va: Have a Marketing & Closing Team at Your Fingertips, Not at Your Office! (Free Webinar)
- 06/25/09 02:16 AM
You’ve signed the listing agreement and promised your client the moon when it comes to marketing the property...
Now, you have to figure out how you’re going to live up to your promises... How will you have time to extensively market their home online and figure out how to create classy, professional print marketing (brocure, postcard, etc.) and still have time to devote to your other clients, attend to your office business and maybe, just maybe, have a life...
Sound impossible? Not if you join the growing ranks of real estate agents and brokers who are using a Real Estate … (2 comments)
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va: Your Bi-Weekly Bright Idea Update from RealSupport!
- 06/24/09 09:36 AM
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va: What’s Here? Feature on Google Maps
- 06/23/09 07:17 AM
Just when you thought Google Maps couldn’t get any better, they launch their newest feature - What’s Here. This is an interactive tool that allows users to pick a point on the map, click “What’s Here” and like magic, you are given a list of “the most relevant results representing that location” - or ways to explore the area! For example, let’s say you are working with a client moving to the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston. You sit down with them to show them some local attractions and features, and search the area using Google Maps. Right click the … (5 comments)
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va: Fresh Summer Marketing Ideas - Creative Ways to Stay In Front Of Your Past Clients/SOI!
- 06/16/09 09:21 AM
Summer is officially here! You need some creative ways to keep in touch with your past clients and SOI. Here are just a few ideas to have your Real Estate Virtual Assistant implement for you:
1.) Calendar of Local Summer Events: This can be a postcard or 1 page calendar w/a note from you. Your Real Estate Virtual Assistant can look up local events happening in your area over the summer and then put them on a graphical calendar (jumbo postcard or 1 page). This calendar would then get sent out to your past clients and SOI.
They'll appreciate … (13 comments)
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va: Your Bi-Weekly Bright Idea Update from RealSupport!
- 06/05/09 04:37 AM
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va: AmericanTowns.com - A Great Resource
- 05/27/09 07:57 AM
What is AmericanTowns.com ?
AmericanTowns.com is a site that provides community information and more importantly local events, seminars, etc for specific towns. Consumers can search by town, then by date, type of event, venue, etc. It is a really great resource for agents and can be used in a several different ways.
As a Real Estate Agent/Broker, How can you use it? 1. Do you host any type of class, seminar, or event? If so, you can add it to this site for free. It displays nicely with your web address and information, and appears when anyone searches for that city … (3 comments)
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va: Manage your online reputation with Yelp - what is it and why do you care?
- 05/27/09 03:46 AM
Recently, I was looking for the address of a place that I was going to host a baby shower at. When I did a google search for the address, a Yelp Review came up! It actually gave me all the information that I was looking for so I didn’t even have to find the “official website” of this place. I saw there was a review so of course I read it. This personal experience opened my eyes to the power of Yelp. I’m trying to summarize what it is and why I think you as a Real Estate Agent or Broker … (5 comments)
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va: Why We Love - and HATE - Automatic Syndication!
- 05/12/09 10:40 AM
For those of you that are not familiar, syndication has become all the rage with MLS’s, websites, you name it. The way it works is you enter your listing onto one site, let’s say your MLS. Your MLS then “feeds” it (or sends the listings automatically) to several other sites.
Why We LOVE Automatic Syndication:
It is convenient and less work for us/our agents. Time is money, and this saves a lot of time, in turn saving money. Agents who do not have large budgets can strategically place their listings on a select few websites that feed to many other … (17 comments)
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va: Press Release - Tight Budgets Have Real Estate Pros Turning to RealSupport
- 05/07/09 04:24 AM
Tight Budgets Have Real Estate Pros Turning to RealSupportReal Estate Virtual Assistant Team Handles a Variety of Tasks Large and Small
Why do real estate agents and brokers throughout the U.S. have RealSupport, Inc. programmed into their cell phones? Because in today’s budget-conscious market, many real estate offices have cut back on marketing, design, and support and administrative staff, leaving agents who are already strapped for time, struggling to handle all of the hundreds of details surrounding each transaction themselves.That’s when they pick up the phone and call the RealSupport team. “Most agents don’t need full time help, but they do … (0 comments)
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va: Are you a HomeVisit.com Customer? Read this important notice from HomeVisit.com's Founder/Owner
- 05/06/09 10:07 AM
Hi Fellow Active Rainers,
As a Real Estate Virtual Assistant Team, We use HomeVisit.com for a few of our clients and I wanted to pass along this important message to those of you that use them. See below:
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To All HomeVisit Customers and Users,
We have made a very difficult decision to temporarily suspend access to HomeVisit.com. We hope to restore services today, May 6, 2009. We will communicate status to all HomeVisit customers via email.
Last week, our technicians detected a remote security breach to our servers from China. This incursion was a very sophisticated attack designed to cause … (0 comments)
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va: Build your referral network thru social networking and posting your new listings on Twitter
- 05/03/09 02:03 PM
Many of you have already jumped on the social networking bandwagon. Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Digg, Twitter and more. Social networking is the newest and hottest marketing phenomenon and it will certainly give you more public exposure and can potentially take your business to a new level!
If you haven't already heard of Twitter, you need to check it out. Twitter.com (along with many other social networking sites) has taken the country by storm as the latest networking technique!
This website allows you to connect with colleagues, clients and even friends and family by keeping them informed of your wherabouts and activities … (6 comments)
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va: Seller Reporting and Visual Tour
- 04/29/09 01:55 AM
We do what we call “Seller Reporting” for many of our clients. This is simply a gathering each month, week, etc of the hits their listing has received on various sites. This feature is available on many sites (Zillow, Realtor.com, VisualTour & more) and is typically very user friendly. This keeps your sellers in the loop and also makes them feel they have not been forgotten! A very important thing in today’s market, where sometimes listings remain on the market for longer than usual.
We used to have to manually send these VisualTour hit reports through their system, which worked … (6 comments)
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va: Zillow Feeds
- 04/15/09 01:05 AM
At first, when various sites began "feeding" or sending information to Zillow, we got excited. It seemed it would be less work and save our clients money. Just let your listings automatically "feed" through to Zillow, it seems like it should be so easy. We have found some thorns on this rose since then, and I'm sure others are experiencing the same thing. Many of our clients have their listings feeding into what Zillow calls "dummy" accounts. These accounts do not have profile photos, links to your website, nothing. You cannot access these accounts, therefore, you cannot change profile information, listing … (2 comments)
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va: Facebook Business Profile - Creating a Professional Profile for Your Real Estate Business
- 04/10/09 05:09 AM
While many real estate professionals are hearing that Facebook is the place to be, they are torn about actually using Facebook. Many feel that it is quite personal and do they really want their client reading a post by their 21 year-old cousin (who we will call Josh) who is also a "friend" of theirs on Facebook. This is actually the power of Facebook, because guess what, that 21 year-old cousin Josh has Facebook friends that may be looking to purchase their first home and bam, you are right there on Josh's Facebook and you're an agent. So hopefully, they … (8 comments)
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va: What goes up, must come down - here is some inspiration for you.
- 03/31/09 08:19 AM
What goes up, must come down.The good news is that what is down, will always go up. This is kind of like "is the glass half full or half empty". How do you choose to see it?It is rough out there for everyone, but what I refuse to do is jump on the pity party bus. We all knew this would happen (maybe not this severe). We all knew we should plan for this day when things are not as hot as they were 3 years ago. Perhaps if nothing else, we learn from this experience and when this market is … (1 comments)
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va: In times like these, free is good!
- 03/13/09 09:22 AM
I’m sure you’ve seen the advertisements from Lowe’s in most of the trade magazines. It is exclusively for REALTORS® as part of the NAR’s REALTOR® Benefits Program. In short, you sign-up for the service, upload your contact information, company logo, and your photo. You’re then given an easy to use administrative panel where you can enter the mailing address of your contacts (think SOI, or your clients after they’ve purchased a home). There is also an import so you can import mass amounts of contacts rather than type them all up. You are able to target the mail piece somewhat to … (5 comments)
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va: Four Must-Dos to Get the Most Out of Your Trulia Account
- 02/17/09 09:25 AM
If you don't think you are using Trulia, you are probably wrong. I say this because so many sites, companies, etc. feed listings there. Don't believe me? Go to Trulia and search for a listing of yours - I almost guarantee you it's there. That said, you need to be taking advantage of this online marketing and make the most out of your Trulia account.
The first step is signing up for a free account if you do not already have one, after that, it's simple! Follow the basic recommendations below to most effectively use this site:
1. Market your … (4 comments)
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va: Videos are the Newest Rage in Real Estate, and Visual Tour is Stepping Up to Meet the Demand for Them!
- 12/10/08 02:11 AM
VisualTour has recently released an upgrade for their software. They do this periodically to fix glitches, add small upgrades, etc. The newest version, released about two weeks ago, if offering FREE video creation.
This is an awesome upgrade that everyone should take advantage of! It is so simple! There is a new option that you can choose after creating a tour – Create Video. This will then prompt three options:1. Create a video for the web – This creates the video file of your tour and allows you to post it to youtube, bliptv.com, and zipvo.com automatically.2. Create a video … (5 comments)
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va: RealSupport VA Team Named Preferred VA Vendor for Point2Agent
- 10/23/08 07:34 AM
We are proud to announce that we have been named THE Preferred Virtual Assistant Vendor for Point2Agent. We are experienced, know the system and many, if not most, of our clients utilize the system to market their listings, some for their main website, and everything in between.Click here to view our preferred vendor page for more information and feel free to contact us for any of your Point2Agent needs!
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va: Just a few benefits of using a Real Estate Virtual Assistant
- 12/07/07 07:11 AM
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