promote: 5 Tips for Selling in a Market Full of Foreclosures - 07/17/08 03:43 PM
Foreclosures are on the rise buyers know it. This increased awareness prompts buyers to push more aggressively for lower prices on properties. It's a buyer's market right now, and thus is very price-sensitive. Those sellers who are not in foreclosure need their home to compete with the foreclosures in order to
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promote: Realtor John Harper Keynote Speaking Strategy: Become An Expert And Go To Source For Your Community - 06/27/08 11:14 AM
John Harper of theharperteam in Danville, California is the best example, template, for Realtors who understand the value of marketing yourself through public speaking. John is an expert, and I don’t use that term very often, in online networking aka social networking. Even more critical to his efforts is the
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promote: ONE WORD - To Promote YOURSELF - 06/26/08 04:29 PM
Hello All in A.R. here's your opportunity to promote yourself via my blog here and now on A.R.
One Word is the catch.
Using only ONE Word to describe you, promote you.
When people think of you what's the ONE word you hope they think 1st, or the ONE word someone uses
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promote: Add Value To Your Community: Become An Expert Tip #1 - 06/06/08 05:30 PM
One of the easiest and most fulfilling methods to add value to your community, create goodwill amongst consumers, network into the business community as well as consumers, and position yourself as an expert in your field is to provide free Workshop-Keynote presentations. One of the most under utilized, content rich, environments
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promote: Realtor's Tip To Client: San Francisco City Guides Provides Neighborhood Knowledge and History - 05/26/08 03:25 PM
One of the most intriguing, history infused, hands on methods of getting to know a San Francisco neighborhood is offered by San Francisco City Guides. The service is sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library and it is free.
The mission statement of SFCG:
“City Guides volunteers are serious about
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promote: “Why Being First In Google Will Really Help Grow Your Real Estate Business”: Cornell Study Latest Blast To Realtor Community - 05/26/08 02:52 PM
One of the must read blogs in the blogosphere, therealestatebloggers.com, outlined a 2006 Cornell University study that is a call to arms for real estate brokers and agents yet to adopt blogging as a marketing tool.
In the article “Why Being First in Google Will Really Help Grow Your Real
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promote: Ann Tardy of Lifemoxie.com: How To Relentlessly Self Promote Your Business Without Alienating Your Audience - 05/23/08 12:54 AM
This past January I attended the San Francisco chapter of the Women in Consulting networking group in order to experience consultant Ann Tardy’s “Driving Revenue in 2008 with Asking + Relentless Self-Promotion.” Ann is the force behind www.lifemoxie.com.
Simply put Ann Tardy’s presentation was most valuable instructional 60 min workshop
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promote: Words that Sell and Words that Don't - 05/12/08 11:37 AM
Extremedirectmarketing.com recently did a study on direct marketing that the results of using certain words in your advertisements. Their results were very surprising and I thought were worth sharing with everyone. Even though the results were based on Canadian homes, I am sure some elements would relate to the US market.
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promote: (Somewhat) Advanced Blogging Publicity Tactics - 05/05/08 09:59 AM
For a couple of posts now, I have been talking about some various ways to not only publicize your blog into the blogging world (a.k.a the “blogosphere”). Now I thought it would be good to give you some more advanced strategies to help promote your blog that a lot of people
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promote: Simple Way to Promote Your Blog and Lure in Others - 05/01/08 10:58 AM
Throughout this little mini-series on the Blog portion of my Realtor Web Marketing installments (can be found on my personal blog), you have learned not only how to set up your blog, but also the things you can (and should) do to help get your sites noticed by both the search
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promote: Realtor Web Marketing: (Virtually) Unlimited Ideas to Blog About - 04/28/08 03:18 PM
In the first installment of this series, we talked about setting up your blog. The last installment talked about things you need to consider when adding content to your blog. Now comes the all-important question that most bloggers encounter: What the heck am I supposed to blog about?! Granted, you should
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promote: Realtor Web Marketing - Start to Amplify the Power of Your Blog - 04/25/08 03:51 PM
In my first installment of web marketing with blogs, I discussed the various things you need to consider when choosing a blogging platform and where to set it up. Now that your blog is set up, we can move on to the next steps… Step 3: Use Effective Title’s In the
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promote: Realtor Web Marketing - Starting With A Blog - 04/24/08 10:28 AM
As I was pondering how to start this ongoing series to help realtors market themselves online, I thought to myself, What better way to start this Web Marketing series than to discuss how realtors and agents can market themselves without having their own website? The solution: create a website out of
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promote: Realtor Web Marketing: Debuting My Ongoing Series - 04/23/08 01:52 PM
I thought I would start an ongoing series of web marketing tips and tactics that I have been using for the past couple of years (and continue to use) to help promote my websites. While it would be way too overwhelming to put every single tip in one post, I
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promote: Great Freebie! - 04/21/08 03:14 AM
OMGOMGOMG!!!! Everybody needs to ck out postlets.com!!! It's so EZ to use and automatically syndicates my listings on Google Base, Oodle/backpage, Zillow, Vast, Kijiji, HotPads, Trulia, Others PLUS gives really easy access & code to post on Craigslist! Not only that, but it gives short easy code to post the listings
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promote: Realtors need to respond to the Media's negitivity - 02/03/08 07:49 AM
As Realtors it is time to take action and battle the negitivity by the media. It is damaging our market, our credibility as professionals and our pocketbooks! This current market is a market of opportunity... for Buyers and Investors. The borrowing rates are adjusting downward and are still at some of the lowest
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promote: Help! Why Can't I do this? - 01/10/08 11:20 AM
Branding my web-site, I find, is quite the challenge. The average consumer knows sites like www.realtor.com and www.zillow.com by heart. Definitely branded sites for the search for homes. I now am working on branding my site, www.oakridgetennesseehomes.com, and I want to be the realtor.com of Oak Ridge Tennessee. I asked my Broker, "Can
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promote: CO - Offer to advertise your listings at no cost! - 01/02/08 10:45 PM
Hi, I would like to advertise your listings at no cost! I have built a very nice website (www.BargainHomeHunter.net) and am getting decent traffic, but I need listings to put on the main page. I am interested in listings in the areas of Denver, Lakewood, Highlands Ranch, Littleton and adjacent cities. Let me
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promote: CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS? WHAT? - 01/02/08 01:50 PM
Hi Rainers! The New Year is always such a busy time. All of the Holiday parties and obligations are fulfilled and things are going full swing toward organization for the New Year. Tax stuff needs to be done and it'a a great time for reflection of what we did, what we
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promote: Make your Business Card stand out in the crowd! - 08/22/07 01:29 AM
I read a post today about what you can do to stand out in the crowd and self promote, Learn To Be Your Biggest Fan....Self Promote! My friend told me of an idea a while ago and I did a search on AR to make sure no one else did a
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promote: Words that Promote - 07/11/07 09:50 PM
In the real estate business there are many times you will be called upon to promote yourself. This list of words is positive and effective in today's business world: AccommodatingActiveAssertiveAwareBrightCapableCarefulCommittedCompetentConfidentConsistentCreativeDecisiveDependableDeterminedDevotedDynamicEagerEffectiveEfficientEnergeticEnthusiasticExperiencedExpertFairFlexibleFocusedFriendlyHardworkingHonestImaginativeInnovativeIntelligentMindfulMotivatedOrganizedPerceptivePridefulProductiveProfessionalProficientPositiveQualifiedQuick-thinkingRationalReadyReliableResourcefulResponsibleResponsiveTalentedThoroughThoughtfulTrustworthyValuableVersatileVeteranWillingI hope this helps with your business. It has helped me when I get stuck on what I'm trying to say or write. David
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promote: LO's - Sitting An Open House pt.1 - 03/14/07 03:56 PM
This blog is directed to all those loan officers out there who have the fortunate opportunity to sit an open house with a professional realtor. Many questions arise (or should arise) for the loan officer about to embark on a full day or days sit in with their business partner, the
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promote: Market Yourself, Not Them! - 10/16/06 10:55 PM
Dear Real Estate Professionals, I am not a Marketing guru but I do know that you should: Market Yourself, Not Them! The #1 best way to Market yourself is to promote your cell phone number, your home office number, your personal email address or your own personal website. Notice that the key word
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promote: Promote your Designations! - 10/10/06 11:03 AM
So much effort goes into achieving designations that it surprises me more designees don't bother to educate their clients and prospects as to what the mysterious initials mean, and more importantly, what benefit they mean to the client! Most organizations that award designations have generic or customizable marketing pieces that can
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