Real Estate Investors Ask: If Technology is King; Are Roadside Signs Dead?

In this day of high tech advertising, real estate investors want to know – do roadside signs still work?
 
WEATHERFORD, Texas - Jan. 21, 2014 - PRLog -- Tim is a successful Dallas Fort Worth-based real estate investor answers with a vehement, “Yes, they do!”

Ironic as it may sound; roadside signs are still a quick, easy, inexpensive way to grab the attention of needed prospects.  Ugly yellow signs – with red or black lettering – attract the most attention.  Coroplast signs, with wire stakes for placing in the ground, work well.  Or you can nail them to telephone poles – high enough so no one will grab them and pull down easily.

Tim encourages investors to be creative and let their imaginations go to work.  “Try placing a few signs near a Home Depot or Lowes,” he says, “where the rehabbers hang out.”

Meanwhile, don’t forget your own properties.  Never fail to put up your own We Buy Houses signs on your own properties.  While these locations might not be the highest traffic area, yet you will get calls from interested people within that neighborhood.  If people steal them from the yard (which could happen), simply place the new sign inside the house in the front window.

Ask friends and acquaintances if you could put a sign in their front yard – especially if they live in a high traffic area.  Some RE investors have even been known to “rent” a portion of a fence on a commercial property.  For a set monthly fee (Starbucks gift cards work well also), they are allowed to mount their signs on that fence.  A few of these around town in key high traffic locations or at intersections where traffic typically is stopping is a great place for signs and your phone calls will definitely increase.

If there are strict rules about roadside signs in your city or community, you may have to be even more creative.  By putting up signs on Friday evening and taking them down Sunday evening or early Monday morning, most of the “sign officials” can be avoided.  This way you can comply with your cities business ethics codes requirements.

If having Coroplast signs professionally printed is too expensive at this time, buy the sign material and create your own signs with permanent paint marker.  Or you may prefer to always use this “homemade look” that portrays a non-threatening appearance.

Make sure the signs are large enough for a driver to see quickly as they pass by.  Keep the message brief and to the point.  Also make sure the phone numbers are larger than the rest!

Tim claims that a good mix of online advertising added with such techniques as roadside signs works well for him.

Whenever business gets slow, his solution is to simply get out and place 25 or 50 signs in high traffic areas and wait for the phone to ring.

Tim added that as soon as possible every investor should contract this work out to others in order to save even more time but cautions – trust but verify that the signs are being put up and taken down as requested.  That means working smarter not harder!

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