If you too would like print and digital marketing to:
Create a continuous flow of new listing opportunities.
Stop lying awake at night, worrying where your next listing will come from.
Position yourself as
the local area expert.
Build and maintain a large community of people who know, like and trust you, then call you when it’s time to sell.
Standout from your competitors.
Build and maintain a large community of people who know, like and trust you, then call you when it’s time to sell.
How we can help you
We provide print, email and social media marketing content to help you create a continuous flow of new listings, position you as the local area expert and increase your income.
Products include a monthly real estate newsletter, DLE cards, flyers, brochures, social media content and more.
Who we work with
Real estate agents all over New Zealand, from any brand, who are:
Already successful but so busy selling houses that they don’t have time to do their own real estate marketing
New to the industry but don’t know where to start
Hungry to grow their business and increase their income
Our team
Director
Since 2010, Shelley Pilkington has worked with outstandingly successful, award winning real estate professionals all over New Zealand to write and design effective real estate marketing content.
In the process, she has learned that the secret to creating a continuous flow of new listing opportunities has nothing to do with luck, but everything to do with frequency and consistency – being there, in someone’s letterbox, inbox or Facebook feed, monthly, fortnightly, weekly, even before they start planning to sell.
Originally a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Shelley re-trained after starting a family. While working for a top performing real estate professional she spotted a gap in the market for a New Zealand-based marketing communications company specialising in real estate. Open Door Marketing (previously known as Downright Brilliant) began.
Outside of work, Shelley enjoys time with her husband and three children. She especially enjoys combining family time with her love for the New Zealand bush, birds and nature. As a founding member of a successful community development project, she is still very much involved with volunteering in her community, and has a not-so-secret love for politics.
Open Door Marketing fills this gap by providing the members only, Personal Promotion Powerhouse website – “your personal real estate marketing system where all the planning, writing, design, print and delivery is done for you”.
As well as marketing plans, strategy and advice, the website contains catalogues of newsletters, DLE cards, appraisal letters and more. When a client orders a product it is personalised with the client’s own colours, branding and property photos ready for approval prior to printing and delivery (if required). Clients are allocated exclusive distribution areas and new content is released monthly.
Outside of work, Shelley enjoys time with her husband and three children. She especially enjoys combining family time with her love for the New Zealand bush, birds and nature. As a founding member of a successful community development project she still volunteers as Chairperson for the Governance Board. (And did I mention a secret love for politics?)
Rachel Miller
Production Manager
If you’re chatting to Rach over the phone, don’t be surprised if you hear her super-friendly but slightly attention-deficit fox-terrier cross, Quinn, leaping with excitement in the background – he thinks phone calls mean playtime. (All adoption offers seriously considered.)
We have a great team of designers and writers ready to help you create a continuous flow of new listings, position you as the local area expert and increase your income.
Our Values
We believe in people – in community first and profit second. We work with integrity. We do what we say we’re going to do. We’re innovative and efficient because we stand for working smarter not harder. Everything we do is from a place of excellence – we do it right the first time. And we enjoy the journey while we’re at it!
