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Memorial Day Party Ideas for Clients! Download Your FREE Customizable BBQ Entertaining Guide

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Fire up the Grill and Fire up Your Business!  Memorial Day weekend is upon us and your clients and prospects are getting out the grill for the first big outdoor bash of the season.

Homes.com is here to help with planning a Memorial Day bash, or any other summer party, a breeze with our Red, White and BBQ Entertaining Guide! Chock full of barbecue tips, recipes, outdoor decoration ideas, plus more.   This guide is a great resource and can be downloaded for free! Our CUSTOMIZABLE VERSION is a perfect way to brand yourself!

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New Widgets Available Through Homes.com

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Homes.com Widgets

In the ongoing mission to assist you in providing your clients with the most accurate and reliable real estate information, Homes.com has created several new widgets for you to add to your website! Recently, we introduced our Home Values and Mortgage Calculator widgets. These new widgets, along with the others in our gallery, will help improve your website’s already existing content and retain more incoming traffic through their ease and simplicity.
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Five Reasons Why Google+ is Heating up the Real Estate Social Scene

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Since social media has become an essential part of real estate marketing, choosing the right platform(s) has never been so important. More and more real estate professionals are turning to Google Plus, now the “world’s number two social network (Business Insider),” as their “go-to” social network!

Many sources are suggesting that attention is beginning to fade Facebook and that users are battling “Facebook fatigue” due to numerous privacy changes and the increased prevalence of sponsored content. Since Google is the most used search engine, email host, and data sharing platform for most internet users, it only makes sense to join Google Plus?   

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[VIDEO] Master the iPad in 15 Minutes!

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Are you using your iPad to its fullest potential?  Working on the run has become second nature to most real estate pros and mobile devices such as the iPad have made this possible.  Jimmy Mackin, co-founder of Curaytor.com, and guest speaker for Homes.com at the 2012 NAR Conference,  presented his recommendations on how real estate professionals can maximize the iPad!  If you missed the live presentations at NAR, check out the video to see Mackin’s presentation “Mastering the iPad in 15 Minutes” to learn the ins and outs of using the iPad to your advantage!

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3 Innovative Ways to Increase Agent Productivity

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Here at Homes.com, we know there are many challenges facing brokerages in the current marketplace, and one particularly difficult challenge is increasing agent productivity. As a broker you must properly equip agents with the needed skills and tools, as well as inspire them to be productive members of the team. This is not only essential to your business as a whole, but to your bottom line also. As real estate heads into the busy summer season, applying some of these business strategies will help motivate and empower your agents and increase their productivity.

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