Agents will tell you one of the biggest problems they face when trying to write a blog post is in coming up with ideas to blog about. It seems that when a busy, successful agent has time set aside to write a new blog post, trying to think of a topic becomes a nearly impossible [...]
In order to grow, improve or kick-start your business you will need to continue to do the things that will increase your business.
Buyers
If you are not working with enough buyers then you should plan on holding several open houses over the next few months. Pick homes that are on busy streets or sought after communities. [...]
If you are not advertising in your local newspaper, you may be missing an opportunity to meet buyers and sellers in your area. Those who believe that the newspaper’s day has come and gone may want to take a peek at research recently completed by Scarborough Research. According to the report 171 million U.S adults, [...]
One of the ’secrets’ to real estate sales success is becoming known as the expert Realtor for a certain area, property style, financing, or specialty. Successful agents are often identified by the buying and selling public for something they do well. Examples of this are those real estate agents who are known as:
The new buyer agent. [...]
You are tweeting, posting on Facebook daily, blogging and commenting on other blogs and you have been optimizing your website. So how do you know if your efforts are working?
You are closing business.
Yes I understand that you are communicating with vast amounts of people, building relationships and adding to your center of influence, but the real [...]
Write down on a piece of paper at the end of the day how much time you spent talking to people? Ok now subtract the time you spent talking to other agents in your office, and the time you spent talking with your manager or your coach and also subtract the time you spent talking with current customers and clients. This [...]
The MID-Florida MLS just created a new rule that basically states that if you do not load at least one photo of your new listing within 7 days, your listing will be purged from the system. Forget about 1 photo, shame on you as a listing real estate agent if you do not have the [...]
Open houses can be just like floor as a matter of fact they are better than floor as far as meeting new people to add to your contact lists. If you hold a home open house and do it correctly you are guaranteed to meet new people. How?
First if the open house is in a high traffic [...]
You must continue to increase your inventory of saleable listings if you want to remain competitive and successful in your market. Having product available, in this case the product being a home that has enhancements and pricing in which to attract buyers and other agents, historically is the key in determining the success of an agent. This principle remains true [...]
If your office or website is offering to provide a free list of bank owned/foreclosure properties to potential customers I am sure you have been receiving a ton of activity in the way of walk-ins, floor calls and emails. I have an outline that I created which contains a foreclosure/bank owned/etc. list you may want [...]