personal promotion: Five Easy Personal Promotion Winners - 08/04/08 05:12 PM
After over 20 years in Cape Town real estate I am often asked by new abd not so new agents for some promotional ideas thgat are cheap easy and above all cost effective! These are my Top 5 favourites that any agent can easily manage and have fun with;
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personal promotion: vFlyer.com for Online Marketing of Your Listings - Real Estate Agent Success Strategies - 03/12/08 03:44 PM
Real Estate Agent Success Tip and Online Marketing Strategies series
Here's another great online marketing tool to consider for maximum exposure for your listings, lead generation and personal promotion - vFlyer.
vFlyer is an online service that enables you to create a quality eflyer / classified ad and post it to the leading classified websites. Prices start … (0 comments)
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personal promotion: Real Estate Agent Online Marketing Tips - RealEstateShows.com - 03/12/08 03:33 PM
Las Vegas Real Estate Career and Online Marketing & Promotion Strategies.
I am expanding on a previous post http://activerain.com/blogsview/415259/Marketing-Your-Listings-Online and highlighting some of the onlne services for your listings and personal promotion.
RealEstateShows.com is a wonderful, user-friendly and affordable solution for Virtual/Visual Tours for your listings.
You pay $125 per year and get unlimited tours … (1 comments)
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personal promotion: nwRealty Network Performance 12/18/07 thru 1/17/08 - 01/16/08 06:36 PM
Although the frequency of buyer leads remained the same as during the Thanksgiving - Chrismas holiday period, total exposure reflected the traditional New Year spike. This seasonal surge of activity usually lasts well into February.
Listing agents and brokers continue to benefit the most from our marketing system. Since December 18th 2007 we've delivered the … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington top performing real estate markets Dec 07 - Jan 08 - 01/12/08 01:48 PM
This report represents our mid-January update compared with numbers from our mid-December update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. These are the markets where we feature the most listings and rankings are impacted by where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate information.
Top Ten Washington Counties ...Buyer attention continues to returned to … (1 comments)
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personal promotion: nwRealty Network Performance 11/16 - 12/17 2007 - 12/17/07 03:13 PM
Leads and exposure dropped slightly due to the post-Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping diversions. We anticipate the seasonal spike to begin on 12/26 and last into early February.
Agents and brokers with listings continue to benefit the greatest from our system. Between November 15th and December 16th 2007, we've delivered the following benefits to our Network … (0 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington top performing real estate markets - 12/17/07 02:36 PM
This report represents our early December update compared with numbers from our late November update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. These are the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate information.
Top Ten Washington Counties ...Buyer attention continues to returned … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: I reached 65 Countries with ONE post on Active Rain - Impressive statistics don't you think? - 12/10/07 09:56 AM
No really, 65 Counties with one single post on Active Rain - Hows that for impressive statistics
Thank you Active Rain for this wonderful forum that allowed me to be featured...
Yes featured on the front page of Re/Max Mainstreet. That is the International Re/Max website that services over 116,000 agents in over 65 … (97 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington real estate top performing markets (Late-Nov 07) - 11/29/07 09:00 PM
I'm back on schedule for our bi-monthly market updates. This represents our November end of month update compared with numbers from our mid month update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State. It indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the most buyers are currently looking for on-line real estate … (4 comments)
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personal promotion: nwRealty Network Performance 10/18 - 11/15 2007 - 11/16/07 10:06 PM
We're again adding more Washington real estate broker and agent members to the nwRealty Network.
Agents and brokers with more listings continue to benefit the greatest from our system. Equitable numbers of exclusive leads are generation for true "Buyer's Agents". Between October 18th and November 15th 2007, we've delivered the following benefits to our Network Members ...
Lead Generation:On … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington real estate top performing featured listings markets (Nov 07) - 11/16/07 09:47 PM
I meant to update with this post about two weeks ago. This represent our November mid month update to previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State.
The lists below compares real estate activity from October 18th thru November 15th 2007. It indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also … (3 comments)
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personal promotion: Google Page Rank Finally Updated - What's your blog's PR? - 10/30/07 03:20 PM
After six months Google has finally released the update of its "Page Rank (PR)" data. This is but one factor used to determine your website's position in search engine results. Since starting this blog in July of this year I've monitored numerous indicators of direct value to our Washington real estate website. … (28 comments)
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personal promotion: Do You Have Your Elevator Speech Ready To Swing Into Action? - 10/30/07 12:50 PM
Real estate agents and as a matter of fact, all professions should have an elevator speech prepared and perfected, memorized and constantly being improved upon. It is an ongoing process. What is an elevator speech? It is your 10 to 30 second commercial that you give to anyone you meet anywhere … (101 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington real estate nwRealty top performing featured listings markets (Oct 07) - 10/29/07 03:44 PM
This is our end of month update to a previous posts regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State for our web site at www.nwrealty.com.
The lists below compares real estate activity for the months of September and October 2007. This indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the … (1 comments)
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personal promotion: I Love Referrals - 10/26/07 04:45 PM
Early on in my real estate career, I learned that if you do ot ask for the business, you will not get the business. Among my friends, my circle of influence, my past clients I am known as the I Love Referrals guy. I have gone through many thousands of the … (13 comments)
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personal promotion: Is it Crazy or is it Logical? - 10/16/07 09:43 AM
Would you believe me if I told you
The sky is falling..............
The world is flat..............
Football has an impact on my Real Estate market.
Its true... at least for me it is and I wonder if you'd agree.
For years now, when people asked me "When … (57 comments)
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personal promotion: nwRealty Network Performance 9/18 - 10/10 2007 - 10/10/07 06:44 PM
We're about to add more Washington real estate brokers and agents as new members to the nwRealty Network. Our statistics archive isn't programmed yet, so I'm using this blog to record how we're progressing.
Our system is working best for brokers and agents with at least one listing, but provides equitable lead generation for … (3 comments)
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personal promotion: Washington real estate top markets for featured listings (Sept 07) - 10/01/07 06:12 PM
This is our end of month update to a previous post regarding our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State for our web site at www.nwrealty.com.
After adding new Washington agents and brokers to our network, our number of feature real estate listings has increased to over 500 residential, condo and vacant land listings. … (6 comments)
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personal promotion: Chestnutsssssssssssssss Roastingggg on an open fire!!!!!!!!!!!! - 09/19/07 01:26 AM
..............Jack frost Nippin at yourrrrrrOh I am sorry... Let me put my professional hat back on :::clearin' throat:::With my suggestions for Thanksgiving complete.... Now on to my favorite holiday of all Christmas As an office we used to do a day of "Photos with Santa". We as agents would invite a handful … (87 comments)
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personal promotion: nwRealty - top markets for featured Washington real estate listings - 09/18/07 04:04 PM
We're adding new Washington agents and brokers to our network and increasing the number of feature real estate listings from about 300 to just over 500 listings. We're still in the beta testing stage and not yet storing results in our database. The list below represents real estate activity for the … (0 comments)
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personal promotion: Results from real estate web sites? - 09/18/07 12:01 PM
Linda Futral quoted an NAR report this morning that included - REALTORS® received "four inquires from their Web site accounting for about three percent of their business". This prompts me to ask "What results (value) are you realizing from your real estate web site?"Does your site account for more or less than … (16 comments)
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personal promotion: Encourage your associates to author profiles - 09/14/07 05:39 PM
As a matter of routine, I compose a press release for every new member of our real estate network. Just like blogging, this takes time and discipline.
If you recall, the standard format for a press release include sections about the respective parties in the announcement. I was quite frustrated that I … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: Google Webmaster Tools (Part 2) - 08/07/07 12:41 PM
In a previous postI introduced Google's free Webmaster Tools, leaving off with the report of the current top 20 placements for search queries driving traffic to http://www.nwrealty.com/. (Before going further I need to disclose that these were only the top 20 of over 13,000 keywords and most of the top 20 were … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: Anyone benefiting from IRED? - 08/07/07 12:02 PM
For many years we have considered advertising on IRED.com an investment well worth the $25 annual fee but for the past few months I cannot detect any SEO/back-link benefit. Logs indicate that we do receive a handful of visitors every month, but our motivation is SEO.I've dug around quite a bit … (2 comments)
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personal promotion: leads posted to AR Referral Exchange - 08/06/07 12:20 PM
I just conducted a quick inventory of leads in Activrain's Referral Exchange. This morning there are 120 leads in the system. 33 of them originated from our site at http://www.nwrealty.com/ (end of shameless self promotion). Most of the leads identify an "Immediate" time frame but are several days old. I don't know about … (6 comments)
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personal promotion: Framed Websites - 08/06/07 12:03 PM
Quite commonly I come across websites where an agent has framed his/her domain to their sub-domain/pseudo domain on their company site. Example ... http://www.mydomainname.com/ framing http://myname.companyname.com. This is a very economical method of using your domain name in your personal promotion but it kills any opportunity for you to receive free … (3 comments)
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personal promotion: Cheryl P - A Good Recruit - 07/30/07 02:06 PM
Last Friday I received a phone call from Cheryl asking permission to fax a notice for her broker's open house. She has a pleasant voice and conveyed a warm personality over the phone. This common courtesy occurs all too rarely and broker open notices usually clutter my machine along with all the other … (1 comments)
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personal promotion: PPC Bargain Shopping - 07/24/07 11:42 AM
If a web site is part of your personal promotion, sooner or later you should plan a monthly budget for Google "Pay-Per-Click" advertising (aka Google Adwords or PPC). When that day comes you will face decisions of how much you're willing to spend to acquire one visitor.In Seattle Metro areas like Bellevue, Tacoma, … (4 comments)
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personal promotion: The Zen of Realty (& Reality) - 07/20/07 03:29 PM
First, let me express thanks to AR bloggers and readers that have commented on my posts and especially those that have picked up the phone to give me a call. You've influenced me to pause and meditate on what I've observed in both the virtual and real worlds.OK, here we go....I … (1 comments)
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personal promotion: Okay so I needed a tan, and sitting poolside didn't cut it ..... - 07/14/07 11:21 AM
So I got Bronzed!!!!!!All kidding aside... 50,000 + points and a different prospective on Real Estate. I've been in this industry and a member of an office that exceeds 100 agents. Do you realize the mentality of the average agent? Its "shhhhhhhhh don't tell others what you're doing", because everyone thinks … (27 comments)
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personal promotion: In pursuit of a better mouse trap ... - 07/13/07 05:14 PM
We're a licensed brokerage, a NWMLS member and NAR member that provide internet advertising and online personal promotion services to other licensees in Washington State. So, to avoid any conflict of interest with our customers we don't engage in real estate services to the public.An ongoing task is development of online … (0 comments)
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personal promotion: Client leads in Washington State - 07/11/07 08:02 PM
We need network members for the lesser populated areas of Washington State. So far today our site at www.nwrealty.com has received inquiries from 3 Buyers and 1 Seller ...2 Buyers in the Lake Roosevelt region (Ferry, Stevens, Grant Counties) ... still available1 Buyer in Kent (Metro Seattle area) ... already assigned1 Seller … (0 comments)
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personal promotion: Branding from your email address - 07/06/07 07:28 PM
Consumers can tell a lot about you just from your email address ...The absolute best address you can use is yourname@yourdomain.com. This tells clients and prospects that you've invested resources into your business to keep you at the forfront of your industry. It also tells them where to find your website and more … (12 comments)
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personal promotion: This just Made my day!!! .... with that a Smile! - 07/05/07 04:09 PM
When I am having a bad day... I often think "why do I do what I do"... Well today is one of those days. The weather is lousy and I gave my entire team off for the holiday (what was I thinking) and I am sitting here pluggin' away, pulling my hair … (83 comments)
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personal promotion: Aint I Just A Hansome Lad! - 07/02/07 10:55 PM
Rather - "Wasn't I handsome?"Time to take a dose of my own medicine. My profile photo is at least ten years old and while I have definitely aged well, I don't look like that guy anymore. It is a very common occurrence that I have to (gently) point out to my customers "this … (4 comments)
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personal promotion: What's activerain done for you? How has it helped? - 07/02/07 10:16 PM
I've seen these questions frequently while browsing activerain and the answer is obvious!The process of creating your profile is a fundamental requirement of personal promotion that most agents shy away from as if it smells like day old fish. Not a week goes by that I ask an agent "What are … (6 comments)
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