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  • 5 Ways to Convert Those Online Leads Into Legitimate Sales

    June 2013 Issue 5 Ways to Convert Those Online Leads Into Legitimate Sales It’s one thing to drive real estate leads to your website, but if you can’t convert online leads, you’re wasting opportunities that you worked hard to earn. To make sure that your online leads have a shot at turning into offline paychecks,…

  • Marketing Tips for Attracting Generation X and Y Home Buyers

    May 2013 Issue Marketing Tips for Attracting Generation X and Y Home Buyers With Generation X straddling their starter and move-up home years, and Generation Y starting to enter the market, the process of selling houses is changing. Old techniques aren’t working as well, and if you aren’t using intelligently targeted multi-channel marketing, you could…

  • Establishing an Effective Client Retention Strategy is Key to Real Estate Success

    April 2013 Issue Establishing an Effective Client Retention Strategy is Key to Real Estate Success Think about how much work and time you spend to bring in a client. For every buyer or seller that closes with you, you’ve been through countless showings, disqualified umpteen unqualified buyers and unrealistic sellers, and competed and lost many…

  • 9 Tips for Making Your HVAC Direct Mail Marketing Material Pop

    September 2013 Issue 9 Tips for Making Your HVAC Direct Mail Marketing Material Pop Well-timed and attractively designed direct mail marketing pieces have a significant impact these days, in the era of less postal mail. Since fewer envelopes, flyers and postcards land in the mailbox—yours will get even more attention, especially when personally addressed to…

  • Timing Is Key for Your Seasonal Lead Generation Campaign

    August 2013 Issue Timing Is Key for Your Seasonal Lead Generation Campaign Staying busy during the slow months can be a challenge in any business, and it takes a little creativity to keep business coming through the door. For some HVAC contractors, spring and fall present this challenge. During these times of year, customers aren’t…

  • Reconnect Your HVAC Business With Past Customers Using These 5 Tips

    July 2013 Issue Reconnect Your HVAC Business With Past Customers Using These 5 Tips Past customers are those you haven’t heard from or sold to in awhile. Maybe you did a repair to their furnace or installed a new cooling system and let the relationship end right there. Bad idea! Don’t neglect these crucial individuals…

  • Branding Basics: 8 Strategic Tips for Promoting Your Newly Established Brand

    Branding Basics: 8 Strategic Tips for Promoting Your Newly Established Brand

    Your brand is your company’s identity. Carefully constructed and nurtured, it communicates the important characteristics of your company, as well as your products and services.

  • 7 Ways to Use Your Firm’s Business Card as an Effective Marketing Tool

    7 Ways to Use Your Firm’s Business Card as an Effective Marketing Tool

    Your business cards easily communicate your company’s basic information, but because they’re so common, they can easily be lost, ignored or forgotten. Here are seven ways to make your business card more interesting and more effective as a marketing tool.

  • 4 Techniques of Email Marketing That Can Increase Open Rates

    4 Techniques of Email Marketing That Can Increase Open Rates

    Email provides a quick and convenient way for companies to reach both potential and existing customers. To improve the open rates and click-throughs for your marketing emails, try the following techniques.

  • Prospecting Techniques: Targeting Your Marketing Message to Locate New Clients

    Prospecting Techniques: Targeting Your Marketing Message to Locate New Clients

    Prospecting for new clients requires careful attention to the needs and interests of the large pool of individuals who could become paying customers.

  • Knowing These 7 Numbers Can Help Your Firm Retain Clients

    Knowing These 7 Numbers Can Help Your Firm Retain Clients

    Businesses rise and fall on the strength of numbers. Here are seven important numbers that will help your business grow and improve client retention.

  • What Metrics To Include in Your Marketing Analytics

    What Metrics To Include in Your Marketing Analytics

    The effectiveness and profitability of your company is closely tied to the success of your marketing programs. To make these programs as effective as possible, it is necessary to establish a framework of metrics that can be easily identified, quantified and analyzed.