Think open houses are just for selling listings? Think again! The two most powerful reasons for holding an open house are:

• To recruit new ready-to-buy and ready-to-sell customers
• To lay the groundwork for future business

Open houses provide REALTORS® a great way to not only meet and potentially recruit buyers who are browsing for homes, but meet home sellers as well. Prospective sellers may look to open houses as a way of gauging the market or as a way to find a suitable Agent. Open houses provide REALTORS® with a valuable opportunity to showcase their knowledge, business acumen and people skills – and all attendees have the potential to be future customers.

Here are 6 tips for using SavvyCard to make your Open Houses rock:

Before the Open House:

1. Promote your Open House by sharing your SavvyCard for Agents.
Share it to your relevant social media pages and groups, and to your contact list via email and even text message. In your share message, let everyone know you are having an Open House on a fantastic property for sale and they can use your SavvyCard to contact you for more information.

2. If you have SavvyCard for Agents Pro, promote your Open House by sharing your Property SavvyCard.
Share it to your relevant social media pages and groups, and to your contact list via email and even text message. In your share message, tell people to use the “Find” button to easily get turn-by-turn directions, advise using the “Features” button to get more info on the property and request private showings, and mention the “Call” button connects to you instantly if they have questions. Ask them to use the “Share” button to send a Property SavvyCard to other people who may be interested in attending the Open House. You’ll get the contact info for their recipients – automatically! You can even promote posts on Facebook, to reach a broader audience. REALTORS® who have promoted Open House posts using their Property SavvyCards have gotten up to 600 responses!

Use your SavvyCard to promote your Open House through social media, email, text and other advertising channels to boost the number of people that stop by. Then, use your SavvyCard at the Open House to automatically collect contact info. Easily follow up with people afterwards using your SavvyCard and make solid, long-lasting connections with your new customers.

3. Link ads you run for your Open House to your SavvyCard to increase response rates.

If you are running print or online ads for your open house, provide a link to your Agent SavvyCard (or to your Property SavvyCard if you have the Pro product) in the ad itself so people can use them to contact you, get more details on the property and find the property easily! Every SavvyCard comes with both a unique URL and a QR code, and your Pro account may even come with text back codes. Use any of these in your online and print advertising to realize better results on your ad spending.

At the Open House:

4. Share your SavvyCard to everyone who comes to your Open House.
Every time you share your SavvyCard, the recipient’s name and contact information is automatically stored into your SavvyCard analytics, instantly capturing their personal information for follow-up. Plus, you’ve just given them a quick and easy MLS search tool where every search they do leads back to YOU, and no other agent!

5. If you have SavvyCard for Agents Pro, share your Property SavvyCard to everyone who comes to your Open House.
Prospective buyers now have a super easy MLS search tool at their disposal, so if they aren’t interested in purchasing your open house listing, they can find more suitable homes and request showings. The best part is that every inquiry comes back to YOU, not anyone else, since they’re searching off of YOUR Property SavvyCard.

After the Open House:

6. Use the contact information captured in your SavvyCard account to follow-up with all the people who came by.
Send a personalized “Thank you!” to each person that visited your Open House. Since you sent them a SavvyCard, their name, mobile phone number or email (or both) will be stored in the Card Analytics section of your SavvyCard account, and you can add them to your own contact management system for ongoing communication. If you don’t yet have a way to manage your contacts, no worries. Your SavvyCard account will store this information for you indefinitely, so you’ll always have it moving forward.

You’ll love the results you’ll get using SavvyCard to promote your Open Houses. To find out more and get personalized one-to-one training, contact our Customer Success Specialists (see below). We’re here to help, 9am to 7pm EST, every workday!

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As always, if you have questions call us at (727) 502-6012 or email support.