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Monthly archives for June, 2009

Unleash Your Marketing

Jun30
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Renee

pet_leashThe goal at My Assistant is to help you become more productive while saving you money. We are happy to announce our
Unleashed Listing Marketing Package
to help you market your listings…for less.

WHAT YOU GET

  • Internet Marketing to 10 listing sites
  • Flyer design
  • 20 Flyer prints
  • Just Listed postcard design
  • 20 Just Listed postcards
  • 20 Addresses for your postcards

Full Price:  $39
PACKAGE PRICE:  $30 ($9 savings!)

Order a set of 5 Unleashed Packages for $125!
SAVE $70!
Set of 5 will be billed on one invoice. You can use them when you need them.

Posted in Headline, marketing

From RSS to Email

Jun26
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Renee

Want to stay on top of your favorite blog or news feed but don’t want to keep checking your RSS feed or visiting their website? Not even sure what an RSS feed is? I like to have these posts automatically sent to my inbox so I don’t have to remember to visit any other websites – I’ve got enough to remember.

www.feedmyinbox.com is a service that allows you to enter the URL (web address) of any site and your email address and you will be sent an email on a daily basis when new posts are available. I use this for things like a Craigslist search. Craigslist doesn’t offer email notifications when a new item is for sale that matches my search criteria (say ‘couch’). So I go to Craigslist, do the search for a couch, then copy and paste the URL (http://southbend.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=couch) into www.feedmyinbox.com’s form. I enter my email address and I receive daily emails with new couches for sale on Craigslist. Keeps me from missing anything good. Try it with my website! Enter www.myassistantcan.com into feedmyinbox’s form and stay up to date with me!

Have any questions, please let me know.feedmyinbox

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Font-Tastic!

Jun08
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Renee

font

Tired of the same old fonts available in your programs? Then check out this fantastic list of cool, high-quality fonts from Smashing Magazine.

Need help installing a new font? You can find a tutorial at Microsoft’s website.

Or, if you prefer a totally custom font of your own handwriting, you can do a YouFont. Simply fill out the template, upload the file and then they create a font based on your own handwriting. It’s $13 – pretty cheap for a custom font! Plus, you don’t pay until you approve the font.

See a font you like but don’t know what font it is? Trying to mimic a corporate font? You can upload a file with the font here and find out what font it is.

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Wordless Wednesday Intro- Bad MLS Photos

Jun04
2009 3 Comments Written by Renee

Okay, I’m going to be a bit blunt here. Yes, your job as a real estate agent is to negotiate legal contracts and work on behalf of your clients. But much of that is marketing as well. One MAJOR piece of marketing nowadays is visual marketing – photos, virtual tours, marketing pieces, etc. I am sure it is easiest to take photos when you are already at the home for the listing appointment but I BEG YOU to set up a separate photo shoot appointment. Ask your sellers to stage their home in the same manner they would for a showing. What does that mean? YOU NEED TO TELL THEM. I’ve seen some absolutely atrocious photos at which any buyer would laugh. Don’t mistake what I’m saying; they are laughing at you as well. They probably think you are not a good agent for the sellers. You won’t even tell them to:

  • Get the dishes out of the sink
  • Make the bed
  • Get out of the photo! You’ve heard about taking personal items out of the home – gosh, don’t forget to take the seller out of the photo! Same reason – buyers can’t visualize themselves in someone else’s home.
  • Store all of your knick-knacks in a storage unit
  • Turn off the TV
  • Clear the kitchen table of breakfast dishes
  • Close the toilet
  • Close the garage door

If you don’t have the nerves to tell them these items to their faces, put a Staging Guide in your Seller’s Presentation packet. For goodness sake, do something. They are depending on you to help sell their home. If you can’t take a good photo and you know it, HIRE SOMEONE. It’s well worth the cost.

Now, I won’t point at anyone specificially, so take a look at these Bad MLS Photos websites. Believe me, sites like these are all over the internet. People notice bad photos.

Stay tuned for photo tips every Wednesday.

MLS Trash Can

Worst MLS Photo

Bad Photos

Check out these photos from Google

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Go Komando

Jun02
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Renee

032408_komando_tips.jpgIt’s overwhelming keeping up with current and new technology. Luckily we have a friend in Kim Komando.She will gladly do the work for you!

Kim has a TON of information and she gladly shares it with her radio listeners and web visitors. She takes new technology (hardware, software, programs and apps) and gives you the low-down on each. She can help you make a purchasing decision or solve a technology-based problem.

I listen to her show whenever I can and subscribe to all of her newsletters.

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Shortcut to Writing Common Emails

Jun01
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Renee

Do you find yourself sending the same type of email message repeatedly? I do. I have responses to inquiries about work. I have an email I send when I provide a proof on design work. I have invoice emails and custom customer emails in which I update them on their marketing plans. To type them out each time is time-consuming and sometimes I forget to mention something I should have. If you have this problem there is a very easy solution.

You can learn how to create an email signature here. We will be doing the exact same thing for common text in emails. 

In Outlook, go to ‘tools’ – ‘options’ – then click on the ‘mail format’ tab. 
Click on ‘Signatures’ 

To create a new signature (which is what this is) click ‘New’.
Enter a name for your new signature, such as ‘Invoice’. 

Enter in the text you’d like to be included in your form email and hit ‘ok’.

When you are ready to use your form email text, begin a new email and go to ‘insert’ – ‘signature’ – then select the signature you want to use. 

Now, you can only use one signature at a time and the one you select will overwrite any others you’ve used in the same email.

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