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How Will Your Audience Benefit? As you plan a postcard campaign, you should consider your audience’s mindset. The most crucial question on the minds of most clients is, “How will I benefit?” Your clients should know how they will benefit immediately the moment they look at your postcards. Here are some questions designed to help you brainstorm potential benefits: • What will they gain most from buying or selling a home now? • Why should clients care about buying or selling right now? • What do you offer that your competitors don’t and what do your clients gain from it? Your message should be brief and inspire them to take action. Always tell the reader what to do. Describe the steps they need to take to contact you or reply to your offer on the postcard. Focus on High-Value Markets Targeting the high-value markets is another valuable strategy for successful postcard marketing. These are the markets that can bring the largest return on your investment and effort. By sending your postcards to high-value clients, you are most likely to generate positive results. Here is a high-value market hierarchy: Grab Your Free Copy! • The locality where you work or reside • Demographic or geographic markets where your face or name is well recognized • Your sphere of influence, which includes your previous clients Well-Designed Postcards for Positive Outcome Postcard marketing can never be effective if the postcards are not properly designed so the designs need to be well crafted and purposeful for the targeted audience. Important elements to be included is your photo on both sides, a specific message for your targeted audience, photos of the property for sale, branding developed with consistency of design, fonts, color and layout and a strong call to action. Postcard marketing is about creativity and reliability. Clients need trustworthy agents. A well designed postcard will help prove your reliability. If you have your postcards designed according to the guidelines mentioned above, you will find that postcards can be powerful and a cost effective strategy. Get your free copy Click Here Mark Rubischko Senior Loan Officer Blumortgage, Inc. 602-809-0927 cell NMLS #236713 www.Bluemortgage.com WWW.Blumortgage.com [email protected] [email protected] 9