Here are just a few items on our list:
What will you give thanks for on Thursday? Share with us in the comments. And, happy Thanksgiving!
We’re just back from the 2012 Help-U-Sell Success Summit, and the REALTORS Conference & Expo leading up to it. By all accounts, both were a great success! We loved seeing our brokers from all over the country. Several of them (Kim and Mike Zelena, Leigh Anne Losh, Kyna Baehr, and Walt Hippauf) drove hundreds of miles to be with us in Orlando.
Thank you to everyone who spent time at our expo booth. Your testimonials to prospective franchisees are more powerful than just about anything we can say to them or show them. A special thank-you to Dan Desmond, who made the trek from storm-damaged New Jersey to help out at the Expo and to attend the Summit.
We hope all who attended the Success Summit got some great takeaways. The hands-on approach and interactive discussions about OMS and website requests and your fee structures taught us, too. We also talked about partnering with a wonderful charity that gives food to the hungry and about adding a potential vendor to our program. As we get closer to finalizing those partnerships, we will keep you informed.
Those of you who couldn’t make it this year, please mark your calendars and start saving now for the 2013 events in San Francisco. The NAR dates are Nov. 8-11, and we will have our Success Summit immediately following. We’ll provide more information in the months to come.
Meanwhile, enjoy a few photos from the Expo and the Success Summit.
October was anything but scary for our top-producing offices. They closed a total of 39 sides!
1) Help-U-Sell Honolulu Properties continues its reign with 11 closed sides, seven seller and four buyer.
2) Help-U-Sell Galleria, out of Tucson, finished the month a close second with 10 closed sides. The breakdown was two seller sides, six buyer sides and one dual-sided transaction.
3) San Diego’s Help-U-Sell Distinctive Homes makes the list with nine closed sides, six seller, one buyer and one dual-sided transaction.
3) Tied for third place, Help-U-Sell Hometown Realty in York, Penn., closed three seller sides, two buyer sides and two dual-sided transactions.
Two of our offices also closed on $1 million homes in October. Special congratulations to Help-U-Sell Foothills and Help-U-Sell Vantage Realty!
Great job, everyone!
[Figures as of Nov. 6, 2012.]
We have created new print marketing materials for you to use to build brand awareness and enhance your work with sellers.
Many of you already know about the updated seller brochure, which is a great tool for listing presentations. It features a blank Seller Savings Comparison chart that you fill out with the seller’s estimated home value and your office’s fees to demonstrate the seller’s potential savings. The brochure is available to order from Alexander’s Print Advantage, and it can be customized with your office’s name and contact information. View the brochure and order it here.
New folders with the current branding will be available on Alexander’s Print Advantage within the next couple of weeks also. A preview of the back and front of the folder is below. There will not be contact information on the back as shown. Customization proved too costly. The folders will have slots for your business card in an inner flap. Pricing has yet to be determined.
Let us know what you think of the new materials and if you have requests for other items.
Being a set-fee broker and selling high-end real estate shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. In fact, this is where Help-U-Sell Real Estate should thrive. We can save luxury home sellers the most money.
Earlier this year, Henry Ho, of Help-U-Sell Westside Realty in Los Angeles, sold a $10.5 million apartment complex, saving the seller a few hundred thousand dollars.
Help-U-Sell Grein Group in Stafford, Va., can also claim success in high-end real estate. If you would like to enter into this market, Bettina Grein and Henry Ho offer the following advice.
The luxury real estate market is yours for the taking. If you have more tips or if you try this advice with success, share with us.