HomeGain hosted its second “Ask The Experts” live real estate forum yesterday. Due to the success of the August Ask The Experts, HomeGain kept to its original format and featured four experts to each speak on a different real estate issue and answer questions from the audience.

Several hundred real estate agents and brokers registered for the event to listen to Mitch Ribak, Alisha Wade, Joseph Ferrara and Brian Brady give advice for succeeding in a turbulent market.

If you weren’t able attend, or would like to hear it again, you can listen to the December 4th Ask The Experts recording at your convenience.

What was each experts topic?

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I know that there are so many of you out there who read this blog and are excited about taking your business to the “next level” by using the Internet. 

Lately, at The eHomes Realty Network, I have been getting a lot of inquiries about the cost to get your Internet business off the ground.  Below are your basic costs to get going.  The marketing program you choose will vary from area to area. 

Website

I’m a big believer in using “template websites”.  There are many choices in custom websites also, but I prefer to put my money into marketing and generating business.  Most template websites are 90% customizable, affordable and already have a ton of generic content.  You can easily spend $10,000 - $20,000 on a custom site. 

IDX

Over 90% of the real estate leads we capture at Tropical Realty of Suntree are from people registering to view home listings on our website.  I highly recommend an IDX vendor versus your free MLS providers IDX.   There are multiple IDX companies available.  HomeGain offers an IDX website with their AIMS product. We will be launching our 100MPH Marketing Software in about a month for the state of Florida.  However, it won’t be available nationwide for some time.  I also recommend iHomefinder.com. Their tool is very easy to use, reliable and has a good capture mechanism. 

Pay Per Click

Using pay per click can be very costly if you don’t know what you are doing.  If you are using Google and/or Yahoo!,

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Join us at HomeGain’s next “Ask The Experts” exclusive phone event live on Thursday, December 4th at 10am Pacific.

You’ll have the chance to interact with the following team of real estate experts:

• Mitch Ribak, eHomes Realty Network – “Web Lead Conversion Strategies”
• Alisha Wade, RE/MAX Achievers and Realty One Group – “Advice for Handling Foreclosures”
• Joseph Ferrara, Sellsius Real Estate Blog – “Getting Leads from Your Blog”
• Brian Brady, World Wide Wealth Advisors – “Home Mortgage Insight”

Hear strategic advice essential to your success in real estate in 2009 – and have the opportunity to ask the experts questions specific to your own business.

Register today, it’s FREE and full of opportunity

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Click here for the “Ask the Experts” Archive.

Congratulations to Mitch Ribak of Tropical Realty in Suntree, Florida for submitting the winning video to this year’s Agent Appreciation Campaign video contest in October.

Watch the winning video!

As the winner of ‘Best Agent Video 2008′, Mitch will receive a “Max package” filled with orange gorilla goodies, plus a Flip Ultra camcorder as prizes.

Mitch provided insight to one of the Agent Appreciation Campaign’s collateral giveaways, 50 Reason’s to Use a Buyer’s Agent.  It’s the perfect tool to give to home buyers who may be wondering why they should use an agent to buy a home.

Another collateral item was a white paper, titled, “9 Ways to Increase Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty“. Please let me know if you are interested in either and I’ll forward you the PDF/s.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the video contest.

We look forward to next year’s campaign!

Thousands of real estate professionals descended upon the HomeGain booth to learn about HomeGain.

On Saturday and Sunday Mitch Ribak and Joe Ferrara participated in our “Meet the Experts” program.

Joe gave blogging tips to visitors to the HomeGain booth and Mitch talked about how to use HomeGain’s Buyerlink in connection with capturing and converting leads.

From Friday until Monday, Realtors lined up to win their own Max and to pick up a Max button.

We will have a complete report on NAR later this week.

Here is Max hanging around on Friday afternoon waiting for the show to begin!

What were your thoughts about the NAR Convention & Expo this year in Orlando, Florida?

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This weekend at the NAR Expo 2008 in Orlando, Florida, you will have a chance to meet two of the stars from the HomeGain Blog AND from HomeGain’s Ask The Experts Live Real Estate Forum, in person — Mitch Ribak and Joseph Ferrara!

Visit the HomeGain booth #3231 on Saturday and Sunday to meet them and discuss business strategies.

From 10am-NOON on both days, Mitch Ribak of Tropical Realty in Suntree, FL, will be available to speak with you about strategies to improve how you capture leads, managing leads, and converting more leads into clients — on both agent and broker levels.  Mitch will spotlight BuyerLink as well as his successful products, 100 MPH Software and eHomes Realty Network.

From 2pm-4pm, Joseph Ferrara of Sellsius Real Estate Blog will give advice for how to build a successful real estate blog, promote yourself on social networking sites and increase your online presence.  Joseph was just named by Inman News as one of 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers list for 2008.

Their time and advice is FREE to booth visitors so make sure to stop by and learn some valuable advice from two guys who really know their stuff!

Let us know you are coming by emailing me at blog@homegain.com.  Also, if you are a HomeGain customer who is planning to come by our booth, you can RSVP for your FREE GIFT now by emailing me in advance.

We look forward to seeing you there!