Real Estate Internet Blog

Create Your Best Strategic Business Plan for 2009

2008-11-19T11:46:00.001-05:00

Rich Levin will be conducting a free live tele-seminar this Thursday (11/20) at 3 PM EST. Now is the time to start strategizing and preparing for 2009. Rich will discuss the 5 key steps to create an effective Business Plan. He will teach you how to set real obtainable goals that you will stick to and succeed with by utilizing the 5 key goal setting steps. This is completely free and open to everyone so invite your fellow Agents to this very informative event. Rich receives rave reviews for these free calls and due to his busy fall speaking schedule he has been very limited in his time but he is very excited to get back to conducting these free educational calls for Realtors.Simply dial 309-946-5300 then enter 317175# when prompted for the pin # on Thursday 11/20 at 3:00 PM ESTDon't miss this live event. You will have a chance to ask Rich questions at the end.

Best Camera on the Market?

2008-11-07T09:01:00.002-05:00

I often get questions like this from my clients and they know I speak with Agents from coast to coast everyday. I don't claim to be an expert in this area but I did want to share with you what my clients are saying about the best camera on the market today. It is the Panasonic Lumix model DMCFX35. I found it online anywhere from $189 to $309 so be sure to shop around before making your purchase!

Marketing Myths, Errors and Facts of High Return Marketing

2008-11-03T14:44:00.001-05:00

Rich Levin conducated a free educational teleseminar last Thursday. To hear a recording please visit www.RichLevinBlog.com For more information about all of our free educational teleseminars please go to www.RichLevin.com They are conducated every other Thursday at 3:00 PM EST.

Check Your Website Link Count

2008-10-16T09:42:00.002-04:00

Simply go to google and in the search box put links: your domanname.com (do not use www or http://) Example: links: richlevin.com In the upper right corner in the blue bar it will show you how many other website are linked to your site. We had 361! Try it just for fun!

Foreclosure Hot Spots

2008-10-14T11:47:00.001-04:00

Have you seen this site? It was featured on an Inman News post. It shows the rate of foreclosures across the country using a hot map. Double click on your area and it will zoom right into your congressional district. It is going to be really useful to me as I speak in fourteen cities about this over the next sixty days. http://hotpads.com/search/election-2008#lat=37.6790386010976&lon=-97.312608897686&zoom=12&bottomZoom=17&previewId=election-2008&previewType=area&template=political&listingTypes=foreclosure&includeVaguePricing=false&pricingFrequency=once&loan=30,0.059,0&areaLabels=Congressional&areaBorders=heatMapForeclosurePerHousehold

Emergency Tough Market Tele-seminar

2008-10-03T12:20:00.001-04:00

Wow, we had Agents from every part of the country on the Teleseminar yesterday. Instead of the scheduled topic, Marketing Myths…, I announced that it would be an Emergency Tough Market Teleseminar. The feedback was fabulous. First, Agents from many markets confirmed that Buyers were being more cautious and banks were being stricter in a number of ways. Then we looked at strategies and approaches to get everything you can out of this market. And finally we ended with a conversation about psychology and how to keep yourself focused and motivated in this market. If you want to hear the teleseminar, it is about forty minutes you can go to wwwRichLevinBlog.com. Click on the teleseminars category.

Professional Emails

2008-09-19T13:05:00.002-04:00

I often correspond with clients from across the country and it amazes me how so many don't have professional email signatures. Today email is often the first contact with a potential client; it sets the tone of your business. Be sure your email contains your website, email address and a maximum of two contact phone numbers(with area codes). Keep it clean and professional without a lot of graphics or pictures. This one little thing could make the difference between a potential client responding to your emails or not.

10 Keys to Effective Press Releases

2008-09-17T10:02:00.003-04:00

Have you ever published a press release for your business? This can be an effective marketing method. Here are 10 Keys to Effective Press Releases 1. Make sure the information is newsworthy. 2. Tell the audience that the information is intended for them and why they should continue to read it. 3. Start with a brief description of the news, then distinguish who announced it, and not the other way around. 4. Ask yourself, "How are people going to relate to this and will they be able to connect?" 5. Make sure the first 10 words of your release are effective, as they are the most important. 6. Avoid excessive use of adjectives and fancy language. 7. Deal with the facts. 8. Provide as much Contact information as possible: Individual to Contact, address, phone, fax, email, Web site address. 9. Make sure you wait until you have something with enough substance to issue a release. 10. Make it as easy as possible for media representatives to do their jobs.

Permanent Positive Thinking

2008-08-25T05:49:00.001-04:00

There are three elements to all success, Goals, Methods, and Psychology. Attitude and a positive mindset is part of the psychology of success. One Client of mine is solid on her goals; focus, where he is going and why. She has terrific methods; skills, habits and tools. She is the number one Agent in her office but she is stuck and wants to break through to another level. It is clearly her psychology that is priority to make that breakthrough. In September my Success Minutes, a very short e-mail sent weekly to our mailing list begins a series on Permanent Positive Thinking. Register at www.YourSuccessCommunity.com. You will receive brief, concise, and clear suggestions over a number of weeks on creating a more powerfully positive mindset; one that is sure to make your business and your life a better place to work and live. I’ll follow that with a series on the other elements to all success. As I have written these I have thought about the evolution of my own psychology. I realize that I have always had confidence in some things. But for a lot of my life I lacked self esteem which undermined my confidence in other areas. It is a very interesting pursuit; the pursuit of permanent positive thinking. It is a pursuit that has rewards all along the way as well as in the final result. Final result? Of course not, this is a pursuit whose result never ends.

Cool Website Tool

2008-08-21T09:02:00.002-04:00

I came across FutureNow.com. It is a very cool site that calculates how consumer friendly your website is. Customers want to know what your product or service will do for them but most websites focus on the company or person's attributes instead. Is your site talking mostly about them and their needs or about you or your company? This site offers a free analysis simply by inserting your URL. Give it a try you may find it very interesting. Here is the direct link again: http://www.futurenowinc.com/wewe.htm

Take Time Off

2008-08-13T17:30:00.001-04:00

Many of you know that I am a strong proponent of time off. I discovered a slightly new wrinkle to this. We coach our that everyone should take a minimum of a day a week, a three day weekend a month and two weeks a year with at least one of them being seven consecutive days away from the business. There are strategies to all this that we coach. What I wanted to share with you is a five day weekend. I discovered it by accident. We had a family wedding on Thursday and Bat Mitzvah on Sunday in Baltimore. It required us, Chava and I, to leave Thursday morning and come back Monday evening. It was perfect. First of all, it gave us five consecutive days in a row. At the same time we were in town the prior week Monday through Wednesday and the following week Tuesday through Friday. So we are going to add it to our coaching on time off. I don’t know how many times a year we’ll recommend a five day weekend. Try it this summer. You’ll love it.

AgentSuperStore.com

2008-08-11T10:34:00.002-04:00

We at Rich Levin's Success Corps inc are excited by this new interactive forum for Real Estate Agents. AgentSuperStore contains articles, vendors, blogs, events calendar, information and much more exclusively for you. The site received rave reviews last year at NAR convention when it was in the Beta stages and recently launched. So take a few minutes and register (it's free) and check out all it has to offer.

New Google Feature

2008-07-28T09:11:00.002-04:00

Google has a new free feature. It is a 411 service that can be used from any cell or land line. You can even request a text and you will get texted the requested information. Now it is not a standard 411 service. You dial, say the City and State your in then the type of service you are looking for (Pizza Delivery) It will then start listing them in your area, when you get to the one you want you say the number associated with that selection. Then you automatically get connected. For Free! Now this could be cumbersome if you have several pizza delivery establishments in your area or you aren't sure what category the extablishment might be in. Unlike normal 411 services you don't search my the name. To Learn more visit: http://www.google.com/goog411/

Press Release Promotion

2008-07-19T11:10:00.002-04:00

Yesterday Rich was coaching a client that just signed an exclusive deal to represent a builder. She was very excited and wanted to know how to get the word out. We came up with several options from direct mail, email promotion, posting on front page of her website and many more. I also suggested a Press Release. This is a valuable tool to get important information to the public for free. There are many online sources that submit Press Release as well as some paid sites. You can also then use that press release in your mailings and possibly even have it printed for free in your local papers. (Many publishers are looking for material to fill their publication) Now there are guidelines for writing an effective PR and I don't suggest sending out one for every little thing you do. But used properly, this can be a very effective marketing tool.

Podcast of Free Tele-seminar Now Available

2008-07-15T14:39:00.000-04:00

Rich recently conducted a free tele-seminar titled:Identifying and Overcoming Soft Market Weaknesses. It is from my series titled: Taking Control of Your Business in a Soft Market. He covered alot of information including a bonus question from a client about how to work with Buyers in this tough market. To hear the full recording. Go to www.RichLevinBlog.com The next tele-seminar in this series will be July 24th at 3:00 PM Est. Visit www.RichLevin.com for call in information or join my Success Community to receive email notification of all upcoming events.

Cool Techonology

2008-07-09T11:40:00.002-04:00

I came across this cool website as one of our clients uses this techonology and loves it. Jott.com turns your voicemails into e-mails, text message, reminders and appointments. Simply call the toll-free number, record you message (up to 30 sec) and input where to send it. You will receive the transciptions shortly. There are variations and features so be sure to check it out. It is great for the mobil Real Estate Agent.

Good News from Money.CNN.com

2008-07-07T10:19:00.001-04:00

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/moneymag/0805/gallery.resg_gainers.moneymag/2.html I have Coaching Clients in many of these cities. So, those of you in these cities send this link to your e-mail lists and print it on your mailings. Or if you want to really do it uniquely buy a domain name like LoveRochester.com, BuySyracuse.com etc. and link it to this page for now. Then send that as the link. This is actually a good example of using what I call single use websites. We own a bunch of domain names that we use for these purposes.

Question?

2008-07-03T10:29:00.001-04:00

Rich is going to be writing a series of articles and he would like to ask this question to build his articles. Please take a moment to share your thoughts. What makes you feel out of control in your business? What, if anything do you do about it?

Hello and Welcome

2008-07-02T12:15:00.002-04:00

I am Rebecca Bisio. The web coach and personal assistant to Rich Levin of Rich Levin's Success Corps inc. We specialize in raising Agent Production through systems, philosophies and education. Rich's main blog can be found at www.RichLevinBlog.com and our main website is www.RichLevin.com. This blog in particular is to share thoughts and ideas about the web and technology and how it relates to the Real Estate Profession. Feel free to ask a question or share a new product