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Pictures versus graphics - Beefing up your Marketing!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Fairstone Properties

The other day I listed a house that had not been on the market in about 21 years.  The owner was a organized enough to have kept the original listing flyer.  It was incredible: the agent had developed a some text and a rough outline on a typewriter.  Then they taped a printed photo from a 35mm camera (no digitals) to the top of the page.  Yeah, one picture.  I don't get it either.

Nowadays, we all try to plaster as many pictures as we can on the flyer, out pretty glamour shots and some colorful graphics.  The clients love it, right?  Mine do.

As the time progressed, we have all sorts of add ons.  Neighborhoods, real estate notes, just solds, mortgage rates.  At Fairstone, we are trying to get back to the flyer being about the house.  What ideas does this community use to make the flyers pop?

 We like to add the occasional aerial photo.  Now we want try to add some floorplans.  Any ideas on good companies to design them...or do any of you have experience building them yourselves?

 Look forward to hearing from you.

Fairstone Properties
Protecting Your Equity
www.fairstone.com

Comments (5)

Dawn Workman
Veracity Real Estate Group, LLC - Camas, WA
Camas Real Estate Expert, MBA, 480-540-8100
I am not answering your questions but feel the need to comment anyway :)  I do make one side all about the house and the back all about me!  

Good luck creating your perfect flyer!!
Aug 17, 2007 05:19 PM
Duane Hosek
Coldwell Banker - Lewis-Kirkeby-Hall - Rapid City, SD

Can't help with the floor plans, but I am sure a google search will come up with lots of help.

Good luck...........Duane Hosek in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Aug 17, 2007 06:13 PM
Duane Hosek
Coldwell Banker - Lewis-Kirkeby-Hall - Rapid City, SD

Can't help with the floor plans, but I am sure a google search will come up with lots of help.

Good luck...........Duane Hosek in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Aug 17, 2007 06:14 PM
Duane Hosek
Coldwell Banker - Lewis-Kirkeby-Hall - Rapid City, SD

Can't help with the floor plans, but I am sure a google search will come up with lots of help.

Good luck...........Duane Hosek in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Aug 17, 2007 06:14 PM
Duane Hosek
Coldwell Banker - Lewis-Kirkeby-Hall - Rapid City, SD

Can't help with the floor plans, but I am sure a google search will come up with lots of help.

Good luck...........Duane Hosek in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Aug 17, 2007 06:14 PM