Let’s Chat about Video

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Lets start with a list of Cliche’s

  •  ”Just Do it” 
  • “Do it Afraid”
  • “Get Ahead of the Competition”
  • “Does this picture/video make me look fat”  Probably not & who cares they are going to meet you anyway! Be your wonderful awesome personable self!!
  • “I don’t know what to say” YOU TALK ALL DAY LONG!
  • “I get nervous in front of a camera” This is not the evening news this is in your house, at the office, alone, you can do over, chill, relax make it fun. Quick being OLD. Think like a kid.

You can do all different kinds of video, you don’t even have to talk. Check out this video by Cari Knapp

 

 
What topics? You can’t compete with the BIG DOGS for SEO on Miami Homes for Sale. Step outside the box!
Share about a neighborhood, places to go, things to do, spotlight a neighbor, video testimonial (3rd party affirmation thumbs up). Don’t do an all about you video, add value to the customer. Educate them on distressed properties.
 
Oh yea KISS, Keep it Simple & Short. Our attention spans, not too long.  I am glad you are still reading :) . Now Go make a Video and tune in next time for Youtube, taging and posting your video!
 
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Buffini & Peek Producers Coming To Jacksonville

January 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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If you are looking for an opportunity to start this year off with a proven plan for success than you really need to take a look at Peek Producers. Wendy Griffis, a solid successful agent, that has used this program will be facilitating it. This is what Wendy has to say about it.

“It is an AMAZING program.  I get nothing by teaching it, except the joy of sharing the way I work, and the system I use to create a steady stream of referrals, and run a business, like a business.  Its one of those, if you teach it, you will learn it/execute it at a deeper level.  Which is where I want to go.

 I don’t want to sound “Ra Ra Buffini-ite”, but I think it is information worth sharing, for those interested in listening.  Even as a producing agent, this course also teaches the “business side” of real estate -running your business, like a business, not like a sales person, and finding ways to have the “balance” we all need. Very powerful concepts.”

A Student Kit is included when you sign up. The cost is only $395 and $295 for Buffini members. This includes a training kit with marketing materials to your clients, workbook, CD resource library, and more. The class size is limited, to keep it small and intimate, and will be filled on a first come basis.

The class will be on Thursdays from 10-12, beginning on January 26th, at Coldwell Banker Vanguards  Connect U training center on Phillips Highway.  It is 16 weeks total, with skipping March 1 and March 15 due to the Coldwell Banker Gen Blue Conference and my spring break (got to take a break!). This class is Open to any Realtor from any Company! You just need to have a desire for a Rock Solid Referral Based Business! Call Wendy Griffis at 349-3133  today or email her at griffisrealtor@comcast.net .

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Look out 2012 Time to get Your Game on!

January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Real Dynamic Agents

It’s a new year, thinking of it as a clean slate. Make a list of your Goals – Write your Vision down! Make sure you are tapped into some good education, never stop learning.

Brain Tracy said  ”No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

I know I am always learning from other agents, leaders in the business, reading what I can get my hands on.

This year Coldwell Banker Vanguard will be bringing an all new schedule with training opportunities that are hands on and interactive!

Class Registration will start Thursday January 5th 

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Get your Social Groove On!

June 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you are between the ages of 18 and 34 “they” say the first thing you do is check your Facebook. If you are between 35-45 that is probably the second thing you do, over 50 it may not be the first but it very well may be on the morning list. That being said if your business plan involves socially connecting with people will you be there?

I have talked and trained with many agents who say I go in the room called FB, but I don’t feel like I have anything to say. I really don’t think, “I had lunch with Linda” is going to enhance my connections. I agree probably having lunch with Linda is not a big conversation mover. You have to look at Twitter & FB like a Cocktail party with or without adult beverages. How do you start a conversation? How about, “Linda and I had lunch at the Crab Shack for the first time, anyone else ever been there?”  The point is to have a conversation with your social connections not to talk at people.

Posting your status is one side of socially connecting.  There is your engaging with your friends on the other. I have had some people say, “my friend or customer posted a picture of their grandchild and already 20 people said how cute they were. Isn’t it too much for me to pile on and say how cute they are too?” You are at a party someone pulls out a picture of their adorable grandbaby, everyone says “how cute” but you remain silent as not to pile on. Hmmmm… See the logic  Was that a light bulb moment?

People want to engage that is why Facebook is approaching being
equal to the 2nd largest country in the WORLD.

Need help with making sure you post, don’t have time to post, don’t want to login to all these sites check out Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and for content help Socialmadesimple. I am love SocialMadeSimple because they supply content. More on that another day.

This was the intro stay tuned- Follow and subsribe for more info on being socially RAD
Go connect, start a conversation, make friends and REMEMBER ALWAYS BE GENUINE

 Kim Knapp  Let’s Socially Connect

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The Wild Party The Hangover and The Recovery

May 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I wrote this Blog in 2008 and Just Came across it. Funny It’s still relevant today!

The Wild Party, the Hangover, and Rehab….. Where are the success stories?

 

It was 2003 and people where starting to show up to the party. If you got there early you didn’t really know how many people were going to show up. Once they did the scene was crazy.

Agents, (new franchises by the dozen) buyers, sellers, and lenders everywhere, it was the ultimate pick up event. Buyers outbid other buyers for homes and were never happier, probably because they felt as if they had won. Agents worked with sellers they didn’t like. That’s okay the house will be sold in a week. Agents left the party with buyers they didn’t know. (Ahhh, they were buying right?) Buyers worked with agents and lenders they picked up at the party. They couldn’t remember their names the next day but so what they bought a house.

We were buying advertising like it was a new bauble. “Hey, that’s really cool give me 2 pages will ya?” The advertisers were drunk with love for us and always coming out with another place we would want to see ourselves. How much was all this costing anyway? Does it matter? Naw, we’ll just find us another buyer at the watering hole.

Then someone had the nerve to turn the music off and the lights on.

What was left, too many agents and lenders without reserves, sellers upside down on their homes and buyers without money. Boy that was some party!

Time for a little personal reflection. Some folks got out of the biz, that’s okay they needed too, others though went through rehab.

· Why am I am I in Real Estate?
· Do I work better with Buyer or Sellers?
· What’s my Budget? Budget is that word in the dictionary?
· What’s my business plan?
· Have I created relationships with other agents in my market? Or do I have some making up to do for my bad behavior during the party?
· Do I even have my database together? Ughh
· Sphere – Is that a circle thingy?

I am happy to say a lot of great agents have come out the other side. Will share with us, “What’s the one single greatest thing you learned?”

For me it was, “I didn’t have to outspend my competition on marketing. I had to learn to say NO.” Actually it’s really easy. Try it… No, No, NO. See it only takes a second, and the is calls over, you didn’t spend money you don’t have to impress other agents and consumer when the truth is it never worked in the first place. Vanity is a killer no matter what century it is. Hello!

Share some love and tell us the best you learned____________.

Filed Under: Real Estate Career, Real Estate Coaches