Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Office meeting notes 12/09/08

Congratulation to Holly Schwein for her excellent Service Satisfaction Survey.

Coldwell Banker Foundation is donating $2500. in seed money to the Wyoming School District. Linda will be working with the superintendant to grow this money.

Don't forget Linda is having a 3 hr. C.E. class on "Business Planning" on Wed. Dec. 10 at 10AM here in the office.

Don't forget our office Christmas Party is this Saturday at 6PM at Steven & Karen Leeker's home in Evendale. Bring your spouse or a friend. Bring a $15. wrapped gift for each of you and have fun participating in the gift exchange. It can get pretty wild at times. Also bring a dessert or snack for everyone to enjoy.

Linda will be out of town next week Mon. thru Wed. Norm White will be handling the meeting on Tuesday for Linda. There will be no sales meeting on Dec. 23.

Linda went over the new marketing proposal that Sean presented to some of the agents last week. It is available for you on a CD. Linda also purchased a wireless presentation mouse at Office Depot for $60. which makes the presentation even better. She copied the presentation with the dialogue and put in a binder, she highlighted the things that needed to be stressed. You need to learn the dialogue so it flows when you present the presentation. Some of the things the presentation covers are 5 things the seller expects is getting the best price for their home in the shortest amount of time, convenience, communication and a diligent effort on your part. You job is to market the home and provide feedback. Top 3 information sources used by buyers are the internet. 87% of buyers now use the internet to look for a home, 62% come from yard signs and there are 5409 licensed real estate agents in Cincinnati that decide who sees your home. MLS auto prospecting sends buyers to new listings and the reverse prospecting tool can find buyers looking for a home like your sellers. Technology is important in today's real estate market. In 1995 only 9% used internet to buy and in 2007 80.2%. Once a listing is entered into MLS all of Coldwell Banker listings now go to 13 different web sites. That's more than any other realtor. From MLS it goes to CBWS.com and then to Cincinnati.com, coldwellbankerpreviews.com, coldwellbanker.com, century21.com, era.com, openhouse.com, Google which gets 2 million hits per month, Yahoo, Trulia which gets over 2 million visitors, frontdoor and Zillow. Coldwell Banker also has a special relationship with the Cincinnati Zoo, Prokids, Susan G. Komen and Habitat for Humanity to name only a few. These are only a few things that the presentation covers.

Mike also went thru using "snag it". It is a great program to "snag" things and put in your presentations, flyers etc.

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