The number 1 way to increase your business……is to be in front of people. Some agents try to do this through geographic farming, standing open houses, door knocking or other prospecting means.

How about a new approach, do something you enjoy doing AND oh by the way you happen to sell real estate. When you work side by side with people, toiling over a common goal or conversing about common interests and you later do business with them, you will find that business to be more meaningful, successful and fun.

Volunteering from a business stand point is a multi-faceted activity. You win because you are meeting new people, you are building your personal brand and feel the satisfaction of volunteerism. The organization wins because you are bringing talents, contacts and energy to the group. The community wins because of the service you and your organization bring to the whole. Along the way you will do more business.

When you lead as a salesperson you often loose, when you lead as who you are as a real person, everyone wins. Try these ideas and get involved….get started win-winning.

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28 Pro-active AND inexpensive steps you can take today to improve your real estate business:

1. Send out unsolicited CMA’s, follow up with a phone call.
2. Hand written notes to your clients.
3. Call 50 houses around your new listing
4. Door knock 50 houses around your new listing
5. More photos for each of your listings
6. Blog (Limit your time spent here)
7. Do your own SEO work on your website (Limit your time spent here)
8. Call expired listings
9. Use drip e-mail marketing
10. Talk with FSBO’s

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Allow me to introduce …….. our new blog…….

One more way that we can communicate with you and you with us. Communicate about what you might ask? About your website, new tools, changes and updates….about marketing ideas, ways to improve your business and ways that you can share your expertise with your customers.

Our goal is to not only provide the best web marketing tools available, but to also provide information, ideas and insights that might make your job easier as you communicate with your customers. This blog is just one way that we are using to keep you in the know. We will also employ a monthly electronic newsletter, announcements on the dash board of the admin side of your website as well as direct e-mail.

As you receive and read this information please share back with us your thoughts and ideas. Either through comments on this blog or through e-mail we look forward to hearing from you.