Meeting people is easy - especially on the Internet. In recent years social networking websites have helped blur the line between online and offline socializing, and simplified target audience marketing to a single mouse click. The hard part now is deciding where to meet everybody, and which version of yourself to present. But if you know your audience well enough, as do most social networkers, you'll find your niche quickly.
Real estate has proven an especially good application for the new networking, and some Realtors have been very successful here. The best are able to mix a fun personality with business and marketing expertise, turning client leads into friends, and vice versa. Social networking works for real estate because it combines the casual with the commercial - many consumers like to browse home for sale listings or talk about investment in their spare time, and networking sites are where they hang out.
Real Estate networking sites like ActiveRain are great for making professional contacts and learning from your peers, but most buyers and sellers aren't spending time there. They're on the fun sites connecting with their friends, and tapping the occasional business opportunity. Myspace and Facebook are the two best examples, where the agenda is completely user-defined and different each day. Entertainment professionals were the first to use these sites as calling cards, but now everyone in the private sector does business on them. Real Estate agents look good on these sites because they can use the available multimedia applications to market listings and other products. It's also common for new home communities and condo developments to have their own Myspace or Facebook profiles. For savvy consumers, it becomes easy to integrate business and pleasure, and they can always disassociate with users or profiles that stop being fun.
Before social networking sites were common, forums were the best place to combine marketing and personality. The best read industry forums were informative and entertaining, evolving into self-sustaining communities that didn't require input from its creator.
Forums are still a big part of the social networking landscape because they provide a place for people to interact without divulging a lot of personal information. By the same token however, if you can connect with a consumer on a place like Facebook where you're more exposed, you might make a more lasting impression.
Marketing professionals are calling this "the golden age of pr," and Realtors are in a great position to make the most of it.
Selling a property without getting duped by real estate agents.
Selling a house yourself (without using a Realtor) can be simple, fast, and profitable even when the property prices are at an all time low. There are a few things that you need to consider when selling a home, and you don't have to be a Realtor to do this.
Real estate agents typically have an advantage to selling properties because they have the ability to list a house in the MLS (multiple listing service), and they may have a list of buyers that they can send over to your house.
However, where the trouble comes in is if they do list your house, and do send over the buyers that they have, and it still doesn't sell? this is where you get duped.
What may happen is, a Realtor could tell you that they can get a good price for your house if you list it with them, then once they have the listing they will slowly work on you to lower the price of the property until it sells. This is BAD!
First, this is bad because starting your house listed above what the market might be willing to pay, could price you out of the range that buyers are looking in and you won't get anyone over to come and look.
Second, when you drop your price this gets recorded in the MLS and now potential buyers can see the amount you have decreased and the frequency of your price changes and come to a conclusion that you will accept a low offer.
Third, if this process takes several months, then your time on the market increases and this is another indication that you might be getting desperate and would consider a low offer.
And finally, if you do sell the house for far less than you were promised by the Realtor when they listed it? you still have to pay them their healthy 6% or more commission.
So, rather than get duped by a Realtor and potentially cause yourself some stress and loss of equity? why not take matters into your own hands and sell house fast yourself without using a Realtor at all?
In my sell house fast guide ?The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Own House Fast?, I explain in step-by-step details how you can get your own house marketed properly and how to get your house ready for a quick sale, without having to do any expensive repairs or marketing? and get it sold fast.
To learn how you too can sell your own house fast, without using a Realtor, in 2 weeks or less? please visit: http://www.sell-your-own-house-fast.com
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