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     (Tapping blackboard with pointer) Today's exercise on the Active Rain call in show blog post revolves around a fledgling new real estate office. One just getting off the ground and being opened by a fictitious partnership who are high on ambition but don't know the first thing about the actual business of real estate. The story board for this office getting off the ground resembles a Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It needs folks at AR to gather round, offering their two cents in a paragraph round robin style delivery below to guide the office image, on line presence. Salt and peppered with helpful lessons learned in the field to share from your treasure chest of experiences. Help save this "office" unforeseen set backs, to avoid waste of time, resources, energy flying blindly with your "advice ornaments" hung by you individually on the spindly tree.

    

Follow the start up office real estate thread will you? Come back to shape the office, track the comments when you have time.

Come away guiding with the spirit of the season this office's development as it takes shape with your help. But also bring away ideas to consider applying within your own four real estate walls operation. Let's get started.

     The real estate office operates in a rural, wide open area of America. The day to day operation will not involve just listing, marketing, selling home home home. Lots of land, over 70% of the listing inventory will be land put up for sale. So to reflect the wide open nature of the area and type of property this office generates the bulk of its revenue from commission real estate sales, the name of the office will be "Blue Green Realty".

     The name represents the unspoiled nature and lower population aspect of the local turf. The signs, logo, letterhead, website, blogs, video uploads all share the same blue and green theme. Instead of just selling the property, the clean blue air, sparkling contaminant free water will take a greater role in the focus of the marketing. The two partners trying to get the real estate office off the ground need inventory for starters..something to sell so what do they need to do to get ready to sell as the real estate flywheel begins to turn, pick up speed and momentum in your opinion? What advice or warnings, suggestions would you offer to mentor..guide this new, "green", wet behind the ears team? They need website suggestions on where and what and how much it will cost. Blog advice about quickly joining AR, how to attract salespeople. What to avoid or make sure to implement. These guys need the works and what would you do if starting from stratch..if you had a second opportunity to do it again. But this time armed with knowledge, real estate bruises from hard learned lessons out in the trenches, the real estate day to day fox holes? This blog post will be beneficial only with your help and by building on the comment before. Or adding your own suggestion of "don't forget" this or that. Merry Christmas. The team of Blue Green Real Estate thanks you from the bottom of their hearts and is sitting on thin wallets but looking for low or no cost ways to get the word out about their services.