Get More Business & Increase Your Income!

Catching yourself coming & going?

Not enough hours in the day?

Congratulations!

That means your business is booming…

Carol can help!!!

 

          Let our transaction coordinator, Carol (ext. 252), help eliminate

some of that stress by handling the multitude of paperwork and  phone calls

associated with closing your transactions.

 

            Call or visit Carol to learn how she can give you more time in your day.

How you use that time is up to you…

RELAX & ENJOY

or

GET MORE BUSINESS & INCREASE YOUR INCOME

This is what you can have for only $35.00 Set-Up Fee

 

Property Address___________________________________________________

Seller(s)___________________________________________________________

Agent____________________Mobile___________________________________ VM__________________E-mail_______________________________________

Choose One:

            □  Manila Folder or Printed Folder

 

Agent Provides:

            □  MLS agreement

            □  Agency disclosure form

            □  Consumer Bulletin

            □  Property disclosure

            □  Lead based paint disclosure

            □  Photos

           

Check any of the following you’d like completed:

            □  Listing entered in GLAR

            □  Load disclosures on GLAR

            □  Pull tax records                                                               

            □  Neighborhood schools                                                    

            □  Flood zone determination                                               

            □  Paperwork turned into accounting                               

            □  File delivered to agent                                                     

            □  Add listing to homefeedback.com                                 

            □  Feature sheet                                   

 

White Castle Day Pictures

Here are the pictures from White Castle Day!

 

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National Do Not Call Number

 

To prevent recieving sales calls from telemarketers, call the following number from your cell phone:

888-382-1222

 

It is the NATIONAL DO NOT CALL LIST.  It will only take a minute of your time.  It blocks your number for five (5) years.  You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked.  You cannot call from a different phone number. 

 

May Organizing Tips

Organizing your closet is the kind of chore that you
can constantly find excuses to avoid. In fact, it’s
such an undertaking that it usually takes a traumatic
event, like having the closet collapse before you
actually get to it. But where to begin?http://www.intuitiveliving.net

1) Sort by season. If you have the luxury of extra
space, put your out-of-season clothing in plastic bins
and covered hanging racks and store it in a separate
area of your house or apartment. If you don’t have the
space outside of your closet then place the
out-of-season items towards the back of the closet and
have the current seasonal items up front where you can
access them.

2) Sort by color. The reason to organize your closet
is not just to make space but to be able find the
clothes you want. It’s so frustrating searching for an
item of clothing that has gotten lost in the “black
hole” of disorganization. Organize by garment type and
color. In other words, keep all shirts hanging
together arranged by color. Do the same for skirts,
jackets and so forth.   

3) Shoes, shoes and more shoes. If you are a woman the
issue is where are you going to put all your shoes?
Shoes take up more space than you think. There are a
variety of shoe storage systems. Depending on your
needs there are bins that hang from your clothes rod
that will hold 10 or 20 pair of shoes. Check out the
pre-built wooden systems that can be placed under
short hanging items. And use individual plastic shoe
bins for storing out-of-season shoes that you won’t be
wearing for a while.

NOT SURE WHERE TO START? TRY A FREE CONSULTATION.
If you would like to find out how organizing and Feng
Shui can help you, contact Melanie Stokes at
502.417.7123 and schedule a FREE 30 minute phone
session to evaluate your needs and to see how we can
help you.

Melanie J. Stokes
Intuitive Living
Feng Shui & Organizing Solutions
502.417.7123

Top 5 Reasons

Top 5 reasons why you would want to listen to a Loan Officer blow hot air:

 

1. The breakfast is FREE

2. It’s an excuse to eat calorie ridden bagels and cream cheese

3.  What else are you going to do at 9:30 on a Tuesday morning?

4.  I can find free money for your borrowers

5.  The topics in my Q and A’s pertain to your borrowers and what is going on in today’s mortgage world

 

 

Winning in Today’s Market

Today’s market presents challenges and opportunities for most agents in the business.  For experienced agents like you, it provides a unique opportunity to expand market share like never before!

 

RE/MAX Ultimate Agent is for agents who want to significantly boost production, generate higher quality, higher volume leads, and learn the secrets of the top producers.

 

Eight Weeks to Ultimate Success

 

Over eight short weeks, once a week, you’ll participate in fast-paced training sessions where you’ll learn:

 

·         How to turn good clients into great clients

·         How to build a dynamic network of business owners

·         Powerful dialogs for today’s market

·         How to increase your effectiveness and efficiency on a daily basis

 

The first session will be May 13 at one o’clock in the large conference room. 

 

Did you miss the three session Nancy Freeman training on Foreclosures, Short Sales and REOs?  We will repeat these classes starting May 18 in Suite 213. 

 

For more information on these and other training opportunities just give me a call at x 178.

 

No Tech Session This Week.

This week I will be on a business vacation!

I will be in Phoenix teaching part of a 3 day conference on helping REALTORS build their marketing. I have linked to the details of the conference so that you can see what I am up to!

My goal is to return with a TON of ideas to help you with your marketing! Since I will be spending 3 days with experts in:

Blogging

Social Media

Print Media

Signage

Cold Calling

DRIP E-mail Campaigns

…the odds are really good that I will pick up some good stuff!

I will be back on Derby Day, this coming Saturday.

While there will be no tech session, the blogging group will meet as normal at 11am Tuesday. Get ready for a GREAT tech session next week!

Best

Eric

Sailing through this market

Most REALTORS are in the same boat right now. Surrounded by rough seas and filled with uncertainty. Let me assure you that you are in the strongest and best boat of all! In the last few newsletters I have pointed out the overwhelming advantages you have with the multitude of tools, technology and staff you have at your disposal. Just this year we’ve added, fax to email, Homefeedback, and the new generation of VoicePad. Our web presence is by far the best there is, thanks to Eric, and we produce more additional leads for our agents than any other office. Amazingly each day an average of 800 individuals visit our website with a daily average of more 15,000 page views! Coupled with your expertise, experience, education and reputation, this office will continue to outsell every other office in Louisville. Year to date in 2008 the agents of RE/MAX Properties East have sold 44% more than the office in second place! As competition falls away and leaves the business there is an even brighter view for each of us on the horizon.

Having the strongest “boat” is terrific, but we must all remain aware that the seas are still rough and, for awhile, the headwinds may be strong. Sales have been slow but steady recently and I feel this will remain the case for several months and possibly until the Spring market unless the government does a lot more than they have been doing for housing. While other companies are reducing overhead by closing offices or reducing staff and services, I am totally committed and will continue to invest in you and your success. I pledge that I will put every resource I have, if needed, to do this. This cannot be done alone. We are in this together and I need your help. Here is what I ask of you.

1. That you maintain the proper attitude. Have positive thoughts and you will have positive results. If what you have to say can’t be said in a positive way…don’t say it! People listen to you, and what you say has more effect on others around you than you may ever know. Clients, agents, and staff in our office as well as others outside our office are affected.
2. Do something every day to improve your skills. No matter how good you are, you can and must be better. I have been somewhat indifferent on Buffini and other coaches and trainers, but having seen the 1 session of Buffini’s ULTIMATE AGENT, I tell you there is not one agent in this office that wouldn’t increase sales immediately by participating.

THE FUTURE: I am absolutely convinced that the agents of RE/MAX Properties East can look forward to a future of prosperity. The clueless overseers of our economy will eventually stumble into the correct combination to enable housing to again lead this country out of recession. However, many agents (even a few in our office) who refuse to adapt to changes in the market and the mindset of the consumers of our service (buyers and sellers) will struggle. There is a huge inventory of houses that must be sold to solve the problem and somebody will have to sell them. Without doubt, there will be huge demand for great agents. Mediocre agents will continue to complain and look for someone to blame as their business continues to plummet.

Our office will continue to upgrade and provide you leading edge tools, tech and environment regardless of financial conditions. This is the only way I will do business. More importantly, we will do anything and everything possible to identify and to keep you aware of the best path and what and when change is necessary. We will continue to provide training and opportunities to keep your skills current. If you feel that you are an expert and too smart or too successful to bother with this you will find your career in decline. I see this happening, to some, even now.

Louisville will continue to suffer less than other areas and will rebound quicker than most. The journey back to normal is much shorter here than in areas where housing prices went up 10, 20, 30, and even 40% a few years ago.

TIMELINE:

30 DAYS – Sales will remain slow to steady as they are now for agents who have been working hard and doing the right things and will become nonexistent for agents who do not.

Actions by the government will begin having an effect. Though we are still in the winter months sales will improve. If these actions by the government are focused on housing sales and are highly effective, sales could be strong.

90 DAYS+ Spring! In the absence of a major event or economic set back, I feel home sales will be very strong and exceed the spring markets of the past few years.

I am extremely optimistic in regard to the future, but it is always wise to prepare for the worst. The office is looking forward to a bright future, but we are prepared for the worst. You should do the same. In either case we must face it together and genuinely look after each other. If we do, our successes will be greater: if our future is to be bright, it will be even brighter, and if the worst happens it will be a calmer storm for each of us. I would again remind you “The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack”

I remain,

DEDICATED TO YOUR SUCCESS

 Harrell

Your Leads, Your Sphere of Influence, Your Way

This weeks Tech Session (Thursday April 16th at 10am and 2pm) will feature the following agenda:

Your Leads: Get set up on RE/MAX’s new text platform so you can simply reply to text messages to accept leads. EASY. CONVENIENT.

Also we will be discussing how to set up personalized campaigns in campaigns plus.

Your Sphere of Influence: We will also do a quick project on Design Center. Did you watch the DVD that Harrell gave you? Did you see the Baseball Little League marketing piece?

If not please take the time to do it! It was good!

We will go over in class how to do it! (Including the right way to send those projects out to your sphere so that your sphere grows.)

(HINT: Did you know that you can incorporate Design Center and Facebook?) That ought to get you curious! (grin)

I look forward to seeing you here Thursday at 10 am or 2pm.

Jude spreads success to friends…

One of the great successes of our office that no one outside of our office would really know about is that we share a lot of great ideas and help each other. It has been something that Harrell wove into the fabric and culture of the office from the start.

It was no surprise to find the following scenario, but it is always a feel good reminder of how we do things differently here.

Jude McConnell first came to the Tech Session and saw the potential of REMAX’s new e-mail tool Campaigns Plus. He saw that he could reach his whole sphere with holiday greeting cards via email in minutes. He saw the potential of marketing with tools like that and Design Center to REDUCE his costs, while INCREASING his marketing effectiveness.

Then he implemented. He used the tools and got some pretty darn amazing results. Lots of his sphere contacting him back and thanking him for the Easter card.

Then he went to other agents and shared. He helped several of them see the value of doing this and took the time to show them (step by step) what he did.

More than a couple implemented the same thing with THEIR spheres.

Nicely done, Jude!

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