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Realtors Find More Qualified Buyer And Seller Leads Prospects And Clients
Jul 23 2010
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Jul 03 2010
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Learn with Tom Ferry: Getting More Appointments Scheduled- Real Estate Agent Training
May 25 2010
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Real Estate Agent Training www.yourcoach.com Join Tom Ferry leading real estate agent coach and speaker explores concrete ideas for setting more appointments. Remember, a sign of a healthy real estate business is a lot of scheduled appointments each week. What are you doing to set more appointments? Who do you want to do business with? Get clear or change your definition to move your business forward on what clients you want to attract. Keep your best leads with you at all times . How can you reach out to them today?
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Apr 25 2010
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What you Need to Know About SEO in Real Estate Businesses for More Leads
Apr 08 2010
Posted by Greg Reed as Article Writing
Today, buyers need not look further than their desktop computers or laptop to search for real estate properties. That’s why real estate agents develop web sites on top of their traditional advertisements in the hopes of generating real estate leads online.
After creating a real estate website, the next concern of a real estate agent is to come up with effective strategies that will make the site generate real estate leads. Two of the challenges that most real estate agents face in developing a lead generating website is driving traffic into the site and converting these visitors into real estate leads. Although it may sound simple, it actually requires a lot of time and financial resources in planning and devising online marketing strategies that will work.
How to Get More Visitors to Your Website
There are many ways to drive traffic to your site. You can use Pay per Click advertising, which is hosted by Yahoo, MSN or Google. All you have to do is set up a PPC account, name the search terms or keywords that you want to direct to you (ex. real estate, online real estate agent), and then come up with a short ad for your website.
When someone searches using one of your search terms, you ad will then appear in the Sponsored Link area on the results page. If potential real estate leads click on the link for your ad, you will be charged for it. But because of the cost involved, it’s not efficient to rely on this method alone in driving traffic to your site.
The best way to get more traffic, and hopefully real estate leads is to use SEO or search engine optimization to get a higher ranking in the search engine results page. If someone searches using one of your search terms, your website will be listed in the results page itself, and not just in the Sponsored Link area.
How to Convert Visitors into Real Estate Leads
Your website design should motivate the visitors to stay much longer in your site, and hopefully become real estate leads. To do so, your website should provide the necessary information and research tools that will help buyers search for homes and other properties. This increases the chances of converting your visitors into real estate leads.
First, come up with an effective website design. This means you take everything into consideration, from the layout, navigation, aesthetic appeal, optimization, and quality content, among others. A first-time visitor should feel welcome in your website and should want to stay much longer to explore. Your contact information should also be easy to find.
To convert visitors into real estate leads, provide value. Allow them access to real estate information and search tools even without registering. Then, if they fully trust you and perceive the service you offer to be valuable, you can require them to register to access special features. You can then check on them and call them using the email address they provide or contact numbers. The rest depends on your marketing skills in converting real estate leads into clients.
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Real Estate Tidbits: Gardens More Than a Labor of Love
Mar 22 2010
Posted by Greg Reed as Article Writing
Green Happiness
âHe who plants a garden, plants happinessâ is an old saying. However, things have changed a lot nowadays. Today, the proverb could be thought of as âHe who plants a garden, plants money!â When it comes to selling a house, landscaping is an important factor that determines the value of the property. Real estate gurus believe that gardens around a house can contribute more than 10% to the total value of the property. Moreover, the houses with attractive gardens, particularly mature trees, are easily saleable when compared to the other houses with limited or underdeveloped landscaping. Investing a little time in tending your garden can really pay dividends when it comes to selling your home.
Enjoying Green
Houses with gardens around them are excellent choices for those who wish to enjoy time outside, while not travelling far to do so. It is always refreshing to open the door and go out into the garden and smell the flowers, plants, and trees. Most of us spend less time enjoying the greenery in public parks and sanctuaries since they are becoming more scarce and because of urban sprawl are often far away. Since most of us will never have a chance to visit the tropical rain forests of Central America why not invest a few dollars and house and have your own piece of nature right outside your door?
Green can be healthy
Plants not only contribute value to the property, but gardens also have great health benefits. The health benefits of gardening are impressive. According to medical experts, gardening is a great exercise for legs, shoulders, arms and neck. Gardening also helps to strengthen the joints in our body. Recent researches indicate that gardening lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol levels and also prevents diabetes and heart diseases. Gardening is also an ideal physical exercise for people who want to reduce their weight. Gardening helps to burn fat and as an added bonus, creates some healthy, organic fruits and vegetables for your entire family to eat.
Green in real estate
Based on a recent survey or property owners, it was noted that 95% of residential homeowners and 86% of commercial property owners believe that good landscaping adds more value to their properties. Also real estate brokers around Austin think that merely having a garden is enough to attract the buyers. Moreover, gardening has lots of benefits like offering a healthy body, fresh air, a fresh mind, fresh food, bringing birds, attracting butterflies, sustaining beneficial insects and added value to your property. Finally, gardening and makes your property look its best. So plant gardens around your home and grab the sure ticket to quick and valuable resale!
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The real estate industry is in the worst shape that it’s ever been – at least in my lifetime. More than a million homes are in foreclosure and things look like they’ll get worse before they get better.
An upside to this is that leads are plentiful; people need to sell while others want to buy. In this context real estate leads abound.
Are you positioned to get some? Do you have a system for capturing leads and converting them to warm, responsive prospects who eventually buy or sell?
If not there are a few simple things you can do to generate more leads, whether you’re a real estate agent, buyer, seller or investor. And if you really want to change your fortunes simply apply whatever strategies you develop consistently.
For example, you probably don’t benefit as much as you think by making 50 cold calls on Monday and none the rest of the week. A better approach would be to do a minimum of 10 calls a day over five days, or up the ante and make 50 phone calls a day five days in a row. The question becomes “how many leads do you want and how hard do you want to work get them?”
I hate to admit it, but I’m a lazy marketer. What I mean is I believe in working smarter – not harder – and use the following tools and strategies to fuel my lead generation campaigns.
Signup forms. I use sign up forms to capture the names of folk who visit my website. If they’re interested enough they’ll sign up for my free newsletter and I incentivize them to do so by offering free, useful real estate marketing tips, tools and resources. The more I give the more subscribers I get.
Auto responder. I use an auto responders to automate the process of signing prospects up for my newsletter. I use it to process their requests for information and to automatically deliver the newsletters via email. I even attach and deliver free gifts from time to time. An auto responder can quickly set you apart from other folk working the same leads you are.
Study and apply lead generation ideas. Finally, I’m almost fanatical about learning to earn. I can’ tell you how many leads I generate by reading and applying both old and new lead generation strategies. While things like gathering leads via open houses and through ads and flyer distribution isn’t new many agents are still wrongly stuck on the idea that they have to have listings in order to do effectively these things and make it worth their while.
Who else wants more leads? Well, me for one; I can always use more, no matter how many I have. What about you?
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Need More Real Estate Leads? Don’t have a lot of money to spend on getting them? Then join the club. But believe it or not there are ways to generate low cost leads and have fun giving back to your local community at the same time.
Still, I’m one of the first ones to admit that lead generation is a challenging, ongoing, never ending process. As long as you’re in real estate sales you’ll need leads…and plenty of them.
So, where do you find them? The short answer is everywhere.
For example, if you have kids their schools are excellent places to network for leads. Relationships established that can easily span thirteen or more years (kindergarten through 12th grade). And given that people move sometimes on average once every 7 years or so the majority of them will potential ly be repeat customers.
To get most out of your networking efforts you should to always wear something that identifies you as a real estate agent; a logo on a baseball cap, tee shirt, polo shirt, windbreaker, sports coat, that Century 21 Gold Blazer, etc.
Plus, always be prepared to give away business cards, but only when people ask for them. You don’t want to be perceived as an obnoxious, pushy salesperson that people want to avoid. That would be a terrible position for both you and your kids to be in. And what’s the point of being pushy anyway, as you’ll have up to 13 years to cultivate relationships with them.
The point is this…always be in a marketing and advertising mode; as real estate lead generation can be a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week endeavor.
Another strategy is to register your children in sports activities; basketball, football, track, cheer leading, swimming, etc. The benefits are your kids will be healthier because of the physical activity and it will create more relationship building experiences.
Whether it’s a football game, soccer tournament or track meet you’re likely to find hundreds of people gathered on any given weekend to support and cheer on their kids.
Here’s another tip. In addition to advertising through body wear, polo shirts, baseball caps, tee shirts and the like you can also distribute flyers by placing them on windshields of vehicles parked at the event.
Finally, sponsor scholarships for kids who can’t afford to attend extra-curricular activities; like field trips, registration fees to play sports, etc. Unfortunately, many kids can’t afford participation even low cost events, including ones costing as little as $5.00 – $10.00.
And you can do this without hurting your pocket. Here’s how.
Have a standing agreement with your child’s teacher to sponsor 1-2 kids throughout the year for different events. And without ever boasting about what you’re doing (please don’t) you’ll generate a lot of good will while being recognized by the teacher, school administration and parent as a caring, sharing person.
You’ll feel good about providing positive, lifelong memories for kids while making positive, business building relationships.
Well, there you have it it – 3 low cost, effective ways to generate more real estate leads. Work them consistently, year end and year out and you’ll develop a strong network of parents, teachers and school administrators that will do repeat business with you for years to come.
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Forget everything you may have heard about real estate marketing, pull up a chair and hear me out.
If you are a real estate professional, marketing yourself can also feel like a pretty thankless job. You know what I mean, don’t you?
You entered real estate possessing the sincere desire to assist the public. But it didn’t take long to discover if no one knew who you were or how to contact you, your career was not going far. Because without a continuous flow of new business, real estate agents will shrivel up and die.
Time flies so I am not surprised that two years have passed since I sold my house. I was on the other side of the table though. I needed a real estate agent. I was about to become a seller.
Due to personal circumstances, my move was a necessity. That’s why even though the real estate market had taken a turn for the worst, I proceeded with listing our home.
I mention this because the rest of what you are going to read here is not based on theory. It is from my personal experience which I hope can be of assistance to readers.
Like I already mentioned, I needed a Realtor to list our home. I had a jump on this decision because I knew who to pick being the owner of a mortgage company. I appreciated the willingness of the agent I chose because I knew it made her nervous to list our home. Talk about feeling scrutinized.
Marketing practices had changed since the last time I sold a house. After all, thirteen years had passed. Real estate marketing had moved to the web using virtual tours. To update myself, I requested a market analysis and marketing plan from my Realtor.
Well, I was right! Things had changed. Throughout the process of marketing our home, I certainly discovered a thing or two. And I dare say our real estate agent did too. As we finished up with our listing agreement, I mentioned to my agent my one pet peeve regarding real estate marketing.
I continued to explain how my husband and I were checking out neighborhoods admiring properties for sale lately. In order to keep from confusing the homes when we talked them over later in the day, I was collecting flyers. But here is what I was noticing.
We had a little system. My husband would pull over to the curb while I jumped out of the car to grab a flyer from the box in the yard. But I can’t tell you how many times I was frustrated by an empty flyer box. Sellers had to be discouraged too.
But most of all, I thought about the lost opportunity for the real estate agent who had been hired to market and sell the property.
Now I knew everyone in real estate was focusing on internet marketing to generate real estate leads. Flyers has been around since the dinosaurs. Paperless was the way to go! But hold that thought until you hear what happened. Then you can be the judge.
So getting back to my pet peeve. We were still meeting with the listing agent and I told her as a seller, I was only going to request one thing. Give me a full flyer box, please. I did not expect her to fill it. I suggested we make it my job to replenish the flyer box.
Although my agent seemed a but skeptical, she agreed to comply with my request. Reflecting on the transaction while signing the final documents, I am not sure which of us was most surprised.
Going back again, do you remember the real estate market was in the dumps? The four months it took to sell our home was longer than I’d hoped for. But neighboring properties seemed impervious to receiving offers.
Now while our home was up for sale, a strange thing was happening. We felt a little discouraged because no one were coming by. Or were they? I began to count how many flyers were going into the box and how many were left over every couple of days. We counted at least one hundred gone every week.
The virtual tour stats, overwhelmingly positive, confirmed the story. It turned out even though our house wasn’t getting visited physically, home buyers and real estate agents were touring it digitally. Our Realtor had made sure every flyer had a web address leading to a descriptive page and a link to the tour. Potential buyers might have not been knocking on our door but they sure were using the flyers to locate our home online.
Now think back to what I mentioned earlier about real estate agents missing marketing opportunities because of empty flyer boxes. Not our Realtor! In spite of a depressed market, she attributed selling at least three other houses to prospective home buyers who made contact via her flyers. She also listed a property for a homeowner due to the flyer.
And don’t forget my house. It sold faster than others in our neighborhood.
My Realtor and I both came away with a valuable lesson. By mixing traditional real estate marketing methods with new, we got a superior result than either by itself.
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