A real estate deal is not a smooth sailing affair. It involves several uncertain factors, such as searching out the prospective clients, convincing them of the facilities, amenities, and prices you are offering, and, most importantly, creating awareness about your brand. Your tasks will be greatly eased out with real estate promotional products. These are also beneficial when you are planning to expand your existing business.
There are other means of advertising your brand. These may include electronic media, displays on hoardings, email marketing, television commercials, and other media. But, giving away real estate promotional products have longer visibility and a deeper impact on the minds and psyche of prospective and existing clients.
In the real estate market, location suitability is essential in attracting clients. This must be kept in mind while designing and planning your marketing campaign. You are to select a practical item and imprint your brand and message on them. People are more inclined to get a custom gift when you close a deal. By generating new leads, you win the confidence of clients.
By offering freebies, you generate a feeling in the clients’ minds that you care for them. That can be technically termed “ego satisfaction.” Clients then must approach you when they need any home, be it outright or on a rental basis. The freebies may be a fire extinguisher, a custom key chain, a tool kit, measuring tape, custom pens, bags, travel mugs, hats, calendars, or a document folder. Your logo on these products makes you singled out from the crowd.
A unique gift creates a memorable impression for the recipients. The selected items should be of good quality with proper functionality, durability, and longevity. It should be worth presenting to others so the recipients can pass on your promotional products to their friends and acquaintances. The more your products change hands, the more visibility it gets. Consequently, your brand gets exposed more. Thus promotional products pave the way for brand awareness. Clients who want to buy or sell real estate will favor you with their inquiries.
Importance of Using Promotional Products!
The digital world has transformed marketing into a more competitive and dynamic one. It would be best if you came closer to your prospective clients to get an edge over your competitors. And the best and most effective way is to offer them freebies or promotional products. When you attend any tradeshow or exhibition, clients want tangible promotional products. Moreover, you establish a personal touch with your clients. The following are the reasons for opting for a promotional product.
Reasons for Promoting Products In Real Estate Industry
1: Increase Brand Awareness & Recognition
Advertisements for any goods or services without being supported by any tangible benefit may not probably draw the attention of people looking to own or rent real estate. But when they get some gift that adds to their everyday utility, they would remember your brand and when they need it.
Promotional products inspire existing clients to stick to your brand and prospective customers to get allured to enquire further into your real estate’s location, amenities, and prices. This, in turn, adds to your sales volume and overall profitability.
2: Strengthens Loyalty of Customers
Give and Take is the go of the world. If you give something tangible to your clients, they will always reciprocate as a token of acceptance of your gift. The promotional products create a feeling of familiarity and a sense of trust for your brand. As a result, they will be least inclined to your competitors’ products. Once satisfied with your dealings, they will help increase your popularity through Words of Mouth (WoM). They may also recommend your brand, thus adding to the marketability of your products.
3: Enhancing Direct Conversation with Potential Clients
Traditionally, a personal or visiting card serves the purpose of getting introduced to potential clients and for future contact in case of need. But, as time passes and the clients are flooded with tangible gifts from other companies, they ignore the visiting cards. It is here that the promotional products come to provide a great sigh of relief. It becomes an entry point for conversation. The prospective clients clearly understand your work culture and business procedure. They can thus take appropriate action for buying or selling their real estate from you.
4: Extended Longevity of your Marketing strategy
Utility and functionality are the two major factors determining your promotional products’ acceptability. For instance, if it is a calendar, the recipient will be urged to retain it till the end of the year. If the promotional product is a hat or cap, the recipient will prefer to wear the same all the while. Your logo printed on the products has a visual impact on the onlookers, who may account for your prospective customers. As long as your promotional products are in use, your marketing campaign will remain alive and convey the intended message.
5: Reaching to New Audience
By getting suitable promotional products, your existing clients adhere to your brand. At the same time, if any of their friends and acquaintances have a chance to visit them, they become aware of your brand. In turn, they may pass on the message of your products to hitherto un-accessed audiences. For instance, if you have given a reusable bag as a promotional product, a newer customer may notice it along with your brand, logo, and message. He may thus be urged to contact you when they want to buy or sell any real estate in the future.
Conclusion!
For the reasons mentioned above, you must have realized the need to give away promotional products as a real estate agent. So long as they are deriving the utility value as well as the aesthetic value of the products, they are psychologically urged to remember your services and the brand of real estate you are dealing in.
