CUSTOMER STORY: REAL ESTATE

How Young Ottosen reduced print costs by 90% and brought 62 homes to market in 3 days

A five-agent new home sales team in Phoenix replaced printed brochures with one living, trackable Flipsnack link, and turned every listing into a faster, smarter sale.

BY THE NUMBERS

What replacing print actually delivered

Four communities, one team, zero printed handouts.

~90%
Reduction in print costs
$20K+
Saved on a four-community launch
2 days
Replaced 3 to 4 weeks of designer time
62
Homes marketed in 3 days
THE CHALLENGE

Real estate moves fast. Print doesn't.

Nathan Ottosen leads a team of five new home sales agents, collectively managing nearly 200 active listings across Scottsdale and Phoenix. With over 20 years in new home sales, Nathan built his reputation on product positioning: knowing that the story you tell buyers has to be accurate, compelling, and timely.

That story changes constantly. Pricing evolves. Renderings become finished models. Inventory shifts overnight. Before Flipsnack, keeping up meant outsourcing to designers, printing in batches, and starting over every time something changed. Pricing was printed separately, on throwaway flyers. Onsite agents routinely crossed out figures and scrawled corrections by hand.

Nathan OttosenTeam Leader · Young Ottosen Team at Real Broker

“A single brochure run cost around $2,500, and it was often outdated before buyers even held it. You've got one shot at it, and if something changes, you have to reinvent everything.”

THE SOLUTION

A brochure that evolves with the sale

With Flipsnack, Nathan's collateral became a living document, updated in real time, under the same link, without reprinting or rebuilding. Today his team uses Flipsnack across the entire sales cycle: embedding brochures on their website, sending links via text after self-tours, placing QR codes on-site for instant buyer access, and pitching developers with trackable presentations.

The brochure is no longer just a handout. It's the central touchpoint of the sales experience.

menu_bookWillo · Featured flipbook by Young Ottosen Team

Nathan OttosenTeam Leader · Young Ottosen Team at Real Broker

“Flipsnack is about taking my project-marketing capacities to the next level in every way: user experience, messaging, control, speed to market, presentation, shareability, and efficiency.”

WHAT CHANGED

From throwaway flyers to a system that sells

Six outcomes the team felt within weeks of switching.

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Always accurate, always accountable

Pricing, availability, and photos now update instantly under the same link. Buyers never see stale numbers, and agents never have to apologize for hand-corrected flyers.

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A more modern buyer experience

Instead of a paper handout that ends up in a car door pocket, prospects get a clean, interactive experience they can revisit at home, on their phone, and share with family who are part of the decision.

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Full control over the story

Building collateral himself means Nathan's sales perspective comes through without the lag of briefing a designer. What used to take 3 to 4 weeks now takes him two days, and the output is just as polished.

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Better and faster follow-up

Trackable links tell Nathan the moment a prospect opens his pitch deck, so he's not guessing at timing or interest level.

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Built-in lead capture

Every brochure becomes a lead-generation tool. Embedded lead forms let buyers register interest directly inside the flipbook: no separate landing page, no extra step.

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A scalable template system

Templates duplicate across projects, branding stays consistent, and quality doesn't depend on who's doing the work. Nathan now builds the Flipsnack flipbook first, then pulls its pages directly into the website design.

THE NUMBERS

What replacing print actually delivered

~90%
Reduction in print costs
$20K+
Saved launching four communities simultaneously
2 days
Designer turnaround replaced by in-house builds
62
Homes brought to full marketing capacity in 3 days

Nathan OttosenTeam Leader · Young Ottosen Team at Real Broker

“Flipsnack helped us save at least $20,000 launching four communities simultaneously, and that number is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the efficiency, engagement, and speed to market elements.”

LOOKING AHEAD

From flipbook to sales floor, and beyond

With four new communities launching simultaneously and no print materials planned, Young Ottosen is going fully digital from day one. For their newest community, the team is bringing Flipsnack into the model home itself: displayed on a smart TV with touchscreen as the primary demonstration tool, covering floor plans, site maps, lifestyle positioning, and community story.

Nathan's new favorite feature: the AI tool that adds movement to static photography. Next up: MLS-powered brochure generation that pulls listing data directly into ready-to-share flipbooks.

Nathan OttosenTeam Leader · Young Ottosen Team at Real Broker

“There's a future where you can sell a home directly inside the flipbook. We're already getting close to that.”

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