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No More, PLEASE!!!!!!!

Please excuse me for ranting, but I have now officially placed spam-like e-mails from other REALTORs in the same mental category as Viagra ads, Canadian pharmacies and enticing get-rich letters from the former Third Assistant to the Under-Secretary for Commerce of Botswana.

Fellow REALTORs: STOP IT!!!!!!! Please STOP sending out blanket e-mails advertising a $500 signing bonus for your subdivision that is located 4 hours away, or in another state. STOP trying to entice me to send my prospective commercial investors to your newly-listed office complex in Tucson. In other words, STOP SENDING UNSOLICITED FLYERS!!!!!

In the past 2 days I have "opted out" of at least a dozen of these, all from well-meaning but badly misled REALTORs who apparently think that by flooding the virtual airwaves with their flyer that their fellow REALTORs are going to flock to their listing. Maybe you've had a lot of success with this, maybe not. But my deeply held suspicion is that all you've really accomplished is to p*** off a lot of your colleagues.

There. I'm through now.

726 West Main Street

Lebanon, TN 37087

615-453-1117

Posted by Steve Heydel--30% Referral Paid to AR Members on 11/08/2007 02:41 PM

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NOV

2007

I agree, I have been inundated with them as well. Do they not realize that when I am looking for a particular property, I will have the means to look for one...after all, we all have the access to our MLS, we ALREADY know whats for sale.

The bulk emails are annoying, the good thing is that they are blatant and obvious "delete"

Just because its free........

Here in Delaware there are mixed emotions about the emails. It has just in the last year become a new thing (we are alittle behind the times on something). Working at the beach is such a different environment. It is so important to know your inventory and I try to make it a habit to view new hotsheets daily but will admit that the emails have reminded me at times what is out there.

Good Luck!

They are mistaking activity for achievement. When you are doing nothing you can send out 10,000 emails in a blast and make yourself feel as though you are on your way.

Here's an idea that I use. GEt yourself some stationary, go meet 5 people a day and send them a hand written note with you card. The card can say "It was good to meet you".

I have been doing this for a couple of years. I get 3 to 5 deals per month from this simple approach. Since few others do it...I stand out.

Everyone opens a letter or a card. Everyone deetes emails.

i agree with your statement. thanks for you rpost. Lupe

AMEN. I find these unsolicited e-mails and faxes annoying. It's probably a good thing that they're so forgetable because I'd make it a point not to send any business that way.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I guess desperate times call for desperate e-mails. As REALTORS, some may not consider us the brightest group around, but most of us can read the listings in our local MLS. If I have a buyer looking for a property like that one I will show it to them--without their e-mail.

I do business in California. I have NO CLIENTS looking for beach front property at low tide in Mexico, a "GREAT BUY" on a condo in Florida or a Villa in Italy!

UN-SUBSCRIBE is my new favorite word!

Sounds annoying, but it doesn't happen to me much...once in a great while. I think it has to do with how many forms you fill out on line. I think that's the way they get your address. Oh, well, life's too short to worry about everything, right?

Let it out Steve, it sounds like you need a hug

Steve, I'm with you! I keep getting "deals" from out-of-state, out-of-area Realtors that are of no use to me - I've opted out of the obvious ones I don't want, but have to deal with the deluge of local Realtors who have resorted to email flyers as the main focus of their marketing campaign. I understand budgets are slimmer, but that does not mean I want to have twice the information about listings in the local MLS.

Well said! I get many flyer's from other islands that have no interest to even keep up with.

NOV

2007

Hi, Steve. How are you doing? This message is for the entire sales force. Please return all those nifty zipper bags that you may have received in the past. We are in financial trouble now due to that nasty judicial business and need to resell them in Thailand. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Love,

Weasel

NOV

2007

Weasel,

For God's sake don't just leave me hanging!!!!!!! Obviously you're a former PF rep; contact me at sheydel@charter.net and let me know who (Shelby, is that you........?)

Steve Heydel

I agree totally with you. How many Viagra emails so we need?

My license is in Pennsylvania, and a condo in Arizona, unless I can get a referral fee, is not much use to me

Thanks for the post. I enjoyed reading it.

MAR

2008

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