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  • 3 Advantages of Drip Marketing for Contractors

    3 Advantages of Drip Marketing for Contractors

    Email marketing is an essential part of your contractor marketing strategy. It’s one of the highest converting methods for getting new clients and increasing customer retention. But with email marketing, you’re constantly having to create new content to send out to your subscribers. What about your awesome, old content that your newest subscribers aren’t getting…

  • Real Estate Marketing: Getting More Testimonials

    Real Estate Marketing: Getting More Testimonials

    If effective real estate marketing relies on reeling people in to choose you as their go-to pro, testimonials are the powerful bait you can use to lure them. The 2016 Buyer and Seller Survey from the National Association of Realtors found that referrals and repeat business both remain a huge source of opportunity for real estate professionals. In…

  • Marketing Yourself as a Mortgage Expert

    Marketing Yourself as a Mortgage Expert

    Mortgage lenders operate in a highly competitive market, striving to build valued relationships with the clients they serve. It’s your professional reputation that sets you apart from your competitors, and one of the best ways to establish that reputation is by becoming known as an expert in your field. There are two ways you do…

  • Using Email Newsletters to Build Relationships

    Using Email Newsletters to Build Relationships

    Real estate email newsletters are an extremely effective and powerful tool for building relationships with past, current, and future clients. In a world obsessed with social media, it may come as a surprise that email marketing is still the number one way to generate leads, opportunities, and sales. And the statistics back it up: among…

  • Three Components of a Successful Enterprise Marketing Strategy

    Three Components of a Successful Enterprise Marketing Strategy

    The success of your business relies on you constantly generating new customers and also maintaining an ever-growing database of loyal customers. Achieving that requires an enterprise marketing strategy that always fits with your business plan and can be adapted as the market changes. Be sure these three essential components are part of your marketing strategy….

  • Small Business Marketing: Creating a Social Media Calendar

    Small Business Marketing: Creating a Social Media Calendar

    Content creation and sharing is a huge part of small business marketing in this technology driven age. If you’re not creating and sharing regularly, you’re missing out on one of the most cost-effective marketing strategies available. Finishing content on time and getting it to your regular and potential customers isn’t always easy for a small business…

  • 5 Ways a Mortgage CRM Can Save You Money

    5 Ways a Mortgage CRM Can Save You Money

    Mortgage lending comes with unique dynamics that set it apart from other financial industry sectors – dynamics that a generic CRM will simply not address. Lenders who want to maximize their performance in the marketplace should look for CRM software to not only help them generate leads and grow their business, but also save them…

  • 3 Direct Mail Ideas for HVAC Contractors

    3 Direct Mail Ideas for HVAC Contractors

    One smart marketing tactic for HVAC contractors is to include direct mail correspondence in your marketing strategy. Direct mail is essentially a marketing strategy that uses postal mail to deliver promotional information to your audience. And although postal mail may seem out of date in the world of digital, it can still be a great strategy for…

  • How to Get the Most out of Marketing to Past Clients

    How to Get the Most out of Marketing to Past Clients

    As a business owner, you’re constantly wanting to grow your customer base. Increasing business and bringing in new customers is important, but do you know what is just as important? Getting past clients and customers to come back over and over again. When you do contract work, many times it seems like a one and…

  • Real Estate Marketing: Strategies For Selling Every Listing

    Real Estate Marketing: Strategies For Selling Every Listing

    Are you marketing your real estate listings the same way as every other agent in town? If so, you’re not giving yourself the creative edge you need to close more deals. The typical process tends to go something like this: list properties on the MLS, buy ads, hold open houses, and promote properties on your…

  • Using Personalized URLs in Your Mortgage Business

    Using Personalized URLs in Your Mortgage Business

    Personalized URLs, also known as PURLs, are a highly effective form of marketing for your mortgage business. When used with a state-of-the-art mortgage CRM, they can help you not only add a personalized touch to your campaigns, but also generate leads. What are PURLs? You may have heard that PURLs are great for increasing response rates, but…

  • Creating a Video Series to Market Real Estate

    Creating a Video Series to Market Real Estate

    Creating a video series is a great tool for a real estate agent’s marketing toolbox. It is by far the best way to appeal to the emotional and subjective factors involved with every buying or selling transaction. Like all marketing campaigns, your real estate videos must be well-made, relevant, and valuable to home buyers and sellers….