I'm curious if anyone has printed their own yellow letter? I know how to scan in your own writing and all that but my writing sucks anyway so that's kind of a waste of time. The reason is because I found a font that looks VERY GOOD! The font is called Brian Scratch for anyone that is interested, just don't use it for comma's or apostrophes.
Anyway, I am using Word 2003 and I can't get the text to line up properly with the lines. Does anyone have a template for the older version of word???
Jeff,
This may not help. But I have searched high and low on how to do this. One BP member even has a tutorial to do it. But I am not a techy. So I wrote my own letter. Took it to copy shop along with yellow pads and its done.
I have small gummy lables. My assistant or I will address and its done. I only do 5-20 per day currently. Don't have enough to really track results as this has just gone out. Plus I am going to put on hold until I get back from holidays.
I have seen articles on scanning in your own hand writing, that will be my last resort. The main reason I want to use this font is to be able to change up my message easily and not have to go back to the print shop.
I read somewhere that Word 2007 has a template built into it for this purpose. I guess the template is just a lined sheet of paper.
Jonathan, have you tried a different variation of the yellow letters to get listings as an agent at all?
I wasn't sure if the yellow letters would work as effectivley for agents because home owners may expect a more formal style typed letter from an agent as opposed to the handwritten ones from investors.
Kyle,
I never have been one for listing prospecting. I just have the license to use it when I can. But I don't see why it would not work with listings if it is more personalized like Dear Sam message.
What I had to do was put the letter into a graphics program that I have, then I put every sentence into its own box so that I could move them up or down.
After all the text was able to be moved up, down or side to side as needed I printed the letter on blank white paper, then put the yellow lined paper over it to see how everything lined up. After printing out 5 or 6 pages and making changes along the way I finally found a setting that was right on the lines.
Save and print as needed! The program I used is called "The Print Shop Deluxe 22". I've been using it for years for logo's, business cards, brochures, etc....and now for YELLOW LETTERS!
Jeff
Edited: 06/26/2010 at 10:38AM
by Jeff and Cheray Warner
I purchased Print Shop Deluxe for my yellow letters. It has a mail merge feature that only uses Vcard (.vcf files) for the merge. Since I export my lists from Real Quest into an Excel format, it looks like I have to buy a program that converts Excel files (.xls) to Vcard files.
All you need to do after you have it set up is put some yellow notebook paper in your printer and mess around with the margins and spacing until everything lines up fairly close with the lines on the paper. Don't worry about making it perfect. The way I see it, if you're printing the yellow letters yourself it's because you don't have the $$$ to outsource the job and you're sending too many to be hand writing them yourself. I got a 4% response with hand written letters to ~75 ugly houses (and believe me, that SUCKED writing 75 letters by hand, I don't care HOW short they were), 5% response with a slightly longer letter that I printed on the computer, and an 8% response from nearly 500 letters to absentee owners with equity... so maybe printing them doesn't squeeze every last % response rate out of your mailing, but 8% from 475+ letters that took me an hour and a half to print (slow printer + ran in to a few problems with my computer) sure beats writing them all by hand! :mrgreen:
Blue ink works very well. The message and font type are things you have to play with along with the copy if you want to do it on your own.
Edited: 06/26/2010 at 12:59PM
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Hello,
There also Bradley Hand ITC that is really good. I knew someone that hand wrote them personally and got a 20% response. I think that is amazing. If your penmanship is not up to par like mine outsource it to a high school student, your spouse or friend for like a $1 or $2 per letter. It's worth it.
Good Luck with your marketing campaign.
Okay, just a followup...we got zero responses from our letters...I am kind of surprised by this, but we're not giving up just yet. We're going to change the message a little bit this week and see how that goes. Plus we're going to followup with a second letter to all of those we mailed last week. We will let you know how it goes...
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