Real Estate Investor’s Insider Secret #20: The Power of the Four P’s of Copywriting

You may be a bit tired of acronyms. After all, they’re all around. But I’m going to provide you with just a few more initials that make it easy for you to reread your postcard mailing to ensure its effectiveness. And these letters come from none other than marketing guru Joe Vitale, who has made literally millions of dollars selling all sorts of products and services. He insists that if you remember the Four P’s of copywriting, you’ll be destined to be successful from this moment on.

So what are these wonderful words, which all just happen to start with the letter “P”? They are Problem, Promise, Proof, Price. Include mentioning each of these in your next postcard message and watch your response skyrocket.

First you need to outline the problem your potential customer faces. And no you’re not doing this because he doesn’t know what it is. He’s well aware of his problem. But you do this to create a genuine bond with your potential customer.

To have the right Problem Key, your copy must be able to express your prospect’s problem in a way that helps him feel that you fully understand his problem and what he is going through. Hence, before starting any real estate direct marketing campaign, you must know your prospects well.

After you sympathetically outlined his problem, you promise him that you can help him with this. This means you can take that problem and actually eliminate it for him. In this case, his problem is that he needs to sell his house, and fast. Either his house has been on the market for a while with no interest or he’s facing foreclosure. In either case, promise him that you can help him out.

The promise key opens his mind to the idea that you have the experience and skills to be able to quickly sell his home at a good price.

In this instance, proof comes in the form of showing him others you have helped, providing him with testimonials of former customers who have worked with you successfully. You can even narrate some heartfelt success stories of how people’s lives have been changed dramatically once they used your service.

Great proof keys are made up of customer testimonials and genuine narratives of prospects like them who were reluctant to sell their homes, but after accepting your offer, discovered that they should have made the decision sooner!

If your mailing can effectively outline the Four “P”s to persuade your audience to call you to discuss the matter, you’ve been successful.

So go check your copy right now. You will greatly lower your marketing expenses if your real estate postcard marketing copy contains these 4 keys to unlocking the gate that is stopping your prospects from accepting your offer.

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