Marketing Tips for Real Estate Agents

I received an email yesterday from Todd Clark, Active Rain's top point holder.  He wanted to tell me that our new tool for Realtors actually works. He reported an 18% response rate - including a referral generating $17,200.00 in commission.  Read on to learn what he has to say and how Happy Grass...

We ran a blog post last week about an Active Rainer who got a referral worth over $17K during his free-trial of Happy Grasshopper.  Understandably, this has caused somewhat of a stir... Seems all the 'rain is abuzz - we're getting a giant rush of new users along with dozens and dozens of love let...

There is a new way to search for those time saving apps or sometimes time sucking, depending on how many hours you waste playing Angry Birds. Its called uQuery and its a much easier way to search the Apple App Store - http://www.uquery.com The biggest downfall to using the search in the Apple App...

It sounds simple.  But, sometimes the simplest things work the best. So here it is, if you want more referrals, make it easy for people to give them to you.  Make sure that people have your contact information where they use it the most.  That means, when you meet someone new make sure they get a...

Growing your network and getting more referrals just got easier. Stop spending hours and hours every month putting together a newsletter that most people don't read. Our team of writers create fun, friendly, referral building email messages. You simply approve and edit them to your liking! No mor...

So, it has been a while since I posted for my 30 Days to more referrals series, but like any project - if you want to complete it you have to keep at it until it is finished. For day 7 I found some great time management tips I thought I would share.  Nothing will hurt your business or your abilit...

I saw this at Reddit and thought it was just too funny...hope you have a great Valentine's Day!   Good evening gentleman/ladies. Get out your drink of choice. open 3 tabs on your favorite browser. On the first tab On another tab On the last   *Right click on each of the links above and select ope...

The single best thing that you can do to grow your sales, grow your brand, and grow your business is to keep your name in front of an ever widening and connected network of people.There are are a number of ways to do this.  You can collect addresses and send postcards or newsletters.  You can con...

Okay...let's get right to it.  Everybody who's even remotely serious about doing well in their career understands the need to be recognized.  They may not like it - in fact, I have days when I'd like to stay in bed with a good book - but that's the way it is.  To be successful in our careers we m...

If you've been in sales for five minutes you've heard at least 200 people stress the importance of having a great "elevator pitch".  It's such a simple concept that gets out of control very quickly. What was once this simple:YOU: So what kind of work do you do?FIREMAN: I'm a Fireman. Can get this...