Pro Photographers Understand How to Market Their Work, So Why Don't Realtors Get it? Take a moment and visit the Photoshelter website, created for photographers who want to market and sell their work on the Web. Photoshelter has great SEO and is one of the best-known photography websites out
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10/30/2011
Are You Focused on Marketing Your Listings, Your Company or Yourself? Here's a question for you. Take a fresh look at your website and/or your blog. What's the first impression that visitors see when they hit the homepage? Is it all about "me, me, me" or is it about what you're selling? Do
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10/30/2011
Seller Asks "Could We Just Raise My Price a Little? Maybe $100,000 Higher?" I spent nearly a week preparing a market study for a seller recently. And after it was all done and presented, the seller reluctantly agreed to go along with the proposed sale price. But just a few days after acceptin
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10/30/2011
After 423,000 Points and 712 Posts in Two States, I Still Find Value in ActiveRain My journey through ActiveRain has spanned four years, with profiles in two states (Minnesota & Wisconsin). And in that time, I've managed somehow to accumulate a total of almost 425,000 points. I've written 712
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10/30/2011
I'm glad I gave credit to Beyonce for the song idea that became paraphrased for the title of this post.. but the message is the same. Buyers need to realize that they aren't the only prospect in town. And the comments on this post echoed the sentiment over and over again, "if you snooze, you los
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10/29/2011
Anybody Using Ultra Savvy Agent Single Property Websites? I'm not promoting these single property sites and I won't receive a dime for mentioning them here. But I really like the way they look. Take a look at their Sample Gallery. What I like best about these sites is the "big canvas" look o
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10/26/2011
Placing a Listing on MLS and Putting up a Lawn Sign Just Isn't Enough Anymore In the good old days, it might have worked for an agent to merely upload a listing to MLS and plant a lawn sign in the front yard. But in today's market, if that's all you're getting from your listing agent, you ma
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10/20/2011
How Can Somebody Misplace Ten Thousand Dollars? Strange as it may seem, I saw this occur twice recently in the same real estate transaction. The closing went smoothly, but a day after the checks were cut, handshakes were exchanged and keys handed to the buyers, the phone rang with a frantic
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10/20/2011
Latest Bank Scam - Does Your Bank Expect You to Pay $100 for Your First Check Order? I'm not naming any names here. But I never knew that those stagecoaches in the Old West were full of thieves. Last week, I walked into my mega-bank and inquired about ordering business checks. This was a bu
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10/19/2011
Visa Gives Itself a Gift - The Visa Gift Card Let's say you decide to do something nice for a client, maybe as a closing gift. Or you decide to say thank-you to someone at a title company or to a home stager who did a super job of making one of your listings sparkle. And so you decide to pu
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10/19/2011
