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It's print AND the Internet
It’s Print AND the Internet by Rob Wicker Chief Marketing Officer Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC You’ve probably heard this one before: “Eighty percent of homebuyers are online. You need to cancel your print advertising. It’s a waste of money. Go where the buyers are.” Speakers across North America are chanting this mantra. Many of these same speakers have a vested interest in online marketing. Now I admit to a bias: I am the CMO for a company that prints five million magazines per month. I do believe strongly that the agents who listen to the hype and cancel their print advertising are making a huge mistake. Online advertising definitely has a place in an agent’s marketing portfolio, but online advertising is not sufficiently visual, repetitive, or frequent enough to achieve all of a top producing agent’s career goals. Let’s examine what I mean. When agents tell me that they plan to advertise exclusively on the Web, I ask them precisely what their plan includes. I usually hear a mix of Google Adwords, SEO that might yield some clicks to an agent’s website, listing enhancement on sites like Realtor.com, membership with a lead referral company, ... more
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