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What is the purpose of a Just Sold postcard? Sold properties are old business.  We can’t live in the past, but we can use it to create future business.

The key to making your phone ring with any postcard is to provide a “Call to Action.” Without a “Call to Action” there is not likely to be any action taken by the recipient of that postcard. The result of that poor marketing will be an agent who cries out “postcard mailings do not work.”

They work if you create them to work effectively.  The agent is in full control. The agent has a target; has a message; and provides a service. Make the recipient take advantage of that service with a “Call to Action.”

The “Call to Action” that I like to use on all “Sold” postcards is “Learn How This Sale Changes Your Home Value.”  Such a simple statement but one that creates a “adrenalin rush” with any homeowner.  Everyone wants to know how much equity they have with each new closed transaction in their area and with a similar home.

The “Sold” postcard is used to replace the void on your listing shelf after each closing.  Remember Michael Jacobs’ favorite quote of “List, Sell, Rinse and Repeat.”  The “Sold” postcard must initiate the new inventory call to enable the agent to “Repeat.”

Just a thought for moment…..

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Barbara Todaro, Great Grandmother to Caleb, Santino, Aiden and Gianni       

Todaro Team - Retired

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Comments(22)

Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Another great Just sold card that I bet gets the phone to ring.  You are my Marketing guru!!!

Feb 23, 2018 09:34 AM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

and your video this morning makes YOU my hero Will Hamm .... you're the BEST....

Feb 23, 2018 09:36 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

The call to action is key to getting the consumer to pick up the phone and call. I love the ones you come up with.

Feb 23, 2018 01:24 PM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

Chris Ann Cleland believe me, this one works better than any I've ever used.... test it out....

Feb 23, 2018 01:34 PM
JL Boney, III
Coldwell Banker - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC Real Estate

You have so many great ideas for post cards. I have not done a lot with them in the past few years but I plan to step up my game this year.

Feb 23, 2018 01:55 PM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

do a large database and do it once a month... JL Boney, III 

Feb 23, 2018 02:18 PM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Barbara I have not seen that question asked in the "Sold Postcards" around here, but think it is an excellent and effective question to ask.

Feb 23, 2018 04:50 PM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

George Souto agents might want to use that.... it creates new business....

Feb 23, 2018 04:50 PM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

Those "Just Sold" cards work as well today as they did when I first got intot he business 36 years ago.  Some things change very little!

Feb 23, 2018 06:09 PM
Patricia Feager, MBA, CRS, GRI,MRP
DFW FINE PROPERTIES - Flower Mound, TX
Selling Homes Changing Lives

Barbara Todaro - I love how you like to take things apart and examine whether or not it's still pertinent or could there be improvement. I never thought of Just Sold as being old idea, but you do raise a point and a great topic for discussion.

Feb 23, 2018 06:15 PM
Jane Chaulklin-Schott
TEAMCONNECT REALTY - (407) 394-9766 - Orlando, FL
TeamConnect Luxury Homes - Orlando, Florida, 32836

Excellent and attractive 'Call to Action' Marketing post card.  Love it!! I would respond to this.... This is a very important post and would like to reblog.

Feb 24, 2018 03:01 AM
Hannah Williams
HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA
Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Barbara  I love your marketing  thoughts  and ideas get the mind churning  .. Where is the Gold star ?

Feb 24, 2018 03:24 AM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Morning Barbara.

Our next meeting is less than two weeks away. Care to take a guess on one of the topics we'll be discussing?  Carol Williams here you go, my entry for next Saturday

Feb 24, 2018 03:53 AM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

thanks so much, everyone, for your nice comments.... for those who use direct mail marketing, you should test this in your marketplaces and your phone will most likely ring, too....

Feb 24, 2018 04:33 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Thank you very much, Barbara, for sharing some of your successful marketing practices.

Feb 24, 2018 05:46 AM
Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

Great marketing piece and you are so right on about just sold cards!

Feb 24, 2018 07:16 AM
Lise Howe
Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC
Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

I have started using your call to action - just ordered 2 new postcards to send out - slight variations but the call to action remains - I like " meet your new neighbor" - that is a nice change up 

Feb 25, 2018 08:34 AM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

wishing everyone well with your direct mail marketing campaigns....make it a campaign and not a "one shot deal"....

Feb 25, 2018 09:33 AM
Pat Starnes-Front Gate Realty
Front Gate Real Estate - Brandon, MS
601-991-2900 Office; 601-278-4513 Cell

OMG. So simple, yet so brilliant. It would make me want to pick up the phone and call. Best tip I've read this week.

Feb 25, 2018 10:20 AM
Barbara Todaro
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Happily Retired - Franklin, MA
Previously Affiliated with The Todaro Team

I hope you get plenty of mileage from that call to action.... use it and get psyched when the phone rings... Pat Starnes, Brandon, MS 

Feb 25, 2018 10:32 AM