Perhaps there is hope, Myrtle Beach SC has seen consumers begin to book the usually busy Valentine's Day weekend.
Myrtle Beach Hotels on the Oceanfront and those at Barefoot Resort are beginning to reach up to 70% occupancy in advance bookings for the two day weekend.
Consumer confidence seems to be ticking up in the Real Estate Market as well with a sudden increase in interest with increased leads across the board.
Let's see how 2009 develops. For Myrtle Beach as a destination and relocation area, encouraging beginnings are taking shape.
For the past 3 decades, Myrtle Beach Hotels, in Myrtle Beach, SC were concerned with one group of people and everything they did... Baby Boomers!!!
As a Real Estate sales person, if your focus today is exclusively bent on Baby Boomers, then you might want to look into selling health supplements, medical/pharmacy sales, juices, and exercise for life products, because the next few years will see them largely spending here.
We all witnessed the chase towards the highest return on investments over the past 20 years. Firs it was technology stocks. Everyone invested here and many got burned. Then it was the stock market as a whole. Once it topped and no apparent great leaps were availalbe, in the late 90's and the 00's we watched the Real Estate boom, fostered by government credit out of control.
Most of these investors were looking for quick and high returns. Personally, I think looking for quick and high returns is much like looking for white tigers. While they do exist, they are very rare. Be careless around them and they will turn around and shred you to bits. Just ask Sigfried and Roy about that.
Today, much of the universe is investing again in technology, especially all aspects of Social Networking for generation X and generation Y. To be totally transparent, Myrtle-Beach.com, has purchased a $700,000 social platform for the purpose of connecting Tourists, locals and businesses in all things Myrtle Beach.
If you love selling real estate, however, and you are making it a career craft, then you also need to be patient and develop lifelong relationships with Gen X and Gen Y. Gen X has now nested and Gen Y is just starting to nest. These mid twenties to early forty somethings see the world very differently from baby boomers. I take full credit for naming this generation Generation Internet or the Internet Generation. Mr. Obama leveraged their way of thinking right into the White House.
So, I would suggest you repattern your thinking to their do's and don'ts.
They don't:
Trust network news
Trust what a business says about itself in an advertisement
Read the newspaper
Follow social conventions (Everything is personal for them from their music, entertainment, etc)
Like Television
Prepare from scratch meals - (nor do they know how)
They DO
Love Technology (especially Ipods, Iphones, video games)
Think green (they blame boomers for destroying the planet they will inherent)
Love organic food (but they often can't afford it)
Have a sense of entitlement (these times may change that)
Trust reviews and friends opinions over advertisers or the news
LOVE SOCIAL NETWORKING (that is where they find out about you - not from you, but others)
Love the idea of community, but don't know how to do it in a non electronic way.
Crave honest, open, and transparent relationships
Want to build a dynamic future for yourself? Learn how and where to sell to these guys. These are today's investors and buyers. Let's track and follow them.
Myrtle Beach Real Estate Sales, based on my last blog and the comments it received are going to be very dependent on managing great search terms. Much of this has to do with internet knowledge and how your individual website is designed.
It appears the internet has created winners and losers. The question is "How to become a winner on the internet"? When it comes to search engines, the clear winner is google. It now represents over 60% of all internet searches.
For our area, the terms Myrtle Beach Real Estate, Myrtle Beach Foreclosures, and Myrtle Beach Real Estate sales are critical google search terms. With that said, there are two ingredients to being on this search term. Prior to 2006, if you had the web covered, you were good with google, but the Iphone changed all of that.
Now as many google map searches are done for a term as web searches, what with all the 3G phones like the Iphone and the Blackberry Storm. Get used to it, google maps searches will soon eclipse web searches for all time and eternity and we won't go back.
What does that mean? If you do Myrtle Beach Real Estate Sales, but your office is in Pawley's Island, you can never make a Myrtle Beach google map and stay there.
if you do have an office in Myrtle Beach that sells real estate, but your website is poorly designed and you have an over 35% bounce rate on that term, good luck, you won't stay on that map for long.
Here is what google is looking for:
RELEVANCY: How relevant is your website for the term that you want to rank on.
HOW THAT IS MEASURED: By how many people click on your site first over other choices on the google page and by how deep into your website that visitor goes. If a guest goes onto your site and then leaves immediately, that is a bounce and it will bounce you off of that term.
SITE INTEREST: How long someone stays on your site and how many pages they view.
HOW IS THAT MEASURED: Simply by page views and time on your site.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOU? This month google rolled out its new algorithym. New searches are now individualized based on what each IP user recently searched. For example: If you are always looking for plumbing parts and you enter the search term delta, you'll get DELTA Faucets. If however, you are always on Travel sites and you enter the term DELTA, you'll definitely get an airline company.
End Result: HAVING YOUR BUSINESS and WEBSITE ON A GOOGLE MAP IS NOW CRITICAL
You can see the term above on the map, if you click the hyperlink words above as probably B.
Myrtle-Beach.com offers help to local Real Estate Agents as they can purchase a placement on Page one of the Myrtle-Beach.com site with video feeds of properties, and as many links as they like. During tough times, every dollar counts and web presence is everything.
JD Redmon, Vice President of Sales at Myrtle-Beach.com is always available for those in the Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Surfside, Conway, Loris, Murrells Inlet, and Pawleys Island areas that want help getting exposure on a Myrtle Beach map term. His number is 843-241-0488 and he works every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Myrtle Beach Hotels on the Oceanfront and those around Broadway at the Beach are seeing a slow start to Summer rentals. With the economic reversals of Fall 2008, Myrtle Beach experienced a slow end to rentals in the period that ran from October through December as well.
"We have seen a soft beginning to 2008", said J Goldstein, manager of Coastal Golf Away. Coastal Golf Away is one of the premier golf vacation companies in the area that runs from Ocean Isle Beach to Pawleys Island. "We are hoping that consumer confidence will grow with the new administration in place."
"The misery index is real high right now", said Christina Taylor, a sales account executive for Myrtle Beach Hotels.
"We are waiting for March". stated Bruce Kligman, owner of Kligs Kites. "For our business, we really don't know the effects until the tourists either come and spend, come and don't spend, or don't come."
Many hotels in Myrtle Beach, SC are seeing reservations for Summer months booked at half of what was on the books at this same time in 2008. "People are just waiting longer this year to make reservations", said Bob Cline, owner of Cherry Grove Realty, a company that does sales and vacation rentals.
While the new administration is promising hope, Myrtle Beach vacation rentals and area hotels just aren't feeling it yet.
Myrtle Beach Real Estate sales have seen a small blip up according to the Sun News recent blog about Condo Lux.
Perhaps we are nearing the bottom of an economic decline or perhaps the bottom is just ahead. It does appear that consumers are worried in general and vacation spending will happen last minute this year, if at all.
What's your opinion? Has the economic recession moved beyond the real estate industry in your area?
Social Networks are going online now at a rate of over 10 per day.
Established networks like Active Rain, with a proven track record and purpose, have demonstrated a loyal following. Many new social networks, like Pownce, have already bit the dust.
We launched our Social Network a few weeks ago for Myrtle Beach, SC. Since that time we have witnessed several new sites being launched.
While universal passwords are coming to help, it is obvious that a few good national and local social networks will thrive and many other ill conceived concepts will bite the dust in this new shakeout.
What's your opinion? What is the future for Social Networking? Is it a good place to get your name viral?
Myrtle-Beach.com went social last week and already over 100 people have joined.
The Myrtle Beach area site is for locals, tourists, and businesses.
Members are rapidly joining social sites of all varities now as google just released google friends in beta.
The Myrtle Beach site rewards members for inviting visitors, posting videos, creating groups by giving them points that they can trade for discounts or freebies with local merchants.
The current business climate seems to be a productive one for social nest making.
No bambi call me pages, nudity, or non family oriented material is allowed on the site and it will skew towards older members.
With the advent of Social Networking through sites like Active Rain, Myspace, Youtube, Twitter, Trulia, and Myrtle-Beach.com, will the interconnections made on such sites be the end of traditional emailing.
Statistics indicate that there are over 400 million adults currently on Social Network sites. Each of these are writing on walls, leaving comments and connecting outside of email channels.
We recently put up our Social Network at Myrtle-Beach.com. It went live in beta on Friday night. We now have 43 initial members that are joining groups, putting up groups and beginning to connect.
Our intentions were to have tourists, locals, and Myrtle Beach businesses all connect here. We'll see how this experiment turns out.
From the early indications, it appears to me that my traditional email box is fuller now than it has ever been. In fact, my guess is networking on several sites will cause a greater flow of traditional emails, not less.
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? What has been your experience, if you now belong to more than one social network?
Ocean Resorts offers Myrtle Beach Resorts in Shore Drive and Ocean Drive.
Myrtle-Beach.com is a marketing company in Myrtle Beach, SC that works with over 20 area hotels and many different Myrtle Beach Real Estate professionals.
Our social networking sites help connect local businesses and realtors with over 1.25 million tourists.
Myrtle-Beach.com announced today that Plantation Resort has joined its advertising team.
Plantation Resort features rooms, efficiencies, one bedroom condos, two bedroom condos, villas, and penthouses.
If your group needs a great Myrtle Beach vacation and traditional Myrtle Beach Hotels just are not what you are looking for, we suggest you look into the many golf vacations and family vacations offered by Plantation Resort.
Wealth Redistribution and Bail outs. Obviously those of us who are in the Real Estate profession or in marketing the Real Estate profession are at the center of politics this Fall 2008.
Polls indicate that Senator Obama has a commanding lead.
Should he become President, how will his policies affect our industry? Will taxing small businesses and large corporations that make more than $250,000.00 in income help move the over supply that currently exists in our unsold product?
Are Bank Bailouts, Insurance Bail outs, and Bank takeovers by our government good for our industry?
I really would like your input here. I will be marketing Myrtle Beach Real Estate products for our local area in 2009 and I have more questions right now than answers.
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