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Time Invested Wisely - Buyers and Sellers Deserve Nothing Less

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with MoonDancer Realty, Dillsboro,NC NC# 218097
Okay, I'm loading up the car getting ready for today's schedule. It will be a full day and a wide variety of activities which is one of the reasons I love being a real estate professional. You'll never hear us say at MoonDancer Realty that we have a day with nothing to do! We respect our time and want to be sure it is invested wisely in our business in order to best benefit our sellers and buyers.
 
CompassBlogging works! My first errand is to locate and evaluate a potential new listing in Cane Creek Ridge Development. Why do I say blogging works? The seller of the Cane Creek property doesn't live in this area so they aren't familiar with real estate agents here. First they googled Sylva real estate and there was MoonDancer Realty, along with several others. Then they googled Cane Creek Realtors and boom...MoonDancer Realty was all over the place. Why? Because I've blogged the heck out of the subject. I've linked their HOA site to ours, I've photographed whimsical things, I've blogged about our listings and talked about the fineness of this neighborhood. The seller noticed...plus we've got that whole Office Manager babe working for us!
 
Right smack in the middle of the day is an ActiveRain University Boot Camp webinar with Bob Stewart and Kerrie LaGuardia. It's really important to time block in these educational opportunities if we want to stay fresh and effective in real estate. This particular class helps hone blogging skills as it relates to gaining new clients.
 
After the webinar, we have two really nice listings that we took this spring. Living in this area we have to be careful with resTaking Photosidential exterior photos...the seasons while awesome looking to the naked eye can sometimes be a challenge with the photos. In these two listings, winter was still apparent without leaves on the trees, bare patches in the grass and remnants of dead leaves everywhere. Even though some photo editing can take care of some of these things, there's nothing like fresh photos. When I blog about these two listings, I'll want the photos to be all that they can be!
 
In between these excursions, there are calls to make, listings to tweak and searches to perform for the buyers we are working with. We've always got something to do. In the past I've worked for offices and watched dumbfounded while agents played video games, shopped online or otherwise wasted time with phone calls to friends. This subject is fodder for another blog post but we know time is a precious commodity and needs to be invested wisely when working in real estate. Our buyers and sellers deserve nothing less.
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Comments (6)

Clint Mckie
Desert Sun Home, commercial Inspections - Carlsbad, NM
Desert Sun Home, Comm. Inspection 1-575-706-5586

Hi Mona,

I have also seen an increase of calls from potential client's that read my posts here in the Active Rain Network of members.

This is a good thing.

I hope we get a lot more of these calls. You have to love it when they say I saw your post on Active Rain.

Have a great day in the Sylva and Dillsboro areas.

best, Clint McKie

Jun 19, 2013 11:22 PM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Good morning, Mona -- it's always interesting to hear the answer when I ask how a potential client has "found" me --- oh, the internet --- they typically don't say it but I know it's highly likely that it's due to ActiveRain blogging(and sometimes even comments I've made).   

 

 

Jun 19, 2013 11:31 PM
Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Mona, using your time wisely is a hard habit to develop and an easy one to lose. Enjoy your day!

Jun 19, 2013 11:37 PM
Erin Bates
CMG Financial and Expansion Marketing Services - Aurora, CO

Wow - congrats. Getting your blogs to actually work feels so good. I bet if they googled "Coolest Realtors In The United States" you would have come right up! 

Jun 20, 2013 08:24 AM
Mona Gersky
MoonDancer Realty, Dillsboro,NC - Sylva, NC
GRI,IMSD-Taking the mystery out of real estate.

Clint, it does feel good when people say they found the blog.  It is so much work that the recognition justifies the effort.

Michael, sometimes they can't even remember where on the internet but that's okay. As long as they find us!

Wayne, that sounds like a fortune cookie, lol.

Erin, that would be so awesome ;-)

Jun 20, 2013 01:18 PM
Janis Borgueta
Newburgh, NY
Retired RE Salesperson

You are so right about the blogging! It is the best thing to get my phone ring. It definitely works! 

Jun 21, 2013 10:19 PM