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best agent business: Making Full Use of Top Producer - 05/25/12 06:12 AM
Top Producer is the leading online database for real estate agents, and their reputation is well earned by both their service and the features they provide. These are some of the special features that set Top Producer apart from the others.
1. Time and Task Management – Scheduling, maintaining, and managing your activities is key to organizing your day-to-day tasks. Top Producer offers a number of activity management tools that help you quickly create, view, edit, or complete tasks related to your business whether it regards calls, to-do lists, letters, envelopes, labels, or emails.
2. Contacts - Maintaining … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Referrals from Sphere of Influence - 05/23/12 06:51 AM
New, or newer agents, tend to believe that referrals from their Sphere of Influence, or SOI, can only occur if they constantly ask their friends or family for referrals. This can be somewhat uncomfortable. Many feel that asking for referrals would cause their friends to avoid them, and eventually they would lose those friends. There are a few things that agents can do to help themselves if they find themselves in this situation:
1. If you feel a friendship has been affected, and it suits their personality, agents can repair broken friendships by hand-writing an apology letter. Be sincere and … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Successful Real Estate Database Management - 05/18/12 07:20 AM
If you have been in business for any period of time, you may have a database with client and prospect names and details. If you do, you have taken the first step in creating the most valuable asset of your business. In addition to the value of this database, you are freeing up valuable time to do other business related activities.
A good database with well maintained information should include the following:
1. A thorough list of all buyer/listing prospects with their contact information, including their marketing information such as email, home address, and/or telephone number.
2. The ability to … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Accounting for Your Own Accounting - 05/16/12 06:57 AM
Now that another tax season is behind us once again, it may be time for some retrospect. Many small business owners are tempted to handle their own bookkeeping and tax preparation. They are constantly bombarded with ads about computer programs such as Quicken and TurboTax which make bookkeeping and tax preparation seem like such an easy thing to do. These businesses handle everything with a few partners and hire outside contracts only when absolutely necessary. This approach may work for some businesses, but the bottom line is, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Most business … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Military Spouse Appreciation Day and Best Agent Business - 05/11/12 05:39 AM
About a year ago, I wrote about the initiative of "Joining Forces" that First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden had started. Here we are a year later and the program continues to grow. As a military spouse I respect the work that both of these strong women have done to help our military families.
May is Military Appreciation Month, and to every person in the United States this month means something different. To me it is celebrating the sacrifices that my family and our friends make each and every day. The six months I spent last year away … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Take Advantage of Expert Advice for Free - 05/09/12 06:25 AM
Have you ever had a real estate marketing question and wished you could pick the brain of an expert? Now’s your chance. Best Agent Business is now offering the expertise of our President, Steve Kantor, absolutely free of charge via our Group Calls schedule. These Group Calls have proven immensely popular amongst Best Agent Business clients, and now Steve would like to invite clients and non-clients alike to join him on the calls listed below.
The calls take place on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30AM to 12:00 PM EST. Each call is limited to the first 4-6 who sign up … (3 comments)
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best agent business: Office Highlight: Social Media Success Story - 05/02/12 11:41 AM
Not every kind of Social Media is ideal for every office, everywhere, all the time. For Jimmy Lane of Century 21 Schwartz Realty in Key West, Florida it’s not just the excellent location that helps him attract clients or the fact he’s been in business for 13 years. Jimmy uses as many social media buttons and tools as possible and, while he admits, “success rates with most are very hard to track”, he feels all of the social media buttons he uses on his website are useful, “because you never know where someone will find information about you and the more … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Amagooplebook Service From Best Agent Business - 04/30/12 07:43 AM
Question: Amagooplebook? What is it? What does this fun name mean? Where did it come from?
Answer: It’s an acronym derived from the names Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook, created by Best Agent Business as a description for one of its available on-line marketing programs.
Offices that have not yet embraced the technological marketing power of the internet or are a bit confused on the best way to harness the applications that will work best in their marketplace are well suited to Amagooplebook. Also, if you have not gotten the return you expected from the applications or sites you … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Keeping Up With Calling Is Essential - 04/24/12 08:49 AM
One of the most productive, yet time consuming, tasks that falls to the wayside when an office gets busy is keeping in touch with clients via phone. We all know staying “front of mind” with past clients and warm leads is essential to building new business, yet it can be nearly impossible in a busy office to find the time to personally make calls.
If you are too busy to stay in contact with past clients, current clients, or follow your leads, Best Agent Business can help. Best Agent Business has a team of callers who specialize in one or … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Revived Leads Mean Money in Your Pocket - 04/20/12 07:48 AM
Chances are, if you have old dead leads sitting in your database, you are wasting money by sending them marketing material and emails with bad email addresses. A buyer online survey can give you a 3-8% revived lead response - that means 3-8% on new hot leads that you didn't have yesterday!
The buyer online survey will also give you clear concise reports for the Best Agent Business database team to clear out those hard bounces and to recode clients that opt out so you are not bothering them, giving your name a bad taste in their mouth. A … (0 comments)
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best agent business: Stop Wasting Leads! - 04/05/12 04:17 PM
There are few, if any, businesses that rely on leads as much as Real Estate, so learning how to manage and utilize them best is absolutely essential to the success of any Real Estate Professional.
The top three ways agents waste leads are all in the database management category. First, of course, would be not keeping a database at all, second, not properly managing the database or not adding all contacts to the database, and third, not using the database.
When it comes to lead follow-up, organization is key, and the best way to ensure optimal outcome … (4 comments)
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best agent business: Using Pinterest in Real Estate Listings - 04/03/12 03:56 PM
Learning the best ways to use social media to help your real estate business grow can be time consuming and confusing. Fortunately, there are many apps and on-line tools that are ideally suited to real estate and experts available to help implement them on very short notice.
Best Agent Business has several of these experts who focus specifically on real estate and have the experience to do the job right. They can get you set up quickly in a wide variety of on-line media such as Pinterest and can maintain the media for you short-term or long.
What is Pinterest? It’s … (3 comments)
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best agent business: Time Management for Real Estate Professionals - 03/30/12 08:41 AM
The schedule of any real estate professional is, by its very nature, unpredictable, riddled with peaks and troughs, and often administered on the go. Thankfully, today’s technology provides excellent tools for managing life on the move, but there are still many tasks that need to be completed which can trip up even the most talented agent if left by the wayside.
The first step in any effective time management plan is always to make a list of tasks, and put them in priority order. The primary focus must always be on the biggest goal and not on the smallest task. … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Moving your Business into the Future! - 03/21/12 08:36 AM
Amagooplebook! What is this? Where did the word come from? This is the new buzz word floating around the Internet. It comes from a combination of Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook. But what does it mean? This is a new venture of Lifebushido. There are over 100 business applications that you could and should be using to help your business grow and make you more productive.
Technology is changing the way we do business. Are you up to speed? Does your business have a presence on the web? If not, you could be losing out on valuable business and … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Freebies for Realtors! - 01/22/12 08:37 PM
Did you know that Best Agent Business has several freebies for real estate agents? We have reports, email series, spreadsheets, and even a book, that can be yours for the taking by simply asking.
Through our business of helping real estate agents become Best Agents and Billion Dollar Agents, we have learned a lot. And we want to share our knowledge with you! Our goal, whether you hire us to do your virtual assistant work or not, is to help you improve your business. These freebies exist for that very reason.
We offer a free goal coaching series. Steve Kantor … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Consider Facebook For Cost Effective & Successful Targeted Ad Campaigns - 05/05/11 04:31 PM
How many times have you wanted to run an ad online but didn’t want to pay the premium fees that many companies are asking these days? Have you thought about placing an ad, but didn’t want to waste money if it wasn’t going to your target market only? Or have you ever wanted to just try out a paid ad for a week or so and see how it works? All of these things are possible with Facebook Advertising.
As a virtual assistant experienced in marketing, I tell my clients they need to be visible on Facebook and to have … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Using the Press to Increase Your Business - 03/23/11 07:15 PM
Press releases are a powerful but frequently overlooked promotional tool that can be used for any business owner. If you haven’t used press releases as part of your marketing endeavors, you may be missing out on one of the quickest and most cost-effective ways to get the word out about your services, accomplishments, knowledge, and certifications.
If you are not convinced of the benefits of press releases read over the following perks:
You can send your press releases out to local newspapers, magazines, and news affiliates. You can also send copies of your release to industry publications to … (5 comments)
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best agent business: Friends and Clients - 03/16/11 02:59 PM
Recently Best Agent Business heard a story about a man who was selling an automobile. After a conversation with his wife, the selling price had been set at $3,000. They both felt it was a fair asking price as the Kelly Blue Book low value was $2800, the high value was $3200, and the automobile was in great condition. Right before the man was going to post an ad on Craigslist, he mentioned the auto sale to a co-worker. The co-worker expressed an interest in purchasing the car and asked what the selling price was.
The seller quoted a price … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Who is Conducting Your Research? - 03/14/11 07:08 PM
Solid market research to help with marketing, business strategy and business planning, among other business activities, is a vital part of any business. Best Agent Business has conducted a wide variety of market research projects for our clients, and we have developed an excellent team of researchers and consultants, who can help you take your business to a completely new level.
The list below contains a few sample projects that we have performed for our clients, but our capabilities extend far beyond.
Best Agent Business can design and distribute market research surveys for your business. Our creative survey design … (2 comments)
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best agent business: Where is the Customer Service? - 03/02/11 08:19 PM
Have you ever experienced a customer service situation that left you disgruntled as a customer, concerned over the work ethic of our upcoming generations and generally confused over how we have gotten to this point? Have you been in a situation where the following has happened?
A question is posed and the response does not adequately answer your question, nor is it related to the question posed. A particular service is requested and the provider responds with “No problem”. A phone call is placed to a business and the call is answered with “Can you hold?” without an opportunity … (5 comments)
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