south carolina: Yet Another Reason to Move to Greenville, SC
- 02/24/17 11:24 AM
What makes Greenville so special and why should people move here? For starters, it has an amazing focus on its artists and their art. Greenville has several locations around the city that puts a focus on art, namely the up and coming arts district on the West End. Here you have a community of artists of all sorts that get to share their talents and inspire. It is also home to Greenville Center for Creative Arts which brings the community together to celebrate and educate about art. There is also the art galleries on the Reedy River right downtown. Once a … (1 comments)
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south carolina: Signage - Lighted Yard Signs: Any Thoughts?
- 08/02/08 03:30 PM
I have seen agents utilizing the yard signs with lights attached, for "24 hour" advertising. I've often wondered how effective those signs are, and whether or not they make a difference in selling a property. I also wonder if they generate enough extra leads by virtue of their lights to pay for the increased cost.
If anyone has had experience with these types of yard signs, I would be interested to hear how it has gone. Does it help during a listing presentation, when you tell your seller that you will be advertising 24 hours a day? Is there increased maintenance … (9 comments)
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south carolina: Ok, So I Need An Agent - Time For My Hollywood Bid
- 06/07/08 03:53 PM
When I got done with tonight's production of Fiddler on the Roof, I met a very nice gentleman outside the theatre. He told me that he really liked the performance, and said that my part stood out. Before parting ways, he said that I should be in Hollywood or Broadway.
Ok, so he was being nice, but I appreciate the comment (flattery, whatever you want to call it). I have had a few other people tell me that I should get an agent and look for commercials to audition for.
What kind of commercials would I be in? If there's a … (1 comments)
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south carolina: HELP! In Search of the Elusive Featured Post
- 04/17/08 03:27 PM
Now that I've been getting my full-featured Blog addiction, I long for more. I keep setting new goals for myself. I wanted to be the number one Active Rain blogger in Greenville, SC, and I made it. I want to get to number one in Greenville County, but the beautiful Marci is about fifty thousand points ahead of me... so I'll concede that one (for now!) :-)
I am now enjoying a great online discourse with several real estate practitioners from around the country and have learned MANY new and exciting things. I have even picked up some great clients from my blog … (9 comments)
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south carolina: The BEST Lead Generation Secret In All of Real Estate!
- 04/12/08 12:59 AM
Agents are often looking for the "magic pill", the secret to immediate and awesome success. I have to admit that I looked for that pill for a couple years, trying to get the easy way into the business.
I learned a simple truth, and I teach my new agents this all the time. There IS a secret to lead generation. It's unfortunate that it's a secret, because it's available to ALL agents.
This great secret to business? The key to your financial future? The tool that costs you nothing extra to implement? Oh, and you all have one too.
It's a phone. Pure … (9 comments)
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south carolina: Someday I'll Learn That Taxes Are Due On April 15th
- 04/11/08 02:47 PM
Holy cow, it's almost the middle of April. Tax time is here! The sad thing is, each year this catches me as if it's a surprise, and each year I have to grudgingly admit that I was ill-prepared... besides, it comes on the SAME DAY every year! I have no excuse.
Last night I stayed up late, got my taxes done and ready for the accountant. Four days left - yay! Only for 2008, I am going to resolve to use a better system. I've often touted technology for agents on Active Rain, so I'm going to start using technology for my … (5 comments)
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south carolina: I HATE to be sick!
- 04/03/08 04:09 PM
There's way too much work to do as an agent, especially if you really follow good models of lead generation and client care... they keep you busy! So why do I have to be sick today??? I finally gave in at around 1pm at my office, after I had dozed for about an hour at my desk. I went home, took a nap, and now I'm moving about the house in a semi-daze.
This makes me consider just how important my health is. If something were to happen to me, my income would stop. I don't have "sick" time!
With this … (8 comments)
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south carolina: Come On Guys, Get With It! Make The Twenty First Century Paradigm Shift!
- 03/29/08 02:04 PM
Real estate is a dinosaur. Don't be one!
This has nothing to do with your age. It has EVERYTHING to do with your paradigm. Paradigm is defined by Webster.com as a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind. Your paradigm is the way you process information - it's the way that you operate, the way you do things.
Here's the issue. Many agents have a paradigm that is based in the twentieth century. Which PART of the twentieth century varies, but the ideas usually flow from certain general idioms. This often is frighteningly clear with marketing. For example, typical agents all over … (3 comments)
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south carolina: YouTube and Real Estate - Let's get creative!
- 09/02/07 02:33 PM
I'm considered an out-of-the-box type of real estate agent, from my marketing techniques all the way to my training classes, so it should not come as a surprise to my aquaintances that I am going to take YouTube in a completely different direction for free real estate advertising.
What do most real estate agents use YouTube for? They take visual tours, or digitally recorded tours of their listings, and post them on YouTube to try and get more marketing bang for their buck (or in this case, for free!). I don't fault these real estate agents - instead, I applaud them! … (11 comments)
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south carolina: FSBOs and The Art of Win-Win Offers
- 09/02/07 02:09 PM
I have read several posts on AR asking questions on how to market to FSBOs, and I wanted to share something that I started doing several years ago that seems to work like a charm.
First of all, you need to have a telephone call-capture system up and running (otherwise called an IVR system, or a "hotline" system). If you don't know what a call-capture system is, here's the nutshell version... for those of you familiar with them, skip the next paragraph!
Call-capture systems are toll free recorded phone lines. They usually look something like this: For Toll-Free Recorded Info Call … (9 comments)
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south carolina: Training Woes
- 09/01/07 06:35 AM
I was having a discussion with a fellow Training Director for a real estate office, and he shared some training woes with me. I tried to help him with his predicament, drawing upon my own experience in training. As the Director of Training for my market center, I am tasked with the responsibility for making sure that our agents receive awesome training. We take our commitment to training VERY seriously. In fact, as a whole, Keller Williams Realty has been called "A training and consulting company cleverly disguised as a real estate company." Between our team leader, operating principle, the agents … (11 comments)
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south carolina: Does Your Team Lose Your Money?
- 08/31/07 04:27 PM
I have had several discussions lately with people about the costs and benefits of running a real estate team. Great employees can make you many times what you pay them, but poor employees, or even "adequate" employees, may end up costing you thousands, or millions, of dollars.
Let's take a buyer's agent, for example. If you give a buyer's agent leads, and expect that buyer's agent to follow up on the leads, then you would tend to expect closings down the road. What is a reasonable number? Well, that's probably something that you'd have to determine based on the type of … (2 comments)
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south carolina: Misspellings can spell embarrassment!
- 08/28/07 02:57 PM
Recently I was teaching a class to several new agents on the amazing opportunities for free advertising on the internet. I was set up, complete with LCD projector and laptop connected wirelessly to the internet. My class was going quite well, with the agents taking plenty of notes.
It was time to present a favorite site for internet savvy real estate agents, to explain about the numerous possibilities available in free classifieds. I pulled up my internet browser, typed in the website, and as it loaded, I began to speak of the benefits offered.
There was giggling. And laughing.
Ask any … (4 comments)
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south carolina: Don't Become Another Murder Statistic
- 08/28/07 02:08 PM
I am going to deviate from the more common real estate themes of my blog and write about a topic I am passionate about: REALTOR® safety. Perhaps it is my background in law enforcement, but I feel that there are many REALTORS® who work day to day oblivious to the possible dangers that lurk in our world.
REALTORS® place themselves in contact with strangers everyday. It is our job to get out there, meet people, and broker the sale of properties. Unfortunately, many people from the criminal element also know this fact. Each year, REALTORS® are assaulted, robbed, and even murdered. … (8 comments)
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south carolina: Surviving or Thriving? Where is your real estate career?
- 08/26/07 06:26 AM
If you don't list, you don't last. This concept is driven into our skulls by real estate trainers year after year, but I would like to go one step further and make the argument that if you don't generate leads, you don't list, and therefore you don't last. Now this may sound quite simple to most of you, and I am quite willing to concede that it doesn't take a doctorate in Realestateology to figure it out. Unfortunately, the big, ugly truth is that even though 100% of you may understand this, we have an 80% failure rate in real estate!
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south carolina: Real Estate Training - The (Often) Most Overlooked Part Of Our Careers
- 08/26/07 06:01 AM
Think back to when you graduated from Real Estate School. This could be a few months ago, or several decades ago when caves and sod houses were the hot listings. What did you get out of your pre-license training? Most people will say that the class got them through the test, and that is true. If you maintained consciousness you also learned a great deal about the law, generally the "thou shalt nots" of real estate, but there was a huge, gaping hole that begged to be filled with know-how.
You didn't learn how to sell property, write contracts, input listings, … (2 comments)
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south carolina: REALTOR SAFETY - Think Positioning When Showing Houses
- 08/26/07 05:39 AM
All agents, at one time or another, have really been excited to show a house to a potential client. They practically dance through each room, pointing out the features with a flourish, all the while anticipating that the next thing the prospect will desire is their name on a contract.
What if the prospect desires nothing more than to take your money and leave you for dead?
It's a sobering thought, but unfortunately, it happens more frequently than most of us want to acknowledge.
As a REALTOR(R) Safety Instructor, I think that it is paramount to point out a basic concept … (9 comments)
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south carolina: Allegiant Air going to Vegas from Greenville-Spartanburg Airport
- 08/24/07 02:30 AM
Many of you know that I am a pilot, and I follow aviation news pretty thoroughly. I was excited to find out that Allegiant Air started its first service to Las Vegas from Greenville-Spartanburg airport (GSP) today about seven in the morning.
Allegiant is a low cost carrier, and they currently fly to two other destinations from GSP, both in Florida. The Vegas route will be a boom to their business, if you ask me. I'm sure there are plenty of Upstate South Carolina residents who would like to try their luck in Vegas. :-)
GSP is also in talks with … (0 comments)
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south carolina: HELP ME! Terrible Staging Problem - Getting Smoke Out
- 08/24/07 01:49 AM
I have a home that I will be selling in the VERY near future. It is gorgeous, and has been staged well except for one thing - the owner has smoked in it his entire time there.
This is quite aggravating, because I've seen the way that buyers generally react to smoke odor in a house. Even smokers have a tendency to overlook these houses, especially if they are smokers who take their cigarettes outside because they KNOW the negative consequences on their homes.
Overall, it just makes a house "feel" dirty.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know. … (11 comments)
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south carolina: Time for another theatre part for me??? Greenville Little Theatre Auditions - Dracula
- 08/23/07 06:52 PM
On Monday August 27th the Greenville Little Theatre will be holding auditions for the upcoming play "Dracula". I dropped by the theatre today (well, technically yesterday since it's quite early in the morning) to chat with my friends at the box office, and I picked up a script for the show.
It's hard for me to decide what I want to audition for in this show. There are several good parts, although the parts of Dracula and Van Helsing are pre-cast (the excellent talents of Will Ragland and Allen McCalla respectively). There is a part for an insane guy... hmm, that could be … (0 comments)
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What makes Greenville so special and why should people move here? For starters, it has an amazing focus on its artists and their art. Greenville has several locations around the city that puts a focus on art, namely the up and coming arts district on the West End. Here you have a community of artists of all sorts that get to share their talents and inspire. It is also home to Greenville Center for Creative Arts which brings the community together to celebrate and educate about art. There is also the art galleries on the Reedy River right downtown. Once a … (1 comments)
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