I used direct mail for moderate priced properties in a specific community with an 8-10% turnover per year. After the first year almost every listing was mine.

For upscale buyers placed an ad four times a year in a luxury magazine. Took around 6 ads before I got my money’s worth 

direct mail marketing with postcards gets us listings.... they sell as fast as we get them.... I do a full page in the monthly newspaper and the two complement each other.....it's good visibility and branding!!!!

Verizon Wireless, my iPhone-X and my fingers doing the dialing to my database/SOI!

Best ROI in the biz!

"Other Than"??? My best lead source has always been getting out into the community I serve and making myself useful. Volunteer, shake hands, attend ribbon cuttings, get involved. Do these things and you will have so much business Allan Stofer you wont have time to look on line for lead services.

Direct mail with a call to action.

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Sorry to hear. 

I don't use any.

New business is not easy... til you figure out what works for you. 

After referrals and SOI, I'd say sign calls.

I don't use it, interesting, reading answers.

I only use SOI besides calls from signs

Website, downtown location for walk-ins, past clients.

It's all about working by referral for me.

Allan,

What others have mentioned and being visible in the community.  Face to Face time.  A

You want us to share our best kept secret???

Here are your choices:
1. Out spend your competitor
2. Go where they are not.

Test, test and test.

As Barbara stated and I have experienced, direct mail is hard to beat and almost the only sure access an agent has to the citizen.

I live in a place where many vacation and where the meet up places of locals is predictable. An info box hanging from a rear seat window does attract the 90 day market.

However, what you should do is beg, borrow or steal a house in which to host a market research purposed open house. Only then will you know what those with real estate on their mind are actually doing and what they feel they NEED. That last piece is incredibly important.

Now you can spend your dollars intelligently.

Lots of good ideas from our Rain friends.

And one more, Be Social.

You already 'hit the nail on the head'

None, Nada, Zip paid lead sources. Past clients and business relationships!

#1 and main: referrals. 

I get great results from working facebook.

Paying for leads is a giant waste of time and money. I find after referrals my Active Rain blog does a great job at attracting new buyer and seller leads

My website and blogs were my best source of business, other than referrals and SOI.

Allan Stofer networking.

I pay by working organically and getting leads online.  A niche helps.

Go with your own skill set as well as your niche market needs.

FB Boosts

depends on the market and now saturated it is, but my brokerage is successful with google ads

If you cultivate and spend time and money on your two "other thans" you will not need to look for a better lead source.

People you know socially. The rest amounts to 0.

Facebook groups

Direct mail and anything else Barbara Todaro tells us.

Past clients number one by far.

Zillow, Realtor.com are my top two lead sources. If you wan to do volume (25+ properties per year) then you must be advertising with these sites. 

I also use almost every single referral web site out there ... homegain, homelight, upnest, local expert and others.. i get 25 to 30 listings per year from these sites. Some are better than others but I get a ton of leads and easy listings bc they are calling me or have requested into. 

But by far ... my best lead source is ZILLOW. 

You will hear agents in here bash them and call them Satan ... whatever, do not listen and go about your business with Z and R.com AND make money!

Yes, need too!

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