Do not worry you have Insurance?

When one of my close friend’s home was robbed all his problems started. They stole all the electronics in his home. He do not only felt violated on his privacy. Despite he had insurance now he had to prove to the insurance company what he used to own before the robbery.
He was looking around for old photos that contained his top of the line computer, his high definition TV, etc. They told him also manuals receipts could help. He was crazy for days before he talked to me.
I remind my friend that as part of my training for virtual tours I asked him to allow me take a virtual tour of his house. I just happened to have all the pictures he needed to prove to the insurance company what he had.
My friend was extremely lucky! What about you?
If you want to protect your assets do not hesitate to call Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960 or visit us at our webpage.

The Importance of Internet Real Estate Markeitng

We recently read an article from Midori Miller1 in a study done last year during the month of July 2008 by Yahoo white pages . According to her article during that month 23 million people bought, sold or are getting ready to buy and sell their homes using the Internet.
This should be a wake up call for those still doubting the importance of having an active presence on the Internet. Despite this reality most of our clients are struggling working extra hours during this difficult times just to meet their ends. Maintaining a blog is time consuming and requires commitment by the author to maintain his/her readers informed..
That is the reason why Virtual Florida Tours following the motto of our company "Striving for Excellence" has decided to include a blog of the property, and a High Dynamic Range panoramic view of the front of your listing with our premium tours. Our clients are already getting maximum exposure of their properties through our multiple services that include tour network syndication, Slide show video, single property web site with panoramic rider.
For all of your Internet marketing needs do not hesitate to contact Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960. We serve the cities of Miami Beach, Pinecrest, Coral Gables, Hallandale, Fort Lauderdale and the rest of the counties of Miami Dade and Broward counties in Florida.
Reference:
1. Miller, Midori; http://activerain.com/blogsview/1051260/23-Million-Bought-Sold-Or-Are-Ready-To-Buy-or-Sell-Real-Estate-Searching-The-Net

A Beautiful Place by the Lake

Virtual Florida Tours and the Lehman Team will like to present to the market this one of the kind beautiful home by the lake in this very exclusive neighborhood of Miami City, Florida.

This home has four spacious bedrooms two bathrooms, and a big totally screned pool home. It has an excellent distribution, and is furnished with new appliances. One of its principal features is the astonishing view of the lake you and your family will enjoy.

The Living area is totally tiled and the screned pool will allow you and your guests enjoy the view without the annoyance of insects. This area is specially tailored for your private parties.

If you will like to market your home or business contact The Lehman Team these professional realtors work with Coldwell Banker at Pinecrest at 305 970 7500.

If you are seeking how to increase your presence in the Internet marketing do not hesitate to contact Virtual Florida Tours. Our family owned company specializes in Interntet marketing of real estate and business in Miami Dade and Broward Counties. We serve the cities of Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, Miami, Hallandale and Fort Lauderdale. Do not hesitate to contact us with all your marketing needs at Miami Dade and Broward Counties

Mindframe Required for a Successful Business

Success depends to a certain measure in doing the right thing to all your customers to the point they will start commenting on how good their relationship with your company was for their business.
To do this you need to plan in advance how to deal with the different situations you might find in your particular line of business. You might think that the world is trying to get you in trouble but reality is you are setting yourself to failure if you do not have the correct plan to solve any problem.
You are experiencing your own ideas on the situation making a wall between you and your success. Pushing against your own misconceptions is not the solution you need to power yourself and do the right plan for each situation. By doing this you empower yourself to success.
For example realtors sometimes think that the most important thing they can do is to obtain listings, and they do not realize that they need a seller that is really committed to sell. It cannot be emphasized enough the importance of a correctly priced house, well staged, with acceptable conditions and the owner is willing to disclose any possible impact avoiding problems with undisclosed issues.
What you will do with a house that cannot be showed in the actual situation? You need to be sure that once you accept a listing that you market that property as good as possible.
In a tough market you will be forced to market the house in the Internet not only using the MLS and Realtor.com. If you really want to sell your listing you need to work with a virtual tour provider that can not only make professional photos of your listing, you need a provider capable of doing a complete syndication of the property to obtain the maximum exposure possible.
Virtual Florida Tours provides virtual toutrs and marketing services on the Cities of Pinecrest, Miami, Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Hallandale, Fort Lauderdale, and all of Miami Dade and Broward counties.

Reality of the Real Estate Market

Reality of the Real Estate Market (edit/delete)
After reading a recent article by Phillip Cantrell I realized that our blog should share it since some of the information in that article was extremely important and clarifies the present situation of the real estate Industry.
It is true that the number of sales went low in June it is also true that from the 120 million homes existing in the U.S. more than 33% are already paid in full, around 40 million of the remaining were bought before the year 2000 so even in a fire sale they will have a minimum of 30% equity.
On the other hand according to all the information available 94% of the houses are not behind in their payments therefore only 4 million homes are at a risk and of those only 2% are in foreclosure.
For these owners that made a bad decision the Congress is about to spend $300 billion dollars to save their houses, so despite all the talking the situation is not a s bad as some people are placing it.
One of the many ways in which Virtual Florida Tours tries to serve the community is by keeping the realtors serving the areas of Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Miami, Pine Crest, Hallandale, Fort Lauderdale and the rest of Miami Dade and Broward Counties informed of the real situation of the market in which they carry their business.
Reference: Cantrell, Phillip; Things I Think I Think - Real Estate in a Nutshell; retrieved from the Internet at: http://rismedia.com/wp/2008-08-05/things-i-think-i-think-real-estate-in-a-nutshell/

Excel in Customer Satisfaction

In order to excel in customer satisfaction you need to be able to solve little nuances. Once a customer of Virtual Florida Tours wanted to have an unified reference link (URL) attached to the virtual tour of his listing. He selected the full address of his listing for the URL but after that he decided that when he was giving it through the telephone it was extremely long. So he called our customer service and we provided the new URL at no cost for him. The next day we had a very nice referral letter of his experience with our services.
Whenever a problem occurs you need to have a set of policies that are able to solve these difficulties this will bring new customers to your business since a satisfied customer will tell an average of 5 people about the good experience. On the other hand if you mishandle a problem the dissatisfied customer cannot stop telling how bad was their experience and based on statistics of customer service satisfaction between 10 - and 13% will inform up to 20 people about their bad experience!
When you are able to have the policies that solve those little difficulties that will always occur due to our work with imperfect human beings you gain the loyalty of that customer and they become 8 times more loyal to your company than customers that never have had a problem.
Customers expect that everything will go smoothly. But when there is any difficulty the customer emotions are being hit and the worse they go the more people they tell.
Whenever you find a problem you need to establish the guidelines and policies to guide the actions of all your employees all the way through the transaction and make your business to excel wining their loyalty. Remember we are in a business that requires our customers repeated business and also their referrals...
When shopping for virtual tours in Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Miami City, and all of Miami Dade and Broward counties do not hesitate to call your local virtual tour provider at (305) 331 8960 or contact us through the Internet at: http://www.virtualfloridarealtours.com
Reference: Geroux, Sandy; "Creating the WOW for Customers " retrieved from the Internet at: http://brokeragentpro.com/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=1444

Are You Expanding Your Company?

Most people think that if their company is not growing it is because it is going out of business. Undoubtedly a steady growth is essential to the life line of any company, so to grow a healthy business needs everyday essentials.
Companies can grow by merger or recruiting and both methods have their own downfalls.
In merging you need to be able to maintain the personnel that was hired in the company working and producing at a pace that compensate for the big payment you are incurring when you buy a business. Recruiting will require extra space, equipment and staff.
Companies can go bankrupt because they tried to grow too fast. If your cost precedes your increase in production your ability to pay your costs can carry down into bankruptcy. On the other hand if you wait too long to acquire all the resources needed for the expansion the effect of recruiting personnel will be lost.
The bottom line is that whatever is the way you are looking to make your company grow you will need enough capital to be able to endure expansion costs.
When you purchase another company risks that the personnel Independent contractors) in the newly acquired company leave, as a result of this situation you were throwing away your money. To try mitigating this the buyer should include conditions in the purchase agreement that protects him/her from personnel moving out of the company or diminish productivity of the business.
If you try to grow by recruiting unless your company starts with a strong core of productive agents, it might never grow.
As always the situation will be affected by the quality of advertising, That includes the ranking of their web page, if the new company uses already a virtual tour provider that allows yor business to show its listings with the qualkity require to attract prospects. Also the conditions of the market, the competition, and all the company related conditions from leadership, to training will be affecting your expansion. It is wise to seek counsel before taking any decision.
The fastest and costliest way of expansion is to acquire a established business. Many buyers do not have access to the cash needed for the acquisition, or the costs of maintaining the new business running.
Remember that if you have any needs of virtual tours in Miami Beach, Miami, Miami Dade or Broward counties Virtual Florida Tours is your best selection. Please contact us at (305) 331 8960 or through the internet at http://www.virtualfloridaraltours.com
Reference: Barlow, George; "What to Consider When Developing a Plan for Growth and Expansion"; retrieved from the Internet at: http://rismedia.com/wp/2008-07-10/what-to-consider-when-developing-a-plan-for-growth-and-expansion

Your Most Powerful Tool

As a professional you do not have any tool more powerful that your mind. You need to think with clarity before acting, by doing this you will move upward and onward more rapidly in your career.

The best way is to think in your benefits as well as the benefits of the company of which you are part. To achieve this in a personal term is to increase your earning ability. In other words you need to apply the needed mental, emotional and physical energies toward getting the needed results for yourself and your company.
You should try to increase your overall effectiveness and contribution in all the areas of your life, especially and most important in your work.
Increase everything that you are doing that yield the maximum financial return. Also think in those activities that give you the greatest value and achieve the most satisfaction and increase them as much as possible.
As a realtor what are you doing to differentiate yourself from other professionals and make yourself more marketable. Are you using the Intenet in a valuable way? Are you giving the seller/buyer a service that other professionals in your area are not providing?
Have your company stablished a plan of action that separates your's from other companies offering similar services? Do you offfer virtual tours that will allow possible buyers from other states or countries to "visit " your listing without the need of personally coming to see it? Do you have a stablished folow up plan that will allow you to give drip information to possible clients?
Rememeber you can always count on your virtual tour provider for advice in how to make your listings more effectively presented to your prospects. If you have any virtual tour need in Miami Beac, Miami Dade or Broward Counties? Please call Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or contact us through the Internet at http:www.virtualfloridarealtours.com and remember that we strive for excellence.
Reference: Tracy, Brian; "Strategic Thinking", Broker Agent News E-Letter - Updated for Sept. 19, 2007