I have been invited to participate in HGTV House Hunters Show with an audience of 91 million people nationwide. I am looking for a buyer of a Naples home who would be interested to appear on national television and agree to commit 5 days to shoot this popular reality series.
I am also interested in a person who is buying a home abroad ( anywhere but US) who would like to participate in International segment of the House Hunters HGTV Show. Please, contact me via e-mail or phone to discuss your participation and receive necessary details and docs.
Quail West is one of the most popular upscale communities in Naples, Florida. Quail West provides a lot of residential space with only 540 home sites offering about an acre in size. The community boasts spacious and innovative homes with so much area and surrounding fairways, lakes and wooded nature preserves.
At the center of the community is an elegant 70,000 square foot clubhouse with several dining rooms, facilities for aerobics and fitness, racquetball, tennis, cards and billiards. The natatorium features an enormous pool and mineral spa, making Quail West on of the most magnificent country clubs in the United States.
At the Quail West golf Club, members enjoy an ultimate golf experience on two 18-hole Arthur Hills signature golf courses. The Preserve Course stretches throughout more than 200 acres of heavily forested lands and the Lakes Course includes Quail West's vast system of lakes, marshes and waterways.
Mediterra, a lavish European style golfing community, consists of 1,697 acres, located in Collier & Lee counties in Florida. Mediterra offers the authentic rustic styles of the Italian countryside and the Mediterranean region of Europe, with intimate neighborhoods connected by approximately eight miles of walking and biking paths, and a series of historically themed parks.
About 950 residences are planned
Located approximately 2 miles north of Immokalee Road, between US 41 and I-75
Gated entrances to the community are located on Livingston Road and Old 41
THE RESIDENCES
Coach homes from the $700,000's
Single-family villa homes priced from $800,000's
Single-family custom home site and residence packages started at approx. $1,300,000 to 7,000,000
Custom home sites from $300,000
THE AMENITIES
The Club at Mediterra
Two 18-hole championship golf courses, designed by Tom Fazio
Limited membership of 275 members per 18 holes of golf
25,000-square-feet clubhouse, designed by Diedrich-NBA of Atlanta
The Sports Club includes fitness center, spa and aesthetic services, tennis pro-shop and locker facilities, 5 Har-Tru tennis courts, outdoor swimming pool with sundeck
Exclusive Beach Club with 200' of shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico, an elevated swimming pool, a full-service restaurant, changing facilities and parking.
Three days ago checking my numerous morning e-mails I have almost deleted an e-mail from Pie Town Productions. I thought this would be some spam info on how to advertise on TV or something. I decided to open an e-mail afterall just to see if there is any interesting information on what this company do. To my surprise the e-mail was personally addressed. Next was the name of my website and a request to contact a Production Manager of HGTV House Hunters reality series. The guys were looking for their international segment and found my website in Estonia for all places.
I made the call. HGTV House Hunters' Production Manager sent me two application forms and general info forms for international and US shows. You might find interesting what is required and how the show is done in brief.
Question: HOW DO I APPLY TO BE ON HOUSE HUNTERS?
Answer: Contact your current clients to see if any of them are interested in being featured on the show with you. Once your clients agree to apply, have them fill out an application and make a home video pre-interview and send it to us by mail, Fed Ex (we'll give you our Fed Ex number) or they can upload their audition video onto our FTP website where we can view it. We will notify you if your application is up for consideration.
Q. WHAT WILL THECREW WANT TO SHOOT?
A. Every episode of House Hunters consists of interviews with you and your clients, tours of homes that your clients are looking at and finally, your clients all settled into their new home. Each episode strives to feature the unique challenges that arise when buying a home, as well as the excitement and satisfaction.
Q: WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
A: Once you and your clients finish the application process and are approved, the only other requirement is that you help us secure two houses to tour. We will need a signed location release for every house we tour at least 2 weeks before the shoot.
Q. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SHOOT AN EPISODE?
A. We will need you on 2 of the 5 days that we shoot the episode. Your clients are needed for 4 or 5 days. The shoot days typically break down like this (bolded days are the days you are needed):
Day 1: a day at your client's house getting their backstory
Day 2: you and your clients will tour the first of 3 houses for one half of the day and the 2nd half of the day is an interview & b-roll with you at your office
Day 3: you and your clients will tour the other two houses
Day 4: a follow-up interview with your clients once they've moved in
Day 5: a day of "scenics" (this may or may not include the clients)
Sorry all colleagues interested in SEO info, I had to stop writing for over a week for a very simple and good reason: after 5 months of extremely aggressive marketing over the internet and over 300 good leads with e-mails exchanged, phone calls made, invitations to visit Naples issued etc. all these people started coming to Naples Florida to buy. A wholoe lot of internationals. Only this week I have submitted 6 offers and have two approved sales with closing dates early next month for medium price range homes. I am working on 3 more right now. Waterfront homes availability requests have trippled and I am spending all day sending info to my clients and arranginf video shoots, previews, showings etc. Naples Florida definitely picked up in real estate sales.
So there is some interesting news on the internet though. Google has started a mortgage comparison feature which active Google users and ActiveRain users could find quite useful especially on the road on I Phone if need be.
NAR approved website indexing. So here comes a solution for an old discussion.
A new internetional real estate marketing portal is being launched right now with a free upload option at this time. Check out twpn.com. I know very little about it and cannot recommend it as a good source of leads at this time, however I will leave it for your consideration if you want to do anything about it.
Coquina Sands in Naples Florida is located in direct proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and numerous canals and watercourses just a few miles North of downtown Naples and famous 5th Avenue and right next to Naples Beach and Golf Club with its excellent dining spots and golf.
Coquina Sands is surrounded by great beach communities Naples Beach and Golf Club to the south, the Mooring to the north with Gulf of Mexico west and US-41 to immediate east.
Coastland shopping center is just across US-41. All Naples picture landmark Naples Pier is just a few minutes away in Olde Naples area along with 5th Avenue dining, shopping, nightlife and 3rd Street Art galleries, Tommy Bahamas and other gourmet gems of Naples.
Despite Coquina Sands homes were built mostly between 60's and 80's, massive new luxury home construction rejuvenates the look and landscape of the area. Price range is from low $400K to $3 million depending on proximity to water and exact location.
Another landmark location of Coquina Sands is Lowdermilk Park, a family park bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The park features a large covered pavilion, restrooms, outside picnic areas, and a children's playground.
About several miles north of downtown Naples Florida, famous 5th Avenue and west of U.S. - 41, the Moorings is an excellent location choice to many people who are looking to buy a home on the waterfront or just walking or riding distance from the Gulf of Mexico. A magnificent and quiet beachfront neighborhood, many of the homes in the Moorings are located right along the Gulf of Mexico or numerous canals. Residents of the Moorings enjoy access to a private beach and the local homeowners association owns nearby Lowdermilk Park. Since a large number of the homes in the Moorings are on the water, many boat owners enjoy a direct access to the Gulf.
The types of homes available in the Moorings and its neighboring community Coquina Sands are different enough to fit most anyone's taste and offer numerous waterfront estates, single family homes and condos. Some bay front properties have a dock lease or purchase option. Even older homes built in the 50s and 60s have been updated with the current styles, and a majority of Moorings’ residences include a pool or spa.
The Moorings excellent position on the Gulf front, a private 18-hole golf course at the Moorings Country Club, and convenient access to US-41 with major shopping, dining, art galleries, theaters and nightlife in downtown Naples make the Moorings one of the best choices if you are looking to buy a home in Naples Florida.
Google Small Business Center feature is a great way of putting your website on the top of the first page with a map especially in niche real estate key words. The most important thing is to research your local key words and identify where Google allows Maps. Next step is to optimize your entry TITLE so that it reflects the key word perfectly. This way you will be able to get on top of Google Maps feature and stay there. Also remember that your website title and description should reflect that key word as well. Look at how I grabbed number one spot in a very lucrative local key word "Naples Waterfront Real Estate". www.NaplesRealEstateSeller.com is on top of the Maps feature. By the way this position brought me two clients with over $1,500,000 home buying requests just in one day.
Look at other agents' ads and you will see that they used different key words as their titles and they just don't show up in the first position. The beauty of Google Small Business Account is you can open a number of separate entries using different key words.
Now, is one entry enough for you to dwell upon or you want to strengthen your position even more and grab 2 or 3 more positions on the same page of Google?
That's where ActiveRain and other blogs and PR websites come into play. First of all research Google entries on the first 3 pages in your target key word. See what blogs, articles, videos or pictures are breaking through in Google search. Then write AR article using your target key ward as your TITLE and use your title in article text at least 5 times. Optimize your pictures and videos in this article to your target key words as well. That way you can break through on the first page two to three times more.
Look at how I have taken Naples Waterfront key word by storm with a number of videos, articles and website itself by optimizing everything to one key word. All top entries and video pictures are mine.
Here is another example of niche key word real estate marketing: Port Royal Estate Homes. ActiveRain article stays there in number three position for over a month now - not just a couple of days! By the way entry number for with video sharing website Kewego in position number five is mine too. All of these entries reflect one real estate niche target - Naples Waterfront.
So here you go! Use these tactics and take your right place in the pantheon of Google First Page gurus.
I thought I can do decent pictures at night, but this Halloween evening totally broke my pride with a little help from my old friend we call in Russia "Green Dragon". So sometimes Halloween looks like really Halloween - creepy and ghoulish. Here is the sample of 5th Avenue celebration in Naples the way my camera saw it:
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