The Best Tools for Growing Your Real Estate Business
What’s your broker’s value proposition
or … “Are you getting all that you’re (over-) paying for”?
Are you getting
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Free ongoing continuing education offerings?
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Free personal promotion and personal branding opportunities?
We have the largest footprint in Indiana with thirty-two (32) locations, and nearly 700 sales associates located throughout central and southern Indiana. It’s time you considered a home at Carpenter.
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Carpenter’s exclusive multi-media Home Marketing System
Only Carpenter Realtors has a complete marketing program that exposes your listings to more potential buyers. Everyone uses the internet to find homes, right? Sure they do. But if they miss yours, they’ll find Carpenter listings in the local paper, on TV, on all national websites and more. Our goal: use a wide-ranging multimedia plan to sell it faster and for more money. If you’re listing a home, don’t you want to reach every possible buyer in every possible way?
Carpenter’s exclusive Home Marketing System is a proven system, providing wide exposure for your listing, from complete internet presence to mass media and online advertising.
No one else has as comprehensive a program. A sign in the yard and an internet listing isn’t enough. We will advertise and market your listing more aggressively than anyone. It will be visible and seen by more prospective buyers. If you’ve been told that your broker’s own website will do the work, you’re not getting any value for what you’re paying them..
ONLINE
Our new website provides great tools for buyers and for you. Plus you’ll have a custom website on which your clients and sphere search for homes. That means hundreds of local websites on which your home is featured, each with hundreds of unique visitors each month.
HomeTour 360º 3D Tours
It’s true – we bought a Matterport camera for you. It’s a truly immersive 360º 3D experience! This optional marketing tool is a hi-def 360° tour of every room in your listing. Cutting-edge technology allows online visitors to “walk” through your home with 360º views of every room, engaging buyers with an exciting presentation. All at a fraction of the cost if you try to do it yourself.
Real Estate Apps
If you have the best local home search app, branded to you with all leads coming directly to you, you haven’t seen Carpenter’s apps. Carpenter’s apps are exclusive to Indianapolis with exciting tools like HomeSpotter GPS, allowing you to use your device’s camera to review home for sale and sold wherever you are. Install the app on your device (or later – your clients’) and see what we mean when we say it’s addictive.
Local and national homes for sale internet exposure
Ahh, the zillow dilemma. Do you send your listings to them and hope to find a buyer, or keep the listings to yourself and ensure that the data is correct? We believe that anywhere a buyer finds our listings is good enough for us. Your listings receive exposure through dozens of national websites such as zillow.com, trulia.com, Realtor.com, homes.com, frontdoor.com, google, Yahoo!, ReloHomeSearch.com and local websites. Most are direct feeds, ensuring correct data. No one exposes your listings to buyers on more real estate search sites than Carpenter. No one.
Homes for Sale Virtual Tours
Through an exclusive agreement with Paradym, the world’s largest provider of virtual tours, every Carpenter listing features a complete virtual tour to engage buyers looking at your home for sale. This tour gives buyers another reason to select your listing for a personal visit. Oh, right – you also have your own Paradym license to create custom tours or promotional tours, at no cost.
YouTube
youtube.com/mycallcarpenter features a video of every Carpenter listing, searchable by address, price and location. Not only is this more exposure, but it’s more easily found by the search engines when buyers want details on your listing.
MASS MEDIA
Indianapolis Star Open Houses
Some may have you believe that “newspaper is dead,” that “no one reads newspapers any more.” You may not even read a daily paper. Even so, there still are a half-million adults who do read the Indianapolis Star every Sunday, many of whom are buyers looking for that day’s open houses. Carpenter is the only company advertising every open house every Sunday in Indiana’s largest circulation newspaper. Often at no cost to you. We don’t believe you can afford to miss these potential buyers.
Home of the Day
As a Carpenter agent, only you can showcase your listings with a full-color display ad in the main news sections of the daily Star. This generates interest and more importantly, phone calls.
Local newspaper ads
Carpenter is Indiana’s largest real estate advertiser in community newspapers; advertising listings weekly in twenty-one community papers – another quarter-million potential buyers reached. Your cost is typically only $5 – $10.
TV Showcase of Homes
Our exclusive TV Showcase of Homes features 45 current listings every Sunday morning on RTV6, at 11:30 am. Another way that your client’s home is exposed to thousands more potential buyers, generating great client satisfaction!
RTV6 Home of the Day
Would you like to advertise yourself and your listings in a TV commercial during the RTV6 6PM News? You can – but only with Carpenter. You will get tons of calls and texts after friends, family and potential buyers see you in a TV commercial!
Call Carpenter For Homes magazine
Carpenter’s exclusive “Call Carpenter for Homes” full-color magazine is distributed throughout Central Indiana. 50,000 copies along with over 1,000 current listings!
Executive Portfolio of Fine Living magazine
Reaching 21,000 Indianapolis Business Journal subscribers, this high-end lifestyle publication attracts prospective buyers for all price ranges. Carpenter features two pages of selected higher-priced homes in each issue, at no cost to the agents.
Direct Mail
Ask about our discounted direct mail options. We pay for, or help pay for tens of thousands of color postcards mailed to our sellers’ neighbors and to targeted prospects every month.
ON-SITE
Yard Signs
You get the listing, we’ll buy the sign. Our Carpenter Realtors® uniquely shaped and colored yard sign stands out among the clutter and is arguably the most recognized in Indiana.
Take-One Flyers and Boxes
In front of every home we place our exclusive Take-One Boxes. Every buyer wants most information on your home for sale and these flyers contain property information featuring full-color photos and highlights of all of your home’s features and benefits. No cost to you.
Feature Cards
No-cost feature cards remind visitors of the best features your listing offers.
… and MORE exposure for your listings
Broker Listing Cooperative (BLC)
Internet Lead Management
75% of all internet real estate inquiries go unanswered. WHAT?!?!? At Carpenter, every inquiry is responded to within two hours, seven days a week. Our commitment: buyers get the respect, service and answers they deserve. And you get the option to respond to your listings’ leads or have our team follow up.
LeadingRE® Relocation Network
Carpenter is central Indiana’s top company for this international network of the largest, most successful independent real estate companies. LeadingRE® offers an exceptionally strong presence in key Midwest cities like Louisville, Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville and Memphis; markets most likely to have families relocating to central Indiana. Each year, over 50,000 families are successfully transferred through the LeadingRE®. What does that mean? It means more potential buyers.
Custom marketing materials
Our agents can produce custom materials to help expedite your home’s sale using the latest real estate specific software.
Home Warranty
Plans are available to make your home more attractive to home buyers throughout central Indiana.
We have the largest footprint in Indiana with thirty-two (32) locations, and nearly 700 sales associates located throughout central and southern Indiana. It’s time you considered a home at Carpenter.