Showing homes would be MUCH more fun, if we could do it THIS way:
Thank you GeeksAreSexy for pointing this one out …
October 31, 2008
October 30, 2008
Where Are You Sending Your Potential Customers?
I was reading a post on Active Rain about their new Listing Router – a new service that Active Rain is offering their members.
Then came across a GREAT post, by Kelley at ARE-TEC (a new company who creates “IDX Solutions, Web Tools and Real Estate Sites for Brokers, Agents, and Teams – Designed by agents to serve real agent needs, big and small”) This post was about how to effectively USE the Listing Router, based off of techniques that they successfully use in PPC (Pay Per Click) Campaigns.
This post brought up an excellent point: Where Are You Sending Your Potential Customers?
If you are going to PAY to have the opportunity to work with someone, then make sure that the link that they click goes DIRECTLY to a site/page/program that addresses their needs IMMEDIATELY.
Read the Full Post:
Getting the Most out of the Listing Router
Learn More About ARE-TEC: http://www.are-tec.com/
October 27, 2008
Gary Keller to SHIFT into NAR on Nov. 8
The nation’s best sellers to learn from the newest best seller…
Gary Keller, who authored the real estate industry’s latest ground-breaking book, SHIFT: How Top Real Estate Agents Tackle Tough Times, will lead a breakout session on the book at 9 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 8 at the upcoming National Association of REALTORS® Conference and Expo in Orlando, Fla.
SHIFT explores 12 proven strategies for achieving success in any real estate market including:
- Master the Market of the Moment: Short Sales, Foreclosures and REOs
- Create Urgency: Overcoming Buyer Reluctance
- Re-margin Your Business: Expense Management
- Find the Motivated: Effective Lead Generation
- Expand the Options: Creative Financing
Keller, who also authored the nationally best-selling book, The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, will outline the 12 tactics that all real estate agents must implement NOW to thrive in today’s real estate market.
More than 22,000 members of NAR are expected to attend the conference. To learn more about Keller’s presentation at NAR, click here.
Click here to learn about the NAR Conference and Expo.
October 26, 2008
I Nominate Todd Carpenter for the NAR Social Media Manager Position
… ONLY if he still really wants it. (But I am not happy that Chicago is more than 1 hour away from Colorado Springs.)
Read WHY Todd Carpenter
could be an asset to NAR:
If I were NAR’s Social Media Manager
[Image Source: RESPRES – Where's the Sombrero]
October 6, 2008
Colorado Keller Williams Rocky Mountain Summit
Derek and I will be spending the week up in Keystone, CO for the 2008 Colorado Keller Williams Rocky Mountain Summit. (Oddly, it is the same time as the Keller Williams Masterminds in Austin, TX …) It will take place at the Keystone Resort Conference Center, in Keystone Colorado. I am excited to hear Andy Andrews speak again. I saw him last year and was very impressed. (Andy Andrews is a motivational/inspirational speaker and author of many books, including The Traveler’s Gift)
Here is what will be going on this week:
Monday, October 6, 2008: 5:00 – 7:00 Early Registration (Grays Peak Foyer)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (Day 1):
- 8:00 – 9:00 Registration (Grays Peak Foyer)
- 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome! (Longs Peak & Grays Peak)
- 9:15 – 12:00 Andy Andrews: Sailing Through Rough Seas-How to Prosper In Difficult Times (Longs Peak & Grays Peak)
- 12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (Longs Peak & Grays Peak)
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1:15 – 3:00 Breakout Sessions: (Quandary Peak 1, 2, 3)
- Intro to Commercial Real Estate and KW Commercial
- Maximizing Your KW Technology Tools – Technology Panel
- How I Made $100k My First Year of Real Estate – Rookie Panel
- 3:15 – 5:00 Speaker: David Knox – Prospering in a Changing Market (Longs Peak & Grays Peak)
- 5:00 – 6:00 Vendor Fair and Cocktail Party (Vendor Exhibit Hall)
- 7:00 – 10:00 Fun Night at Dos Locos – $10 Cover charge includes Buffet
Wednesday, October (Day 2):
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8:30 – 10:15 Breakout Sessions: (Quandary Peak 1, 2, 3)
- How to Succeed in Real Estate Failing 99% of the Time – Rick Guthrie
- Power Through a Shifting Market- Gary Carpenter from the Floyd Wickman Group
- 101 Ideas to Jump Start Your Business – Team Leader Panel
- 10:15 – 12:15 Inspirational Brunch – “Dare to Dream” by Keith Alba & Toni Kier
- 12:30 – 3:00 Rick Barnes – Generating Real Estate Buzz Without the Bucks
If you are a Colorado Keller Williams Real Estate Agent … Hope to see you there!
October 5, 2008
A Note to All the Chicken Little Real Estate Agents Out There
They sky is not falling.
The real estate landscape is just changing.
If you were comfortable in your real estate vehicle for the past 10+ years, now would be the time to trade it in for a more hybrid/land-water/multi-terrain vehicle. (No, I am not talking actual cars.)
…otherwise you are going to become extinct.
Now is the time to gain market share.
Now is the time that TRUE millionaires are made … in ANY industry.
Be creative. Watch your numbers. Shift ahead of the market. Pray.
Good Luck.
Sincerely, Mariana Wagner
(Copied from a comment I left on Active Rain.)
Update – a quote I just read:
“I’m not buying into the idea that the market is down. The market is the market. Productivity is a choice.” – Michaelann Byerly KW Tampa FL Real Estate Agent
Update – Here is a “Sky is Falling Post” that I found on the Central Ohio Network Blog and enjoyed: Is the Sky Really Falling?
