Leaflets .. well when I say leaflets, I don’t mean promo leaflets which talk about fees, and your services .. no I am talking about those magazines, newsletters and reports many of you write and produce about what is happening in the local property market – stuff like this from Charters in Winchester (click on the image to download the gorgeous PDF newsletter) or the reports Savills do (below)
Its so easy to think emailing your PDF newsletter is the tops. Yes, of course it is, especially if you are emailing to a few thousand on your linkedin or applicant database you have scrapped.
.. but all of you have a list of landlords or people on the market that don’t do business with you, but you would like to.
So, yes, by all means bulk email it .. but don’t rely on email…. we all get hundreds of emails a day.
.. and it might get caught up in Spam (trust me – i ‘m on many of your lists to get newsletters and the huge number that go straight to spam is eye watering.
No, why not pop it in an A4 envelope, with hand written address and post it and stamp (not franked) … how special would that make the potential customer feel?
Even better, why not hand deliver it?
1. ‘Hi, its Chris, I was in the area on a viewing/inspection/etc and I remembered you lived here [important to say] –
2. …. so i thought I would save a postage stamp [again important] and drop it by.
3. I can’t stop as I am round the corner in five minutes’ [another important thing to say so they don’t think you are going to be doorstepping them like a couple of Jehovah Witnesses] ,
4. .. shake their hand, give them your card .. and walk.
.. then next month do the same, but take a few copies this time and say to them, when they open the door, that the other people requested a few copies extra to give to their landlord mates. .. so to save time and money and [and again here is the important part here fellow farmers] ensure you didn’t miss out, i wanted to give you a few (because they will then give/gift them to their landlord and property owning mates – because remember, they wont say, ‘this agent gave me this to try and get my business’ … no no my friends, they will say .. ‘ I picked this and and thought you might like it’ .. because it makes them look good.
Trouble, hassle, cost .. yes, but how much is landlord or house sale worth?Thousands and Thousands of these …. £££££££
All of us are guilty of being sucked into the day to day runnings of the business. If you are a one man band – of course you will be. But many of you on here aren’t.
Leave your colleagues to the job they are paid to do. They probably do a better job than you anyway. Your roll is work on the business .. not in it.
.... and why a paper copy?
.... and why a paper copy?
All the words of the articles are already online for free on blogs you will say. What you can’t get online, though, is the feeling of owning it, running the thick quality A4 350 gsm card through your fingers and thinking quality, the ability to pop it on the coffee table to read later and the joy of gifting it.
.. and does it work? Well I have been told Charters have been doing these for years .. have a look at the stats and decide yourself?
