We’re Gearing Up for Fall

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

[Updated July 11, 2013.]

Top Producers for April 2013

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

Richard Cricchio of Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties
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.]

OMS Upgrades – New Leads Management Tool

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.

Help-U-Sell Real Estate Contact and Lead Management Tools
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.

Help-U-Sell Contact Export Menu
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.

Help-U-Sell Real Estate Contact and Lead Export Tool
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.

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

Matt Kellam, broker/owner of Help-U-Sell Keystone Realty
Matt Kellam, broker/owner of Help-U-Sell Keystone Realty, is this RealEstate.com's Pro of the Week.

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. “It was something completely different from traditional real estate. It offered something to the consumer, and it just felt good.”

You can read the article in its entirety on RealEstate.com.

New Marketing Tools for Brand Recognition

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 few ways. You can also give out useful items that will remind your open house visitors and clients of Help-U-Sell Real Estate every time they need to jot a few notes or have morning coffee.

Our print-on-demand vendor, Alexander’s Print Advantage, has just added a line of promotional items. The Help-U-Sell Real Estate logo can be placed on all of the items, and magnets can be personalized with your contact information. Notepads will also be available for personalization soon.

Help-U-Sell Real Estate travel mug
Help-U-Sell Real Estate promotional marketing tools include a travel mug.

Some ideas for recipient-item pairings:

    * Buyers – tape measures. Buyers need to make sure their furniture will fit in a home’s rooms.
    * Clients who are closing – wine glasses. Toast to the successful sale or purchase.
    * Agents – travel mugs. We hope your agents are always on the go. Reward them and help them reinforce the brand with logo’d travel mugs.
    * Open house visitors – pens. Inexpensive and useful, pens will keep your brand at hand with open house visitors or office guests.

Alexander’s also offers an array of golf ball brands, tote bags, key chains and bottle openers. If there any other items you would like to put the Help-U-Sell logo on, contact us or speak with Alexander’s directly. You can view the entire selection by going to Alexander’s Help-U-Sell site and clicking on Promotions.

While you’re there, take a look at the Holiday Cards, too. We now have cards for seven holidays available, including Memorial Day.

What is your favorite item to give away?

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