I have a listing appointment today with a very important client. I want the listing and I'm getting the listing. I have a very competent partner in my business presentation. When you have the best in the business, you can afford to feel confident in offering your client a compelling and engaging proposition for why they want to do business with you and ActiveRain your Team.
I often times tell my clients that ActiveRain my team markets to the world. ActiveRain my team provides the best opportunity to market and sell properties. ActiveRain my team has the best and most up-to-date trending news in the Real Estate Industry. I always provide my clients a list of my websites and blogsites and ActiveRain is at the top and in bold. Now at this point I've let ActiveRain out of the closet so to speak and can begin to build knowledge and awareness for my client of just how powerful my partner is.
I don't talk much about the other blog sites because they are just niche market blogs that allow me to target a specific local area or out of the area Buyers for my listings. I USE ACTIVERAIN AS MY BASE in marketing to all markets. It all starts with ActiveRain and then is distributed out to other market segments.
My presentation begins with ActiveRain and how the forum works. I am able to show my clients what a well-written post looks like and why it is effective. I can show the market statistics on each post and how many people have viewed the post.
We take a tour of Localism and explain how it builds a repository of information on a local community or 
town. I can show them market reports on their community and how I promote living in the community to the world. I show them how many contacts I have gotten on listings and from where. They are not all local but come from Hawaii, Mexico, Canada, Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire, and so on. I have had calls from England, Japan, India and Russia.
I show my clients the Custom IDX solution that all my websites use to help clients look for and find listings. Buyers are able to set up an account and save searches and receive custom emails by their own design. I don't require that anyone fill out a form. It is free to anyone for their use and helps me get listings sold.
My IDX is sponsored on 11 communities and Cities here in Redding and Shasta County. When you click on "search for properties" on the Localism Cities and Communities that I sponsor....you are directed to my website and IDX system. We provide maps and dynamic links to all the Active Listings for that Community. Guess what...your Community is one I sponsor and all this powerful opportunity can be utilized to sell you home.
My marketing plan has all the traditional local marketing things outlined for my client. The grand finale is all about the future of Internet Marketing and how it is critical to the future of real estate. The ever changing real estate market is made available to us though ActiveRain with shared knowledge and advice from Industry Experts. It is all available on ActiveRain. The Industry news is there for us each and every day. We have the edge and we will be taking advantage of it all.
Let me introduce my partner. Please meet ActiveRain. I would not be who I am today without my relationship with this powerful partner that I have. Let's get started on listing your home and let the marketing begin!
I am Jeanean Gendron your Redding and Shasta County Specialist. You can reach me at 530 276-7417.
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Visit my main real estate website that provides you with the ability to Search the MLS and to set up an account so that you can save searches and select favorite properties. I also have many saved searches for you to take advantage of. There are saved City Searches and Community Searches. We also save Foreclosure Listings and Short Sale Listings.
Visit and learn more about The Shasta Lifestyle and the experience of living here in Shasta County.
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Jeanean:
An interesting perspective on Active Rain, love your out of the box thinking. Wishing you a wonderful week.
Hello Ron and Alexandra! Your comment rather blows me away. This is so NOT "out of the box thinking" in my humble opinion.
From Wikipedia
Thinking outside the box is to think differently, unconventionally or from a new perspective. This phrase often refers to novel, creative and smart thinking.
For me, this is baseline thinking and rather on the "connect the dots" level. It is not one thing we do when we market but all the things we do that nets a result. We should be building local knowledge and market reports for the Consumer. We should be providing IDX solutions that provide dynamic links so those buyers looking in our markets have the most current and up-to-date listing information.
ActiveRain provides you the road map for connecting these very important dots for your Consumer:
The possibilities are endless and we all need those dots connected. It is not rocket science thanks to ActiveRain!
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to explain further how effective the marketing infrastructure that we have built has been a powerful and effective aspect of our business development! It is ActiveRain that I have to thank!
I think this is absolutely fabulous!
great idea
BTW Thanks for the recent comment on my blog
your friend in Charlottesville!
Jeanean,
Magnificent post....the power of AR is phenomenal. Your sellers are very lucky to have you representing them.
Jo
Charles, thanks for the visit and Read! Making the RAIN work is what we are about. You are doing a fine job at it.
Your friend in Redding CA!
Hello Jo, thanks for the kudos...you actually lead the way. Thanks for you nice comment. We work hard for our clients!
Very smart of you - I have on occasion presented our Active Rain can help promote a listing - but it's been a while....
I honestly have never thought to show my blogging statistics of Active Rain to anyone! One of those "duh" moments.
Liz...I use it well to talk about how the market is changing in mymarket and with marketing listings. It leads into how I have a prevasive markeiting infrastructure for my clients!
Hello Karen, it's just one statistic...but a powerful one. I start the conversation on Internet Traffic with ActiveRain and go from there....It totally works!
Jeanean:
This is an interesting use of your participation in Active Rain. I definitely have not thought about it.
Best Pegads, Pat Pribisko