Are you sending out email newsletters to your database? If so, how’s that working out for you? If you are like most people who do that, your results have been less than stellar. Part of the reason why you may not be getting responses to your newsletter is that they are not getting opened in…
The end of the year and the beginning of the new year are only days away as I write this post. I was thinking about what to write about this week and felt that I should concentrate on something that can a make a big impact in the bottom line of real estate agents. Towards…
It’s with some trepidation that I am writing about a tool that will provide a mobile optimized web site for for free. The trepidation comes from that fact that this tool, while being just short of fabulous, does not provide the entire mobile solution. It goes far enough though, that many of you won’t take…
Ever get the feeling that Facebook is hiding things from you? That people are talking about things that you don’t see on your Facebook wall? If so, it’s because YOU have not taken advantage of Facebook’s enhanced List feature. The Facebook wall, up until recently, was a riot of information. Posts from people that you…
People are looking for you online right now! What are they finding? Better go take a look for your name on the three major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo to see. The more often YOU appear on that first page of search results the better, so I have found a really cool way to…
You can’t avoid it anymore. It’s everywhere you look. Television commercials for all sorts of products tell you to do it, magazine ads feature the logo and the promise of benefits if you will just do this one thing. Every one you know is there already and recent events in the Middle East have shown…
Last April I wrote a two part series about finding new clients using social tools, and in Part Two of that series I talked a little bit about working with only those people that you like. Here are links to those articles because I think that you should quickly review them as they will set…
The other day I was having a conversation with a new client (I consult with small businesses to help them market their business via social media) about using social tools in their business. When I asked them why they wanted to use social media. I got a strange look from them. They asked me to…
I’ve recently been running some hands on classes that required the attendees to do some preparation work before coming to the class. One of the students was struggling with a few of the assignments and I knew that if I could just show him the proper things to do, that he could get back on…
Last week I talked about your need to have a prospecting plan that brings you the customers that you want to work with, instead of always having to work with whoever shows up! Wouldn’t it be nice if we always had a steady stream of prospective clients moving towards us as we move towards them?…
