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18Apr

Real Estate Postcards

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A lot has been said about marketing strategies that can promote businesses. Flyers, brochures and postcards are among the most commonly used. A flyer is a small-sized postcard version that consists mostly of texts, made out of a flimsy paper; it is usually given along streets, malls and other public places. Brochures on the other hand are the most elaborate and detailed magazine-like object that shows almost all sides of a product for instance. Postcards could be bigger than flyers depending on how they are done, picture-printed material that contains a caption. Of the three, flyers are considered to be the cheapest while brochures are more costly. In between is the postcard which in the field of real estate is very popular.

Real estate postcards are made to invite its target market and prospective buyers to a house and lot that is being sold, make it known to public the different services being offered by the company or simply to advertise any other properties clients maybe interested in. While a great deal of these prints goes directly to trash after being issued, especially if given to unknowing citizens who after scanning they crumple and dump in a garbage bag, postcard is still tooted as one of the most cost-effective forms of marketing. Utilizing cards only require a good quality paper, ink and a good concept of how it would look like. It is encouraged that suggestions and ideas be asked from someone whose expertise lies in postcard designs in order to convey what is expected and the right message. Such however is no joke, designing real estate postcards takes time in order to capture, contain and soon enough project the desired outcome that resulted from brainstorming, forums and consultations of all sorts.

The image should be perfect and the color neither too dark nor dull. The caption which is usually found at the back should be short and simple but just enough to catch the attention of anyone who lays his/her eyes on the material. A headline that is catchy must be added. While some do not pay much attention to these cards, offers like discounts and benefits make a lot of big difference. If well-formulated and properly used, the cards increase one’s sales, referrals and profits in no time. Surely, this card acts like a bait that catches a big fish, a flower that attracts bees and other insects and a fishbone that leaves the cat craving for more. For whatever reason, real estate postcards have built networks of relationship and established rapport and credibility among agents and companies, young and old and buyers and sellers alike.

Convenience-wise, we have a lot of things that fall under this category these days. We have credit and ATM cards and we also have real estate postcards. However the difference lies in this simple logic that the former are money turned plastic or paper or whatever they are made of while the latter are mere pieces of paper that can be converted into money.

 

1Jul

Organic Listings Are Crucial For Success in Google AdWords Management

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Google AdWords Management involves a lot more than just setting up ads. These days, an “organic” strategy may be every bit as important as a “paid” strategy? So what do I mean by “organic”? No, I’m not talking about food that is grown in your vegetable garden without the use of pesticides or other harmful chemicals, but I AM talking about traffic that your website receives without the aid of excessive spending that could be harmful to your pocketbook.

Organic listings are the results that appear BELOW and to the left of paid ads when you search Google for a keyword term that you want more information about. For example, let’s say that I was in an accident victim and needed to contact an attorney in Georgia. I may go to Google and type in something like “attorneys in Georgia”. If I lived in Nevada and was looking for real estate or if I wanted to move to Nevada, I might type in “homes for sales in Las Vegas”.

In both cases, ads would normally show at the very top of the page and down the right-hand side in Google. Any listing or result that is not an ad is called an “organic” listing. These are the listings that Google “thinks” you may be looking for (based upon the search criteria you entered in the box).

This is actually a very simple concept. Google wants to reward you for using their search service by serving up both relevant ads and also relevant non-ads (organic listings). Google wants to keep you as a customer by making sure they are giving you what you are looking for in your search.

Now why is that important to someone using a paid service like Google AdWords? Well, it is a well-documented, but little-known fact that as many as 70% of those using Google search DON’T click on the paid ads. To put it another way, if 100 people search for a service you provide AND you show up in the paid search results, only 30 of those people will actually click on an ad.

To make matters worse, of the 30 that do click on an ad, only a percentage of those will click on YOUR ad, as you are competing with other advertisers. And even if they DO click on your ad…does that mean you are necessarily going to get a sale or lead out of the click? No!

Would it not it be better if your company were listed in the organic listings as well? If you are, not only are you 2-3 times more likely to get a click, but the click that you end up getting is FREE! Hey, while you’re at it, why not achieve the best of both worlds and be both in the free (organic) and paid (AdWords ads on the top and right-hand side) in the Google search results.

So how do you get ranked highly in the organic search results? It is not easy, but it is certainly doable as we have proved over and over again. But what does this have to do with my AdWords campaign, though? EVERYTHING.

A good AdWords campaign…at least an AdWords campaign that is professionally managed includes a strategy for making sure that the “landing” page a customer ends up on (your website) is relevant to what was actually searched on. Google wants to reward the searcher with what they are actually looking for. And the better your website landing page, the better the chances that it appears in the organic listings as well.

To say it another way, Google will reward you, the Google AdWords advertiser with a lower cost per click if your landing page is relevant to what the searching is looking for. If your website is more relevant would it not make sense for Google to present that page in the organic (free) listings as well? The benefit is DOUBLE. Lower costs per click when they click on your ad, and lots of potential free traffic as well!

No, it’s not easy to achieve high Google rankings, but if you have not given improving your landing page much thought or if the company managing your pay per click AdWords campaign has not concentrated on this aspect of your business, then I’m afraid your business is suffering…not once, but twice.

By: George C Curtis