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Document Your What! Assets . anyone else see what I see?

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My opinion Newspapers are for news and many newspapers are failing due to the Internet.

A active real estate market is what we all need  to draw qualifying,, Not pre-approved, home buyers leads.

I have found that the investors market is booming at least for me  

Vancepinion

1. Paper

2. Pictures

3. Mostly digital

I'll be the first to admit to being technically challenged, though.

I post homes on Craigslist, Kijiji, Backpage and Zillow. I still get the best results from Craigslist, but enough from the others to make it worth the time and effort. Craigslist isn't performing the way it used to, though. Too many people using it now, too many listings; and if you post too often, you'll get flagged, so you can't really post the same listing every day, but if you don't, you end up on page 5, and who scrolls back that far...? Although real estate is local, and so is Craigslist, so it may be different where you are.

Alison: Good morning to you and all p-2 agents. I guess that in my village of Northern Ontarie Canada our methods are a bit different. We are in a selling frenzy here. Even before this latest crase that has went on for about 2 years, my advertising is very simple but effective, We are on so many (www.)'s that it is almost over kill. every newspaper put us on thier site, our mls system, our brokerage system.I also do mail outs. post cards with my face on...scary but works. I am selling to people from the U.S.A, all over Canada and a few from Europe. Most of my advertising is at the grace of others and it is working and was working at least for me for the past 15 years.keep it simple. let someone else pay the bill, get your name out there, give the best service in town and work you butt off. Aint this real estae world great. Have a great summer, sell lots and come visit. Fantastic hunting and fishing in Sault Ste Marie

Alison, I use the heck out of my P2 site.

Of course we have a very good market here in Idaho (especially SE),  and many of the clients are coming from out of state.  The Internet produces about (75%) of my sales.  I sold one home from the Newspaper last year,  and at least two this year (2%).  Open Houses accounted for about (6%).  The balance of the transactions are trusted Investors I work with (17%). This Investor group is growing each year, and Open Houses, Newspapers (with the exception of this year) are shrinking.  Consequently my advertising budget has actually declined in the most expensive one (print).  

I am not sure what the national average for sales are but I think this is the trend I think.  I haven't taken a newspaper myself for 10 years,  and I don't have a land line in my home ( I have the Internet & Satellite).  I am also a builder and without exception, almost everyone in my age goup (39 close to 40) has the same setup.  Most of us do not receive our bills by mail (we get them online), only junk mail comes to the mailbox outside.  

Vance ... from where I'm sitting, I see what you see :-)

anyways

1. back to using paper ... found using power points and other types of presentations to be too complicating and time consuming

2. mainly just pictures but if a client is more demanding I do create a movie out of those pictures

3. no newspaper. Have just recently "divorced" from the RealEstateBook, which turned out to be just as cost inefficient.

Allison,

1. Paper - you can't leave a powerpoint sitting on the coffee table. People want info NOW - not when they get a chance to put a disk in the computer.

2. Both if the home will work for a virtual tour.

3. Virtual - print is too expensive and just does not work.