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10 Marketing Tips to help skyrocket your business and sales!

By Peter Olsen

Services for Real Estate Pros with Rent To Own Homes, LLC

February 22, 2009 04:58 AM

Here we go! 10 more marketing tips to help skyrocket profits into your business!

1. Get out of your office and work 1 day a week at your local starbucks or coffee shop and network network network. The change of scenery will do you good and the business you can get is amazing.

2. Subscribe to a competitors newsletter.

3. Use dimdim.com for free web meeting software.

4. Submit articles you have written to ezine.com .

5. Use onlinetrafficnow.com to get help driving traffic to your website.

6. Sign up on facebook and myspace and get a presence on both these social marketing sites. This will help expose your business to millions.

7. Use guru.com to advertise your services.

8. Give a suprise gift to your best customers with no strings attached.

9. Participate in all the trade organizations and rotary clubs in your community.

10. Debrief your employees on different lessons learned you have come across in your business to get them up to speed.

Until next time...

Pete Olsen

Rent To Own Homes, LLC

www.50statesrent2own.com

www.activerain.com/blogs/peteolsen01

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Joan Whitebook

BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH

Consumer Focused Real Estate Services

Some nice tips here. I especially like the starbucks idea! There were a couple more ideas and websites I am going to check out. Thanks for the heads up.

Feb 22, 2009 05:02 AM

Diane Daley

Caron's Gateway Real Estate - Northumberland, NH

Excellent tips for everyone to use... Get involved....

Feb 22, 2009 05:04 AM

Vickie Nagy

Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate - Palm Springs, CA

Vickie Jean the Palm Springs Condo Queen

I too like the idea about getting involved in a local coffee shop. It's a wonderful idea.

Bob & Carolin Benjamin

Benjamin Realty LLC - Gold Canyon, AZ

East Phoenix Arizona Homes

All good ideas -- have to try anything and everything to keep the energy going.

Feb 22, 2009 05:05 AM

David W. Langford

Promo-Plates car nameplates by Ameri-Plates - Detroit, MI

Hi Peter... There is no single step to success. It takes many different and varied approaches. Good website contacts.

Cheers,

David

Feb 22, 2009 05:09 AM

Emmaniece Gordon

Dekka Realty - Fort Meade, MD

PSC, CDPE, Realtors, Local Real Estate Expert, Mar

Great tips. I especially like the facebook.

Michael S. Mackey

CENTURY 21 All Islands - Mililani, HI

REALTOR ABR, CRS, GRI, RSPS

Thanks for the tips. I'm looking for all the new ideas I can find to expand thje net.

Feb 22, 2009 05:10 AM

Walter Grewe III

Long and Foster Realtors - Roanoke, VA

Realtor, SFR, A-REO, Roanoke Homes and Real Estate

Peter,

Thanks for the post, I have been working on getting more involved in civic activities and the local real estate board. I also think the coffee shop idea is fantastic and will do that this week coming up.

Great and inspiring ideas for new activity.

Feb 22, 2009 05:11 AM

Josef Katz

Digital and Direct Response Marketing - Manhattan, NY

{Marketing Maestro}

Great tips for any economy but even more important in times like these.

Feb 22, 2009 05:15 AM

Alexsandra Stewart

Remax equity group - Portland, OR

Broker - Portland Oregon Real Estate

Nice post, great tips. I saw several I will check out -- web sites, but Ialso liked the idea of getting out to a coffee shop - for work or not, sometimes hanging out and writing notes has caused people to talk to me. -- of course I have some sort of Realtor recognition material with me also! :-)

Feb 22, 2009 05:24 AM

Marilyn Harrell

Better Homes and Acres - Beaverton, MI

Wixom Lake - Beaverton MI

Thanks for the info - I'll be putting it to use!

Feb 22, 2009 05:25 AM

Dean Curtis

Coldwell Banker Kittitas Valley Realty - Ellensburg, WA

Peter - Do you think Starbucks will want a piece of the action when I set up my desk in their shop? Good tips, thanks, Dean

Feb 22, 2009 05:32 AM

Kate Wheeler

Country Homes and Land Murphy NC Realtor - Murphy, NC

CCIM - Murphy NC Real Estate for Sale

Good suggestions - especially the ones about getting out of the office. Sometimes what we need is to be around people who AREN"T in our business to get a different perspective. After all, if your area has 7% unemployment, that means that 93% of the locals are still working.

Feb 22, 2009 05:56 AM

Anonymous

Kevin Micalizzi, Dimdim Web Conferencing

Pete-

Thanks for including Dimdim on your list! For those not familiar with us yet, we offer free web conferencing/web meetings with up to 20 people. This includes the ability share slides, whiteboard, desktop, web pages, along with audio and video. You can even record your sessions

Dean-

I'm a huge fan of working at my local Starbucks. I'm usually working there a few days a week. The staff has always been friendly and to Pete's point, it's amazing the people you'll meet.

Thanks!

-k
Kevin Micalizzi, Community Manager
Dimdim Web Conferencing / http://www.dimdim.com
e: kevin@dimdim.com / twitter: @dimdim
Facebook: http://dimdim.com/facebook

Feb 22, 2009 06:46 AM

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Bill Somerset

Re/Max Realty Group - Dover, NH

ABR, e-PRO - Realtor - NH Real Estate Agent

Great tips Peter. I already take care of a couple of them, I'll have to focus on a few others now.

Feb 22, 2009 08:36 AM

William "Bill" and Karen Farragher

EXIT Blue Water Realty, Matawan, NJ 07747 - Matawan, NJ

SFR

Thanks for the tips, I will check into some of the sites you listed. All the help we can get makes everyone more money.

Feb 22, 2009 10:51 AM

Steve Miller

Gardens as Art - Coeur d'Alene, ID

Hey Pete, Great advice... Get out, get social. yeah, it makes a difference. Cool tips for the web. I'll check it out. Thanks Steve

Feb 24, 2009 09:26 AM

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