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Real Estate in the near future

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:20:35 -0500

The effect of the Internet is modeling the structure of the real estate industry according to different sources most of the future buyers are starting their search for homes in the Internet.

Some sellers are reluctant to pay the fee that companies like REMAX, Century 21, and Coldwell Banker are asking on the other hand these titans of real estate tend to be slow into changes.

The FSBO solution also has difficulties despite the flourishing of web pages that allow them to expose their homes in a similar way that the MLS does for realtors. Since they need advice on the price and some regulations could tie their house in a bad contract for months.

In the opinion of some authors the solution will be an intermediate solution, since it will be necessary to address the requirement of the internet that implies the need to offer the customer the possibility of "visit" the house remotely using his/her own computer from the convenience of their house. The importance of virtual tours is growing on the tools needed by today's real estate providers. Not only allows customers to visit the house from the convenience of their own computer, but it helps sellers to think that the realtor that is providing this service is the one that could provide him the service he expects.

On the other hand having a virtual tour does not mean that the real estate work is done, since the Internet customer is expecting a very fast response to their quest, and not all the customers that come to your webpage are ready to buy. Around 95 % are just looking for the correct price and will not be buying in the next 3 to 12 months.

Therefore the realtor has to be prepared to give this prospects drip information to transform them into customers.

If you have any need in your marketing in the areas of Miami Beach, Miami Dade and Broward Counties please contact Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or through the Internet at http://www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:24:13 -0500

Sometimes you feel that you have reached a plateau and could not achieve better results? You're not alone, many people sabotage their own success, many people question themselves: "Why can't I be more successful? Why do I stop myself?"

Success and stress is not the same thing. Even though in order to be successful you need to work hard that does not mean you have to burn yourself out. In reality you need to reprogram yur own belief and learn to worker smarter.

In our life training we are trained to fit and not bring too much attention to ourselves instead of being trained to be successful. Frequently when you were feeling really great about yourself you heard someone tell you: "Who do you think you are? This repeated pattern of verbal punishment made many of us assumed that thinking too great about ourselves will bring someone to bring us down.

To be successful you need a certain level of self-confidence. To be happy you need to feel good about yourself. So if you feel unworthy, you should start using the following list of beliefs recommended by Dr. Maya Bailey¹:

I am more than worthy of prosperity
I am highly deserving of an abundance of all good
It is now okay for me to feel good about myself
I give myself permission to feel pride in the work that I do
As I share my expertise I am worthy of being amply rewarded

She recommends practicing these Empowered Beliefs frequently to raise your level of self esteem.

Of course you will need to leave the comfort zone if you ever want to become successful. Life requires for you to get risks. You can stay put and you will never be able to fulfill your potential, and you will stay at a low financial level, and never reaching a dream.

You are struggling between your desire to achieve more or just settle down for what you have. You need to break through and go for the best of yourself fight to obtain some time for self care, and self maintenance. You need to realize that by continuing doing what you have done until now "your comfort zone" is only keeping you from achieving your full potential

You need to rethink your strategies and create a plan that will allow you to differentiate yourself from the competition. This will require a higher presence in the Internet since right now 87% of the future buyers start their search on the Internet. Create a good follow up system that will allow you to respond as soon as possible to any request. Maintain drip information, since most of the possible prospects that contact you through the Internet are just seeking information and will not take an action until 3 to 12 months.

What about enticing sellers and customer by using virtual tours as part of the package you normally offer to your customers. Remember the realtor that has the greatest chance to sell is the one that has the listing.

Start thinking why it is unsafe to grow or expand? You need to balance your life.

Or simply relax, be healthy, and positive while creating the highest financial outcome possible with the least amount of stress.

If you decide to use virtual tours in Miami Dade, or Broward Counties or in the Miami beach area remember that Virtual Florida Tours is your local provider of Real Tour Vision and you can contact us at (305) 331 8960 or through the Internet at http://www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Dr. Maya Bailey; "Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success?" retrieved from: Broker Agent News April 23, 2008 at http://www.brokeragentnews.com/news/residential/2008_4/4_22_2008_qh_1208924031.html

Your Most Powerful Tool

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:10:49 -0500

As a professional you do not have any tool more powerful that your mind. You need to think with clarity before acting, by doing this you will move upward and onward more rapidly in your career.

The best way is to think in your benefits as well as the benefits of the company of which you are part. To achieve this in a personal term is to increase your earning ability. In other words you need to apply the needed mental, emotional and physical energies toward getting the needed results for yourself and your company.

You should try to increase your overall effectiveness and contribution in all the areas of your life, especially and most important in your work.

Increase everything that you are doing that yield the maximum financial return. Also think in those activities that give you the greatest value and achieve the most satisfaction and increase them as much as possible.

As a realtor what are you doing to differentiate yourself from other professionals and make yourself more marketable. Are you using the Intenet in a valuable way? Are you giving the seller/buyer a service that other professionals in your area are not providing?

Have your company stablished a plan of action that separates your's from other companies offering similar services? Do you offfer virtual tours that will allow possible buyers from other states or countries to "visit " your listing without the need of personally coming to see it? Do you have a stablished folow up plan that will allow you to give drip information to possible clients?

Rememeber you can always count on your virtual tour provider for advice in how to make your listings more effectively presented to your prospects. If you have any virtual tour need in Miami Beac, Miami Dade or Broward Counties? Please call Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or contact us through the Internet at http:www.virtualfloridarealtours.com and remember that we strive for excellence.

Reference: Tracy, Brian; "Strategic Thinking", Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for Sept. 19, 2007

Steps to Become a Solid Real Estate Agent

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:59:07 -0500

The first thing that a realtor needs to address is what will his niche will be, beachfront homes, condominiums or any other market in which to become the ultimate specialist.

After that you should set your goals: implement individual strategies and programs support the plan and by reaching its marketing objectives achieve her/his goals.

Then you need to address the organization of your work, you need to know what the market wants, what is needed, and how what you are providing will affect the outcome. What do you have that makes people buy from you instead of your competitors? What do you do better than others? What do you fall down at doing?

A question that comes to mind is how the advertisement return on investment is. Are you getting back what you expect from it? Is there a way to measure what is coming from this advertisement?

In today's market buyers are reportedly starting their searches in the Internet so what are you doing to capture this market? What are you doing to convince these sellers that if they do business with you they have better possibilities of selling their homes at the highest price? Are you going to settle for local buyers or would you like to increase your possibilities? If you want to address the International or out of the State market do you think they could come to visit houses as your local clients might do?

The only way to address the needs of the new expanding market is through a well ranked web page and intensive use of virtual tours that will allow your client to select their house with the least amount of inconvenience. On the other hand you will be saving money if you compare your costs of placing advertisements in news papers or magazines that could reach the same number of clients during a whole year?

Constantly hammer your future clients with adds that emphasize how you are special...you are the (what?) realtor

You need to device good tactics, by discovering those things that you can do that your competitor can't. That will be your guerrilla tactic. Once you spot your potential guerrilla marketing tactics you will be able to corner your share of the market.

Evaluation of the outcome generally involves three parts...Definition of the Standards - Measurement of the Performance against the standards, and Correcting any Deviations. In other words Return On Investments (ROI).

Once you do this come the feedback If the ROI is what you expected continue the good work, if it is less What has to be done in order to achieve the Goals.

Remember whenever you need a virtual tour in Miami Beach, Miami Dade or Broward Counties Virtual Florida Tours is your local provider of Real Tour Vision, you can contact us at (305) 331 8960 or through the Internet at http:www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Reference: Koelzer, Bill; "Ten Steps to a Solid Realtor®, Team, or Office Marketing Plan"Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for August 1, 2007

A little insight into the economy

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:56:43 -0500

I was just reading an article by Hanley Wood and I felt a little exerpt of it was more than enough to grasp an idea of what we are facing in these times.

Remember that virtual tours can save you money in marketing and gas since you will show the house from the convinience of your office and also will show home that your client already liked.

In March the housing permits decline and the NAHB Housing Market Index (HMI) tied its lowest reading ever recorded in the index's 22-year history.

As you all know the DOW is plummeting, but Leading economic indicators posted slight gains suggesting that the worst of the economic downturn may be behind us.

Price data in May also showed slight signs of rising inflationary pressure with increases in both consumer and producer prices.

National average mortgage rates increased. This is the fourth straight week that rates have increased and the highest rates have been since September 2007.

New homes sales has increased but the market at this pace will require several months to catch up with the availability of new homes, also the amount of homes in the market has increased requiring almost a year of sales at the current pace to level the market.

So resuming the market continues tough, but sales are coming back a little. Not as bad as last report specially for those that are working in Miami since it was even better in Miami last month.

If you want more detailed information on this topic please read Housing Market Key Indicator Alert 6/29/08,By: Hanley Wood at: http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1404In

Dealing with online leads

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:25:46 -0500

You should always respond the possible client using the same method used by them, only call the prospect if they explicitly ask you to call or they offered their phone voluntarily (not a required field of information) and it comes from your website.

One easy way to attract buyers and sellers to your Web Page is the insertion of virtual tours.

Respond to online leads as soon as possible, Internet prospects expect immediate answers from their providers.

You need to stay in touch since 19 out of 20 Internet leads are in the information gathering stage and will only take action after 3 to 18 months, so be prepared to use drip marketing with them.

Never forget that behind the Internet is a human being so work on your best practices and get the business.

If you want more information on this topic you might read "Online Communications - Best Practices" By: Michael Russer at : http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1407

If you have any virtual tour need in Miami Dade or Southern Broward Counties, please do not forget to contact Virtual Florida Tours at http://www.virtualfloridarealtours.com, or call us at 305 331 8960

Joining rss huger

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:30:55 -0500

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Real Estate Marketing

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:30:52 -0500

Some realtors keep telling their clients that allowing everyone to be romping through their daily lives is definitely inconvenient, but it is unfortunately part of selling a home.

This is not exactly real since this can be reduced to the minimum necessary by using a Virtual Tour and a Web Page attached to your home address. Then future buyers can see the home from their cell phones or their homes after just using the address of your home to see the listing, and only those buyers really in love with the house will come by to see your home.

On the other hand by doing this the realtor will not only be giving the customer the service they deserve, but it will be showing future customers that he/she is willing to go the extra mile to get their homes sold.

There is an important recommendation whenever a possible client comes to see your home he needs to dream about making it his home so it is important that you reduce the amount of family photos to a minimum, never be present and if possible put your pets on the backyard or carry them with you.

In our days there is not always the need for the buyer to visit the house until he already decides that is the house he wants, therefore the use of virtual tours becomes a very important tool in helping all the parts involved to have a more pleasant transaction.

In summary, you want as many people looking at your listing as possible and the showing experience to be as comfortable for the Buyers as possible. So, using virtual tours makes the showing access as easy as possible and keep distractions (like animals, messiness, & even the Sellers presence) to a minimum.

If you have any needs of marketing a property using virtual tours or need a web page for your listing to show of do not hesitate to contact Virtual Florida Tours at www.virtualfloridaraltours.com or call us on the phone at 305 331 8960.

Reference: Kimbrough, Gray; "Making your Listing More Accessible and Creating a Pleasant Showing Experience" Retrieved from Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for August 26, 2007

marketing and Prospecting Real Estate

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:38:47 -0500

For a real estate professional lead generation is imperative. Lead generation happens as a result of two primary activities -- marketing and prospecting.

Since this two terms tend to be confusing I will like to use a quote from Michialidis "I like to think of the difference between marketing and prospecting as the difference between "harvesting" and "hunting." Marketing is like "planting seeds of information" in the marketplace that eventually grow into a rich harvest of clients and customers. Prospecting is like going out and hunting for individual clients and customers one at a time."

For any of this activities to be successful it must use the right message, target the right prospects and most be regular and frequent. When most of the buyers are using the Internet as their initial source of information to look for their new home, it is obvious that any marketing strategy that does not include the use of the Internet is prone to failure.

An easy way to increase your participation on the Internet is to do virtual tours to yuor listings, and provide a web page to the listing. This is an excellent method to obtain prospects that can not only visit the home from the comfort of their cell phone, but will see that you are a realtor that is willing to go the extra step to provide the needs of your customer. If you need help you can contact Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960

If you want to become successful in this market you need to address both marketing and prospecting asa a part of your lead generation arsenal at all times and you should rarely rely on either of them for 100% of your lead generation.

Reference: Michialidis, John A.; The Truth About Prospecting, Marketing and Real Estate Lead Generation. Retrieved from the Internet at:http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1383

Managing your time during the Summer

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:56:11 -0500

This summer we have a tough market and our kids vacationing. This situation requires a better planning of our calendar. As independent contractors you can decide when you are going to invest more time on your business and by using the Internet we can obtain some time for our family.

If we order virtual tours of our listings we can save time and gas since that way we can show the buyers the listings without investing the time required to show all the properties physically. We can also set a Web page with the address of the house and that will allow the persons that pass by and have Internet capabilities in their phones can see the home immediately without the need of asking for a visit.

You need to prioritize the activities that need to be accomplished on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to keep your business running. Ask around with your coworkers to try to program activities in which all the group can participate with the youngsters and create group activities in which all the parents not need to be present.

Remember all the members of the family can share household responsibilities. This is an excellent way to keep kids occupied.

Try to put your business to run before the sleepy heads wake up. Remember that your cell phone, computer and office manager can help you be in the office without being there.

Reference: Julia Escobar, Managing Your Time & Making a Difference, Broker Agent Pro retrieved from the Internet at http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1385

Customer satisfaction

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:44:11 -0500

Recently one of our customers send us this message that I will like to share with all of you since it reflects the motto of Virtual Florida Tours Always Striving for Excellence!

Here is what Ron says:

Dear Gabriel: It is not often that I have the opportunity to compliment someone for a job well done. Unfortunately I have found that promises regarding work are seldom kept; not only did you deliver as promised you went beyond what was promised to accommodate me. People who have viewed the tour have told me the house shows beautifully and how professionally the tour was done. Thank you and if anyone wants to call me I will be happy to tell them my experience.

Ronald J.Trazenfeld
For Sale By Owner
Owner
305 251 6302

If you will like to order a tour please do not hesitate to contact us at 305 332 8960

Gabriel Duque

Virtual Florida Tours

President

www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Web address as an advertising tool

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:47:28 -0500

Virtual Florida Tours recently introduced a new tool for for sale by owners. now our clients may add a web page to their tour. This new feature is included in their package at no extra cost! you might see Ron Trazenfeld home at http://www.7267sw146stcircle.com This is a fabulous house professionally decorated, that is place on a Prime Lot.

I will recommend to birng your customers since they will be your best referals.

If you want to make your own tour do not hesitate to call at 305 331 8960

Customer expectations. What you need to catch them?

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:37:34 -0500

At Virtual Florida Tours we always strive for excellence. So when we find an article that could help our realtors imporiove the quality of their marketiung we always share it with them.

We recently read Sandy Geroux's article in broker agent news titled "Put Yourself in Your Customer's Shoes " Retrieved from: http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1286 where she states that marketing materials should be a creative, exciting information that would make you jump out of your chair and say, "Wow! I need to hire this person!" (or at least, read on) if you were a prospective customer?

She recommends to:

Create an exciting headline: What is your customer's biggest problem? How do you express it in a quick, exciting way, in order to capture their attention and get them to read further?
Be short and sweet. Adding too much text intimidates people into not wanting to read them.
Use your sense of humor and wit. People want to read items that are funny and clever. If you add a quip or clever quote, a cartoon or funny line, people are more likely to read the rest of the piece... and as an added bonus, they'll remember you and look forward to future items
Be creative! Don't lose your creativity just because you're "designing a marketing piece." Let your fun and creativity come through. Be sure to look different from everyone else. Get creative with your marketing materials! Think about what you'd like to see and read as a potential customer, then apply those principles to your marketing materials.

If you apply these simple iodeas to your advertising you will see the results.

Remmeber that at least 87% of the customers are looking for their homes in the Internet and virtual tours are an excellent way to make your listing show up.

Also which realtor you will hire the one that will do the most for sell your house or the one that will the same as all the others.

If you ant your listings to stand up remember virtual tours are just a phone call away. Call Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960.

Your business stratgies

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:30:14 -0500

I recently read an article from Julia Escobar Out With the Old, in With the New! Broker agent news Updated for December 19, 2007.

She recommends to take a look at your professional and personal habits, and determine what you can do differently in the next future that will bring you more balance and prosperity.

Business:

•a.       You must write a business plan.

•b.       Set a daily, weekly and monthly goal charts.

•c.       Set obtainable goals that allow you to stretch your abilities and talents.

•d.       Set a specific time to prospect DAILY to ensure a constant stream of new business.

•e.       Invest at least 10 to 15 percent of your annual income to market yourself and your business.

•f.        Have an exit strategy that will allow you to retire with a salable book of business, or are you just winging it each year.

•g.       Reach the VIPs in your sphere of influence each and every month to ensure a healthy referral base.

•h.       Work high-priority activities to keep you close to your revenue line and away from the company water cooler.

•i.        Segment your marketing to become the go-to agent for niche markets that will help you dramatically grow your SOI, make new friends and upscale your business.

•j.        Put systems in place to automate as much of your marketing as possible, so that you can focus on prospecting, presenting and closing.

If you are not doing all of the above you are short-changing your career and yourself. Take some time this month to put these business musts in place so that you can truly work smarter, not harder.

Personal:

•a.       What are you doing for you?

•b.       Make exercise part of your daily/weekly routine.

•c.       Take the time each day to count your blessings and celebrate victories, both small and large.

•d.       Nurture your own self-esteem and self-worth? It's OK to be your own biggest fan!

•e.       Surround yourself with positive people, inspiration and influences that promote personal growth.

•f.        You should be in a continuous quest to learn more and be more than you ever thought possible.

Yours is the face you will see in the mirror for all of your days; embrace who you are, what you do and where you are going. Accept your quirks, differences and flaws, and ditch the self-defeating or self-sabotaging habits that can land you in a rut. Believe you really do have the power to make a difference-in your life and in the lives of those you care about.

Who are your heroes? " When it comes to choosing heroes-those we look up to, emulate and pattern our lives after-choosing wisely is essential.

Marketing your lisitng

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:51:59 -0500

Before we started our business we researched the different software providers and tool systems. We invested a big amount of time and money and at the end we have found that the best combination to produce a high quality 360° virtual tour was the one obtained using Real Tour Vision technology.

Whenever you have a home for sale there is not any other advertising tool that could surpass the 360° virtual tour. The 360° virtual tour highlights all those features that make your listing special.

Virtual Florida Tours provides the realtor of Miami Dade and Broward counties with a listing tool that offers for a full year an open house 24/7. The tour can include sound and descriptive text . It can be personalized in many ways to reflect the agency as well as the property.

The buyers can visualize all the parts of the home, the neighborhood, the yard, the layout of the home as well as the price from the convenience of their homes; allowing the buyer to make a more intelligent decision as to which of the properties available meet their needs and their price range.

Agents could show the prospective customers from inside the real state office, a 360° virtual tour providing the customer to tour the homes. This promotes more "in-house" sales. Given the raising prices of gas this could help reduce the traveling. The realtor will save driving fewer miles showing homes they know in advance that the prospective buyer likes.

It is also a powerful marketing tool since those agents who offer a virtual tour to his/her client are caring agents that show that they are willing to go the extra mile to get the best exposure possible for their client's home. This makes the 360° virtual tour a powerful listing tool.

How to market your business?

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:22:07 -0500

While I was reading an article from Brian Rodgers at Broker Agent News http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1148 I decided to share with you a little exerpt.

As virtual tour providers you should not be chasing your prospects around trying to catch them like they are wild animals will not help to build your credibility. You will earn much more business by educating your customers over a period of time than by trying to get them give you their business the first time you talk with them.

Your agents either want to purchase the best virtual tours for their marketing needs. They want to sell their listing for the best price, as soon as possible while spending the least possible amount of money.

List out all the benefits your services give your customers. Give your agents a list of all the ways you can help them to accomplish their goal in the quickest time possible. Let them know exactly why they should work with you instead of doing it themselves or working with any other company.

Once you have spoken with an agent, make sure you are following up with them on a regular basis. Make timely follow up calls. Make sure every possible client you come in contact with is on your regular follow up system, in addition to some type of drip email follow up system. This is the most important part of the marketing process and the one we make the most effort to keep at Virtual Florida Tours

The Importance of blogging

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:06:50 -0500

Until know we were calling for new customers to no avail? Our marketing was getting very little response? So undoubtedly we were not using the right media to reach our customers.

Now some of our customers are asking how we were able to put together such an informative and complete webpage. And I always tell them that it was possible thanks to the help of our participation of the best virtual tour provider Real Tour Vision that is helping us all of the way to increase our business.

At last we think we have found the message & media combination that gets heard and gets results.

Just in the last week we got three new customers either from company referrals or because they found our webpage on the Internet for one of them we made a tour we called a Jewel by the sea that I really want to share with you http://www.realtourvision.com/tour/RE/tour.view.new.php?utl=RE-6664-HUSIL0-01

This is one of those places that makes Miami a place to live, not only it contains all those amenities that will allow you to release the stress of work but it is near to the biggest shopping center at Bal Harbour, and you just have to step down from your condominium and will be in one of the best beaches that Miami can offer.

Use of the internet in marketing

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:10:21 -0500

I was recently reading a success story about a Re/Max realtor that had a very rewarding outcome during 2007. She Increased Her Personal Income by $200,000 in 2007 by Harnessing the Internet.

She embraced virtual tours and sold one of the first homes sold from one. She has had her own website since1999 and she has been a Realtor® since1974 but didn't really start working full time as one until 1996."

The appropriate use of the Internet allows her to obtain her success.

Reference:

Michael Parker, Broker Agent News April 23, 2008 http://www.brokeragentnews.com/news/residential/2008_4/4_22_2008_hc_1208924101.html

If you want more informatin on how to succeed please contact us at www.virtualfloridarealtours.com

Empowering yourself a review

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:49:17 -0500

I was reading the Broker Agent News recently and found a very interesting quote by Tom Hopkins "I MUST DO THE MOST PRODUCTIVE THING POSSIBLE AT EVERY GIVEN MOMENT¹".

If you want to start multiplying your business you most almost always do what you think is the most productive thing possible at every given moment. The difference between being successful and being a failure is almost as simple and small as that. These differences keep adding to each other at every given moment until they reach a critical size. Then they start multiplying.

On the other hand according to Dr. Maya Bailey you need a healthy level of self-confidence to be successful. She recommends that beliefs that make you feel unworthy should be replaced by empowered beliefs, such as:

I am more than worthy of prosperity
I am highly deserving of an abundance of all good
It is now okay for me to feel good about myself
I give myself permission to feel pride in the work that I do
As I share my expertise I am worthy of being amply rewarded
It is now safe for me to grow and expand
I'm committed to creating success in a balanced way
"In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, I create total financial success, for the highest good of all".

Practice these Empowered Beliefs frequently to raise your level of deservingness².

References:

•1. Tom Hopkins, Living by the Golden Dozen, Broker Agent News April 23, 2008 downloaded from http://www.brokeragentnews.com/news/residential/2008_4/4_22_2008_ia_1208923944.html

•2. Dr. Maya Bailey, Broker Agent News April 23, 2008 downloaded from:http://www.brokeragentnews.com/news/residential/2008_4/4_22_2008_qh_1208924031.html

Advertising a House

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:45:55 -0500

Dear Gabriel

You did it again! When I called Virtual Florida Tours this time, I was a little concerned. This is a small house, in a wonderful location but does not photograph well, I had taken the initial photos for the MLX and were a little frustrated. For that reason, I had second thoughts about a virtual tour, but trying to give maximum exposure to all my listings I called you. You came thru with flying colors www.realtourvision.com/tour/RE/tour.view.new.php?utl=RE-1007-OJXNME-01 . The virtual tour that you produced is great and the owners are very impressed by the fact that, in their price range, their home is the only one that has a virtual tour with music background. In our real estate business, we realtors have to take care of so many details, that knowing and trusting our photographer/virtual tour person, free our minds to cover other parts of marketing. Thanks again for meeting me on a week end.

Zizi Careaga, CRS Coldwell Banker Residential

A masterpiece at Pinecrest

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:54:17 -0600

Dear Friends,

Recently I was asked todo a virtual tour of a property at Pinecrest and I really think this beauty deserves to be seen http://www.realtourvision.com/tour/RE/tour.view.new.php?utl=RE-3970-S1JWGO-01

My customer asked me to do a postlet on the property and have found this is an easy way to make give a better service. You can see the postlet at:<iframe style="width:385px; height:510px; "src="http://www.postlets.com/realestate/mini_385.php?pid=505408" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"></iframe>

The importance of blogging for SEO

Gabriel Duque (Virtual Florida Tours) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:18:46 -0600

One of the tasks that our company does systematically is the review of multiple real statre articles and we try to give our customers a summary of the most important issues we find in our blog.

Blogging is a useful thing in SEO, but most users fail for the most elemental of reasons: Most people fall back into a pattern where they start failing to keep it posted frequently, which actually gets the user penalized by the search engines, because the content is not kept fresh. If you want a blog and you are not willing to invest the time required for this task, there is a company named Real Estate Blog Sites. They will run it for you and keep it current for under $100 a month.

Reference

What Every Agent Needs to Know about Blogging, Social Networking, RSS Feeds and SEO
by Michael Parker Broker Agent News Feb 23 2008