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Help-U-Sell Real Estate at the 2012 Realtors Conference & Expo

It may be only May, but we’re already making plans for our fall tour de force. This year, we’re exhibiting at two state/regional Realtor expos, in addition to our booth at the REALTORS Conference & Expo. Our annual Success Summit, which is free for our franchisees and their agents to attend, will take place in Las Vegas in October.

Here is our itinerary for this fall.

We invite you to join us for one or more of these events. We’ll keep you updated as we have more information. If you are not a franchisee yet, there’s still time to become a member of the Help-U-Sell family and join us for the Success Summit. To speak with us in the meantime or learn more about Help-U-Sell, please contact us or visit our Franchise Opportunity Center website.

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April showered some of our offices with many closed sides, 38 to be exact!

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Richard Cricchio broker/co-owner of Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties

1) On top again, Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties closed an astounding 17 sides made up of two buyer sides, nine seller sides and three dual-sided transactions.

2) Returning to the top-producers list, Help-U-Sell Prestige Properties in Chino Hills, Calif., finished April with 11 closed sides. Two were buyer sides and nine were seller sides.

3) Help-U-Sell Detwiler Realty, based in Carlisle, Penn., also had double-digit closing numbers. With an even 10 closed sides, three were buyer sides, five were seller sides and one was a dual-sided transaction.

We’d also like to make a special mention of our fourth-place finisher, Alabama’s Help-U-Sell Quad Cities Realty, for closing four buyer sides and four seller sides last month, with six of the eight sides being part of dual-sided transactions. Way to go, Tracy Jacobs and team! Congratulations to all of our top offices for April!

[Figures as of May 7, 2013.]

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Several of our franchisees requested the ability to export leads and contacts from the Office Management System. We have just added this functionality to the back-end, in the Reports section.

To access these exports, click on Reports under the Sales tab.

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To access contact and lead export tools, click on Reports on the Sales menu in OMS.

Once you’ve selected either Contact or Lead export, you can choose a specific category to export. In this example, Sellers have been chosen from the Contact category.

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Choose a specific contact type (or choose all) to export from the OMS.

There are six options for exporting the generated list of contacts or leads, including Acrobat (PDF), Excel 97-2003 and CSV, which will likely be the most useful.

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You can export your contacts and leads in six different formats, including CSV and PDF.

If you have any questions about the new functionality or would like to request additional export or report categories, contact us at support[at]helpusell[dot]com.

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Help-U-Sell Keystone Realty’s Matt Kellam Featured on National Real Estate Site

April 23, 2013

Congratulations to our own Matt Kellam, broker/owner of Help-U-Sell Keystone Realty in Chambersburg, Penn., for being selected as RealEstate.com’s Pro of the Week. In the 900-word article, we learn about Kellam’s hometown, previous positions (he once sold computers), favorite sports teams, and why he opened a Help-U-Sell Real Estate franchise. “It made sense,” he explained. [...]

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New Marketing Tools for Brand Recognition

April 16, 2013

As the weather gets warmer in most of the country and you hold more open houses and sell more homes, how will you ensure that you’ll stay top of mind after you close the door or the transaction? Following up via a drip email campaign, phone calls and requests for testimonials, where appropriate, are a [...]

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Flat-fee Versus Commission-based Real Estate Business Models

April 9, 2013

On April 25, 2013, Help-U-Sell Bay Beach Realty broker/owner Dan Desmond and Scott Einbinder, a veteran real estate salesperson and consultant, in Toms River, N.J., will debate which real estate business model is superior: flat-fee or commission-based. Proceeds from the highly anticipated event will benefit the local Habitat for Humanity chapter. While Desmond will be [...]

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Top Producers for March 2013

April 2, 2013

It might still be cold in some parts of the country, but spring arrived early for many of our Help-U-Sell offices. 1) Back on top, Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties closed 14 sides last month. All but one were seller sides. 2) Help-U-Sell Direct Savings Real Estate, in Waynesboro, Va., tied for second place with 12 closed [...]

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Spring Training for Real Estate

March 26, 2013

It’s that time of year when Major League Baseball comes out of hibernation and spring training begins. You don’t have to have a multimillion dollar contract to take part in your own version of spring training. Invaluable educational opportunities can be had for free or little cost. Here are a few opportunities to improve your [...]

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The Broker-Centric Business Model

March 20, 2013

In the past few weeks, two opinion articles touting the merits of the smaller, broker-centric business model have appeared on renowned real estate news websites, AGBeat and Inman News. We couldn’t agree with these sentiments more. Help-U-Sell Real Estate’s business model has been broker-centric since the company’s founding in 1976. We believe that it’s the [...]

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Broker Focus: Steve Vincent

March 12, 2013

As a licensed broker for 11 years, and an active real estate investor for about 16 years, Help-U-Sell Triad Realty’s Steve Vincent knows a thing or two about long-term commitment. He says this consistency is the key to marketing success, too, especially on Facebook. Triad Realty’s Facebook page has existed for maybe two years, but [...]

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