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Real Estate Marketing Plans: Most Effective Marketing of 2011
This is some fantastic information on what you should focus your marketing efforts for 2012. Some of it may actually be a surprise to you. Take a look!
Real Estate Marketing Plans  
Do you have your real estate marketing plans for 2012 ready?
 

 
With SO MANY alternatives for real estate marketing plans, are you confused on what to do in 2012?
So as you develop your 2012 real estate marketing plans, here is some great food for thought:
ActiveRain, the largest blogging platform and professional social network in real estate, conducted a survey of 1,910 real estate professionals asking the simple question of "what is the most effective real estate marketing or advertising that you do?" 
The results:
Referrals (including word of mouth and sphere of influence) were overwhelming the most preferred marketing with 26% of responses. Blogging was #2 with 13% of responses.  (Keep in mind that the survey was conducted on ActiveRain, so these results may naturally be skewed to blogging). Direct Mail continues to be incredibly popular.  Direct Mail includes post cards, mailers, and newsletters.  Direct Mail also received 13% of responses. Internet Marketing as a general category received 12% of responses.  Our assumption ... more

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