Home Sellers While most real estate agents are pretty good at the “usual marketing practices,” I know that the usual stuff just doesn’t interest today’s buyer. Buyers are more educated and “tech savvy” than ever. I rely heavily on internet marketing to find buyers where they are looking. For more information on getting your home sold for the best price, shortest time with minimal inconvenience, please call 210-693-0548 or email rick.tankersley@century21.com

1. Progressive Marketing to Get Your Property Sold

2. We’ll create a Sharp Website For Your Property. It will have a unique domain name for your street address. And it will be syndicated to more than 20 major property search portals like Trulia, Zillow, and Google Base.

3. We will market your home using REALTOR.COM Showcase Program. Your listing will stand out with Max Photos, Awesome Descriptions, Virtual Tour and Video. TWO HUGE FACTORS to consider is that there are NO ADS on your listing and the showcase drives more traffic to your listing .

5. Speaking of YouTube, it is the 2 nd largest search engine in the world. (1 st is Google which owns YouTube) Because of the 2 Billion visits per day, it is important that we advertise your listing here. This is why in addition to the virtual tour, we take a quick, narrated video tour of your home and post it on You Tube and to all of the Social Media Sharing Sites.

6. We’ll create Craigslist ads which will incorporate TEXT, VIDEO, VIRTUAL TOUR AND YOUR PROPERTY WEBSITE. We will post it on a weekly basis. Craigslist is becoming increasingly popular for buyers searching for homes using the internet. Your presence here will expose your home to hundreds, maybe thousands of potential buyers.

7. It is important for you that we use Social Media to market your home. Facebook has over 500 million Users and Twitter has over 300 million. We can “friend” you and get your property website, videos, status comments about your home and open house events out to thousands of people in an instant.

8. QR CODES QR codes are to be scanned by any phone with a code reader. We place these codes on all marketing materials for your home. When the code is scanned, the viewer will be taken to a Phone-Enhanced version of your property website. We find this is a great way to “marry” our print ads to the high tech resources we use to get your home sold .

9. The Phone! This one’s a simple step that most of our competitors never think to take. We’re going to call the 5 agents who have participated in the most recent sales in your area. Chances are good these agents might have other buyers looking in the neighborhood. It will be our job to keep your property top-of-mind with cooperating agents. PLUS…we are going to call everyone in your neighborhood and with a half mile radius to announce your listing and ask for a referral.

10. Today’s consumers have access to infinite online resources when it comes to searching for a home. Our goal is to make sure that your listing is easily visible and widely available on the internet. We make sure your listing is syndicated to over 300 websites.

11. When we post your property to the local MLS system, we’ll make sure the description is engaging and that the pictures present your property in its best light. This is a fundamental, but very important step that a lot of agents get wrong. THE MLS….DONE RIGHT

12. Our Company Database! We’ll make sure that everyone we know is familiar with your property. (And we know a lot of people!) • Our Past Clients • Our Current Clients • Other Agents We Know • Our Facebook Fans • Our Twitter Followers • Other area business owners and local residents in our database.