Presenter: Chomell What you say: Good Morning, My name is Chomell Castillo and I am the President of Opal Avenue. Our team is excited to introduce you to Opal Avenue and our business plan!
Presenter: Chomell What you say Our Mission Statement is ….
Presenter: Chomell What you say: Let’s now review the details of our business concept. OpalAvenue is a luxury realtor with integrated design services that allow our customers to purchase, sell, and design their perfect home OpalAvenue’s web based solution allows our team to understand our luxury client and deliver a home that meets their unique style OpalAvenue certified designers help existing owners create their own gem of a home OpalAvenue provides designers with a complete web hosting solution for their web site and portfolios Our customers win purchasing a home in their style Our realtors win with tools to help meet our customers needs Our designers win with referrals and portfolio hosting tools I would like to introduce Jessica VP of Operations. She is going to review our team. our operations and our goals.
Presenter: Jessica Speaker Notes: Thanks Chomell You’re already met our fearless leader, Chomell. Chomell has been in real estate for 5 years . He understands the latest in the New York Real Estate Marketplace. I’d like to introduce the rest of our team and our operations I’m Jessica VP Operations and my primary focus is realtor and design operations. This includes hiring on great realtors and on-boarding design partners . This is a critical part of our business. Another critical part of our business is Marketing and Advertising. Ashley is our VP in this department and is responsible for building our brand and marketing our high end properties . Tony is our VP of Technology and Finance. He delivers our web based solution and oversees the financial plan for our business . You might wonder how 4 dedicated high school students can be successful selling luxury real estate and design services. We are passionate about our idea and we already have a great team of industry leaders backing us. Here are the leaders we have been working with over the last 6 months I’d like to introduce our Senior Realtor from The Corcoran Group, the current top real estate company in New York City. Cathy Blau has really helped us understand luxury real estate sales. We also worked with Elaine Dean, a Managing Director, who advised us on the operations of a Real Estate Brokerage Company. We have also worked closely with Shane Reilly to understand the luxury designer business. This summarizes our team’s operations.
Presenter: Jessica What to Say: Now let’s review our team’s goals and objectives Our business will become profitable in April of our First Year. We will have 25 Senior Realtors ready to sell as we start our business year. To do this we will hire on a Selling Director. The Selling Director is a senior realtor that will come to Opal Ave because we will pay him/her a salary as well as their commission. This person will help us bring on our 25 Realtors. Our goal is to have 40 designers in our network and hosted on our web site by the end of the first year. We will first bring on the top designers in the industry who will receive free marketing and referrals by partnering with us. These first designers will allow us to bring on the additional designers to our network. We have a modest goal of selling 75 luxury homes our first year. This is 3 homes per Senior Realtor. We will sell 191 homes in year 2 and 275 luxury homes in year 3. These are bold yet realistic goals. I’d like to introduce Ashley. She is going to give you an overview of our market, our target customer, and our marketing plan.
Presenter: Ashley What you Say: Thank you Jessica Let’s review our market and target customers NYC Market Did you know … 1 st Bullet - That’s Crazy 2 nd Bullet - That’s half of Bill Gates net worth 3 rd Bellut – As we like to say a picture is worth a thousand words! 4 th Bullet – there is a definite link between real estate and design services. We are the first company to take advantage of this Our Target Market and Customer Wealthy Customers $3M and up properties. By the way $3M doesn’t get you a ton in this town
Presenter: Ashley What you Say: Let’s now review our marketing plan. I have a big job of creating our brand and programs to market our luxury properties. Here is how we are going to accomplish this. We are investing heavily to create our brand: We are doing major campaigns and style showcases in NYT, Forbes, WSJ and Luxury Publications We will sponsor non profit organizations and benefits where you find high end clients We will also do some advertising in the top design industry magazines Listings is the most important part of real estate! We will market our high end properties in similar venues as our brand marketing. We can also use our web site and our multiple listing services to sell luxury properties.
Presenter: Tony What you Say: Let’s walk through our Opal Avenue solution. My Opal Style: We start with our realtors profiling our customers needs by style. There will be no paper forms to fill out here since our realtors use an online profile. My Opal List: Our solution provide personalized listings on the fly. The realtor can walk through the customized listings noting location and other important property attributes (door man building, loft, penthouse, etc). Opal Walk-Thru: Here our realtors give a Walk-Thru of a property as it would look in our customer’s style Closing the Deal: Our high end realtors will make closing the deal fast and efficiently. Meet Designer: We connect a customer with our OpalAvenue certified designer to personalize the property according to their style. Finally the sale and design job is complete and the client is happy. We anticipate the client to be so satisfied, that he or she will return to us again and again to use OpalAvenue services. Changes to Slide: Styles and Tastes to My Opal Style Personalized to My Opal List Walk Through – Opal Walk-Thru Based on buyers personalized tastes we present them with a floor plan in their style Closing the Deal
Speaker: Tony What you say: This is a view of our My Opal Style profiling tool. This makes it easy for realtor to work with the customer to profile their property and style requirements. Our realtors can work with our customers online or in person with their Tablet PC.
Presenter: Tony Changes: Add meet the designer and change the designer Change Personalized to My Opal List Change Walk Through to Walk-Thru Make this 2 pictures one with bubbles and one without. What to Say: For example, Mr. Smith, an executive from London picks the contemporary style, the My Opal List will show the client a few properties that match their needs. Let’s say he selects this penthouse property. Our custom listings will also provide a Walk-Thru to show the client a floor plan of a property along with portfolio pictures from designers in contemporary styles. Here we have the bedroom, the kitchen, and the living room in contemporary styles matching Mr. Smith’s tastes. Notice our certified designer’s pictures highlighting the customers style. Also note the ability for the customer to meet the designer with this button.
Presenter: Tony What You Say: When we spoke to Mrs. Reilly, our luxury designer, we found out that it is very difficult and expensive for designers to keep their portfolios up to date on the web. This is our set of tools to make this easy. It allows the designer to add new photos, change content, etc. without having to know any scripting. As you can see we have a comprehensive solution for our luxury buyers, realtors, and designers.
Presenter: Tony What to Say: Now that you’ve seen our solution let me show you our financial plans! Let’s first review our income categories We make commission from the sales of properties . This is 4.7M in Year 1 from the sale of just 75 properties! Portfolio Hosting is a monthly hosting provided to our Designers. Design Certification is a one time fee to qualify our Designers to our network. Notice we give this away free year 1. We get Designer Referrals revenue. We also make modest revenue from Web Ads on our web site. I’ll highlight a couple important expense categories: Advertising is very important as we start our business. Notice the huge $3.3M investment for year1! Ashley is creating our brand and marketing listings Rent is relatively high. Salaries are the next largest investment Computer Hardware/Software includes the Tablet PCs for our realtors We also need realtor insurance
Presenter: Tony What you say: I’d like to quickly show you some important trends in our income and expenses for year 1 and year 2. Note the red is expense and blue is income . Year1 Slow increase in revenue as we get established Large investments in advertising at beginning of year and end of year! Notice the seasonality of lower sales in summer and terrible sales during holidays Year2 Big Q1 with established strong realtor and design teams note seasonality for summer and holidays Notice the reasonable expenses since we have already established our brand We have a strong financial plan! Now to conclude our presentation Chomell will go over our future growth plans.
Speaker: Chomell What to Say: Thank you Tony. Now that you have heard our finances and how lucrative our business will be in NYC lets review our growth plan. We would like to first expand down the east coast. Then we believe it is our manifest destiny to go westward and carry our brand to places like LA, Aspen, and Los Vegas. We would also like to tap into the international hot spots. As we expand we will grow our real estate and designer sales!
Speaker: Chomell What to Say: Luxury and Design integration provide a competitive edge over other realtors. We are the first to do this. Opal Avenue’s team is supported by the leaders in the Industry! Opal Avenue provides core value to luxury buyers & designers! We have an excellent plan you should invest in! Our customers win purchasing their perfect home Our realtors win meeting our customers needs and selling more homes Our designers win with referrals and great portfolio hosting tools You win investing in us!!! TOGETHER: “And together we are Opal Avenue where your home is your gem!”
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