Josh Schoenly
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Why Are Real Estate Agents Earning Less?
I thought I would address a scary trend that many Real Estate Agents, Investor Agents and in some regards everyday Real Estate Investors are being challenged with declining commissions and low consumer confidence in our real estate profession.As an active Real Estate Investor and Licensed Agent a recent CNN Report concerned me so much that I sought out Ryan Fletcher, a successful full-commission realtor, to help me understand why our commissions are under attack, agents are losing clients to “Discount Brokers” and why our profession is undervalued by the public. Fletcher exposed several myths that the Discount Brokers, Reduced Fees…
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Real Estate Agents – Open House Success Form
My wife and I went on a little open house tour yesterday, mostly just for fun – who knows in a year or 2 we could get the itch to move. I mention the last part because it’s important. Most of y’all real estate agents and real estate investors reading this already know that the chances of a hot buyer walking into your open house and making an offer on that very property are highly unlikely. Yet, for the most part, real estate agents and investors keep doing open houses anyway, opening and closing doors for short term tire kickers…
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Email Sample – Quick Way Agents/Investors Can Connect With Buyers
Real Estate Agents and Investor-Agents – blocking out some time every week to preview “propertunities” is a good practice if you want to become and stay a market expert. I think you’d agree that now is a great time to be putting out more opportunites to stay connected with potential buyers and keep up to date with the rapidly changing real estate market.Sending an email like the one below allows you to leverage your time better. Not only will you be seeing some more inventory, but you’ll also be getting belly to belly with the few people – think clients…
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9 Tips for Staying Focused & Getting the “Right” Things Done
#1 – Focus On One Thing At A Time.The idea of “multitasking” is a complete myth. Even computers, which appear to be multitasking, are in reality, completing single tasks in quick succession. By attempting to multitask, we only fracture our attention and we end up actually taking longer to do both things.For more information on the myth of multitasking and how to better focus on one thing at a time, I highly recommend picking up the book “The One Thing.” It’s a short, easy read, you could probably finish it in one sitting, and it will really help reinforce these…
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#1 Real Estate Business Asset – Buyers List
If you ask most real estate professionals (investors, brokers & agents etc.) what their number one business asset is you’ll get a variety of answers. Some answers may include their office, their listings, their deals, private lender contacts, social networks, their agents or their marketing materials etc.All of these are good answers but in this humble real estate entrepreneurs opinion – they would all be WRONG! It is my strong belief that an active buyers list is by the most valuable asset to have for your real estate business (when you think about it this probably holds true for any…
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How Effective Is Facebook Real Estate Marketing?
With certain verified reports of click through rates being down on ads, or older generations clicking more frequently than younger more mobile ones it could appear that agents may just be wasting their time.Yet, with a Facebook network of over 800 million active people worldwide, wouldn’t it only make sense that despite these negative statistics, there is still a ton of opportunity for real estate professionals to have a positive ROI on both time and money when ideas are executed properly? Our experience says so.I stumbled across this article regarding Facebook real estate marketing by Inman News, which went into…
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Get More Clicks On Your Online Real Estate Ads
An extremely important thing to keep in mind when you’re putting together the ads for your online campaign is that, first and foremost, you want visitors to the site to click on your ad. It doesn’t matter how effective the body is if everybody just skips clicking on the ad.The first key here, of course, is the headline. You must have a headline that compels a reader to click on your ad. Otherwise, your great message never gets delivered. With my system, there is a simple way to help your results in that regard. Call it “Sneaky Little Secret No.…
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Craigslist Marketing Secret Formula for Real Estate
Secret Lead Generating Formula = 987 unique visitors, 40 leads & 5 appointments in 1 wk – this is for real!I was talking with a buddy of mine and fellow real estate professional on Monday and he laid some heavy stuff on me. He gave me the exact formula he had used to generate 987 unique visitors to his website generating 40 leads and 5 appointments. All in the past 7 days! So I wanted to share this with you ASAP.The source of all the traffic was Craigslist and he used the principles I outline in my one of my…
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7 Reasons Why Investors Need a WordPress Website
WordPress and Real Estate are a match made in tech marketing heaven if you ask me. WordPress’s flexibility, seo elements, and relative ease of use, coupled with an unbelievable community of users (and corresponding online documentation), have allowed it to become the world’s most popular content management system. And real estate investors in droves are using wordpress every day as the backbone for their entire online web marketing efforts. But there seems to be a relative low number of investors using wordpress to build web entities. Instead of going into why this is so, I think it might be better…
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6 Steps To Generating Free Leads On Craigslist
After years of trial and error using Craigslist I finally created a system for consistently generating quality leads for my business and I’ve decided to share the steps in this article.Step 1: Create An Account:This is the easiest step by far, but is critical to getting the best results and to track your results as well. All you need to do is go to Craigslist.com and click on the login button, then on the next page if you don’t already have an account you’ll click on the area that says “Don’t already have an account”. You just fill in your…
