Real Estate Agents, if I save you $9,500, will you send me $950?
March 25, 2008
By: TheRECoach
Author's Website: http://twitter.com/TheRECoach
Ok great! Please contact me at any of my links and I will give you my address, so you can send a check. Please try to send it immediately after reading the Blog, I have 2 kids in College, and Spring tuition is due!!
Ok, now for the serious side. As most of you already know, I have the worlds greatest job! I get to spend countless hours on line researching the latest web 2.0 “Cool Tools” (that’s what I call them), determine what may be effective for my Agents, learn how to use them and then present them effectively to the “300″. It’s no mystery that the best response I receive is to the “Cool Tools” that are either FREE or very reasonably priced.
So, with that in mind, I was in our Napa, Ca. office last week when a salesperson came to give a presentation on a web 2.0 product. So naturally I was intrigued and sat in on the presentation. It was a product/service where the Agent was offered an “exclusive” opportunity to participate in an on line Marketing campaign on the city website. (Ok, so they were limiting participation to 20 Agents, where is the exclusive? and who goes to a City website to search for Real Estate?) Anyway, the Agent was to receive an opportunity to have their Listings and contact info placed on the city website, a profesional video produced, and a video email platform where they could send out video emails to their “Sphere”. All this amazing web 2.0 exposure for just ….$9,500!!! AAAHHHHH 
If there were ever a time where I needed to provide a service to my Agents, this was it! So off I went, into the Internet, for information. I did like the video email concept, so I started there. What I found was, as in most cases, the Internet offered choices that were reasonably priced and in this case FREE!!! Isendout.com is an on line producer of video emails. You can either upload an existing video file or create your own from a video cam directly. They will in turn give you a platform to email your video out to your sphere. Did I mention it was FREE!!!
I was also intrigued by the professionally produced video. I think it is a great way to set yourself apart from your competition. I found several companies that could do this at cost ranging from $1,200 – $1,600. That may be a subject for another Blog.
Bottom line, Isendout.com is a great FREE tool for Agents, a “Cool Tool” if you will. Give it a shot and and let me know your thoughts?
BTW, I was just kidding about the $950! I do this because I love it!
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Thomas on March 25, 2008 10:38 am
Yes, I sat in on the snake-oil presentation in question. Highly suspicious, in the end, after listening to this guy drone on and on about claims of effectivness, I felt I had to make the statement:
“In my experience with economic development and politics, I’ve always been trained to make the observation that ’95% of all statistics are never checked’. How can I find out if the claims you are making are true and correct.”
“Check with the City.” was his only answer. The City would, of course, only know what these guys had told them about his claims.
But to have many of the same features for free? Go for it! The best thing about free is that it only takes the time to set it up and follow up with it.
Also: Can I get a cut of that $950.00 Eric? ;D
Cyndee Haydon on March 25, 2008 2:49 pm
Thanks for the great tip for doing video emails for FREE –
Off to check it out!
Eric Bryant on March 25, 2008 3:38 pm
Cyndee – YW, as my kids would say…”That’s how I roll!”
sue unger on March 26, 2008 9:13 am
Eric:
You ARE a great Coach. More Agents need to take advantage of your ENTHUSIASM, DRIVE and LOVE-OF-THE-JOB. Keep up the good work as you continue to “Search out the POSSIBILITIES” for those who depend on you!
john harper on March 27, 2008 6:03 am
Sounds like VMDirect which is an MLM – pay $10K for something worth about $100 and finance the lives of others with the rest.
If you haven’t heard of it yet, check out SkinIt which has nothing to do with video, but allows you to use your laptop as a billboard.