Friday, December 7, 2007

Joe Stumpf of By Referral Only Endorses ListingCards


America's leading productivity coach for Realtors and Lenders endorsed the ListingCards on his blog yesterday. Visit: http://www.byreferralonly.com/mybro/
Joe is the master of teaching the art of creating powerful conversations with clients and prospects that compel them to act now.
Here is Joe's blog entry from December 6th, 2007:
What Is A Five Star Seller?
1. They are strongly motivated to sell by a deadline date.
2. They are willing to price their home so it sells.
3. They are willing to stage their home.
4. They remove all obstacles to getting it sold.
5. They help you get it sold.
Here is a great tool to give to your sellers to help you get their home sold. They are called ListingCards. Click here. When you order a set for your next Five Star Seller here's your dialogue to empower your sellers to hand them out.
Magic Words
Mr. and Mrs. Five Star Seller, experience shows that 11% of all homes are sold through direct and indirect
referrals.
That means a family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker or anyone you know right now might know someone who might know someone who is interested in buying your home.
Since we want to use all 100% of our marketing power, I have invested in a set of listing cards for you to
handout to everyone you come in contact with during the time we are marketing your home.
Combined with my marketing efforts and your help we have the best chance of making your 5-6-7 come true.
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Lets talk a about how to hand them out. Come inside to the Community Board, I have started a post to give you even more dialogues to empower your sellers to help you.
I like these ListingCards and I believe your seller will too. Click here to learn more.
On Your Team
Joe

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Photo editing made fun!

Picnik.com is a new website that makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. We recommend using Picnik.com when you have a photo that needs to be centered, resized, brightened or darkened, and most important, resized if too large.

We recommend downsizing your image if it is over 1.5MB, simply because it speeds up the upload time and the additional size is unnecessary to ensure high quality ListingCards.

Click the Save & Share tab and move the JPG compression quality bar to the left until it reaches 4. This will reduce the file size to somewhere between 100KB and 500KB - perfect for fast upload times and rendering high quality ListingCard images.

The best file format for ListingCards is JPG. Be sure to save the file with a new name or you will over write the original!

It is not necessary to register to receive the full benefit of the photo enhancement features. We find it to be very user-friendly and fun!

http://www.picnik.com

Monday, December 3, 2007

The ListingCard rates up there with the hula hoop!


Gail Hillen, a seasoned Realtor in the hyper-competitive San Diego market, created a set of ListingCards to help her to increase buyer traffic to an open house event last weekend. Here's what she discovered:

"I had a fabulous turn out today, even with the great weather here in San Diego (nobody went to the beach!). As we all know, this is serious buyer and seller time and everyone who visited today at the open house was nothing but serious. No 'looky-loos'. I mailed an open house invitation letter (from the seller) into my seller's little neighborhood 'pocket' yesterday which included a few ListingCards in each. Many neighbors came by and all commented on the little cards.

"One neighbor who owns a little bar over by Point Loma Seafood even asked if he could put a pile of the little cards by his cash register! Of course he got a handful! I'll be ordering more soon. I'm confident the home will sell soon!"

"I continue to say the ListingCards are the best thing to happen in our marketing industry in decades!! I love, love, love them and always the positive responses from clients and the general population when they see them. It's such a special tool! I think the ListingCard idea rates up there with the hula hoop! (hmmm, I'm dating myself!)"

Gail Hillen, REALTOR
Keller Williams Realty
Visit: http://gailhillen.yourkwagent.com/