I just had an enlightening phone call from a Realtor in San Francisco just now…

She recently switched to using a MAC (Macbook Pro to be exact) thinking it would be easier than using the PC. For the most part it is; however, she’s become increasingly frustrated over creating marketing

1. She doesn’t know how to work any of the standard design Programs.
2. Many of third party marketing support is not compatible with MAC.

MACs are actually far superior to PC when creating graphics, designs, and marketing (I personally use a Mac Pro)… But like any new machine, there is a STEEP learning curve. Additionally, most companies are still far behind in adapting their products to MAC.

So what is an agent to use?? Go back to PC??…  I might have a more simpler solution for creating your property marketing flyers.

TurnKeyFlyers Real Estate Flyer Templates work on both PC and MACs… seamlessly!

TurnKeyFlyer Templates are purpose built flyer templates using Adobe PDF, a universal file format familiar to both PC and MAC.

The flyers open, edit, and save using the Free Adobe Reader application.

There are no fancy software needed, no design skills needed, and most importantly… THEY WORK ON MAC!!

So, if you are a Realtor Mac user looking for a better, simpler, and more efficient way to create professional looking real estate flyers give TurnKeyFlyers.com try.

http://www.TurnKeyFlyers.com

Real estate flyer (brochure) templates is a faster and easier way to create quick advertising.
Real Estate Flyer Templates – No Software Required! Made in easy PDF Format!

By Reuben Fine – www.TurnKeyFlyers.com

Here are some of the flyer template samples YOU can make using TurnKeyFlyers.com on your MAC!

Feel free to visit our site to learn more about these templates and watch live videos! Visit: http://www.TurnKeyFlyers.com

New Real Estate Flyer

So we’ve been working overtime gathering feedback from our clients and designing the new Platinum Template Collection (Coming Very Soon)… Here is a preview of our new designs and new features based on your requests and feedback!

Attention To Detail!

Attention to Detail! A flyer… is a flyer… is a flyer… the things that distinguishes a good flyer from a GREAT flyer, that prospects and your clients will be impressed with, are the DETAILS! We’ve added POPS of bold and subtle color… included stylish Vignettes – like you see above – and various creative styling ques that give the perception of a fully custom expensive flyer.

More Bullet Points For Your Flyer

MORE BULLET POINTS! The #1 Most requested feature was to add more bullet points! We heard you loud and clear so we’ve highlighted and increased the bullet point field to accommodate more “key featured bullet points.” These areas are made prominent to draw the prospects eyes to the list of the most important features of the property.

Marketing YOU!

Marketing YOU!! Highly request by agents… we’ve increased the size and text of your agent contact information. It is very important that the flyers serve the purpose of marketing YOU, in addition to showcasing the property.

Professional Elegant Backgrounds and Designs

Elegant Backgrounds and Designs. How often do you come across flyers with this much detail?? Our new Platinum Designs include a variety of enhanced textures and detailed backgrounds to add elegance and a more custom – non generic – look to your marketing!

These Platinum Templates will be out very soon. We’re currently engulfed in designing and templating. If you are interested in being the first to know about these templates, please comment below or email me me direct at reuben@turnkeyflyers.com (please use the subject PLATINUM FLYERS).

Thanks!

1 Most Over Priced Suberb in America

West

1. Santa Monica, Calif.

Median home price: $1.05 million

Median household income: $61,423

Gross income to buy house: 17.1 years

Part of the Los Angeles metro area, Santa Monica has a wide range of housing stock. Ritzy beachfront condos and houses go to the Hollywood set, and inland rental units host much of the city’s population, as 70% of residents rent, according to the Census Bureau. The result? It is impossible for someone at the median income level of $61,423 to purchase average-priced property in Santa Monica.

2 Berkley CA - Over Priced Suberbs in America

2. Berkeley, Calif.

Median home price: $752,500

Median household income: $51,256

Gross income to buy house: 14.7 years

At first glance, it seems these figures might be distorted by the UC Berkeley population. While the school certainly has an effect on the area’s demographics, there’s a larger group of residents responsible for the sharp divide between the million-dollar homes in the hills that look out over the bay and those renting apartments closer to Interstate-580.

3 Hawthorne CA - Over Priced Suberbs in America

3. Hawthorne, Calif.

Median home price: $585,700

Median household income: $40,045

Gross income to buy house: 14.6 years

Hawthorne may be best known as where the Beach Boys grew up. Prices are still somewhat affordable when compared to other suburbs that are closer to the ocean, but with 20% of people living below the poverty line, according to the Census, there’s a cavernous gap between those who can afford to buy and those who rent. Just eight years ago, the spread wasn’t so sharp; the median home-sale price in 2000 was $183,700.

Real Estate Agents Improve Bottom Line and Look Good Doing So

Turn-Key Flyer Templates Improve Marketing Efficiency Through Eye-Catching Innovative Template Design and Technology.

Seal Beach, CA (PRWEB) November 5, 2009 — TurnKey Flyers (www.TurnKeyFlyers.com), a new and innovative real estate marketing template provider, launched their services to the world this month, bringing eye catching designs and simplicity to real estate flyer marketing. Agents need only 5 minutes to develop and produce professional-grade marketing, with no special software to install, and no design experience necessary.

Real estate agents around the globe can create a professional and upscale image of their business when they use premium marketing templates, dramatically cutting their workload down from hours to minutes. Turn-Key Flyers has simplified the process by creating various professional pre-designed PDF real estate flyer templates.

“For years we have been helping real estate agents with their marketing needs,” said Reuben Fine and Rey Marques, co-founders of Turn-Key Flyers. “Over time, we found that many of the marketing tools available to agents were highly inefficient, outdated or were too complex to learn and use. Turn-Key Flyers makes it easy for agents to market their business in a professional manner without breaking the bank.”

Agents purchase and download a collection of PDF real estate flyer templates and simply add their property information directly onto the flyer. New flyers can be made without the hassle of designing from scratch. Each flyer brochure can be saved as a PDF, printed, or emailed.

“A graphic designer will charge at least $100 or more to create a single, professional-quality flyer,” says Fine, a previous real estate graphic designer. “If an agent even had a small amount of design skill, it would still take them about an hour and half to produce a decent flyer, but with Turn-Key Flyer Templates we’ve done all the work for you, so you can create a better flyer in a tenth of the time and a fraction of the cost.”

An unlimited-use template package can be purchased for a one-time fee starting at $9.95. For more information visit http://www.turnkeyflyers.com

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Here is a design layout we’ve been playing around with. It’s a slightly different way to layout your photos and test.

The photos are laid-out vertically and the property information is sectioned onto the right. Compare that to our orginal “Flag” style layout.

From previous feedback and voting, this was the most popular design layout! However, is this outdated or out-done? Would you like to see a different layout?

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Reuben

About TurnKeyFlyers.com

Turn-Key Flyers hand crafts and designs Premium Professional Real Estate Flyer Templates for Top Producing agents across the US and around the world. Turn-Key Flyer Templates integrate Direct Edit, Plug and Play, PDF technology allowing you to create and design Marketing Flyers without complex design software. Learn more and watch demonstration videos by visiting http://www.TurnKeyFlyers.com

By: Reuben Fine

Here are a few items and ideas to implement before your Open House. These are the most common overlooked tasks that Turn Off Buyers!

1. Empty Flyer Box – Make sure the flyer box is EMPTY only when you have an Open House Event! Yes… I said EMPTY! As in NO FLYERS IN THE BOX… This is the one and only time I recommend having and empty box. The main purpose of holding an open house is to invite your prospects into the home… hence, “OPEN HOUSE”… if flyers are in the box, well they can just grab the flyers and not walk in.Get them to walk into the home. Then it’s “light’s camera action” are your part to try to highlight the home and sell it to them. Moreover, having them come in gives you an opportunity to get their contact information in exchange for a listing flyer.
2. Signs Up and CLEANED! - We’re all guilty of this… make sure your signs are immaculate and cleaned. Even the street signs have to be cleaned. Clean signs is a detail that makes a difference. Always have a rag and some 409, OXY-CLEAN, WINDEX and simply spend 5 minutes cleaning off your signs of dust and debris.
3. Front Door Trash Can For Booties! – Hospital booties are a GREAT GREAT GREAT idea! Keeps the carpets clean and the propects from taking off their shoes. However, they booties get dirty quick and when the prospects take them off they usually just throw them onto the ground. This creates clutter and doesn’t look attractive. Make sure you invest in a bulk order of booties and have a trashcan at the front door so each person has a fresh clean pair and when they are done, they simply throw them away!
4. Front Door Bench or Chair! – Although the booties are a great idea, they are a pain to put on. Make sure you have a dedicated bench or chair that the prospects can sit on. (Attention: the stairs will NOT do!)
5. Back Door Booties and Chair! – Well having booties does you no good if the prospects walk out to the back yard, the walk back into the house with the booties on. Have a place for them to remove the booties to preview the back yard.
6. KABOOM The Bathroom! – Nothing turns prospects off more than a soap scum filled glass shower. Spend a few minutes cleaning the soap scum and the shower doors. It will make your bathrooms shine!
7. Put Away The Shampoo! – There is absolutely no good reason to know the homeowners’ dandruff shampoo they prefer… simply remove all shower toiletries. Yes, even the lufa and foot scrubbing brush!
8. Turn On The Lights! -  This is the first “Open House 101″ rule, but one of the most common mistakes. Make sure to keep all the lights on. It makes your home brighter and it just looks nice. Yes, even during the day.
9. What Pets? - Keep all pet evidence AWAY! Put the dog food in a box deep in the garage and the cat litter far far away! Not only are pet evidence unattractive, they can cause an allergic reaction to some prospects.
10. Glad Plug-in Are Your Friends! - Keep your home smelling fresh and clean with mild air fresheners. Stick with one scent for the entire home. Don’t worry
11. Remove The Toilet Earings! - Toilet bowl scrubbers, fuzzy lid covers, and plungers don’t add lust and lure to buyers… find a hidden spot and put them away. There is nothing worse than seeing cleaning tools scattered around the toilet!

If you have other tip & trick on holding an Open House… Please feel free to share!

Happy Listings!

About TurnKeyFlyers.com

Turn-Key Flyers hand crafts and designs Premium Professional Real Estate Flyer Templates for Top Producing agents across the US and around the world. Turn-Key Flyer Templates integrate Direct Edit, Plug and Play, PDF technology allowing you to create and design Marketing Flyers without complex design software. Learn more and watch demonstration videos by visiting http://www.TurnKeyFlyers.com

Marketing in real estate tends to be bland and boring. Here are a few ways you can spice up your business, distinguish yourself from the competition, and strengthen your core clientele.

1. Client & Cocktails

This is one of my most favorite marketing strategies.

What’s better than expressing your appreciation towards your clients for their business? Expressing your appreciation with your clients over cocktails and appetizers at your favorite local restaurant!

The concept goes like this: Pick out your favorite local restaurant. Reserve the executive dinning room or even the lounge area. Invite all your clients, their friends and family, and your prospects for a bit to eat and some drinks as a sign of appreciation for their present and future business.

Get creative and raffle prizes and have games or possibly give out gift certificates for restaurants, home appliances, or even movie tickets.

Introduce your clientele to each other and create conversation. Since the common association is YOU and homes, naturally the conversations start there.

The greatest part is that many of your clients are more than happy to give you all the praise in the world because you helped them into their dream home. Not only does that reinforce your image as “their” real estate agent, but if any of your prospects come your probability of conversion just sky rocketed!

2. Jazzy Real Estate Flyers

One of the most simplest solutions towards distinguish yourself amongst your competition is to have high quality advertising.

It is a proven that buyers respond highly to colorful and attractive ads. If that is the case why are your listing flyer ads printed in black and white? Moreover, what is going on with the bland standard Microsoft templates you are using?

Do yourself a favor spend the extra 10 cents per copy for color! 10 cents per page goes a long way and is a drop in the bucket when it comes to your budgeted marketing expense for your listing. You do have a set marketing budget don’t you?

Add some color and take some time to create an attractive looking flyer ad for your property. You do not have to hire a graphic designer. Just download real estate flyer templates on the web and design them yourself!

Remember, flyers are the first impression you get one each property you list. Using black and white, boring, and low quality real estate flyers is an equally perceived valued on your listing and you as a real estate agent. Real estate flyers do help sell your properties. Be proud of them. And if your flyer box goes empty fast… take that as a sure sign there is interest in your listing and their might be a neighbor thinking of a possible sale soon.

3. Open House Exhibit

Have fun with Open House! Try being a bit different and a bit creative.

Depending on your target market, try holding Open House “EVENTS.” Possibly collaborate with a local artist for an Open House Art Show. Or have a themed Hors d’oeuvres and wine tasting one evening. You can possibly partner with a local restaurant to help promote their restaurant and your listing.

The goal here is to package the open house process differently than your real estate counterparts. This will create excitement with the neighbors that they will not forget.

4. The Neighborhood Garage Sale

This is a fun project to do around spring time.

Many homeowners have cluttered garages and typically hold garage sales independently. Try organizing a neighborhood garage sale. Promote the garage sale in the local papers, throughout your database, and tape signs throughout the city. Make sure to add:

“This Neighborhood Open House, Brought To You By [ YOUR NAME]”

Use and/or modify your signage and flags to point passer bys in the right direction.

This will help create a bond with your prospects and give you common conversation starter.

5. Community Roundtable

During times of debate, organizing a community discussion at the local community center, park, or home is very effective.

Take for example our current events due to the mortgage fallout. Quite possibly there are homeowners that concerned about the future of their properties and the options they have to safeguard their investments.

You can pool together your broker, a mortgage expert, banker, and a CPA or Financial expert to openly discuss what is going on with the housing market and how it effects the neighborhood. The neighborhoods can ask questions and spark discussion.

The beauty of this strategy is that you brought organized this discussion and have strengthened your brand and image within your neighborhood market.

6. Party On The Block

An excuse to party? Not quite. However, this is a fun way to meet new contacts and socialize with the neighborhood.

Best if held around summer and strategically placed around common events. A few ideal themes can include: 4th Of July, End Of School Year, Back To School, Memorial Day, Spring Fling, and Summer Solstice to give you an idea.

Help the community organize. Use your business-to-business connections to provide fool drinks or sponsorship. Donate resources for party favors or a giant inflatable bounce castle.

Get creative and reach out to your clientele. Going that extra step separates you from the competition.

Many of these ideas cost little to do, but yield exponential dividends to your business.

I hope these insights help to inspire you and recharge your real estate business.

One of the best ways to do this is by utilizing real estate flyer templates when creating marketing for their property listings.

Real estate flyer templates are pre-designed marketing flyers, which agents open in an editing program like Microsoft Publisher or Adobe Photoshop, insert their property’s photos and description, then save and print for use in open houses and for various marketing efforts.

Here are the top five advantages to using real estate flyer and brochure templates:

1. Unlimited Use – A successful top producing agent is constantly looking to promote their “just listed” or “just sold” listings.  What better way to create marketing material then to have your own flyer template?

As soon as you list a property, just load up the template, drop in the photos and description text, and you’re set.

Then, after you sell the property, simply load up the “just listed” template, change it to “just sold,” and change the price to the sale price.

Now you have an excellent marketing flyer that you can distribute to your farm area to gain credibility and show off your latest sale.

2. Consistent Brand Image – A key characteristic of a top producing agent is familiarity.  All of the top agent’s marketing material has a consistent design theme, a certain “look” that differentiates them from other agents in the area.

Agents that use plain flyers don’t create that signature brand image that the well known agents have.

Consistently using a specific high-quality flyer template that is unique can help prospects in your area associate that look with you and allow you to cultivate a strong and recognizable brand image.

3.  Lower Marketing Cost – Many agents invest large amounts of money each month for marketing services and programs only to end up not using them because they are just too complicated or time consuming.

Other agents end up hiring designers or marketing assistants to help them organize and implement their marketing campaigns, which is also very costly.

Using flyer templates, agents pay a one time upfront fee for the templates (often less than the price of one hour or work by a designer) and are able to use that template for the rest of their real estate career without incurring anymore design fees.

4.  Easy Printing – Printing can be a major source of headaches for an agent, especially if they are trying to do it all themselves.

Worrying about bleed lines, file formats, and document sizes is not an agent’s specialty.

The good thing about professionally created real estate templates is that the printing specifications are built into the template and are, therefore, already taken care of.

Simply update the template with new photos and text each time you use it, and send it off to your print shop (or your own printer).

By using the same template each time you print, you can get any print discrepancies taken care of the first time you use that template, then just save it and re-use it over and over again.

This helps you maintain consistent print settings which allows for easy and hassle free printing.

5. Fast Speed of Implementation – Another key characteristic of a top producer is speed.

Agents that consistently get new listing are fast with everything they do.

Many times these top producers have a team that they delegate marketing and administrative work to, which allows them to get more things done quicker.

If you don’t have your own team to help you, you can still match these top producers in speed by creating your own efficient marketing system using pre-made flyer templates.

Once you get a new listing, take the photos and load them into your brochure template, and get them printed.

Having a routine down can allow you to focus your efforts where it matters most and using professionally designed real estate flyer templates is a key component in becoming a successful and efficient top producing agent.

Click here to download our Turnkey Real Estate Flyer Template Package

We are relaunching Turnkey Flyers as an online template resource for real estate agents and brokers.

We will feature video tutorials for creating free real estate flyers as well as a downloadable real estate template package.

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