It’s your job to sell homes; it’s our job to create marketing tools and strategies to help you do that. Explaining and exploring those tools with you is a part of that process. Whether you are completely new to the Homes Connect family, or have been using our products for some time, we have a variety of training opportunities available, including many new webinars and videos, to help you successfully utilize your Homes Connect product.
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It’s Customer Service Week! Each day we’ll be posting a Customer Service tip to help YOU “Be the One” and make a difference for your clients!
Today’s Customer Service Week Tip: Offer Help Using Homes.com’s Q&A Community
Have you completed your FREE MyHomes profile and gotten involved with our Q&A Community yet? If not, Customer Service Week is the perfect time to set aside some time to do so.
Every day, home buyers and potential home buyers post questions about real estate and listings on our Q&A community, hoping that some savvy real estate professional — like you! — will answer them. This is not only a great way for you to offer help in the way of customer service, but it’s also another way you can connect with prospects that you might not otherwise have met!
To create your FREE MyHomes profile, just click here. Then, head on over to the Q&A Community and start offering help to those home buyers in need!
In a previous post, we’ve discussed the Top 5 Reasons to advertise listings on Homes.com. Now, let’s take a look at picking the right package for your real estate business. To get started, let’s discuss three major factors for advertising real estate listings online.
First, what is the size of your listing inventory? Are you a heavy lister or do you specialize as a buyer’s agent? Knowing your listing inventory will ensure that you’re getting the best return from your online listing package. Next, what is most important to your marketing success? Do you advertise mainly to keep your sellers happy or to get your listings in front of active, local homebuyers? Understanding your advertising goal will help you in outlining your online advertising strategy. Continue reading
Looking for a way to connect with potential leads and direct more traffic to your MyHomes agent profile? You can be featured in the Homes.com Questions and Answers Community as a top contributor for FREE! Advertise your knowledge and expertise to buyers and sellers by answering more consumer questions and become a featured Q&A contributor!
One of the most important things a real estate professional can do for his or her business is to establish a good reputation. The National Association of Realtors reported in 2010 that buyers identified honesty and trustworthiness as well as the agent’s reputation as the most important factors when choosing an agent. Establishing your reputation can be as simple as asking your clients to write endorsements that will appear on your Homes.com agent profile, you can also go the extra mile by actively demonstrating your value to potential clients in the Q&A Community.
The Homes.com Questions and Answers Community offers a great opportunity for real estate professionals to connect with buyers and sellers. Continue reading
When advertising your real estate listings online, the most important thing is making sure they stand out. Whether you accomplish this by displaying an unlimited amount of photos, specific home descriptions or prominent listing placement on a real estate website, these features could make or break a persons interest in the home.
But, wouldn’t it make most sense to advertise your real estate listings to the best of your ability with all of these features? On Homes.com we offer agents the opportunity to attract the most attention to their listings with Preferred Agent real estate advertising.
What is a Preferred Agent on Homes.com? Well, Preferred agents receive the most visibility for both their real estate listings and their business in many locations on Homes.com. Preferred Agents feature their listings in both their local city and zip code search results, plus feature them in their MyHomes Agent Profile. (If you don’t have a MyHomes Agent Profile, you can sign up today, it’s FREE).
With a MyHomes Agent Profile, agents are featured in the Homes.com Agent Directory, which features the agent and their personal contact info in local agent search results; however, only preferred agents, can also feature their listings directly in their profile. Continue reading