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Bring STAGING To The World - One Local Community At A Time!

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As I've said before, I learned about the wonderful world of staging when I joined Active Rain. Ever since then, I've been on a mission to tell as many of my clients and business associates as I can about the benefits of staging.  I wonder if you are taking advantage of a fantastic opportunity to do the same thing...

Of course, I'm talking about Localism.com.  This, in my not-quite-so-humble opinion, is an excellent way for stagers to be visible - not only to those potential buyers but to sellers and agents as well.

Why would you want to be visible to buyers? Because one day they will turn around to become sellers and you want YOUR name to be the first one they see when they get to that point and start looking around. They're going to start in their local community, right? Don't you want to be there?

Why would you want to be visible to sellers? You already know this one... Because they could use your services right now to get their property as pleasing as possible to get it sold quickly.

Why would you want to be visible to agents? You already know this one, too... Because the agents are in a perfect position to refer you to sellers!

If your goal is to saturate your local community with information about staging and your services in particular, Localism.com is a perfect place to put your advertsing dollars.  And it doesn't even cost that much! My community was only $9/month!! That's the cost of 1.5 lattes!

Have you made a decision to sponsor your local community?  If not, why? What are you waiting for?  If you have, what are some of the ways you plan to make use of your community?

~Renae - Market 4 Real!

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Tanya Venable
Orlando, FL
SEO, Mobile SEO, and Internet Marketing Consultant

Renae - Good Post! This is definitely good info, I will look into it. Thanks for sharing!

Aug 15, 2008 07:51 AM
Virginia Tatseos
Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

Interesting idea    like many others that start out as a free website and then try selling neighborhoods.

There's no contact us button on the site which leads me to believe they are just begining to create the site.

Aug 17, 2008 12:05 PM
Renae Bolton
Marketing 4 Realtors - Garfield Heights, OH
I'm your Professional Real Estate Marketing VA!

Tanya - Definitely worth looking into, Tanya. You won't regret it!

Virginia - Localism is a part of Active Rain, actually.  You can purchase a neighborhood (or as many as you want) to "sponsor" it but you don't have to.  If you post your blog to your local neighborhood on Localism, you can build yourself up as the neighborhood expert and become the featured member there.  No costs at all for doing that.  Let me know if you have any questions about it -I'll be more than happy to help you out!

~Renae

Aug 18, 2008 11:40 AM
Virginia Tatseos
Stage-Show-Sell - Bloomfield Township, MI

I'm posting to localism tonight :-)     I went to Localism.com and tried to register :-(

Will check it out later when I'm finished with my very long post

Aug 18, 2008 12:11 PM
Renae Bolton
Marketing 4 Realtors - Garfield Heights, OH
I'm your Professional Real Estate Marketing VA!

Virginia - Your login for Localism is the same as your login for Active Rain.  And, you don't have to actually log into Localism to post there.  When you write your post, just select Localism right above where you select the Active Rain groups.  If you have problems, let me know and I'll be happy to help you out.  I'm off for the night but I'll be back on bright and early tomorrow!

~Renae

Aug 18, 2008 01:13 PM