Thoughts on Real Estate Marketing…

Freedom Is Not Free Kelly Strong I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, He’d stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him [...]

Your competitors have blogs. People in industries related to yours have blogs. Are you reading them and taking the time to add a comment? If you want to increase exposure for your own business, you should. Every time you comment you have the opportunity to invite people back to your site, and on many blogs [...]

Does your website include an “About Us” page? You may think it isn’t important – that the goods and services you offer to the public are what count. But it is important. It all revolves around the issue of trust. The Internet is filled with websites owned by people posing as something they’re not. Just [...]

Real estate is a “people” business – with success depending not just upon technical expertise and skill, but also upon interpersonal relationships. Because buyers, sellers, and agents work so closely together, trust and even camaraderie are important elements. Having something in common in addition to a real estate transaction helps create that trust, because humans [...]

“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain When Mark Twain made that statement, I’m sure he was talking about the word choices that speakers and authors make in order to create specific thoughts and feelings in [...]

Considering the Law of Attraction, it seems to me that the first thing we need to do to fix our economy today – and perhaps all of the problems we face – is to silence Chicken Little. Do you remember her? She ran around the barnyard screaming “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” [...]

Pick up a newspaper, read an e-mail, or browse web pages, and you’ll see dozens of marketers breaking the #1 rule, and wondering why success continues to elude them. What is that #1 rule? “It’s not about you.” Many marketers think that their message should be about themselves and all the wonderful products they sell [...]

Your marketing copy represents you to hundreds or even thousands of people who will form their opinion of you and the value of your service – without ever meeting you in person. That copy is the first impression, and it could be the only one. Its quality will dictate whether those people begin to build [...]

I know – you need a whole lot more than one customer. And you can’t write a separate letter to every single one of them when you don’t know who is going to read your ads or visit your website. So what am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that just one person [...]