The results will help businesses and us make the marketing-focused changes required to stay ahead of the curve.

View the results below.

1. Has COVID-19 made having an online presence more important than before?

2. Have you increased or decreased your online advertising during lockdown?

3. How big is the current online presence of your business?

4. Do you have your own website?

5. Did you know you can get a FREE website through Junk Mail?

6. On which of the following channels does your business have an online presence?

7. Which of the following advertising options provided by Junk Mail do you use to improve your online presence?

8. What is the nature of your business

Survey Summary:

• It’s clear that the majority of businesses agree that online presence is now more important than ever before although fewer businesses took the step of actually increasing their online advertising efforts.
• Based on the above results, businesses mainly use Facebook, online marketplaces, WhatsApp, and Google as their main channels of advertising.
• The majority of responders said that their online presence is currently small to average.

For more information on how we can help your business, call 087 236 9457 or email renate@junkmail.co.za.

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Car sales will be handled in a phased approach. Phase one will allow dealerships to operate at 30% capacity, phase two at 60% capacity, and phase three at 100% capacity.

NAAMSA reported that a total of 22 200 passenger vehicles and 9 425 light commercial vehicles were sold during March 2020. Even though the year-to-date totals for 2020 is lower than the year-to-date totals for 2019, it still shows that the automotive market is crucial to the survival of the economy.

According to NAAMSA, the majority of vehicles sold during March 2020 belonged to the following brands:

• Volkswagen
• Toyota
• Hyundai
• Renault
• Ford
• Suzuki
• Mercedes-Benz/Smart

In April, there was a total of 105 passenger vehicles sold that belonged to the following brands:

• Ford
• Toyota
• Suzuki
• Haval
• Datsun
• Nissan
• Volvo
• Jaguar

Based on statistics from the Junk Mail website, we’ve seen a somewhat similar interest in vehicles, with some of the most searched vehicles during the last month being the VW Golf range, the VW Polo range, the VW Jetta, the Toyota Corolla, and older models such as the Ford Escort, the Ford Cortina, the Ford Granada, the Toyota Conquest, Toyota Tazz, Corsa Utility and Nissan 1400.

Then we also saw quite an increase in searches for the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Mazda RX7 and then a wide variety of BMW models such as the E30, E36, 1 Series, 3 Series and more.

The increase in demand for more affordable vehicles shows that consumers are planning on downgrading their vehicles in order to save money, both on payments and possibly fuel consumption.

Junk Mail has also seen a 29.45% increase in leads during the last 2 weeks, which clearly shows that consumers are ready to purchase and that the opening of vehicle sales in level 4 will definitely have a positive impact on the South African economy.

Since competition in the car sales industry will be tight, we would like to remind dealers that online marketing is now more important than ever. Making sure that people know about your dealership and its offerings/promotions is crucial, and Junk Mail is geared to help dealerships across South Africa with FREE advertising!

For more information, call 087 236 9457 or email renate@junkmail.co.za.

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View the survey results below.

1. Is the extended lockdown putting the viability of your business at risk?

2. What are you doing to ensure that your customers know you are still operational?

3. At what level of lockdown can your business operate?

4. What is your biggest challenge during the lockdown?

5. What measures are you putting in place to make your business survive the lockdown and post-lockdown period?

6. What would you need from your marketing at this time?

7. Do you have your own website?

8. What channels do you use for marketing?

9. Do you know about the Junk Mail offerings for your business?

Survey Summary:

• According to the survey results, the majority of businesses will see a long-term negative effect due to COVID-19 and lockdown. However, businesses also understand that extra marketing will help their businesses through these challenging times and some of them have already started with additional marketing.
• The majority of responders said that their businesses will only be able to operate in lockdown level 2 and that making sales is their biggest challenge during this time.
• The majority of responders also agreed that more targeted marketing would be the way forward.
• The biggest marketing channels, according to the results of the responders above, are Facebook, email marketing, word-of-mouth, and marketing through their own websites.

How Junk Mail can help your business:

Junk Mail is a FREE online marketplace offering not only an opportunity for businesses to advertise their products and services on our platform, but also offers targeted online marketing services at an affordable price.

You can get everything from Facebook and Google marketing, to SMS, WhatsApp, and Email marketing, banner advertising, promoted adverts and many more. We can even build you a mobile responsive, customisable website!

For more information on how we can help your business, call 087 236 9457 or email renate@junkmail.co.za.

Alternatively, fill in the form below:

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How will these changes affect you?

• You can still place FREE property ads on the Junk Mail website. It doesn’t matter whether you’re renting or selling or if you’re a private seller or business.
• You can still set up FREE Property Alerts on Junk Mail. This means you now have access to a wider range of properties as they get listed!
• You can promote your property advert on the Junk Mail website and pay for it online!
• You’ll still be able to see your advert stats in your Junk Mail dashboard and update your details quickly and easily.
• You can get added exposure through the famous Junk Mail brand.

Remember: If you’re not sure what your login details are, visit the Junk Mail login page, and select the “Forgot Password” option. From there you’ll be able to reset your password for the email address you used to log into the GotProperty website.

For any further queries, please call 087 236 9457 or email renate@junkmail.co.za.

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Pain-free rent collections are an everyday reality for many small, medium and large residential rental agencies in South Africa, thanks to PayProp – the industry-leading rental payment automation platform. As a result, they can manage their existing portfolios as usual during the lockdown – and will be able to return to growth once it has lifted.

In the current economic upheaval, made worse by coronavirus restrictions on work, the safety, security, simplicity and transparency of PayProp’s online payment processing give rental agents the peace of mind that they can still do their payments – from anywhere, at any time, on any device.

In fact, PayProp’s value is such that a growing number of sales-focused estate agencies are getting on board too, adding rental commission as a recurring revenue stream to their bottom lines.

What is PayProp?

As an automated property rent collection, reconciliation and distribution platform, PayProp enables estate agencies of all sizes to accept more payment types, reconcile trust accounts instantly and pay landlords faster.

Above all, PayProp acknowledges that people are the cornerstone of any real estate business or transaction. That’s why the underlying goal with PayProp’s automation is to empower real estate professionals, not replace them – giving them the tools to do their jobs more efficiently and add more value to what they are already doing.

Estate agents are the unsung heroes of the property industry, and PayProp’s mission is to make their work easier and more rewarding.

How can PayProp benefit your business and staff? 

Remote working

Remote working doesn’t have to be complicated – PayProp users can access the same powerful service from home or from the office. The PayProp automated online payment platform is a smarter, easier, more powerful way to manage your rental payments, helping you to provide a better service to your landlords and tenants. Get the flexibility of receiving, reconciling and distributing all your rental payments in just a few clicks – anywhere, anytime and on any device.

Faster, better, more consistent service

PayProp enables automation of routine property management tasks, removing the element of human error from long and repetitive administrative processes. This allows your finance and admin people to work much faster and with 100% accuracy – at all times.

Rapid top-line growth

PayProp automation enables rapid and effortless business growth through time saving and scalable workloads – freeing your staff up to focus on growing your rental portfolio.

A year-long sample of transactions on PayProp’s rent payment processing platform (October 2018 to October 2019) reveals that its clients grow on average 23% annually by processing volume.

As a cloud-based service, PayProp also scales well. Payment processing is equally easy whether an agent manages five properties or five hundred, so they don’t have to worry about the inefficiencies that growth would otherwise have brought.

Efficient bottom-line growth

What’s further great about technology-enabled growth is that it doesn’t put extra pressure on you or your team or reduce your profits – just the opposite.

Automating your rental book with PayProp allows your staff to process more properties with less effort, increasing productivity while lessening workload. As a result, you can grow your business without having to hire more people, using automation as your profitability strategy.

Enhancing the value of your company and people

As a result of reducing administrative workload, PayProp enables your staff to focus on their core tasks: signing up new landlords, providing better service, finding great tenants for properties using the industry-leading PayProp Tenant Assessment Report, exercising financial control and increasing rent collections. When they’re doing this instead of staying late to handle payment admin or queueing at the bank, you can expect a happier, more productive workforce.

Business visibility and financial control

PayProp brings greater financial visibility and control to rental agents and makes it easier for them to issue statements to their landlords.

Because PayProp trust accounts are bank integrated, real estate professionals handling rent can track the live arrears status of tenants at any time and see which properties have problem tenants. They’re able to see which properties are vacant and are alerted ahead of time when leases come up for renewal. They can track commission and landlord income over time, manage expenses and draw various other reports for any timeline since becoming a client.

Knowledge is power, allowing the rental agent to seize any upcoming opportunities, grow their property portfolio and increase their rental commission income, while offering a superior quality of service.

What’s more, via the PayProp Owner app, landlords can see all the financial movements on all of their PayProp-managed properties in real time – and they can obtain professional statements, carrying your brand, hassle free.

Is PayProp right for your real estate business?

The power and flexibility of PayProp’s features speak volumes about the service you can expect, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The positive experiences of a wide variety of property businesses show the advantages of using PayProp to process your payments. Thousands of very happy customers across South Africa, Canada, the UK and the US can attest to that!

For a limited time only, we’re making it easier for you to join us by waiving our onboarding fees. If you sign up before 30 June 2020, we will open your PayProp trust account and provide comprehensive remote online training from our award-winning support staff at no cost. As a global company with a proudly South African heritage, we’re privileged to be able to support the South African rental industry.

Here’s what some of our customers around the world say about us:

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