{"id":5249,"date":"2008-10-28T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2008-10-28T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T06:25:07","slug":"god-save-me-from-another-real-estate-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5249\/god-save-me-from-another-real-estate-flyer\/","title":{"rendered":"God Save Me From Another Real Estate Flyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple weeks I have been reading every real estate flyer I could find.\u00a0 I am sure many of you are asking why I would submit myself to such torture&#8230; and you would be right to ask.\u00a0 If I had to guess, eight out of every ten flyers I read were sheer torture.\u00a0 How familiar does this sound:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just look at all the room in this lovely 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom ranch style single family residence with attached garage.\u00a0 Enjoy 1742 square feet of flowing space with enough room for parties or quiet solitude overlooking your own private backyard.\u00a0 Hurry, this one won&#8217;t last long!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you just call that home a &#8220;single family residence?&#8221;\u00a0 Why are you repeating the bedrooms and baths?\u00a0 Is that information not available somewhere more appropriate?\u00a0\u00a0 Who are you talking to when you look up over your slide rule and say 1742 square feet?\u00a0 Appraisers?\u00a0 Contractors?\u00a0 How many people do you think know the difference between 1742 square feet and 1648?\u00a0 Or even 1700?\u00a0 &#8220;Honey, stop the car!\u00a0 This house has that extra 42 square feet we have been dreaming about.&#8221;\u00a0 Please STOP&#8230; or <em>you<\/em> won&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the real estate marketing I see starts like this and goes downhill from there.\u00a0 The reason is simple: this is <em>not<\/em> real estate marketing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most agents do not know the difference.\u00a0 I attribute some of this to the poor copy writing we are inundated with via the television and a lot of it to the fact that marketing is just not taught, or at least not taught well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BIG FIVE<\/strong><br \/>\nOver the next few posts I am going to discuss real estate marketing.\u00a0 The list of potentially innovative ways to market a home are never-ending.\u00a0 Many new ideas are shared right here on BloodhoundBlog.\u00a0 I do not hold any illusions of being so creative myself.\u00a0 But I do understand the basics of marketing and I am quite adept at <em>borrowing<\/em> great ideas from other people.\u00a0 With that being said, in the next couple of posts I am going to discuss the five basics everyone should be doing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>MLS<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5249\/god-save-me-from-another-real-estate-flyer\/#more-5249\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple weeks I have been reading every real estate flyer I could find.\u00a0 I am sure many of you are asking why I would submit myself to such torture&#8230; and you would be right to ask.\u00a0 If I had to guess, eight out of every ten flyers I read were sheer torture.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3528,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3528\/a-real-estate-sign-of-the-times-our-first-custom-yard-sign-printed-in-both-english-and-spanish\/","url_meta":{"origin":5249,"position":0},"title":"A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0A real estate sign of the times: Our first custom yard sign printed in both English and Spanish We do things that other brokers in the Phoenix area don't do. 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