References Attract Clients

This month’s featured real estate agent in our Agent Success Newsletter is Sharon Detrick of RE/MAX Suburban Northwest in Houston, TX.

Here’s the feature story:

In less than five months this year, Sharon has already closed 5 home deals with AgentEvaluator home buyers compared with two deals in 2007. Why the difference?

After adding in references to her proposals that she sends to potential clients, she’s been experiencing a higher response and interest level from those consumers in her services.

Although it varies year to year (she’s been a HomeGain AgentEvaluator member since 1999) she’s definitely seen an increase since having added the references.

“I was hesitant to add in references because I didn’t see the value,” stated Sharon. “Obviously nobody is going to put in a negative reference, but apparently consumers really do want to see what others say about you – and know that real live people have had positive experiences with you as their agent.” read more

Posted by Jessica Gopalakrishnan on May 29, 2008 under Success Stories, AgentEvaluator

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Hooked on HomeGain

I got my Real Estate license while still in corporate sales. My wife was already selling Real Estate and as is my custom when I start something new – I read books about my new profession.

At the top of my list was the Millionaire Real Estate Agent by Gary Keller and number 2 was a book called Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing by Dan Gooder Richard. As it turned out, I couldn’t have picked any better books to start my career.

Quest for Online Presence in Real Estate

As I started my quest to learn how I could create a presence online, I soon realized that it was going to take some time to rank a website well enough in the search engines to make a difference in our business.

We did start a website but no one knew how to find it unless we told them directly. This is about when I stumbled upon HomeGain.

I set up an account with several ZIP codes in my area for my wife (with the AgentEvaluator™ program) because I had not officially started into Real Estate yet.

As my wife became successful in Real Estate read more

Posted by Wayne Long on Apr 04, 2008 under Success Stories, AgentEvaluator

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Win Clients Through Perseverance and Customer Service – And Get Full Service Commission

Mary Lou Skowronski is a real estate agent in Southern California with Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties.

She’s been a HomeGain Source4Sellers agent for a few years now. She told me a great story about how she came about working with a new client – a client which was a lead that she received through Source4Sellers, and was able to lock up 3 TRANSACTIONS out of one initial lead – through perseverance, patience and good customer service.

For the past years she’s been committed to investing in marketing and lead generating systems and felt that it would be a long time commitment in order to prove positive results.

When she signed up for Source4Sellers in 2005, she felt like it would be the best shot in the arm that she could get, to reinforce her belief in Internet marketing and client prospecting.

With the efficient use of technology, she is able to market globally on the Internet, to successfully reach home buyers and promote home sellers properties. She feels that working online saves her clients time and money and it enables her to earn a full service commission.

Even in the more challenging situations when it looks like the odds are against you … which brings me to Mary Lou’s story: read more

Posted by Jessica Gopalakrishnan on Mar 29, 2008 under Success Stories, Source4Sellers

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The Name of the Game: Speed

Ann Marie Clements of RE/MAX Realty Group in Maryland was the Featured Real Estate Agent of the Month in our March Agent Success Newsletter.

Here’s the story:

If you ask Ann Marie what she thinks of today’s conditions, she’ll tell you that it’s great market for a Realtor®. After 20 years in the business, Ann Marie’s business is growing every year – it’s already up 40% from last year!

Ann Marie Clements was also just featured on the March 2008 cover of REALTOR® Magazine in which she discussed her success with finding new clients on Facebook.

How is Ann Marie able to be so productive?

She relies on two main things: referrals and HomeGain.

“I just sold one house for $700k and another one for $480k, both as a result of HomeGain leads,” said Ann Marie. read more

Posted by Jessica Gopalakrishnan on Mar 27, 2008 under Success Stories, AgentEvaluator

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