Solving oen house problems

Stephanie Andre does a fabulous work on how to stage your home for an open-house. She forgets that you will have to keep your house ready for a visitor on a daily basis. The realtor will place an automatic padlock that will allow people to visit your home while you are out. Sometimes you will like to remove all this aggravation by limiting the times that the realtor can show your home. This results in fewer chances for buyers to see your home and as a result less possibilities to sell your home.
From a realtor point of view this is also an inconvenience since you will have to check with your client when the house is available to be seen. This reduces your possibility of selling it. Also if the day is cloudy or it is raining it is almost impossible for your clients to picture your listing on its best lights.
How can you overcome these difficulties? Is it a way for the lawn to stay fresh and cut as it was just recently cut? Is there a way to make your client to agree to allow anyone to visit his property at any time without previous notice? How can his house be ready for a visit even when she is sleeping at night? Can the house look at its best even under a hurricane?
The solution for all this problems and to keep your clients happy at the same time is on the use of virtual tours.
Can you picture showing all your listings from the comfort and security of your office? Can you imagine how more listings you might obtain if you use this technique?
For your entire Internet advertising needs please call Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960.

How Can You Increase Your WEbsite Presence?

How good is your internet presence? Which statistics you should be looking at?
There are hundreds of numbers related to your website performance, the most important are:
1. The number of visitors (new and returning)
2. How many of those visitors become leads? Specially, what is the rate of visitors to leads?
3. The rank of your page. Google will rank your page between 1 and 10 based on a group of characteristics that you have to address.
4. You need to know which keywords are scoring better and if they are going up or down.
So how you can do this? It can sound as a monumental task, but in reality is an obtainable goal. To increase your presence on the Internet you need some knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Our personnel at Virtual Florida Tours are trained to help you optimize your internet presence allowing your company to increase the number of leads.
To get help on your webpage optimization, do not hesitate it not more. Contact our specialists or simply make a phone call to 305 331 8960, help is just a phone call away.

Social Media Prospecting on Real Estate

Social media is becoming more important each day as a way to stay in touch with clients and prospective buyers and sellers on the real estate industry. Sites such as Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn help real estate companies and professional allow them to stay on the top of the business on these difficult times. To build your business and create a community related by their resources as well as the generation of traffic and leads you need to increase the presence of your company on the social networking system. The use of Internet advertising and technology can help you increase your return on investment (ROI) an Virtual Florida Tours can help you on this task.Social networking is creating a shift in the way the real estate industry communicates, educate, nurtures, and shop their relationships with clients and prospects. To establish yourself as an expert it is important to remember that you must be creating informative content and community resources so you keep yourself for free as the expert the prospects will be looking for in your farming area.
If you are twitting you have to be careful to address the fundamental interest of your clients and prospects. Also remember to twit about different topics. Inform about future topics that you will be addressing in your blog.
Questions are important since people love to participate giving their opinions. Remember to comment about other people that comment on topics you are interested in. Make posting about your job useful, add pictures and other materials when possible.
Coming soon are our possibilities of staging empty listings, making your web site visible on the Internet by adding important resources and links to your webpage.
We welcome comments on any topic you will like us to address in our next blog.
If you have any questions on how we can help you please call us at (305) 331-8960 or visit our webpage

Importance of Internet Exposure and Real Estate Market

Some Realtors have a lot of experience but they are afraid of technology. Regretfully in today's market 80% of prospects start their search on the Internet.
The times that placing a sign on the front yard and information on the MLS and expect it to work are gone. Today's market requires that the realtor keeps pace with technology.
You need a webpage that place you as the specialist in your area with good content. The problem regretfully does not stop there since your webpage has to be found.
The market requires that you keep pace with technology. Don't be afraid to ask your virtual tour provider. Virtual Florida Tours personnel are trained and willing to help you with all your needs on the Internet exposure of your listings. We do not only provide you with state of the art virtual tours that can be shown on full screen, we can help you by writing blogs on your listing that will increase the exposure, provide you with a text messaging capture system that provides your prospect immediate information on the listing and provides you with the customers phone. Weekly and thorough statistics information on your listing outlining when, how frequently and from where is your virtual tour being visited. Social networking exposure of your listing and slide show in you tube. One of our latest is a personalized message in your own voice that can be attached to your virtual tour as part of the background information.
If you need more information or are willing to contract our services do not hesitate to contact us at 305 331 8960 to receive personal information or visit our web page.

Is It Important to Maintain an Internet Presence

A greater presence on the Internet is emphasized by multiple authors and in a recent article Mike Parker1 make a great point of its importance. The numbers of published papers that address this situation is overwhelming and of greater importance are those published by the national association of Realtors (NAR). In this articles NAR refers to the increase of prospects starting their house search through the Internet, and the increase income earned by those Realtors that are already getting a good return on investment on their Internet presence.
Multiple authors address the importance of SEO to obtain the correct Internet presence as your main goal. This will allow the prospects to locate your page when they are seeking information on your neighborhood. The greater amount of people finding you on the Internet will represent more business that will come your way.
The problem is how you make this people give you their information so you can contact them back. There has to be some kind of call for action of these prospects. In this way the prospects will be enticed to give you their information by promising a newsletter, a virtual tour for sellers or information just tailored to their needs. It is very important that these prospects receive feedback as soon as possible after they give their contact information.
For all your Internet marketing, SEO training and virtual tours in the counties of Miami Dade and Broward contact Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960
•1. Parker Mike; "Traditional Agents Earn $36,700 Annually; Internet Agents Earn $100,000+ Annually" ; Retrieved from the Internet at: http://www.brokeragentsocial.com/article.php?article_id=364

Real Estate Today

The intention to improve the economy started in the previous administration investing mostly in the banks to buy the bad credits these institutions had incurred in. The amount of money injected was increased enormously in recent times with no change in the attitude of the banking institutions.
Despite some reports that consider that the economy was not suffering as much as others were saying 1. The reality is that the customers are not noticing the increase in loans availability from the banks.
The real estate market has declined in recent years and the homes have lost a big amount of their selling price. This has promoted the misconception of most owners that assume that their homes are valued more than where market is actually placed.2
Therefore realtors need to start educating the owners in the real market price of their property. It is important that before a realtor accepts a listing he/she should investigate if the owner is really committed to sell.
The home needs to be staged before you even accept the building, and you need to market the home as soon as possible in the Internet using all the tools of the trade from virtual tours to a complete network syndication. A home that is correctly priced in good conditions and is advertised appropriately on the internet tends to sell three times faster than other houses that only appear in the MLS.

1. Debra Gould http://activerain.com/blogsview/963298/Beating-Back-Bad-Economic-News
2. Harney, Steve, Managing Homeowner's Expectations Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for Sept. 30, 2007

The importance of the Internet in your marketing

Recently I was talking to one of my clients and he came with a question on why he should be placing his adds in the Internet.
My answer was extremely simple Return On Investment (ROI). Why we have to base our adds in ROI is very simple if you place an ad in a magazine or newspaper you invest between $200 and $100 for an add whit a life stand between 2 days and a month. To make things worse this add will only be seen in the area of circulation of that specific paper or magazine. also the Real Estate section will be seen by approximately 2% of the buyers of that specific edition.
When you place a virtual tour in the Internet you will have a full year of advertising that will reach the whole world for around $100, and if you use our marketing system we will syndicate your tour and make it even more visible to potential clients all over the world! To help you understand the importance of this we recommend a little video we developed recently
the importance of Internet advertisement was recently addressed by René Fabre in her article where did your last client came from the you can retrieve from: http://activerain.com/blogsview/991492/Where-did-your-last-client-come-from
Remember if you have any Internet marketing needs in Miami Dade and Broward Counties do not hesitate to contact us at 305 331 8960.