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Crowdsourcing the Way to an Amazing Open House

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Services for Real Estate Pros with ActiveRain

Open Houses...Love 'em or hate 'em, they continue to be a staple of marketing a home for sale. Some agents refuse to do them and consider them a waste of time, others love the idea of getting the house in tip top shape and letting the neighbors drop by to see who they could envision living next door.

No matter your opinion on open houses, some people do a better job of marketing them and they end up more folks through the home on a given weekend. We'd like those people to raise their hand and share with us how they get people to their open house, and then what they do with them once they are there. 

In our continuing effort to find great ideas that you are willing to share and bring them to the entire community, this challenge will become our third crowdsourced webinar. In these webinars, Bob combs through the 150 or so posts that you all submit and pulls out some of the best ideas to give you more focused insight into what your peers are doing to be successful. 

The Challenge:

Write a blog post about what you do to promote your open houses or how you handle the open house itself. Basically, share your open house strategy with the community. Do you use signs to drive traffic? What is your strategy? Are you all about making sure you get the open house info in as many places as possible? Where do you promote them? Once people actually show up, what do you do? Have them sign in? Do you use an iPad to get their info? Do you have flyers on sight with information from your favorite lender? At the end of the day, what are you doing with your open houses that has been successful in helping you get more people to the house and take advantage of that time in front of interested buyers.

Leave a link to your blog post about your open house strategy in the comment section of this blog post.

Entries for this challenge must be submitted by July 26th at 11:59pm Pacific Time

The Reward:

Every person who submits a blog post for this challenge will be given 1000 points. If Bob uses your blog post for the webinar, you will earn an additional 1000 points. 

You get ideas from your peers about something that many of you are doing in your business and those ideas will help you be more effective. This is the real reward!

The Webinar:

On Thursday, August 8th at 10am Pacific Time (1pm Eastern) we will host a webinar that brings the best ideas to you in an easy-to-digest format. Bob will wade through the couple hundred posts and pull out the best ideas to share with you. We'd love if you can attend (but as always we record them and if you sign up and can't attend, we'll email you the recording...so just sign up!)



 

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Comments(119)

Christine O'Shea
Christine E O'Shea Broker - Naples, FL

Here is my post regarding Open Houses:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/3792943/open-houses-in-a-private-gated-naples-country-club?share_opt=1

Have a great week, I will have fun looking through all of these posts!

Jul 21, 2013 10:02 AM
Jennifer Fivelsdal
JFIVE Home Realty LLC | 845-758-6842|162 Deer Run Rd Red Hook NY 12571 - Rhinebeck, NY
Mid Hudson Valley real estate connection

Bob here is my entry.  Look forward to seeing the best practices in your webinars.

Thank you.

 

Open House how to get people there and follow up effectively

Jul 21, 2013 02:32 PM
Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

Interesting contest. It was very informative to read about other agent's experiences. Here's the link to my entry.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/3793013/open-houses-a-great-way-to-get-caught-up-on-face-book

 

Jul 22, 2013 01:28 AM
Marilyn Wier
RE/MAX Space Center - League City, TX
Your League City & Surrounding Areas REALTOR!

Hi and thanks for this challenge :) Great reading others tips and strategies for open houses! Here is my blog entry:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/3793439/uh-so-your-seller-reallly-wants-an-open-house-?share_opt=1

Jul 22, 2013 02:17 AM
Kristal Wilson
KB Home - Fontana, CA
Cause We Like 'Em New ~ New Home Specialist!

I love Open Houses! Here is my entry and thanks,

Amazing Open House Strategy

Jul 22, 2013 09:26 AM
Bandele Oguntomilade, Top REALTOR
Bogun Realty and Luxury Homes - Woodland Hills, CA
Your Woodland Hills Real Estate Agent 818-825-6996

Here is my entry.  Thanks http://activerain.com/blogsview/3794165/bogun-realty-and-luxury-homes-open-house-extraordinaire-

Jul 22, 2013 02:58 PM
Bandele Oguntomilade, Top REALTOR
Bogun Realty and Luxury Homes - Woodland Hills, CA
Your Woodland Hills Real Estate Agent 818-825-6996

Here is my entry:  http://activerain.com/blogsview/3794165/bogun-realty-and-luxury-homes-open-house-extraordinaire-

Thanks, Bandele

Jul 22, 2013 03:01 PM
Bruce Hicks
Best Homes Hawaii - Honolulu, HI
Your Best Hawaii Realtor!
Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Here you go ...

Open House Events | If Agents Host Them Then Make The Most Of Them

Thanks for the opportunity. 

Jul 25, 2013 02:24 AM
Herman Herrera
HERMAN & CO REAL ESTATE - Staten Island, NY
Jul 25, 2013 07:40 AM
Helen and Larry Prier- Re-Max Gateway - Residential Real Estate
RE-MAX Gateway- Residential Real Estate Sales - Anacortes, WA
Anacortes & surrounding Skagit & Island Counties

Here is my Entry. I am sure I missed some pointers but this covers a lot. 

Open Houses- My Thoughts!

Jul 25, 2013 10:34 AM
Al & Peggy Cunningham, Brokers
RE/MAX West Realty Inc., Brokerage - Brampton, ON
Our Family Wants To Help Your Family!

Open Houses can work, looking forward to the webinar on them!

Jul 26, 2013 05:05 AM
Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393
Fred Griffin Florida Real Estate
Fred Griffin Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker

I love a great Contest, especially one about Open Houses!

 

Are You Marketing You Yourself The Agent at your Open House?

Jul 26, 2013 01:11 PM
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Great contest Bob, looking forward to learning from the other entries, here is mine.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/3798539/open-houses-amazing-way-to-show-rentals-a-crowdsourcing-challenge

Jul 26, 2013 02:11 PM
Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
Metro Boston Homes For Sale

Ok, as always, one of the last entries....(and I believe there will be someone who has done this!)

A House Left OPEN for NEIGHBORS!

Jul 26, 2013 04:31 PM
Nancy Laswick
United Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
Your REALTORĀ® For The Valley Of The Sun

Thanks for the contest Bob, here's my entry link:

http://actvra.in/YSG

Jul 26, 2013 04:31 PM
Captain Wayne - Rowlett Real Estate School
Rowlett Real Estate School - Panama City, FL
Rowlett Real Estate School / Owner and Instructor

Our Strategy to Generate More Business For Rowlett Real Estate School     

thanks for the contest!           

Jul 28, 2013 04:44 PM
Scott Fogleman
New Home Team - Richmond, VA

Hey Kerrie and the AR Team, here is my entry A Successful Open House in Bedford

Jul 30, 2013 03:53 AM