Robyn Seymour - Good Source of Real Estate Leads is Local Church Newsletters

There is immense number of available profitable idea for prospective real estate leads. This source is the local church bulletin or newsletter. They provide cost effective advertising to a large audience of readers. For just a few dollars, you can get your message in front of hundreds or thousands of parishioners every week. Church bulletins are often read with interest by the parishioners while waiting for the church service to being. They are also often taken home after the service so people can keep track of upcoming church events. It is not that uncommon to see one on the refrigerator door or the home bulletin board. And that means that your ad will be seen again and again as they refer to the bulletin for news and events.

Your ad is typically the size of a business card and should be written with two thoughts in mind. The first one is to convey your message very clearly. The second is to have an eye catching logo to go along with the message. You want to advertise in the bulletins long term and want to be known as the person who solves house problems or buys any house, any condition or whatever similar message you wish to convey. It is also good to let them know you work with all people and that they should pass the word on if they know someone you can help.

Before you write your ad, you should take a Sunday or two and drive to a large number of churches and get a sample of each newsletter. Then you should contact each church to find out the cost of advertising. You should also study the ads to see how they are written and what you can do to make your message stand out. This will let you know the costs for particular size ads and also give you an idea of what ads jump out at you and which ones fade into the woodwork. This will help you in designing your own ad(s) to run in church bulletins in your area.

Also, depending on the community, you may want to run more than one ad or perhaps a different ad. For instance, in an affluent community you may want to run an ad seeking private investors interested in helping you finance future deals. In a community where you are actively prospecting, you may want to run some for sale" or "for rent" ads to start building a buyer’s list in that community. There are a large number of creative ways you can use church bulletins to help grow your real estate investing business. It will take a bit of time and effort to get started because you need to contact each church separately but the effort will be well worth it. You will be really satisfied with the results of advertising in the bulletins consistently with this low cost method that helps you to reach thousands of people in your community.