{"id":15503,"date":"2011-12-28T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2011-12-28T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T01:10:43","slug":"slugging-away-one-e-mail-address-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15503\/slugging-away-one-e-mail-address-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugging Away. One E-mail Address At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on a quest to find 75 San Diego real estate agents.\u00a0 I need 75 agents, to give me permission, to e-mail them weekly.\u00a0 I told you about my plan to secure those permissions<\/a> and I thought I’d update you as I get results.<\/p>\n

Bill Lyons<\/a> agreed to do a joint marketing deal with me but I haven’t taken him up on that yet.\u00a0 I’ve been scrambling around with year-end stuff, and I took a holiday trip to Arizona<\/a>, but I’ll do something with Bill next year. For now, I’m focused on the SDAR Officers’ Installation and Dinner as a magnet.<\/p>\n

I held a drawing at the Downtown San Diego caravan.\u00a0 Thirty agents gave me their cards and Debbie Neuman<\/a> won the tickets.\u00a0 This works pretty well because while she is a quality agent, with established lending relationships, she’ll sit at my table that night.\u00a0 This will be a good chance to get to know her and pitch ourselves as her “number two lender” (I’m not proud).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The challenge with the thirty “new” contacts has been securing permission to e-mail them..\u00a0 I have spoken with ten agents thus far and only five agreed to receive my newsletter.\u00a0 I do have a drawing scheduled at the La Jolla REBA<\/a>, next week. and those folks know me better.\u00a0 I guess if I have 25-30 permissions, by next Friday, I can celebrate the fact that I have achieved one-third of my goal.<\/p>\n

That means I’m going to have to grit it out for the final fifty permissions.\u00a0 I’m going to start the “open house plan” after the first of the year.\u00a0 The plan is to visit open houses and drop off a “care basket”, filled with snacks.\u00a0 Agents get hungry at open houses so this is what I’ll give them:<\/p>\n

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A couple of bottles of water, three bags of snacks, and a couple of oranges (or apples, or bananas).<\/p>\n

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I’ll assemble them in my newly delivered TANSTAAFL<\/em> lunch bags.\u00a0 I ordered these from 4imprint.com<\/a> and 100 of them cost me less than $300.<\/p>\n

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I had my name, website, and phone number imprinted on them, along with the word TANSTAAFL<\/em>.\u00a0 The Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m on a quest to find 75 San Diego real estate agents.\u00a0 I need 75 agents, to give me permission, to e-mail them weekly.\u00a0 I told you about my plan to secure those permissions and I thought I’d update you as I get results. 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