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them viable reasons as to why they should choose you, when buying their new home. Make a List A great way to begin marketing and self promotion, is to make lists of the services you offer, as well as your credentials. From there, you can create online e-newsletters, you can send out monthly postcards or newsletters via mail, and constantly keep your potential market informed of what you do. By letting potential buyers know what you can do, and how you can do it better than other agents, you are likely going to draw in new buyers, who want to work with you, when they are ready to buy their new home. What are Competitors Doing? competitors are doing, and by reaching potential buyers through all markets, you are going to realize more new business, and you will find that more buyers want to work with you. Do You Go Above and Beyond? When creating your self promotion campaigns, you have to begin with the question: • “What do I offer, that other agents don’t?” By considering the services you provide, which go above and beyond the minimum job requirements, it is going to be much easier for you to make the sales pitch, and draw in new clients. A good place to start is to create lists of what you do, which is above and beyond what is required, which your competitors don’t do. From there, you can come up with your marketing campaigns, in order to make your pitch to local buyers, who are searching for a local agent to help them find a new home in the market. With so many real estate agents to work with, in any market, you have to create marketing campaigns, which call out to the buyer. Letting them know where you excel, the skills and credentials you hold, and letting them know you do more than other agents, for no additional fees, are just a few of the ways you can begin your marketing campaign, in an attempt to create the desire for more buyers to work with you. Another factor to keep in mind, is to consider what other agents are doing to market themselves. If they send out mail and postcards, if they post newsletters, if they send out mass email campaigns, find out how well they do these things, and find out which ones work. You can then determine which methods you have to add to your marketing mix, and how to approach your prospective buyers, in order to make the sale. By performing more in terms of marketing than what your 11