We are pleased to present our REALTOR® members with the launch of our 4th Annual Agent Appreciation Campaign!

Each year, for one month, HomeGain gives thanks to its customers for their continued support.

As part of the 2009 Agent Appreciation Campaign, we are featuring:

• A FREE business review (see choices)
• Tools for your clients
• Weekly Surprise! Play a new game EACH WEEK and win $50 account credit, plus a grand prize on October 31st open to all participants.
• Reasons to thank a Realtor
• And more!

Please refer to the email you should have received from HomeGain.com with the link to the campaign website.

If you are a real estate agent who is a member of AgentView, AgentEvaluator®, BuyerLink™ or AIMS, and did NOT receive the announcement email from HomeGain.com with a link to the 2009 Agent Appreciation Campaign website, please email us.

With the campaign announcement, we are also pleased to induct 39 HomeGain members who have reached club status across 17 U.S. states (since August):

• 2 new Diamond Club members (totaling 19 members who have earned $500,000 in gross lifetime commissions from HomeGain leads)
• 13 new Platinum Club members (totaling 346 members who have earned $125,000 or greater)
• 11 new Gold Club members (totaling 278 members who have earned $75,000 or greater)
• 13 new Silver Club members (totaling 230 who have earned $50,000 or greater)

“HomeGain is an enormous advocate of its Realtor members’ success,” stated Louis Cammarosano, General Manager at HomeGain. “We are proud that our marketing solutions help contribute to their success. We will continue to recognize our agent members for their hard work and dedication to the real estate industry.” Continue reading this post

Yesterday we were delighted to welcome Deborah Miller of Intero Real Estate in the Bay Area to the HomeGain headquarters in Emeryville, CA.

Deb Miller is a member of online marketing programs, AgentView and AgentEvaluator. Since the real estate market has changed over the years since she began the programs, she felt it would be a key move to meet with the HomeGain Team so they could assist her in updating her marketing strategies and positioning.

Think that you would like to reevaluate your current positioning with HomeGain programs to give your business an extra boost? Give us a call at (866) 512-7918 or email us. The HomeGain Team is always here to help!

Photos of Deb Miller’s Visit: Continue reading this post

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.

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The market in Columbus Ga MLS is typical of markets all across the country.  Sales are down.  That said, our economy is more stable than most and for this reason we have not seen the dramatic drop in home prices.

Homes priced right and well maintained are still selling quickly.  Homes with any problems or that are overpriced are being overlooked.

Here is a snapshot of 2008 vs. 2009 :

• Home prices are down about 4%
• Total Homes sold are down 21%
• Home sales in the $100K to $200K level are only down 17.5%
• Home sales in the $200K to $300K price level are down 35%
• Home sales in the $300K to $450K price level are down 22%
• Home sales in the $450K and up price level are down 27%

New home sales and foreclosures account for a large portion of the sales in the Columbus GA/Phenix City home market this year.  The normal resale homes are the ones really staying on the market.

So, it is very important for resale clients to price their homes aggressively and to have their homes in pristine condition when they go on the market!

Wayne will be hosting a session titled “Prospecting, Proposals, Pipeline: AgentEvaluator” at HomeGain Live Nation in San Francisco on August 3rd at 2pm. Twitter it #homegainnation.

Find more Regional Updates here.

Click to learn more about Columbus Georgia Real Estate and Columbus home prices.

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I thought it would be worthwhile to show agents, particularly HomeGain BuyerLink and AgentEvaluator members, some true stats of Internet leads (from one Realtor to another).

My goal in gathering this data was to discover  home buyer tendencies.  I randomly took 100 of our sales this year to come up with the following stats.

I figured it’s roughly 50% of our sales this year and would be a great sampling.

The main findings were the following:

Average Number of Days to Purchase: 180.5 days

Quickest Sale: 5 days

Longest Sale: 539 days

(Last year we had approximately 20 sales from leads that were from the year 2004.)

Number of Closed Leads with Phone Numbers: 88

Number of Closed Leads with no Phone Number: 12

(This is a tough number to quantify as many of our Agents put the phone numbers in the CRM once they have obtained it.  When I worked on this stat two years ago, we were at 25% of our sales came from leads with no phone number.  I believe we are most likely still around that level.)

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Long time AgentEvaluator member, Virginia Cheezum, who has recently been inducted into the prestigious HomeGain Diamond Club, met with me to discuss the changes she’s seen in her market this year (in Virginia), how she’s adjusting her business, how AgentEvaluator keeps her busier than ever — and how it helps put her in the top percent of real estate agents across the U.S.

Listen in as Virginia Cheezum of RE/MAX Allegiance divulges some of her best tips for how to achieve a half million dollars from the AgentEvaluator program.

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