April Marketing Minute: Tips, Outlook, and Value of Web Partners

Top 10 Tips to Get Listings
by David Knox, David Knox Productions, Inc.
David Knox offers his top tips for getting the listing, including having a strong pre-listing package, showing sellers they should select an agent based on competence and marketing - not price, and tips to personally connect with the sellers during your presentation.
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Real Estate Outlook: Where Housing is Headed
by Kenneth R. Harney, Realty Times
We received an important indicator of where housing is headed last week, when new mortgage applications for home purchases and refinances suddenly surged.
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Time Management Productivity Tips
Sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day for everything you need to do. These four practical tips are easy to incorporate into your daily routine and can help you manage your time more productively.
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Signs of Life From the Real Estate Market
by Prashant Gopal, Yahoo! Finance
In ZIP codes across the country, as once-inflated property prices bottom out housing sales are increasing dramatically. In many markets, foreclosure sales are driving down prices and cash-ready investors and first-time buyers are making multiple offers on distressed properties. At the same time, the accelerating sales pace appears to be finally cutting into inventories of unsold homes.
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The Value of Homes & Land Web Partners
Homes & Land's online partners save you time and money. We upload your listings to 20 other websites, so your properties are syndicated all over the world wide web with no extra maintence on your part. If something in your listing data changes, you only need to edit it one time - not ten or fifteen. Also, not all real estate websites are free. With Homes & Land there's no keeping up with various time periods your listings are displayed or when you need to renew.
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"Most of the high-tech agents we surveyed confessed that as much as 50 percent of their traffic came from offline marketing. It's a bit counterintuitive but the best way to succeed online is to market your website offline."
Gary Keller, co-founder and chairman of the board of Keller Williams Realty International in his new book Shift: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times