Lowes Realtor Benefits
Have you signed up for your Lowes Benefits? You could be sending discount gift cards to clients to save them some real world dollars. By using your REALTOR discount you can save money, too. Here you'll find Free 10% off coupons, Free access to helpful videos, Free new homeowner direct mail, and coming soon, free E-Newsletters. You owe it to your clients to check this out.
Also, Coming Soon Lowes E-Coupons, these are coupons you email directly to your clients for immediate savings.
ctfmon.exe ... What Is It?
When you press control, alt, delete and open your Windows Task Manager it shows what programs are currently running on your computer, but what are they?
Click here for the Process Library, you can find out what the files actually do.
Simply type your file name into the search box at the top of the home page and follow the instructions. This can be particularly handy if you're trying to remove programs from your start up menu to speed up your computer.
Technology
For this month's "Best Tech Toy" I'd like to share Allstate Insurance's Know Your Stuff home inventory software. Your buyers and sellers will appreciate this free software download, and you might even want to try it out yourself. Do you keep a home inventory? It just got easier.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
01/01/2009 Newsletter
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Picture ThisYou've gone to great lengths to get the perfect picture of your client's property. You've been out in the morning, in the evening, in the afternoon. The front is always in shadow. What's wrong?
If your seller's home faces north there's not a thing you can do about it, but you can plan to make pictures on an overcast day. You might even get lucky and snap a shot when a cloud momentarily obscures the sun. Otherwise, your choices are linited. You can use a photo editing utility. You could also use an inset photo for print advertising and run two pictures instead of one. We can set that up for you.
For more about real estate photography, visit Photography For Real Estate
If your seller's home faces north there's not a thing you can do about it, but you can plan to make pictures on an overcast day. You might even get lucky and snap a shot when a cloud momentarily obscures the sun. Otherwise, your choices are linited. You can use a photo editing utility. You could also use an inset photo for print advertising and run two pictures instead of one. We can set that up for you.
For more about real estate photography, visit Photography For Real Estate
Blog?
Seems like everyone's blogging and there's a lot of buzz about it. The word Blog actually originates from the term web-log, which would be a commentary, by anyone, about anything. Like a journal, dates run in chronological order. Not enough information? Click Blog for the WiKipaedia version.
There are several super real estate blogs, one of my favorites is Joeann's Blog, subtitled: Relaxed Real Estate for Magnificent Agents managed and written by Joeann Fossland.
And yes, I blog, not regularly, and not particularly well, but you've got to start somewhere. Visit me at:Karen'sCorner.
Have a go at it yourself. You can put up a free blog of your own at: Google's Blogger.
Technology
For this month's "Best Tech Toy" I'd like to share Constant Contact with you. This newsletter has been generated using a Constant Contact Template. User friendly, the site produces a professional and cohesive newsletter at a reasonable cost. This newsletter has been generated using a free trial version. What do you think? Could you use this in your business? Sign up for your free trial today.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
It's Human Nature
What's your biggest problem? Buyers. I know, you need more buyers and you're out there trying to sell your listings, you're doing everything you can to drive web traffic to your site, personalizing yard signs with sign riders, setting up brochure boxes, posting your listings online with Trulia and REALTOR.com, and you're being told print is dead.
Duh -- it is and has always been rare for a client to phone in regarding a property he/she has seen online and make an offer on that property without visiting the area. And they don't always call when they come in for that first look around, do they? Yes, sometimes they call and say, "We're Here" and you call your dentist and cancel the cleaning appointment you waited three months to get -- why -- because you know if you don't drop everything and show them some property, they'll find someone who will.
When they leave the state to go back home, they'll have several real estate books in hand. Our little book will be on top of the stack - after all it's human nature to make piles and to put the smallest items on top. And if you look at our little book, you'll find there's no dateline, rather a volume and issue number - so they'll keep it around a while. If they saw a picture they liked on the way home they'll page to it again and again, fold the corner down, and perhaps call you for information asking you to send them a listing sheet. If they pick up books regularly, they'll get familiar with the companies who advertise, see their agents in print, and feel very comfortable working with you - after all, they feel like they know you.
And for sellers - they picking up books, too, to see what's for sale BEFORE they call a listing agent.
Technology is growing so fast it's downright overwhelming - that's why yard signs will never go out of style - people like to do a drive by to see a home and a neighborhood BEFORE they make an appointment to see a property. They'll pick up the local real estate books, sit down with their maps and call for addresses. Then sitting in the car with their real estate books in the floor and their map on the dash they'll call the listing firm and ask for more information about the house and perhaps an agent. Don't you want that agent to be you?
The Real Estate Book has been in business for more than 30 years, we have teams of people behind the scenes working for you. We syndicate to more than 20 online partners and distribute our local books to more than 500 locations in 4 counties.
Duh -- it is and has always been rare for a client to phone in regarding a property he/she has seen online and make an offer on that property without visiting the area. And they don't always call when they come in for that first look around, do they? Yes, sometimes they call and say, "We're Here" and you call your dentist and cancel the cleaning appointment you waited three months to get -- why -- because you know if you don't drop everything and show them some property, they'll find someone who will.
When they leave the state to go back home, they'll have several real estate books in hand. Our little book will be on top of the stack - after all it's human nature to make piles and to put the smallest items on top. And if you look at our little book, you'll find there's no dateline, rather a volume and issue number - so they'll keep it around a while. If they saw a picture they liked on the way home they'll page to it again and again, fold the corner down, and perhaps call you for information asking you to send them a listing sheet. If they pick up books regularly, they'll get familiar with the companies who advertise, see their agents in print, and feel very comfortable working with you - after all, they feel like they know you.
And for sellers - they picking up books, too, to see what's for sale BEFORE they call a listing agent.
Technology is growing so fast it's downright overwhelming - that's why yard signs will never go out of style - people like to do a drive by to see a home and a neighborhood BEFORE they make an appointment to see a property. They'll pick up the local real estate books, sit down with their maps and call for addresses. Then sitting in the car with their real estate books in the floor and their map on the dash they'll call the listing firm and ask for more information about the house and perhaps an agent. Don't you want that agent to be you?
The Real Estate Book has been in business for more than 30 years, we have teams of people behind the scenes working for you. We syndicate to more than 20 online partners and distribute our local books to more than 500 locations in 4 counties.
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