A well-planned garage or yard sale can make room in your home, get rid of unused items and make some money but it needs some planning to be successful. Start early to research and plan Promotion is key Display items attractively Price items right Organize checkout Saturdays are generally the best day but there may be some exceptions. Experienced garage-salers believe that a well-planned one-day event will do as well… Read More »Garage Sales Are Cool
Let’s say you have 72 things you potentially do for a seller. As you can imagine, most sellers have no interest in a 72 page or slide show, unless they are accountants or engineers. So I like using an approach I call the “instant presentation.” Let’s say you have 4 appointments this week. Take 4-8 of your best things, your coolest tools, systems, marketing ideas, whatever and tell them each about of… Read More »Two Minute Tip 17: The Instant Presentation
In the past, we have been saddled with the burden of finding the most effective way to allow our potential sellers to view our presentation. For many moons, we used the presentation book or mini-flip chart type venue. Laptops made it easier to present in a mobile manner, but was not without its issues. We had one computer, placed in front of usually three people and it made for some… Read More »Two Minute Tip Week 13: 21st Century Presenting
Today, let’s take a couple of minutes and discuss a great way to attract buyers to your listing while developing a strong listing tool at the same time. Home Video Tours. For a buyer, the tremendous advantage of using the internet to search for property is being able to see a home at any time, no matter their location. While pictures are great, video makes the experience more like actually… Read More »Tip 12: Great 4 Step Home Videos!
A quick 5 step overview of a listing presentation 1. Know Your Stuff 2. Compile Your Resources 3. Create Visual Slides 4. Discover Seller Needs 5. Match Stuff to Needs Take your presentation mobile by referring to Tip 4. http://youtu.be/9uCtWMgQw0s
Even though it may not seem like it in your neck of the woods, Spring is right around the corner. And with Spring, comes what I like to call: The Listing Season. Frankly, any time is listing time but Spring in many areas signals hot listing action. While many agents will take listings, we want more. We want to dominate our markets. And in order to be ready to dominate… Read More »The Listing Mindset: The Two Minute Tip Week 7
Mobile Presentations Today’s mobile agent must conduct their business in every way, anytime, anywhere and at a moment’s notice. And that includes presenting. So let’s talk some presentation basics that go DOUBLE, when mobile.
Haiku Deck for your Mobile Presentations Evidence shows the visual to be a far superior method when it comes to delivering a message and having it received at the other end. PowerPoint and Keynote have long been the venue for most presentations and have both been maligned as the evil behind boring, terrible presentations. This criticism, by the way, is not valid. The user, not the program, is at fault.… Read More »TIPPLICATION Week 4: Haiku Deck
In today’s TIPPLICATION, we will be APPLYING yesterday’s tips in an attempt to get a better handle on Multiple offers from the sellers perspective. We’ll cover three applications of the tip: Knowing the market, sharing that knowledge, and conducting an excellent seller consultation. We’ll close with a dozen quick tips for you.
The Two Minute Tip is OUT! As many markets make the turn from being more buyer oriented to being seller oriented (or even full blown seller’s markets), multiple offers often pop on the scene. This week we’ll take a look at the multiple offer scenario from the Seller’s side of things. While Sellers certainly seem to be at an advantage in the multiple offer situation, great agents must understand that… Read More »The Two Minute Tip Week 2: Multiple Offers and the Seller