Classic Commercial Real Estate Sales Letters

In the commercial real estate brokerage today, the classic sales letter will always create opportunity for an agent or broker if the process is put in place successfully and consistently.  It is necessary to understand the logic behind the process, the timing of the letters, and the requirement to do it regularly.

It is a fact that the e-mail prospecting process has taken over a large section of the real estate industry.  For this very reason, the traditional sales letter sent through the Post Office System will create a major point of difference in marketing when it comes to the prospecting activities of an agent or a broker.

If you want to stand out from the crowd when it comes to your marketing efforts, merge the sales letter process into your personal marketing efforts.  Here are some rules to help you:

1. The sending of letters needs to occur regularly.  Send your letters to groups of prospects on a monthly or bimonthly process.  Given that each letter is specifically written for the target market of property owners or tenants, it is quite easy to group your prospects into segments.  At different times of the month you can send your letters to selected segments.
2. So a key factor here is to write letters specifically to the targets within each group.  You can are groups for landlords, tenants, business owners, investors, and developers.  Specific letters are used in each case.
3. As a general rule, and wherever possible, take the time to follow-up each letter with a telephone call.  If you know the telephone number of the person concerned, make the call.  Many letters will help you convert more meetings.
4. It is preferable that the letter process is simple and select.  Three or four paragraphs on a single page will get the message across.  Sign your letters individually and ensure that they are personally addressed to the people concerned.  Enclose your business card with every letter.  You are marketing yourself and your contact details; that is what the letter and the message must do.
5. Given that this is a prospecting process, the letter is designed to connect with the person you are sending it to, so that you can get more meetings and opportunities.  On that basis the message and the letter needs to be simply designed.  Do not fill the envelope with bulky marketing material that will confuse the central message.  Marketing letters are best left to a different approach and a generic mail system.
6. Make it easy for people to contact you as part of the mail out.  Some people will call you as a direct result of getting the letters regularly.  That is why you enclose your business card as part of the process.  It is quite likely that the receiver of the correspondence will keep your business card for future reference.

So the direct mail process is a real and important part of the commercial real estate brokers marketing system.  Make it an important part of your regular marketing efforts.

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