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View some of our featured articles from our real estate marketing blog. This page focuses on creating your marketing strategy. You can also view articles on how to use specific real estate lead generation tactics.

Quick Start Marketing Plan for New Agents

Getting started in real estate can be challenging for new agents. This six-part series addresses the key hurdles you must overcome, as well as gives you ideas for how to market your services.

* Reader Q&A: How New Agents Can Break Into Real Estate on a Shoestring Budget
* How To Build Trust and Credibility as a New Agent
* How to Create Education-Based Marketing Materials That Demonstrate Your Credibility
* How to Cost Effectively Generate Leads
* Following Up: The Secret To More Sales
* How To Build a Referral-Based Business
* How To Get The Most Bang for Your $2500 Marketing Budget

Understand The Marketing Mindset

To build a successful marketing strategy, you must first understand the marketing mindset. Marketing is not a one-step process where you send postcards or run ads or put up a website and expect leads to pour in. It is an ongoing process that requires ongoing activities. Here’s what you need to know about creating a successful marketing campaign.

A Better Way… How To Generate Buyer Leads

Instead of interrupting people, a better approach to real estate prospecting is to get prospects to contact you.

This type of marketing helps you build a more qualified prospecting list that you can follow up with and build credibility and trust with. If you want to generate buyer leads, you have to do three steps:

* Attract attention – You have to put your marketing message in front of the right people. You won’t generate business from prospects who don’t know you exist.
* Offer something of value – When prospects want to buy a home, they start looking for information to educate them and address their top concerns. By offering that information, you become a key “go to” resource.
* Build credibility – Your prospects are skeptical and won’t believe your marketing materials, so you must prove that you are trustworthy.

My Prospecting Real Estate Home Buyers System shows you how to incorporate all three components into a simple, easy-to-use marketing system. By using this system, you can:

* Stop wasting time with tire kickers and start working with qualified prospects
* Stop wasting money with ineffective marketing that doesn’t produce results
* Put your lead generation virtually on autopilot to consistently generate a steady stream of leads
* Build credibility and rapport before your first one-on-one contact with prospects so they already know, like and trust you
* No cold calling or door knocking required!

Wouldn’t you rather attract prospects who are friendly, considerate and value your advice?

Whether you work exclusively with buyers or need to find motivated buyers to purchase your listed homes, finding qualified buyers is a big part of real estate prospecting. Every day I receive questions from agents like:

* How do I find the “right” buyers or “qualified” buyers?
* How do I get buyers to call me?
* What are the most cost-effective ways to advertise my services offline?
* What should I be doing to follow up with leads?
* How do I set up a marketing system that works?
* Where do I start? I’m new to real estate and so overwhelmed!

If any of these sound like concerns you have had, I’ve created this Prospecting Home Buyers course and toolkit just for you.

Best of all, this system works even if you are a new agent with minimal experience. And you can do it without making hundreds of phone calls each day or spending a fortune on advertising.

Investing in rental real estate looks like a great idea on paper. You just buy a place in a nice area, find tenants and let the cash roll in. However, there are some matters you have to consider before buying a property and putting a “for rent” ad in the newspaper. Here we provide a rundown of the pros and cons of owning rental property and give you a few tips on how to turn a profit as a landlord.

Advantages of Rental Real Estate
The advantages of rental real estate are quite substantial. One that is not listed below is the fact that when you own rental real estate, you own a tangible asset. You can paint it when you’re happy with it and throw rocks at it when you’re not. Shares of Enron, by contrast, are much harder to hit with a stone. (To learn more, see Diversification Beyond Equities.)

Many people who feel uncomfortable investing in financial instruments have no qualms about investing in real estate. This is a psychological distinction, as a bad stock and a bad rental property are equally capable of losing money, forcing you to sell for a loss. That said, here are the advantages that show up on paper

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