marketing: What if you held a seminar and nobody came... Part 2( the outcome)
- 05/17/08 12:32 PM
Unfortunately my worst fears were realized today. Well, not my worst fears really, just a small one. No one came to the seminar I held today. No one, not even the people who had RSVP'd. I am not quit sure how to feel. Besides the obvious of utter let down. I worked hard preparing for this, spent a fair amount of time and money all for no return. I still feel the idea is valid and good. I now have a very well rehearsed and memorized listing script, so well in fact that it probably can't be called a script anymore. … (4 comments)
marketing: What if you held a seminar and no one came......
- 05/09/08 11:25 AM
Well not quite no one. I've had 1 couple reserve 2 seats for the seminar I am holding on the 17th. I need to have a tally for the catering company by the 12th, 3 days from now. I really don't know what to do. The person I am co-sponsoring the seminar with wants to pull out and just do a 1 on 1 in our office. I don't think that is the correct answer. I feel we need to fill some more seats one way or another to add validity to our seminar. The information is valid, current, and important if … (0 comments)
marketing: Here comes summer
- 04/19/08 06:35 AM
With May rapidly approaching I find myself looking for different ways of getting people to talk to. You see I live and work in Maricopa county Arizona and come May the winter visitors we get from all around the nation for the winter months have pretty much gone back to their home states. Now I am not saying that there are no sales to be made, there are and I know it, they are just fewer are farther between and that is not good in todays market. I am doing the traditional once a month newsletter to everyone in my data base, … (1 comments)
I am thinking of using a seminar as a basis for finding and working with new listings and people who are considering re-listing their homes. I have investigated the cost of a conference room and advertising ( I figured I should start 3 weeks before the event). I have not looked into a caterer, the event would only be about 1- 1/1/2 hours long. I was hoping that someone out there has done this before and could steer me a little. Should I hold this event around lunch time on say a Saturday, and there by hope to pull … (6 comments)
Unfortunately my worst fears were realized today. Well, not my worst fears really, just a small one. No one came to the seminar I held today. No one, not even the people who had RSVP'd. I am not quit sure how to feel. Besides the obvious of utter let down. I worked hard preparing for this, spent a fair amount of time and money all for no return. I still feel the idea is valid and good. I now have a very well rehearsed and memorized listing script, so well in fact that it probably can't be called a script anymore.;)
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