Low cost, effective way to get seller leads

Over the past two weeks I ran a little experiment to see if I could get leads on potential home sellers. What I wanted to do was to get names, email addresses and street addresses of people who MIGHT be interested in selling their homes. I had some parameters that I wanted to observe. It…

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The Social Web…A Boon for real estate agents

There’s no doubt about it. The Internet has become the social meeting place for people from all walks of life. Whether they’re looking for a new place to live, need information on a certain topic or just want a little laugh, they’re turning to the social web to get what they need. In addition, search…

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Cool way to send birthday greetings to your Facebook friends

Do you use Facebook as a way to prospect for clients?  Many agents that I know have used Facebook successfully to stay in touch with their sphere of influence. They do that in a variety of ways, some of which include, posting relevant, timely, engaging, funny and useful things.  Many of them also look at…

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Free real estate agent resource that can make you money in 2015!

I want to talk to you today about an incredible resource that I’ll bet you are not using.  Heck, I’ll even bet that you aren’t even aware that it exists! I just spent a few minutes noodling around on this site and found the following things: A page that was loaded with some scripts to…

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Startup will get you more sales on autopilot!

How good are you at staying in touch with your past clients?  The ones that closed an escrow with you.  The ones that would gladly tell their friends how awesome you are…if only they could remember your name… We often fall victim to our own successes.  You know what I mean, when we close an…

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Over 300 ways to make 2015 your best year ever!

If you are reading this then it’s safe top say that the first week of 2015 is in the books already! Only 51 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains.  I am sure…

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Free 2015 business planning resource for REALTORS®

As I write this it is December 26th, 2014. I have spent much of the day today thinking about business planning for real estate agents.  My thought process has pointed me in the direction of searching for resources that I could tell you about. My original plan was to compile a list of resources that…

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What is the BEST CMA tool for real estate agents? I think it’s TouchCMA. Read on for a discount!

I’ll keep this week’s post short as I know you are probably crazy busy right now with holiday preparations. But, you really do want to read this all the way through because I have a heck of a deal for you! I was recently asked to evaluate a number of CMA products for one of…

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Get more referrals with ReferralRock

For as long as I can remember I have been intrigued by the process of finding new clients.  As a real estate agent back in the mid-80s I had to find a steady stream of new people who needed my services.  Then, as now, the competition was strong…there seemed to be too many real estate…

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Google ups the ante on mobile search – is YOUR site ready?

With Ninety-two percent of buyers using the internet in some way in their home search process and 50 percent of buyers using a mobile website or application in their home search, getting found via a Google search is critically important. (Source: NAR 2014 PROFILE OF HOME BUYERS AND SELLERS, page 6) Reread the above sentence.  Did…