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Wednesday 28 September 2011

How Much Does The Average Real Estate Agent Spend On Marketing?

By Maria Valenzuela


How much do real estate professionals spend in marketing their website and properties?

According to a VHT survey of agents' and brokers' allocation of marketing dollars for print, TV, direct mail and online, real estate professionals who have more than 10 years of experience had average listings of $600 and agents with 2-5 years of experience had listings in the $490 range. This simply shows that the longer the agent has been in the market, the more they spend on properties at higher-priced listings.

However, finding an average figure might be hard because real estate marketing varies by agent, company or firm, location and so on. But generally, we hear a lot of real estate agents saying they use 10% of all income towards marketing.

If you are entering the real estate market as a real estate agent, one of the most important questions that you have to mull over is "how much should you be spending on marketing and what's the most effective way to market your Homes in Fort Collins Colorado?"

You can answer this million dollar question by looking at the type of audience you want to reach. Generally, buyers, sellers and investors of real estate properties vary and the age range of these groups are typically from those in the retirement years to those in the late twenties. In this case, you can use different media to market your properties from young investors to senior individuals or families. This further means that you would be spending on online marketing, print advertising, and so on.

We also depend heavily on direct mail marketing. It's important to use companies that allow you to drill down to a specific audience. As an example, for buying, we pick neighborhoods we prefer and then detail further to find properties we want. Some drill-down items include: age of home, owner or non-owner occupied, age of mortgage, free-and-clear, etc., all directed at getting to the specific seller we want to buy from. We then send postcards to those targeted homes with the message we want them to receive.




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