HomeGain rolled out the July/August issue of its Agent Success Newsletter.

The digital real estate newsletter included:

Feature Story:

“AgentEvaluator® Consumer Survey Results — How to Get Consumers to Select You as Their Agent”

We surveyed over 14,000 online home buyers and sellers who  came through AgentEvaluator® in the last year -– some who closed with a HomeGain agent and some who did not choose a HomeGain agent.

We’ve identified 5 ways from the results to help agents increase their success with converting prospects into clients! Read complete survey findings.

Question of the Month:

” I noticed the new Max Points in my HomeGain account recently. Is there something extra I need to do to get points? Do you keep track of them for me? Also, what can I redeem my points for?”

Special HomeGain Radio Interview with REALTOR Virginia Cheezum:

As an AgentEvaluator Diamond Club member with over nine years of experience with the program, Virginia shares some of the valuable information that has helped put her into the top .1% of all HomeGain agents.

News: Continue reading this post

Congratulations to the 17 real estate agents who have earned half a million dollars or more in gross lifetime commissions from HomeGain leads through the AgentEvaluator® marketing program!

We are pleased to recognize these agents for their tremendous success by inducting them into HomeGain’s new Diamond Club.

Diamond Club inductees include (listed alphabetically by last name):

• Jeffrey Bastress, Startpoint Realty in Massachusetts
• Virginia Cheezum, RE/MAX Allegiance in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. areas
• Les Davis, Realty Executives Metro One in Missouri
• Dorothy and David Eiglarsh, The Eiglarsh Team in Florida
• Sheryl Goble, Realty Executives Premiere in Illinois
• Howard Gordon, Broward Brokers Realty Corporation in Florida
• Doug Goss, RE/MAX Real Estate Services in California
• Sharon Kunz, RE/MAX Greater Atlanta in Georgia
• Joseph Niece, Joe Niece Team at RE/MAX Results in Minnesota
• Brenda Porter, Porter and Associates in Nevada
• Barbara Tidwell, Keller Williams Realty in Texas

I spoke with Realtor® Virginia Cheezum, who said: “I am delighted to receive this recognition! I’ve been with HomeGain for many years and it’s become a critical piece of my business. I continue to be impressed and delighted with the quality of leads you provide. You do a magnificent job and provide a valued service.”

Howard Gordon also commented: “I have found HomeGain to be an exceptionally successful way to reach qualified, serious sellers who are seeking to meet with the best real estate professionals they can find. The leads are of high quality and high motivation to list I highly recommend HomeGain to agents wanting more listings.”

In the press release announcing HomeGain’s New Diamond Club members, HomeGain General Manager Louis Cammarosano stated “Unlike the anecdotal evidence of the success of our competitors’ marketing solutions, HomeGain offers concrete proof that our programs result in closed business and in many cases lots of it.”

Over a dozen other real estate agents are quickly approaching the $500k mark. Continue reading this post

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

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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