The marketing industry seeks to market to 4 main groups: Belonger, Achiever, Emulator, and the Society/Environment Conscious. Which group do you think you are in? Over the next few blogs, I will share a little bit about each group and how each group pertains to Lawrence Kansas real estate specifically and to all Realtors in general. If you would like more information about a particular group, feel free to contact me.
In this first blog, I will share about being a belonger and ask "Who's a Belonger?". Words that are used in marketing to attract a belonger would be: established, Made in the USA, loyal, guarantee, warranty, family, friends, trusted, and traditional.
Pick up a magazine article or watch a tv commercial and identify whether the target audience is belongers. You will start listening at tv commericals and not muting or fast forwarding through them.
When I write up remarks for an MLS feature sheet, I consider which group(s) to market to based upon the type(s) of consumers I believe would be interested in the home. In my signature in emails and blogs I put Free 2-10 Home Warranty so belongers will take notice.
Since belongers is the largest of the four main groups and since 65% of them live in the Midwest where I live, and since this is the group I associate myself as being in, this group is my primary target audience. That does not mean that I ignore the other groups or that I don't market to them. Stay tuned for the other blogs to see how I do this.
Again, if you would like more information about a particular group, feel free to contact me.
Thanks and "Don't keep me a secret--I'm never too busy for your referrals!"
Rob (FREE 2-10 Home Warranty with every home you buy or sell through me!!)
Rob Lang, ABR, ePro, GRI Realtor®, Member of CRS (Council of Residential Specialists)
Rob's Blog at www.ActiveRain.com/blogs/langrob
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(Serving Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin, Topeka, Tonganoxie, Leavenworth, Kansas City, McLouth, Wellsville, Ottawa, Berryton, Tecumseh, more)
112 E. 10th, Eudora, KS 66025
1037 Vermont, Lawrence, KS 66044
3300 Clinton Parkway Ct., Lawrence, KS 66044
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Rob Lang
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At Home Kansas
CODE: 10724
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NOTE: This blog was written in the past about properties on the market at the time
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Hi Rob,
Cute! I hear you have a fixed ARM. How did it get broken?
Rob :)
You guys are so punny! You are both killing me!
There's a show on TV called Last Comic Standing. Go For It!
Lucky :)
I'd have to go for the last comic sitting show. I don't like to stand very long. I don't like to walk either. When I was a pastor in IL, we lived in the parsonage across the street from the church but I drove across the street to the church so I wouldn't have to walk.
Say did you guys here about the FROG that showed up on a feature sheet of a house. No one knew what it was until they asked. The Realtor said "Fixed Room Over Garage" --FROG. I don't think anyone jumped for that one.
Rob
Rob,
That joke croaked a long time ago! Leave it buried!
Lucky :)
Lucky,
But how deep should I bury it?
The frog said, "Nee-deep, nee-deep!"
Rob