Archive for February 2009

5 Ways to Grow your Business with Listingbook in 5 Minutes or Less

5 Ways to Grow your Business with Listingbook in 5 Minutes or Less

With Listingbook you can do A LOT in 5 minutes! Using the features of Listingbook, you can come up with a number of ways market your services to clients.

Here are 5 ways you can use Listingbook’s tools to get the word out in 5 minutes.

Smart moves for preparing a home with pets to sell

When you make the important decision to sell your home, consider your pets. Removing them during the marketing period can make a big difference in the way your house shows.

How?

Every part of your home is for sale and must be seen easily. Your pet may bark, make a mess, or even worse, bite. A small investment of time and money to stage your house to show well will reap rewards of a quicker sale and a higher price.

Mortgage Morsels: What Are Interest Rates Now?

If a mortgage lender gives you an answer to this without asking you any questions, say thank you, hang up and call someone else.

Why? Because in today’s world there is no such thing as “today’s interest rate”.

A rescue for Hope for Homeowners?

NPR reports on the largely unused Hope for Homeowners program, part of last summer’s housing bill that was meant to address the crisis in mortgage foreclosures.

High loan and interest fees, tough restrictions for consumers and costs to lenders are some of the reasons why the program has not caught on.

Habitat for Humanity founder dies

AJC.com: Millard Fuller, the visionary Christian with a single-minded, some say stubborn, focus that resulted in more than 300,000 houses built for the poor, died unexpectedly Monday night.

Know your Website: 5 statistics to keep an eye on

Know your Website: 5 statistics to keep an eye on

Knowing how your site is performing and whether you’re getting a return on your investment is just as important as getting online.

Getting site statistics is (almost) as easy as setting up a free Google Analytics account. And you don’t have to be a statistician to understand how well your site is performing. Seeing trends in the data - Google is really good with graphs - can be very beneficial in helping you make decisions about your site.

Here are a few basic statistics to watch.

NAR Midyear Trade Expo

[ May 13, 2009 to May 15, 2009. ]  

Come visit us at the NAR Midyear Trade Expo.

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, D.C.

BOOTH #120

Get more information on this event on the NAR Midyear Website: http://www.realtor.org/midyear.nsf/

More information to come.

Live Webinar: Listingbook Basics

[ January 12, 2009; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. January 21, 2009; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. January 26, 2009; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. February 9, 2009; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. February 17, 2009; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. February 24, 2009; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Create client accounts and communicate with your buyers and sellers using Listingbook. We will show you how easy it is for clients to activate and begin using their account.

Instructor: Various

How to register:

Log in to your Listingbook account and click the “Free Training Opportunities” button on your Frontpage.