A Soapy Halloween Gift

A gift of decorative soap is always a nice way to thank your recent buyers. Here are a few that have the Halloween season all “washed-up”: Pumpkin Spice Soap and Candy Corn Soap. You can probably find more decorative soaps at your local bath store. These could be combined with a washcloth and set in a small basket, or tied up in a mesh bag with a pretty ribbon. Any way you give them, your real estate clients are sure to be pleased.

Halloween Costume Contest and Lunch

Bliss Sawyer has some great Halloween ideas on her marketing blog. One of her ideas is to host a costume-lunch on Halloween! You could invite your clients and farm and give out a prize for the best costume. Make sure you have impartial judges, of course. You could increase the prize and the advertising by partnering with a mortgage company! What a spook-tacular way of increasing your real estate business this Halloween!

Gourds and Pumpkins for Your Recent Buyers and Sellers

A great autumn gift for your recent buyers and current sellers is an assortment of tiny gourds and mini pumpkins. Include a personalized, hand-written note and your business card.

Leaf Print Cards

Send your clients a creative fall reminder using real leaves! There are a variety of ways to make homemade leaf cards. The most popular, although the most difficult, would be to paint some well shaped leaves and press them onto the front of a card, lift it off and you will have a nice leaf print. You could also gather a selection of beautiful fall leaves and scan them or take pictures of local fall scenes. Print these on postcards or folding cards along with a Happy Halloween or Happy Fall message and send them to your real estate contacts. Be creative and have fun!

Scare Up Your Real Estate Office

Get the children of your clients involved in decorating your office! Provide coloring sheets or a link to an online coloring page. Post every entry in your office and a few days before Halloween draw the name of an entrant to win a prize such as a bag of candy or a cute fall decoration. You might even come up with a catchy real estate phrase to use with coloring pages of haunted houses, such as “A haunted house is great for spooky fun, but have you seen our non-haunted listings?”

Wall Street, Halloween, and a Presidential Election

What do these have in common? Your fall marketing campaign! This October, these are the things on people’s minds as well. Coordinate an email campaign, a postcard mailing campaign, and related blog entries. Some effective marketing themes are:

· Don’t be tricked by a bad economy, many treats await in our local housing market

· Not a ghost of chance you can own a home? – call us today for some surprising options

· Homes a plenty await in a buyer’s market! (create a Cornucopia image, with homes coming out)

Playing on the contrast of Wall St. vs. Main St. in the recent economic tumult and on the election, email campaigns might be developed with messages such as:

· Get your new Main Street address

· Welcome to Main St, USA – your new home awaits!

· Let the $7500 tax credit assure your new Main St. address

· Don’t let John or Barack be the only Americans with a new address this January

· Cast your vote for a strong economy – buy a home!

· The votes are in! 2008 is a great time to buy a home!

Do all these ideas seem overwhelming? Contact Best Agent Business today and see how easy it is to have us get you started!

Trick or Treat!

When its time to get the candy ready to pass out to trick-or-treaters, whether at the office or at home, take some extra time and expense with this neat idea. Fill small Ziplock baggies with candy and your business card. A great treat bag would include some mini-candy bars, suckers, bubble gum, etc. Be sure to get the stuff that everyone really likes! Then toss your business card into the bag and zip it closed. Most parents look through their children’s candy before allowing them to have any, and your treat bag will be sure to stand out! Hopefully they will hang onto your business card or pass it along to a friend! You could use magnetic business cards so its easier to keep it "sticking" around. Even if just one listing or sale were generated from this, it would be well worth it!

Free Pumpkins for your SOI!

Your contacts will take notice when you give them a free pumpkin this year! You will first need to contact a local pumpkin patch and arrange to use your pumpkin tickets. You will pay them for any tickets redeemed. Then download this Word file, add the name and address of the pumpkin patch along with your name and information. Be sure to stamp the back to designate it as "official." Then mail these out to your choice of contacts!
Free Pumpkin Coupon Word