Just Listed and Just Sold Postcards

When your real estate business is booming you feel great and want to keep it going for as long as possible. A good run in moving real estate now will sustain you during the inevitable slumps that occur from time to time. You have to be on your toes to keep your business going at full throttle. Always respect the fact that with your contacts lies most of your earnings potential. Treat them good and they will treat you good with increased business and earnings in return.

The best way to keep your real estate business booming is to ensure that all of your contacts are made aware of the most recent changes to take place with your listings. Specifically, the real estate that you have just added to your listings that may interest them, and the properties that are now off the market because they have been sold. If you are a successful realtor, and a booming business certainly signals that you are, you do not have time to follow up with  each of your real estate contacts to let them know of every change that takes place with your for sale and sold listings. What can you do to keep your contacts fully informed if there is no time to make all those calls?

Specially designed Just Listed and Just Sold postcards purchased in bulk, are the answer. There are a number of resources that you can turn to for professionally designed postcards for just this purpose. The recommended resource for real estate agents is the real estate VA whose service menu includes postcard design packages. Postage is usually provided and factored into the price of many of these designer postcard packages. You will appreciate having the postage already affixed to your postcards when you want to send out a mass mailing to contacts. Other services such as address labeling and turn key mailing may also be available. These are handy services if available because you will not have to spend time addressing and mailing your postcards or paying your office assistant to do it when you need them working on other work.

Do you already outsource real estate work such as client and transaction coordination to a real estate VA? This is smart resource management on your part. You can pat yourself on the back because you obviously know what it takes to be a leading realtor. If you are not sure whether the real estate VA you outsource your client and transactions coordination to can design listing postcards for you, ASK. This saves you from looking elsewhere for them, and once your real estate VA has your postcard designs on file, future purchases will be fast and easy. Finding a real estate VA who also provides address labeling and turn key mailing services furthers your smart resource management efforts.

Purchase an additional supply of your professionally designed postcards even if the real estate VA will be handling the addressing and mailing of these to your clientele. Why? You can update a handful of them to give to any new contacts you make while networking. Forget about relying on the magnetism of your personality and a professional looking business card to persuade contacts to trust you with their real estate needs. Show them the properties you have been entrusted with and let them see the results of your talents as a realtor.

Professionally designed Just Listed and Just Sold postcards will inform your contacts of new real estate opportunities for them to consider and remind them that if they do not act on the real estate they want, someone else will. Informed contacts will also help your business to keep moving along at a fast, steady and successful clip.

Sarah Reiter is president of Creative Agent Solutions, an Arizona based online marketing company that specializes in virtual real estate services.  Sarah Reiter is an ethics checked Certified Real Estate Support Specialist (CRESS) with the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA), a Professional Real Estate Virtual Assistant (PREVA) with the Real Estate Virtual Assistant (REVA) Network, a CyberStarVA Member, an affiliate of the Southeast Valley Regional Association of Realtors (SEVRAR), Scottsdale Association of Realtors in Arizona (SAAR), and Arizona Small Business Association (ASBA), as well as a Certified Virtual Assistant (CVA) with the Settlement Room ™. 

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