail marketing effort. I have received dozens of direct mail postcards during the last several months, but this was the first hand written one. ” This statement means we are willing to pay a sales commission if a realtor brings a qualified buyer who makes an offer.

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Realtors – Your Marketing Message Sucks – Part 02

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His marketing message reveals he does not think enough about you to even include your name in the direct mail piece. Doesn’t he know about technology and mail merge? Then you read the rest of the direct mail piece and cringe inside. The letter goes on and states: “No extra frees. No Transaction Fees.