HomeGain rolled out its May/June issue of its “Agent Success Newsletter“.

The digital real estate newsletter included:

• Feature Story: Announcing results from HomeGain’s recent home prices survey. Special thanks to the Realtors who attended our May Press Call – Quotes from Realtors Calvin Holt and Greta Salinger appeared in two news stories in the Baltimore Sun! 
• Question of the Month: What are some recommended “Best Practices” for creating templates in AgentEvaluator?
• News: Announcing HomeGain’s Green Real Estate campaign; Adding Street View to AgentView maps; and Better Business Bureau (BBB) rating HomeGain an A+.
• Awards: We congratulated the newest AgentEvaluator Platinum Club, Gold Club and Silver Club members. 
• Customer Advocates: For March, Roy Abila in Client Services; and for April, Dennis Kang in the Project Management Team. 
  

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HomeGain recently rolled out its March/April issue of the Agent Success Newsletter.

The newsletter included:

• Feature Story, which announced results from HomeGain’s recent home values survey.
• Question of the Month — “I recently met with a seller I found through your AgentEvaluator program who told me they received 12 proposals from agents in my area but decided to go with mine. I’ve just listed their home, but am a bit concerned about my effectiveness going forward. Should I be worried?”
• News about HomeGain’s Instant Home Values and Home Sale Maximizer™ widgets that are now available for FREE download.
• An Awards section, where we congratulated the newest AgentEvaluator Platinum Club, Gold Club and Silver Club members. 
• Agent Quote of the Month from Ron Petzel — “I have been in close contact with Nick Di Tomasso and Ryan Monsanto. Your company is one of the BEST. I have offered to talk to anyone you put in front of me or by phone to tell them what HomeGain has done for me and my Team.”
• Announcement of February’s Customer Advocate of the Month, Da’Mali Ross in the Product Team. “Da’Mali is the sole point of contact for all AIMS agents, and for each of them she takes care of all operations, setup, customer service, billing and tracking issues. She sets an example for what it means to put the customer first,” commented Salvatore Giammaressi, VP of Product at HomeGain.
  

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HomeGain emailed out the February Agent Success Newsletter today, which included a feature story, a helpful Q&A section for customers, HomeGain news, new HomeGain AgentEvaluator Platinum, Gold and Silver Club members, Agent Quote and Customer Advocate of the Month.

The Featured Real Estate Agent this month is HomeGain’s 2008 “Rookie Agent of the Year” award winner, Shannon Atkins with RE/MAX Highlander in Apex, NC.  Listen to our exclusive call with Shannon to hear her success tips.

The Question of the Month came from Mark Orem, El Paso, TX, who asked, “Ever since you introduced the new AgentEvaluator templates, I’ve been having a hard time getting my proposals to show properly. I used to copy and paste from Word but that doesn’t work anymore. Any ideas on what I should do?” Read what HomeGain suggests Mark and other agents in this situation should do. 

Under the News section, the newsletter mentioned several AgentView members who have discovered the secrets of blog success, garnering first page position in the search engines and generating real visits to their AgentView blog. Congratulations to: Continue reading this post

We are pleased to announce the HomeGain AgentEvaluator Top Performers™ of 2008.

Many HomeGain real estate agents and brokers had successful years, despite the downturned in home prices market nationwide. We are proud to recognize these agents for their high level of accomplishment in association with HomeGain’s AgentEvaluator marketing program.

In addition to highlighting the 2008 Top Performers by Region, 2008 Top Performers by State, and Rookie Agent of the Year, HomeGain recognizes agents in each region of the country that had impressive sales and are deserving of honorable mention.

HomeGain is proud that we can quantify the many successes of our AgentEvaluator agents in 2008.

Congratulations to all of our 2008 top performers! We look forward to continued success for all of our member agents during 2009.

Before announcing the Top AgentEvaluator Performers below, here are some 2008 AgentEvaluator and market highlights:

2008 AgentEvaluator Highlights:

• HomeGain recognizes 51 of its member real estate agents who have received Top Performer awards based on nationwide, regional and state achievements,
• Overall, in 2008 HomeGain’s top five Realtors earned an average of $236,918 in gross closed commissions from their HomeGain AgentEvaluator business and an average of 20 closed transactions.
• We now have a  total of 846 member agents in the AgentEvaluator Silver, Gold and Platinum Clubs based on the following criteria:
  - 229 agents are Silver Club honorees with an excess of $50,000 in gross commissions earned from their HomeGain leads.
  - 271 agents are Gold Club honorees with an excess of $75,000 in gross commissions.
  - 346 agents are Platinum Club honorees with an excess of $125,000 in gross commissions.
• The average AgentEvaluator Platinum, Gold or Silver agent earned over $31,348 in gross closed commissions in 2008 and closed an average of 5.5 transactions.
• HomeGain’s average home sale price nationwide was $236,602 in 2008.
• HomeGain’s average home price nationwide fell only 3% in 2008 over 2007. ($236,602 in 2008 vs. $244,006 in 2007)

And the 2008 Top AgentEvaluator Performers are…

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HomeGain emailed out this month’s Agent Success Newsletter today to its real estate agents and brokers.

The Feature Story was dedicated to agents who visited the HomeGain booth at NAR last month in Orlando. See featured videos.

The Question of the Month came from Kathy Hayes in Hermosa Beach, CA, who asked, “I just signed up on AgentView and want to start using the blog but am not sure where to begin. What do you suggest?” Thanks for your question, Kathy! Read the Blog Professor’s response. If you have your own question for the Blog Professor, Joseph Ferrara, please send an email to blogprofessor@homegain.com. 

Under the News section, the newsletter summed up the success of the December 4 Ask the Experts event, offered FREE HomeGain license plate frames and announced that the 2008 Top Performers will be determined next month in January. (See last year’s Top Performers)

Under the Awards section, we congratulated the newest AgentEvaluator^® Platinum Club, Gold Club and Silver Club members. These real estate agents represent our top performing real estate professionals nationwide and receive a reduced referral fee rate.

The newsletter concluded with a quote from Sara Calo of Howard Hanna Real Estate in Ohio who commended Samantha Apsey here at HomeGain for her excellent customer service, and by announcing this month’s Customer Advocate of the Month, Ken Yee.

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How did Andrew Duncan of Keller Williams Realty double his business within two months? By doubling his team, of course!

We are pleased to have Andrew as this month’s Agent Success Newsletter Featured Real Estate Agent.

In our exclusive call with Andrew, he tells us what it takes to build a team and make it function effectively and productively. He describes setting up different functions from customer service to transaction coordination, selecting the right management systems, and using marketing strategies like HomeGain, Craigslist and YouTube.

Listen to Andrew’s sound advice:

Highlighted Quotes From Andrew:

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