I recently spent some time looking into what makes a good Real Estate agent. I was able to gather some good ideas as well as add quite a few of my own. Here are my notes for new and existing Real Estate agents that will help them to provide a better service to the client:

• Get Client
• First decide on an Area where you would like to sell homes
• Hit the pavement, talk to everyone in that area so when they are ready they will list with you
• Aggressively contact other sellers expired listings
• USAA
• Many people who go to open house are looking for a good agent
• Maintain good relationship with previous clients
• Offer something of value for free to potential home sellers
• Ask for referrals from satisfied clients
• Find a charity benefiting a cause close to your heart and offer to make a donation for any transaction where the client mentions the charity
• Find a niche and tailor to it
• Hold a seminar teaching the basics of being a landlord and encourage investors to buy homes through you
• Put out a weekly newsletter(s) with valuable information to home buyer groups such as; new home owners, landlords, people moving to the area
• Talk with contractors in your area and establish a client exchange
• Hand out your business card to EVERYONE
• Hire an Internet Marketing Specialist(like myself) to properly design and optimize your website(SEO) for potential clients
• Ads
• Geo-Target potential clients using Adwords, Facebook, and other online display networks
• Offer to place Ads on popular local bloggers and photographer websites.
• Send out business card and a letter to everyone you know telling them you are now in real estate and you would be happy to help them with any home transactions
• Start a blog or YouTube channel with daily/weekly tips
• Review what is working and what is not each month/year and adjust to be more efficient with your time and resources
• Sell House
• Be Available whenever the client wants, you work on their time not yours
• When showing homes first ask lots of questions, only show them homes that match them first, move on to additional homes and then offer to revisit homes that they seemed to like the most
• Send out fliers to people in the same neighborhood that the homes is for sale in
• Ads
• Include “Text for more info” in your signage, fliers and mailers
• Google Adwords, geo specific
• Advertise in your city's welcome packet sent to people who move to the area
• Include new listings in a newsletter for home seekers
• USE PHOTOS in your MLS listings, so many listings in the MLS do not have photos or if they do they are either bad quality or not of the things home buyers want to see.
• Give the homeowner a guide to help them sell a home, things to do like, clean the windows, use brighter lights, paint, add a bird feeder, etc
• See Step 1.

I am not a Real Estate Agent; I am an Internet Marketing Specialist and Developer. I can create unique profitable internet marketing strategy and online presence for you and your business. If you're in Real Estate and are looking for a profitable internet marketing strategy please give me a call: 507 536-9556

My question had all but 5 thumbs up but was removed with the reason "This submission has been removed because people believe it is inappropriate."

Please explain this YouTube!

Ron Paul having some fun, tosses a friendly snowball at a campaign aide.

Look out establishment, here comes Ron Paul!

2012-IowaCaucusResults_Certifiedvs.xlsx (452.58 kb)

Please see the attached spreadsheet that compares the results and makes note of areas that are not even counted. In some areas votes were off by a count of 185.

What is SOPA?

Full text:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c112:./temp/~c1123zsk1T

Join Google and many others to take action against this power grab by the government:

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/takeaction.pdf

Section 102.a

1) the Internet site or portion thereof is a U.S.-directed site and is used by users in the United States;

2) the owner or operator of such Internet site is committing or facilitating the commission of criminal violations punishable under section 2318, 2319, 2319A, 2319B, or 2320, or chapter 90, of title 18, United States Code

• Section 2318 would allow the government to take away your website if you had any copyrighted content, such as information on wikapedia, an image that you were unaware was copyrighted, video from a news cast, etc...

3) the Internet site would, by reason of acts described in paragraph (1), be subject to seizure in the United States in an action brought by the Attorney General if such site were a domestic Internet site.

My request to my Representatives:

I own a local ISP, Hosting and Design studio and I’ve been a small business owner since 1998, the provisions that SOPA and PIPA would implement would most likely put mine and others like it out of business.

These are very dangerous bills with heavy financial consequences that would end up making us, the services providers, police end user content on anything from blog comments to forum posts or suffer the consequences of these bills. The staff and resources needed to police this would be astronomical and possibly not even feasible by the largest of corporations which would lead to a total lockdown of the internet and loss free speech.

Please do everything you can to stop SOPA and PIPA.

Before you get unhinged with responses, watch this C-Span video where the Santorum’s talk to Cafemom's "Moms Matter 2012".

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Rick-Santorum-and-Wife-Meet-with-SC-Moms/10737427150-1/

At approximately 39 minutes in Rick Santorum makes note of “X-rated commercials” that come up while him and his wife watch TV and instead of using their "freedom of choice" to watch another station, program or movie he goes on to suggests that the station should be forced to comply with certain programming which would essentially be violating the constriction. He also makes reference to Hollywood movies.

Earlier in the interview he suggests public healthcare should be provided to children with disabilities rather than parents taking responsibility for it. In many cases this would involve taking money in the form of taxes from those that choose to live a healthy life style by eating organic healthy foods, have a household without harsh chemicals and cleaners, don't drink or smoke. The rationality used here can only lead to a community that cares less about them because they will come to rely on a communist like government to care for them. That is not American and it is not our future.

And prior to that he goes on to claim that he is the only candidate to advocate for "improved national defense" when in fact he is the only one to advocate for increasing overseas military spends only.

*these statements are based on my interpretation of the interview linked above and in no way are meant to state Santorums opinions. Please watch the interview and feel free to comment and express your own conclusions.

Make a difference, do your research and go vote.

When you go to msnbc.com politics section you see a page like this where it appears they are hovering over "Rye" county:

Take note of the position of "Rye" county and the current incorrect number of delegates.

After clicking on the map it takes you to this page:

http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/new-hampshire/republican/primary/

If you hover over "Rye" county the image looks like this:

As you can see Rye county is at the bottom of the map and the front page image was photoshop'ed in order to show the county with the highest Romney % and the lowest Ron Paul % at the top.

The point here is to show you just one of many ways the media can skew public perception by taking cherry picked misleading data and placing it front and center instead of using one of the counties at that position.

The USA is not communist, our founders started this country based on certain views with freedom at the heart of those principles and under communist control you do not have freedom. Those that want to live in a communist controlled society have plenty of choices to do so around the world and those that want to live in a free society can seek citizenship here in the USA. It's a choice, changing our founding principles is not.

Welcome to the United States of America!

Many people are starting to question the Iowa GOP Caucus after several "errors" in the vote counts have come to light, yet the real question here is how many errors have not come to light?

Results by District:

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=2475248

also attached (113.84 kb) in case it's removed at some point.

When you look at the results some districts like "Appanoose - Union" (total population 152) come into question with 32 of the total population supposedly showing up and voting for Santorum. Not unbeliveable but made questionable considering the other vote count "errors". With smaller precincts what is to prevent people from reporting false numbers at the locations?

Consider this, Santorum was behind Paul and Romney by nearly 1500 votes until the last 22% of precincts reporting.

Also notable is the clear FEC violation on the iagop.org site:

iowagop.org

Registrant Name:Chad Olsen
Registrant Organization:Iowa Republican Party
Registrant Street1:621 E 9th St.
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Des Moines
Registrant State/Province:Iowa
Registrant Postal Code:50309
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.15152828105

iagop.org

Registrant ID:CR37571041
Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175474679

note the page title on the iagop.org site.

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