6 Tips For Creating Real Estate Signs Denver Prospective Home Buyers Notice

By Sarah McDonald


Most people who are looking for a house to buy check out neighborhoods on their own before contacting a Realtor. Signage is what alerts them to the fact that a property is available. The information on the sign may determine whether or not they make a call for more information. To ensure that happens the Realtor has to design real estate signs Denver house buyers are intrigued by.

You need to understand who the most likely prospects are for the house you are marketing. You would not expect an investor, looking for rental property, to be interested in the same information as a home buyer looking at exclusive golf course property. You must tailor your signage to your audience and appeal to what is motivating them. If you do not, you have wasted money on the sign.

A strong call to action is critical for a successful sign. Even experienced marketers can forget that you need to take the reader by the hand and tell them what to do. If your goal is a phone call, the number has to be prominent on the sign. The number alone is not sufficient. You have to tell the reader to use it. If you want a buyer to come inside for an open house, you have to say so.

Buying in bulk is a temptation you should avoid. Buying this way makes the cost per sign cheaper, but if the message is wrong, the signs are useless and you will have wasted your own, or your Broker's, money. If you want to purchase several signs at once to save money, you need to test the market first to see what it effective, and what falls on deaf ears.

Pertinent information should go on the sign, just not the asking price. Marketers can get so carried away by their creative designs that they leave the most important points out. The signage has to briefly convey the most appealing aspects of the property in a specific way. Foreclosure is a selling point, as is brand new appliances. The point that will appeal to the most prospective buyers should appear prominently.

It is extremely important to proofread. Before you okay a sign, you have to read the proof and read it again. Not only will you look foolish to prospective purchasers if there is a misspelled word, you could be in trouble with the real estate commission if you leave off a license number or have incorrect information, which could be misleading, on the sign.

Too much copy and too many graphic elements are almost as bad as no sign at all. You need to remember that buyers will probably be driving buy the signs you put up. If the signage is overloaded with copy and cute graphics, the reader's eye won't know what to look at first. You only have a second or so before the sign is out of the reader's line of vision.

The right signage can help sell a house. The wrong sign is expensive and may mean that a property stays on the market longer than it should. As a professional Realtor you have to know what makes the difference.




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