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Vanity Plates - Help your business?

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with RE/MAX Elite

Just a quick blog to ask if anyone has any luck promoting your business with a vanity plate. I recently picked up my brand new vanity plate for my truck and the responce has been great. I lucked out and was able to get RI Commercial Plate 'HOME' and it has already paid off. I recently met a buyer coming out of a CVS store and the vanity plate was the ice breaker. I am now sending that buyer property notifications and will hopefully start showing them properties. While this may have been a once in a career chance, I have to think that I wouldn't have met this person if my plate wasn't 'HOME".

Your thoughts and experiences would be great.

Manny

 

 

 

 

 

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Connie Lou Barnett
Real Living/Home Realty - Owensboro, KY
GRI,CRS,CRB,SRMM,ARA,PRS,SFR,QSC

I've had  better luck with the car signs.  I have my name, cell #, & website.  I get lots of comments and meet lots of new people.

May 09, 2009 10:05 AM
Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Manny,

I think it's a fun idea and definitely an ice breaker. I do not like my name plastered all over my car. Sometimes sellers will ask me if I have my name on my car to please remove it when I come to meet with them (they don't want the neighbors to know). I always say don't worry that's not how I advertise myself

May 09, 2009 10:29 AM
Charles Stallions
Charles Stallions Real Estate Services - Pensacola, FL
850-476-4494 - Pensacola, Pace or Gulf Breeze, Fl.

We did this when I was at Re/Max and other than a few say "hey I see your with RE/Max" that was about it.

May 09, 2009 10:33 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

We have REMAX plates in Maryland and people do notice.

May 09, 2009 10:33 AM
Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Manny ~ What a score!  That is an excellent plate.  I am jealous.  I wouldn't put a sign on my car (I'd have to be a much more polite driver!) but I'd love that license plate.

Liz

May 09, 2009 03:19 PM
Jim Crawford
Long & Foster - Fredericksburg, VA
Jim Crawford Broker Associate Fredericksburg VA

I haver learned form past mistakes, and decied to forgo vanity plates for real estate.  For many it may identify you as a "Deep Pocket!"  Nuff said!

May 09, 2009 04:40 PM
Sheila Moran
RE/MAX Access (Garden Ridge, San Antonio, New Braunfels) - New Braunfels, TX
SanAntonioSheila.com, RE/MAX Access, 210-32

Manny,

I love the idea but afraid that with the way I drive that running people off the road (that are obviously in my way and driving too slow)...maybe not be such a good ice breaker for me.... HAHA

 

Glad it works for you!

May 11, 2009 01:30 PM
Sharon Kolb
Atlanta Decatur Homes - Atlanta, GA
Broker - Atlanta Decatur Homes

Manny - I don't have license plates, but I do have wording on the back window of my Pathfinder that says " Buy or Sell Homes - www.emorydecaturhomes.com".  I live and sell real estate in Atlanta, but I have a summer home in Maine.  Last summer, as I was lining up at the town dump in Maine to unload my recycling, a woman frantically waved me down.  It turns out, she was born in Decatur, Ga. and once I introduced myself, she recalled that I had shown her property years ago.  It is, as Sheila pointed out, somewhat of a disadvantage if you cut someone off in traffic - you might get an ugly e-mail the next day.

 

May 13, 2009 02:11 PM
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