Comments on: You Can Do Better – You Have To Do Better

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:07:00 +0000

I’m a licensed realtor in the state if Missouri, but have my own “Outsourced Administrative Professional” business to assist realtors with the numerous tasks that need to get done.

Use QR Codes!!! Attach a QR Code to your sign. Contact me at AssistantServices.Kri@gmail:disqus if you’d like more information.

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Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:23:52 +0000

[...] I just did my best and then tried to do better. [...]

By: Curtis Bowers

Curtis Bowers — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:53:00 +0000

I don’t use flyer boxes either. One other tip to point out that I learned from a GRI instructor is to visit your signs on a weekend when everyone is out mowing and doing yard work and get out of your car and clean your sign. I keep a roll of paper towels and Windex in my car. Take pride in your signs as that is what most people see, including neighbors and potential listing clients. You’d be amazed how many signs I see with dirt or bird droppings on them.

By: Linda Aaron

Linda Aaron — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:39:00 +0000

Excellent reminder Darin. When I was growing up my parents taught me to always do my best, “If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing your best” I can still hear the words and they have served me well. Love how you are always striving to be, teach and do the best you can.

By: Madison homes

Madison homes — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:32:02 +0000

Great post, Darin! I’ve never used a flyer box (well, apart from one time when a seller twisted my arm) but I agree with all the reasons you provided for why it is a waste of time, energy, and money. Another reason to avoid them is that the flyers can get wet (incidentally, I took a course once where the instructor actually told us we should LAMINATE our flyers!). There is also the fact that many people (at least in the markets I work) are offended by the wastefulness of printing flyers that will only wind up in the trash ten minutes later. Lastly, another reason not to put out flyers is that other agents might take them (I mean a big stack of them). That may sound paranoid but a number of agents who routinely use flyer boxes have complained to me that this has happened to them…

By: Thank You

Thank You — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:46:50 +0000

[...] To the agent who never fills the flyer box. [...]

By: darin

darin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:50:08 +0000

Brandon – Something that I have encouraged agents to do…depending on how cool your sellers are with this: Leave a stack there and let them fill it up. Of course, doesn’t work if it is vacant or an REO.

Kye – Probably another good reason to have your website professional done or at least on occasion looked over from an outside perspective, check links, files, etc make sure everything works for the public.

Thanks for your comments you guys!!!!

By: Kye Grace

Kye Grace — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:54:30 +0000

True story Darin. If your activities are not sustainable or worse you are not capable of sustaining them at a high level then you need to take a step back and figure out how you can close this gap.

It is not limited to offline activities. I was contacted by a Realtor last Friday evening inquiring about design and SEO services.

We chatted for about a half hour as I drove home from the office. I was provided the two site addresses both of which were easy to remember. I asked the Realtor if I could email them more info using an email address on their site, to which they agreed. As I was driving I wasn’t able to write an email address down. I was willing to pull over to jot it down but thought if it is on their site no need.

How wrong I was…

I followed up on Monday in great detail and sent my response to the ONLY email address on either of the two sites. Seconds later it was returned. It was forwarded to an email address that does not exist.

“Sorry, no mailbox here by that name.”

I scratch my head and explore the site for a few more minutes looking for another address. Nothing.

I Google the Realtor hoping to find an address on a Linked In profile or maybe a Facebook page.

Nothing.

So I use the contact form on their other site. I cut and paste the content of my email and place it in the form and send it off.

Minutes later I get an email welcoming me to their site and providing me a password to access the search of their site.

No mention of “Thanks for your note, by the way if you’d like to use our search here is a password”.

Nope, just a here is your log in and password. Which was far from what my message I submitted via their form was about.

I thought maybe I missed something and that is all the form is for. I read all the content around the form…nothing about signing up to use their search.

So I have no idea if my 15 minutes of effort ever did a message to anyone on their team never mind the person I was talking too.

As our conversation was very engaging and this team seemed like they would be great clients I toughed it out, this combined with the prospect of revenue lead me to put in a significant effort. Now I will need to call them back by phone today.

If I was home buyer or seller I would have moved on after the first email bounce.

Why would you let this happen? Would you leave a defunct email address on your business card? If your phone number changed would you not update it everywhere it existed online and offline?

Why are you making the coveted conversion exponentially harder then it already is?

By: Brandon Marchand

Brandon Marchand — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:57:18 +0000

Filling flyer boxes takes time and a weekly task. I refuse to have them empty (although it happens). We use both flyer boxes & url’s and it seems to work fine