I know… FSBOs are the enemy. Right? Wrong! Here is a great little strategy that will make FSBOs love you and many ultimately do business with you. More importantly, this strategy will set you apart from the crowd of FSBO-haters out there and will help you generate a ton of very low-cost business.
Here is how it works. Introduce yourself to a FSBO seller and first set him at ease by telling him you are not there to talk …
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Earth Day organizers say about 1 billion people worldwide are taking part in the international day of environmental awareness today.
Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth’s environment. According to Wikipedia it was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970.
An ancient Indian Proverb says: “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our …
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Mobile Media Increases as a Powerful Trend
The average adult racks up 10 text messages in a day. Teens average 50 per day, or 1,500 per month. So says a new study just published.
Although Americans once lagged in text messaging, U.S. teens have zoomed right past many other countries says Rich Ling, a professor at IT University of Copenhagen.
Many are even predicting that texting will soon be more popular than calls.
So whether you’re President Obama, sports legend Tiger Woods or a hardworking Realtor® texting could be …
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Could a Social Media Web site be a threat to the dominance of the Google Search Engine?
Facebook has introduced a new revolutionary shift in the evolution of the Internet with its announcement last week at the f8 developer conference of their soon-to-be-ubiquitous “Open Graph” initiative – a new form of “social links.”
The launch of this new platform allows Web sites to drive traffic from Facebook by including a “Like” or “Recommended” button on their pages.
Facebook’s Open Graph allows readers to like a topic or …
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World’s Largest Real Estate Group
Realogy Corporation, the world’s largest real estate franchise group, last week reported their results through March 31st. The one-liner is that the Q1/10 revenue of $819 million is up 18% over the same period last year.
The growth is principally attributed to the move-up, higher priced markets and a comparatively weak first quarter in 2009. According to Realogy president and CEO Richard A. Smith, the company also saw gains in the average home sale price during the last year.
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Last year November, the Realtor® Property Resource (RPR) announcement by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) shook the industry. NAR had just reached an agreement with Lender Processing Services (LPS) and announced their plans on launching the Realtor® Valuation Model (RVM) in hopes that it will become the “gold standard” used by financial in the majority of online valuations.
For a detailed account on Automatic Valuations Models (AVM) and the events that led up to the creation, the structuring, the benefits and the concerns of RPR read the latest edition of …
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YouTube is more than just a video-sharing website. In a very short five years it has become a society changing phenomena alongside internet giants such as Google, Amazon, EBay, Wikipedia, Craigslist, Yahoo, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter. With more than two million views every single day, YouTube also boasts being the third largest website in the world behind only Google and Facebook.
Today it is estimated that 24 hours of new videos are uploaded every minute with over 70% of the material coming from outside the United States. YouTube estimates that the average person spends a whopping 15 minutes a day on YouTube.
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Trend #8 in the 2007 edition of the Swanepoel TRENDS Report discussed the likelihood of non-US real estate brokerage companies expanding to the United States. Countries that were identified to lead the charge included Australia, Canada, Germany and South Africa.
Harcourts Real Estate
This week, Australian-based Harcourts, with over 630 offices and 4,000+ agents in nine countries, became the third major non-US based company to validate this forecast with the announcement of a joint venture with one of California’s large real estate companies, Altera Real Estate.
Harcourts was founded …
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We are two weeks away from the World Cup Final.
It is said to be the world’s most widely viewed sporting event with an estimated one billion peoples expected to view the last finals on Sunday July 11th. In the last World Cup in 2006 in Germany, a European dominate field saw Italy snatching top honors over France and Germany beating Portugal for third place.
To date, the final of the 2010 World Cup has been dominated by European and South American teams with 11 of the 16 finalists coming from these …
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Affluence begins with an affluent state of mind. One of the best ways to stand out as a luxury real estate marketing professional is to hold the vision of a vibrant economic future, yours in particular. View the present marketplace as a place of opportunity rather than focus on the reality as presented to us by the media and other naysayers. What is true is that some luxury homes are selling in most upper tier marketplaces. The question is, “are you in this rosy part of the picture?”
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