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Listings Made Easy! This is AWESOME!

Do you want a way to secure more listings? Do this: print 500-1,000 of your cards every time you take a new listing. Why, you ask? Flip the card over and you'll see why. On the back of your card, you will find a glorious picture of your new listing with it's address as a .com printed right on top of the picture.

You simply create a website for your new listing (I'll teach you how in just a moment), and advertise it on the back of your card. Have these cards handy at every open house, leave them behind every time you show property, send them to prospects, give a stack to the sellers, leave a stack at the house. The other Sellers will wonder why their agent is not promoting their home as aggressively as you are promoting your listings. Prospective Sellers will also take note. These cards will be saved and when the time to sell rolls along, guess who'll get the call: YOU!

For under $ 15 you can have 1,000 of these cards printed at GotPrint.com. You can also check out VistaPrint.com for some decent prices.

Create a one property Website. Just go to RealBird.com, and create an awesome flyer. Buy the .com for your listing's address and connect it to the flyer (see my example of it at www.ThePalmson5th.com). You now have a one listing Website for under $ 15. When you sell the home you can gift the website to the new owners. They can now direct all their friends and relatives to the website to show off their new home. All their friends and relatives will now have your mug shot, your address, phone numbers and link to your website and your blog. Guess who they'll call when they need to buy or sell Real Estate?

By the way, give a generous amount of those business cards/listing presentation cards to the new owners, so they can send them to friends and relatives. They will be happy to send them to all their friends and relatives, to show off their new home and they will inadvertently be promoting YOU! Is this pure genius, or what?

We all know that one of the best ways to garner new listings are the "Just Sold" cards you send to the neighbors after the sale. The "Just Listed" cards with nothing but the picture of the new listing and the .com for that listing will work wonders too. VistaPrint and GotPrint.com are good avenues for those also.

I hope you make lots and lots of money using these tips! Have fun! Live Big!

Your Myrtle Beach Real Estate Connection, Mirela Monte Join The Optimist Group!

Posted by Myrtle Beach Real Estate by Mirela Monte on 03/31/2008 09:39 PM

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119 Comments on Listings Made Easy! This is AWESOME!

MAR

2008

I am a heavy lister in the DFW Texas area! I love this idea and am going to FLY with it asap. I have 14 listings all were referrals I am going to order and send them out next week. This is a great idea and will bring new business my way! Thank you so much for sharing this marketing IDEA!

Sincerely,

Suzy Britz

RE/MAX DFW

YOUR A GENIUS! THIS IS A WONDERFUL IDEA.....(THE CARDS THAT IS)

Thanks for this tip....I'll try it too...

That's a great idea. I have one question though. Is it an ethical violation to have that information on your card and leave it behind when you show a house? I'm still relatively new to real estate and not real sure how that all works yet.

Thanks!

Scott

Great idea!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Will send you a card.

Suzy: Thank you so much for the comment! Check in with me again and tell me how well it's working, please! I'd love to compare notes. Are you subscribed to my blog yet? I have a ton of great info for you!

Dave: Wow! Genius? I'll frame your comment! Thank you! I am basking in the glory of your kind words.

Netta: Thank you for the comment! If you implement it, it will work beautifully for you. Let me know just HOW well it does work. Write me in a couple of months please!

Scott: Those are your business cards. You are doing EXACTLY what a good Real Estate Agent should: promote your listings.

Linda: Thank you for the comment. I look forward to receiving your card!

I read a lot of tips here but this one sounds so right I just have to give it a shot. Experimentation is a required ingredient of every successful business plan/recipe. Awesome!

Andrew, thank you for the lovely compliment! In this market we can't afford to do the same ole' same ole'... We have been empowered by so many new tools; it's just a shame not to use them...

This is an awesome idea...I'm trying it this week.

Tammy, I'm glad you are as excited about it as I am. Let me know just how well it works: just check back in here in a couple of months and update us on this recipe's performance.

APR

2008

Mirela, I like it!! Very creative. Simple and affordable. And I'm sure very effective. Thanks for shring. I think I will order me some cards today!!!

Simple, affordable and effective! Bryant, you encapsulated it beautifully! Thank you for the comment!

Wow, good ideas> i can not do the business card thing since my card is printed on both sides, but I really like the "Just Listed" with a pix and web site address only. I will try that one

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. I bookmarked for when I have time.

M&M,

Thank you for the great idea! I will be implementing it ASAP.

Linda: Please share the results with us!

Denise: Bookmarking is a good start... I hope you get around to reading & implementing!

Karen: I like ASAP! Let me know just how well it works for you!

Great idea I can't wait to set one up tomorrow! Plus what an excellent listing tool I can't imagine a seller not listing with you if you went to the appointment and already had a website set up with their address.

CT, I love the way you think! Thanks for making my idea even better!

APR

2008

Realbird is indeed a great site!

I am bookmarking this post. Thanks for the insights.

These are great ideas that work

Thank for the information. I am going to use many of your ideas.

APR

2008

Good ideas!

Wow Mirela....That is such an economical way to advertise and it definately hits a Target Market.Good Ideas and I am going to bookmark this one. Thanks.

Another bookmarked Mirela post! Thanks so much for the heads up. Figuring out what to do, with the time we have, can be whelming (over - that is) and it's information like this that helps back down the whelm. Cheers!

Thanks for the tip

Great idea! I love the fact that they a company took the time to think outside the box and created something like this. Awesome!

What a GREAT IDEA and perfect timing since I just got a new listing. Love this idea. Thank you for sharing. Rockie

Thank you guys for all the positive feedback! I sincerely appreciate your input! Please check back in a few months and share some of your outstanding results!

Heather, I look forward to your next blog and some more extraordinary pictures! Take your camera with you everywhere! You could even assemble an array of your outstanding shots of places visited. What a great idea! The TravelingRainers Group salutes you!

That is a great tip. I recently sold my house using a local realtor. She did just that and the house sold in three weeks. I hope she gave the website to the buyer, but they were represented by a another office.

Great ideas thanks for sharing them with us.

Very creative thinking, thanks for the excellent tip. I will try it.

Arlene Trunzo

I am always impressed with the creativity that members of this site possess. You are really amazing! Excellent ideas!

Great stuff! Thanks for the ideas!

I liked your article. I do something similar. But rather than print the business cards, I create a tent card for the property. It has a picture of the property with a small write-up about it. You can create this on Publisher and actually I think you can do it through Avey labels (you can download their templates for free). These can be created right from your computer for essentially no cost. I give them to the homeowner. They can be used in the same manner as you referenced. Leave them on the table at restaurants, give them to co-workers etc. It has all your contact info and it makes selling the home a team effort.

Best of luck with all your listings!

Janice Slaven, Realtor, ABR
Prudential GA Realty

APR

2008

Mirela:Wow! I love it ! It's great you also share the details of the companies you choose AND the prices. I will bookmark this also.

Janice: Great idea too!

Thanks for the reminder. I do the same as Janice and print them on publisher. I have not tried Real bird.

Thanks Mirela for some more wonderful ideas. I have to agree in the prop info and pic on the reverse side of your card. I started doing that middle of last year and IT WORKS!

Thanks for the great tips. One more idea I need to implement into my marketing strategy

That is a great tip. I have always wondered about the results of it though. Is it just another thing....what type of results does it really get?

Dave, it's just another thing, yes. It's that "other thing" that sets you apart from the rest of the agents and imbibes the Internet and the neighborhood with this viral advertising that's bound to get a lot of bang for the buck.

Mirela,

Brilliant simply brilliant

Thanks

Mirela, Very nice post and very generous to share. Thanks so much!

Mirela,

What a great, simple and effective idea! Thanks.

APR

2008

Mirela, Thanks for the great info! I can't wait to try it all out! I've bookmarked this for future use. Elizabeth

I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Thanks for sharing two beautiful ideas. I'm putting this on my MUST DO list. wb

You are the BEST Mirela! Always a fun read and great info! Thanks!!!

SOOOOOOOOOLD!!! I love this idea and plan on implementing it immediately!!! Thanks so much!

APR

2008

This is a great idea! I saw a recent post about this suggesting the same thing. I'm putting together my first set right now, and giving them to my entire SOI and the seller. Since I don't do open houses anymore, I have to give them out in other ways.

Mirela - Way to "think outside the box" I love new and innovative ways to market property and this is awesome. I have heard of creating individual sites for listings but this takes it to a whole new level. As the kids I grew up with would say...YOU ROCK!

That seems like a good idea.

Hey M&M,

Love your idea! Thanks for sharing.

MMM

Mirela, this is a fabulous idea. Thanks so much for sharing it. I already have an account with vistaprint, and will definitely try it out.

Great idea (and I'm sure the printers love you!) We create special websites for each of our listings. One tool that has worked very well is http://www.floorplanonline.com/. They make a great website and the staff is super!

Great idea, this is something great that an assistant could really put together!!

APR

2008

I like to send postcards - but I can't get them that cheap. This needs investigation!

Holy Cow! This is an excellent idea. And I'm reading this just after I got my first listing ever! Thanks, Mirela.

Mirela great way to market your homes for short money - Excellent!

I love this idea. I have heard about other agents doing this with their card but I have not thought about the gifting of the site and the new traffic that will drive to my business...another brilliant idea that I have learned from AR!!

Great idea that I will implement. Thanks!

Hi Mirela. Loved this one! Thanks for sharing the great tip. Keep them coming.

Very workable idea that isn't real complex.

Thankyou

Thank you for taking an obviously simple idea and laying it out for us. I plan to try it this week.

I loved the idea when it came to me and I was so excited about sharing it with my AR team members. I was so impressed by all the comments here! Thank you so very much for your appreciation! It makes me very happy that you are so receptive. It is such a pleasure to give back here on AR, a place I have received so much from. Thank you all so much for your support! You inspire me!

APR

2008

This is a great idea!!!! I could definitely see myself using this strategy thanks!

This is definitely something I can implement. I like the idea of gifting the cards to the new buyers too. I have to bookmark you.

Good ideas, but can be overkill for some listing as the property could be sold and you need a good management system if your a heavy lister.

I favor tailoring the marketing to a specific property and sellers needs and not using a one size fit all approach.

If you can incorporate it to work in harmony with your other marketing avenues, let her rip and more power to you.

I need a Notary: You missed the beauty of this system: your advertising works long after you sell the home!

I love it!!!

Great ideas, thanks!

Wow this is great information, I am paying alot more for my listing website and the one you recommend seems to have more to offer with it. I am checking into all of the info thanks!

What a creative and innovative idea. I had not heard of these resources. Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for the tips. Well put together practical information.

Thanks for sharing. I'm going to get cards printed up right away. Great idea!

APR

2008

Genius! I'm newish so I've mostly been working as a buyers agent so far, but I'm definitely bookmarking this post for when I get some. Thanks for sharing.

Dear "Newish",

Here is an idea: focus on getting your first listing. Call on expireds, FSBO's etc, direct market, whatever. Get all your ducks in a row with the CMA, net-sheet, etc. Buy the .com or the .info for that address before you go into your listing presentation. The sellers will be impressed, and since you already own the .com for their home, they'll have one more very good reason to list with you.

Another great idea is to buy the .com for the neighborhood. You make one rider and as you sell the properties and get the new ones, you just move the rider around. Easy to remember and you can make that your "Featured" listing, even if you have a multitude of listings in that neighborhood.

Meris, I hope this helps you garner your first listing by the end of next week!

By the way, GoDaddy is having a .99 cents blow-out sale on many of their .info domain names today. I just bought over $ 100 of them, which I will link to my listings.

Good luck Meris! Remember, if you don't list, you don't last! At least 50% of your business should be in listings.

APR

2008

Ok, so I have heard of this idea before and likes it, i tried to do laser printed labels so I could put them on my cards. I hadn't thought of printing thm on their own cards. Thanks for that idea. As far as giving a bunch of stuff to the new owners. I'm not sure on this idea yet. I know we can but I would think if you start marketing to the other agent's clients after the sale either they will find out because their buyer may tell them or not, but it seems you could make some enemies if you start following up with other agents clients.

This is a great one. Thanks for sharing where and how to get it done.

Patty & Scott Carroll - RE/MAX Equity Group Vancouver WA

Hello M & M...... thanks for the reminder of listings on the back of the business cards.... Haven't don't that in a long time..... I will def check out the gotprint.com for pricing.

APR

2008

Glad to help! So happy to do it!

APR

2008

Just a quick note: Vista Print delivers the goods and more! I am very impressed by their quick turn around and their outstanding product at an unbeatable price. Absolutely beats the competition on every level. I give it an A+.

These are some great ideas. Thank you for sharing them with us.

I'm going to try this out on my next listing. Thanks! Also.... just ordered supplies from Vista Print and am very pleased with the results. I will order from them again!

Krista Ingram - Colorado Realtor

MAY

2008

You are very welcome! Come back here and tell me just how well it works!

MAY

2008

Thank you so much for these wonderful ideas. Much needed I must say. Thanks again!

I'll digest the contents of your blog and hopefully will find some valuable ideas over the weekend.

MAY

2008

Awesome tip! What a great idea. I have been using the back of my flyers, but never thought about this with cards. I will have to check out your sources.

MAY

2008

AWESOME POST! Great Idas! Thank you for sharing!

Take Care & Have a Great '08!

Hi Myrtle...Great idea. Here something you can add to your promotion, put a post here in The Rain using the street address in the post heading. In a very short time you'll be at the top of the page on Google. Be sure to put links to the listing in your post to your web site, virtual tour, etc, and put a sign topper on your For Sale sign:"Google This Address" Sellers love it.

Cheers, have a great day!

PS: Great listing tool too!

What a great idea, Fred! Why didn't I think of that?

Fantastic! I will implement it right away!

Thank you very much!

Fred: I checked out "139 Clarence Street". Your listing is all over the first page... at the top too! Good job, my man!

PS: I just subscribed to your blog. I don't want to miss anything...

Great advise and economical with terrific mileage! Good job

Great Info! These are exactly the types of tips I was looking for when I joined Active Rain. Also - "My Mother Is A Travel Agent For Guilt Trips" - you should be selling T shirts with that on your site - bet you couldn't keep them in stock! Sign me up for one.

Sherri: check back here on Wednesday; I'll have the T-shirts ready to order. It's already done. Great idea! Thank you!

MAY

2008

Great Idea! Thank you for sharing. Business cards are the cheapest form of advertising! I can testify to that: I got a call from someone who held on to my business card for 5 years, yes, 5 years that's worth repeating! She had come my open house--took my card, never heard from her until one day when she calls me to list her home, which sold and closed escrow in 2 weeks! (in case you are wondering it was an all cash, no contingency offer, and they 4 offers!)

JUN

2008

Aida: Good story! Thanks for sharing!

Making a good impression sure goes a long way...

Thanks for the post! I have been doing something very similar buit not quite to the extent that you are. What great prices gotprint has! Glad you turned me on to them, they are about 2/3 the price of what I have been using.

JUN

2008

Excellent idea! Last year I talked with an agent who uses this approach. It works! His team was the top producing team in their office.

JUN

2008

Hi Mirela,

Putting the information on the back of your business cards that hopefully will be saved long after a mailed postcard, amazing idea! One step further worth mentioning, and you have probably already done so in another post, is to add the single property address on your sign rider out front, and printed stickers on other marketing materials as appropriate.

Richard: Yes, that's right.

One more tip: post a blog here with the address of the property as the title, tag it as such, then watch it make front page on Google. Then get a rider that simply says "Google this property address".

Superb! You just OBLITERATE the competition!

JUN

2008

Mirela-I just bookmarked your post! This is wonderful information that I am going to check out.Thanks for sharing!

JUL

2008

Hey Mirela - you're blogging up a storm I hear..:-) Good for you.........quick question....with this photo/card/house/web concept..........you didn't show and example of yours! ....you put your business card in the front and the house with its .com on the back...and they print 500 for $15? Wow.!

Great post - just the idea that should help with our listings - Thanks for sharing!

Awesome tips. Thank you for sharing! The card idea should pay for itself (and many others) the first time I use it. I really appreciate finding bits of wisdom like this here in AR. Makes the whole experience worth the time and effort. Thanks again!

mark hall vancouver wa real estate www.ernw.org

Mirela,

Great tip! I couldn't agree more, I have long been a fan of giving each listing its own URL, it is a great marketing tool!

Coco

SEP

2008

Thank you all for these amazing comments!

Thanks for sharing Mirela & I like your text phone on the side. Cool tool!

Fantastic idea, thank you!!

I LOVE the card idea and the site you gave us has EXCELLENT pricing!! I am going to do this with my next listing. Thank You

Freaking fantastic! Thanks for the great tip!

These are GREAT ideas - I've started single property sites with epropertysites.comand they are $10 with one of their many domain options, or for a few bucks you can do a GoDaddy.com version. The business cards has given me an additional idea to leverage our efforts more.

Thanks for sharing!

SEP

2008

I use another vendor for this fabulous idea. Here's an example: www.golfatsummerglen.com There are lots of templates and the link for Listing Promoter is at the bottom of the page. I like it because it has quite a bit of area information. If you check out the link, I didn't use the address for two reasons, it's a weird address and because the property is on the golf course, the URL I selected worked just fine.

I love the tip about printing extra business cards with the URL on the back for the property. Sellers will pass them out everywhere! Brilliant! Thanks for the great tip!

SEP

2008

I use single property websites but had not heard of Realbird. It looks great. Thanks for the tip.

Great idea! I was jsut about to do new business card and will test you recomendation

SEP

2008

Mirela-Thanks for this great idea, and a great post.

Joe

SEP

2008

Great ideas. I bookmarked and can't wait to try it.

OCT

2008

Great Idea. I have not seen anyone around here doing that.

Mirela, I like that idea. Thanks for sharing. I haven't heard of gotprint.com, so I'll need to check it out.

NOV

2008

Mirela - I've hit a gold mine! Just came back to this post with all the helpful tips and I love this idea! Can't wait to have some made ahd give them to our sellers! You're a marketing genius!

JAN

Sharon: I know! It is a gold mine; that's why I wanted to share it with you.

Thank you very much for your wonderful words of appreciation and support!

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