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Real Estate Marketing

8 Indisputable Reasons Real Estate Agents NEED to Prioritize Email Marketing

Anum Yoon
Expertise: Landlording & Rental Properties, Personal Finance, Real Estate News & Commentary
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Real estate agents need to make email marketing a priority. In a survey of agents, email campaigns were named one of the top three effective marketing strategies, right behind referrals and featured listings.

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Here are eight reasons why email marketing needs to be up high on your list.

Email Is Widespread

Eighty-five percent of Americans use email and the internet. Of people between the ages of 18 and 29, that figure is a whopping 98 percent. Of the 15 percent of the U.S. population who do not use email and the internet, a large percentage are over the age of 65. You want to send your messages where they will be received, and an extraordinarily high percentage receive email.

Email Can Sell Your Listings for You

A lot of real estate marketing is done through bringing prospective buyers to your listings. Email, though, can bring them in virtually. A beautiful home — or one with the amenities a buyer is looking for — can sell itself through pictures. Show the bay window, the backyard, and the kitchen. Sending the pictures via email is a great way to interest a prospective buyer into physically looking.

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Email Gives Prospective Clients Usable Information

When you have a listing that is right up a prospective client’s alley, you want to give them background as well as pictures. What’s the square footage? Is it gas or electric heat? What’s the school district? You can give this information by phone, of course. Give it by email, though, and the clients have plenty of time to look at their leisure.

Related: 5 Steps to Structuring the Perfect Professional Email

Email Is Convenient for Clients

Clients like to be treated well. Many do not like a hard sell, but are comfortable with real estate agents who make them comfortable. Email is convenient for your clients. They can look at the listings you’ve included in an email at any time that works for them — and not necessarily the time you call them.

Email Is Customizable to a Client Base

If you have specific niches of clients — first-time home buyers, move-up home buyers, or downsizing buyers who are looking for a smaller place — email marketing lets you create information and listings specific to each niche. You can market to both buyers and sellers. In addition, of course, you can literally customize an email to a specific client.

Email Contributes to Your Brand

For maximum effectiveness, all your marketing should contribute to your brand. Are you the information source for first-time home buyers in your area? Do you provide information on mortgage rates? Inspections? Has your organization been named agent of the year? All this information can go in your email. You can run a series on how to find the right mortgage, for example.

Email Drives Your Other Marketing

A good real estate agent site will have a web page with listings, of course, as well as Facebook and Twitter accounts. A good email campaign will link in to all your media and drive customers to your web site and Facebook accounts, with updates on Twitter.

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Related: 6 Keys to Writing Effective Real Estate Emails (That People Will Actually Read!)

Email Contributes to Repeat and Referral Business

One of the most important functions of email is the way it allows you to keep in touch with past clients. You can easily craft an email customized to them. Recent real estate news combined with news in your community and even news about mortgage rates can be genuinely helpful and appreciated.

In addition, if the recipients are asked about real estate agents, your name will be in front of them for a referral. Of course, each client has a real estate life cycle. When the time comes for the move-up buyer to downsize, or the first timer to move up, your name will be familiar and at their fingertips.

Email is an accessible and customizable way to letting your properties sell themselves and of keeping your brand before your client base. Marketing with email should be a top priority for real estate agents.

Investors: Do you use email marketing? What kind of results are you seeing?

Let me know with a comment!

By Anum Yoon
Anum Yoon is the founder and editor of the millennial money blog, Current on Currency.
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    Curt Smith Rental Property Investor from Clarkston, GA
    Replied over 4 years ago
    OK will do. But what about where to buy email leads? Then what services for emailing the 1000’s of emails?

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    David Echeverria Rental Property Investor from Henderson, NV
    Replied over 4 years ago
    Curt, while not illegal, buying or renting email lists is highly frowned upon in the email marketing world. If you’re caught with a purchased/rented list by most major Email Service Providers (ESPs) you will most likely be banned from their system (you might get away with a warning for the first offense). Your list should consist of previous clients and referrals that have specifically asked to get email from you (called opt-in). Email is a terrific tool for retention but if you are looking to acquire new clients, perhaps a direct mail campaign would suit you best. You can also use the direct mail piece to collect opt-in email addresses (most ESPs will have some kind of form tool that you can put on your website to collect email addresses).
    Curt Smith Rental Property Investor from Clarkston, GA
    Replied over 4 years ago
    Tnx David. This post made NO mention of the context of the greatness of using email to communiate with clients/customers/sellers. Just saying. Good thing I asked and got a clarification. LOL I’m always finding the gap in posts. Glad to have help readers with a clarification. On this note, I think saying email contact with existing customers is great and not saying even a little about the email contact managers was another big gap: constant contact, email monkey (??) etc. In a similar tact, using SMS/TXT to sellers who have put properties up for sale, I’ve read there’s an implied permission to contact them since they put their property up forsale. I think I’ve seen services selling phone number lists of FSBO and other sellers. I’m suggesting / asking that one can ignore a phone number being on do not call if the person has asked to be contacted. But like bandit signs, there’s “grey” areas that one needs to be smart about ones campaigns. Tnx David for that comment.

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    Jason Lewis from Denver, Colorado
    Replied over 4 years ago
    When is too many emails, too many? Some realtors send them daily which seems way too frequent.
    Kevin Fox
    Replied over 4 years ago
    I agree. Personally, I only put people on my list to receive automated emails upon their request. I hate spam mail and NEVER bother to read the 50 on-market deals I get sent to me via constant contact. I do admit they do serve SOME purpose, however.

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    Kevin Fox
    Replied over 4 years ago
    I agree. Personally, I only put people on my list to receive automated emails upon their request. I hate spam mail and NEVER bother to read the 50 on-market deals I get sent to me via constant contact. I do admit they do serve SOME purpose, however.

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    Kevin Fox
    Replied over 4 years ago
    I agree. Personally, I only put people on my list to receive automated emails upon their request. I hate spam mail and NEVER bother to read the 50 on-market deals I get sent to me via constant contact. I do admit they serve SOME purpose, however.

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    Evan
    Replied over 4 years ago
    Great article! I never imagined email marketing could be such a useful tool. What tools would you recommend to use? For those who can’t code it can be a real struggle to design eye-catching newsletters. Is GetResponse a good one?

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    John Mathewson Developer from Hobart, IN
    Replied about 4 years ago
    Love the tips. I think email marketing is a very important part of the real estate process. Not a one stop shop but definitely an important piece when marketing your house.

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