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How to Select the Best Realtor Possible?

Recently I wrote an article with suggestions for those owners that will like to sale their house themselves. I receive a comment from a colleague that  in reality what they should do is hire the best realtor so they could sell their house.

I started thinking on what he said and the following questions came to me:

•1.     First by hiring a realtor the seller will agree to pay him a part of the sell value of his house that could cost him a big amount of money.

•2.     How can you know you have hired the best realtor at the lowest cost possible.

Realtors are always talking of their return on investment but they forget that owner are also concerned by the same issue. They want to get the biggest amount of money from their house in the minimum amount of time possible.

So know the question are:

•1.     Which is the best available realtor?

•2.     How can I evaluate if this realtor is really willing to go the extra mile for me as a seller?

There are some questions you need to ask this professional that are not only if he/she is a realtor or not

•1.     Do you have a website? Or even better do you have a mobile website?

•2.     Are you active in different forums like Activerain, Facebook, twitter, etc.?

•3.     Are you doing a virtual tour for my house? Assign a Unified reference link to my house that you can place on a rider and allow possible customers to see the virtual tour on their phones?

•4.     What is the average time you keep a listing? Can you present data related to this issue?

•5.     What is your average percentage of the initial selling price to the price at which you sell the house? Can you show me your data about this?

If your realtor can show you all this information then you are dealing with a real 21 century top of the line professional. On the other hand if she/he starts giving you excuses on what will be really needed to sell your home either you are dealing with an amateur or a person that is not willing to go the extra mile for his/her client.

3 commentsGabriel Duque • August 28 2010 07:49AM

Virtual Florida Tours Announces High Definition Slideshow Services

Hialeah, Fl August 6, 2010 - Virtual Florida Tours, a provider of Miami Dade virtual tours and property marketing services is proud to announce the addition of High Definition Slideshows to its line-up of online property marketing tools. The addition of HD Slideshows to Virtual Florida Tours's current services will allow their current and future clients to have the competitive edge in marketing their property listings and businesses utilizing these advanced marketing tools in the Miami Dade and Broward Counties  area.

Gabriel Duque, Owner of Virtual Florida Tours is glad to announce and extremely excited to be able to offer this new service to our clients. Our HD Slideshow is built using the latest flash based engine it is certainly first in class. The slideshow loads at impressively timely speeds, and displays full screen HD images with grace and elegance. With the ever growing demand for professional photography the need to have those photos displayed in a uniquely impressive format has never been greater.

Sample a new Virtual Florida Tours HD Slideshow:
http://rtvpix.com/slideshow/1672


Since late 2005, Virtual Florida Tours has continually led the way in the Miami Dade and Broward counties area with marketing implementations such as interactive HD virtual tours, virtual staging, panoramic listing sign riders, single property websites, listing syndication, mobile TXT marketing, virtual tour traffic reporting, interactive floor plans,  and social networking training. For more information call 305-331-8960 or email duquegl@bellsouth.net or visit their website at http://www.Virtual Florida Tours.com . Those interested in sampling this new technology or business opportunities with Virtual Florida Tours are encouraged to visit their website for more information.


Contact:
virtualfloridarealtours.com
Gabriel Duque
Owner / Organizer
(305) 331 8960
duquegl@bellsouth.net

1 commentGabriel Duque • August 06 2010 06:10AM

Hints On How to Sale a House by Owner

In the first place you need to try to study the prices of houses similar to yours in the area since in this market the correct price is one of the most attracting issues customers are looking for.

Then you need to work on the curb appeal of your home. You want it to look at its best that is the first view a customer will have of your home. Cut the grass, remove any dead plants and plant some beautiful foliage.

Invest some money on the exterior and interior of the house by painting it and fixing any little blemish that has appeared during the normal use of your house. Remember that you are required by law to disclose any blemish of the house to your clients.

Now you have fixed your home and repaired everything you could to make it look at its best. The problem is: How can you advertise your house to be able to sell it at the best price possible?

The first task is to decide in which of the possible advertising media you are going to invest your hard earned money.

•1.     Yard sign

•2.     Newspaper

•3.     Magazine

•4.     Internet

The yard sign is a most since it is cheap and will be advertising the sale until you are able to sell it. Also it could help you increase the exposure of your home with TXT connect.

The newspaper and magazine ads are relatively expensive since they have a short shelf live for the price around 200 dollars for a short weekend or monthly add.

There is a different way to obtain a maximum exposure by using the Internet associated with TXT connect.  When you use TXT connect the pictures of your tour are added to a message that can be seen in your phone when you send a text message and at the same time you receive the phone of the customer that just dial the number so you can contact him.

You can decide to select the level of exposure you will like to pay for. Since you can use your own photos or contract a professional photographer to take the pictures of your home.

You can also choose between a slideshow, or a complete virtual tour of your home.

If you need help on how to increase the internet exposure of your home do not hesitate to contact Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 or order through the Internet.

 

 

 

2 commentsGabriel Duque • July 31 2010 09:05AM

How Can I Get Found on the Internet?

    Successful realtors are obtaining a huge amount of business from the Internet.

  1. Are you getting your piece of this business?
  2. Would you like to obtain a part of it?
  3. Do you know what you will have to do?

      If your answer to this questions was no you need to start working on this as soon as possible.

    Let us do a search on Miami + realtor and see the outcome ...

 miami realtor search

If you did not find your company in the first page of Google for your farm area then you will have to work on it.

  1. Do you have a totally editable Web page as this one, or it is modified by a company that promises a lot and gives you  no real business?

If you are in the second situation you need a totally editable web page. This will allow you to increase the quality of the content of your web page and after some time you will be getting business from it.

2. Is this all you will have to do?

     If you will like to obtain a part of the Internet business, you will need to start working on your Web page key word optimization and SEO as soon as possible.

Our company can help you to do it. Yes we already did it for our Company, and we have been helping customers for more than five years to get their business exposed on the Internet.

Still considering it. Try a search for one of the following cities. Name of city + virtual tour

Miami, Coral Gables, Pinecrest, or Broward

Ex.: Miami+ virtual tour

 Miami + virtual tour search

If you are willing to do it we are here to help:

Order your Web page and receive a free SEO training and Key word optimization of your Web page.

If you will like that our specialists check your existing web page for optimization please contact us at (305) 331 8960

 

 

0 commentsGabriel Duque • July 24 2010 12:10PM

I Cannot Afford to Pay for that Television add

Have you noticed that there are no announcements of Century 21 in the TV for the last two years? At the same time REMAX continue placing their TV advertisements.

Which of the two companies is going in the right direction? Century 21 has placed all their effort in Web advertisement is that a correct idea? Can a small company place themselves in the first page of Google, Yahoo, and other search engines?

If you think it cannot be done try a search for Miami virtual tour provider. You should find a small family business Virtual Florida Tours in that first page. How can something like this be done?

The answer is rather simple teamwork and some effort from the members of our company. We are SEO specialists and we can train your team to obtain similar results. If you want your company to be in the first page of the search engines and obtain a fair piece of the increasing internet market, you need to change the way you are investing your hard earned money. Contact us at 305 331 8960 0r visit our web page and we will gladly help your team work their way to excel in this difficult new market.

Virtual Florida Tours "Striving for Excellence"

 

0 commentsGabriel Duque • July 10 2010 08:10AM

We cannot get enough money to fund our school

These are tough economic times and everyone is trying to figure out how they can get enough funds to manage their schools. Are the students the ones deciding where they are going to school? In reality schools need to work on convincing the parents that they are choosing the best school possible so that their sons and daughters could obtain the best education they can afford with their hard earned money.

Money is scarce so how can you attract parents to go visit your school. You can invest hundreds of dollars in television and radio advertisement, you can try contacting previous students to send their son and daughters to the school or donate money to the school. The question really is How can you make your school more visible to parents so they realize that your school and not other is the one their kids will excel in?

Public education is getting the lead on this struggle to bring students to their schools. They are developing interactive web pages and placing virtual tours of their school.  This allows the parents to appreciate the facilities and advantages of the school even without ever visiting it. An interactive web page is the place where you can allow the parents to obtain the information that will entice them to bring the students to your school.

If you will like to receive more information about this possibilities please contact Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960 or visit our web page

5 commentsGabriel Duque • July 09 2010 07:34AM

Improve your marketing

There are a group of things you can do to help market yourself or your company to increase your presence on the market. The following list is just a guideline:

Work actively on the Search engine optimization (SEO) of your webpage by optimizing your tags, and blogging in different websites. Include your Unified Reference Link (URL) in all the advertising materials you distribute from your business cards to any printed mailing you send out.

Creating a periodic e-newsletter that provides your audience with up-to-date charts and graphs containing current housing statistics. This Places the information your prospects need at their fingertips.

Maintain your presence in front of your prospects by sending periodic e-mails with details on the variety of services you are able to offer. Remember the more services you provide the more professional your prospects will see you increasing the possibilities of transforming a prospect into a customer.

Each specific geographical area has its differences, so your emails should be directed to your specific prospects your e-mails should be addressing the interests of buyers and sellers.

If you use direct mail in Miami remember that you have a bilingual community so use both sides of your high gloss, customizable postcards to stay in front of your prospects. You should reach out to your prospects on a regular basis and to promote different offers with each mailing.

Try to invest at least 10% of your commission on advertising it is important that your name or your companies name be in front of the possible customers or they will call your competition.

The importance of different way to advertise is also very important. You should address the web (since there is where most of the customers start their search), printing, radio and check what is working better in your marketing area.

You need to know that some of your advertising will show faster than others and right now the return on investment should be considered in an overall approach. For example you do a virtual tour of a property and you do not receive a direct call from prospects. Is this a correct indication that you should not do virtual tours? Place yourself in the feet of your owner prospects... Which is the realtor you are going to hire? The one that offers the bigger exposure to your property or the one that will only place your property on the MLS, and a yard sign.

For all your Internet advertising needs do not hesitate to contact Virtual Florida Tours at (305) 331 8960 and I will personally verify that you receive the best service possible.

1 commentGabriel Duque • June 28 2010 06:03AM

An Affordable Web Page for Realtors

During years we have noticed the flourishing of companies offering Internet solutions to realtors at extremely high prices. Most of these web pages had a limited or none possibility by the realtor to modify their web page.

Virtual Florida Tours has been researching for years the field to obtain a really customizable and totally interactive web page at a reasonable price for realtors is here. If you like what you are seeing I will recommend that you just check this site to order your brand new web page.  

As the owner of your site you can log in to a management section and change any of the colors, swap the template for another, change any text or pictures, add/or delete various types of pages, manually add listings other than the ones already being automatically populated, add Google Analytics, and more.

As an added feature when you order a virtual tour it will be automatically placed in your webpage, also you will receive free training in search engine optimization (SEO), and will be invited to participate in our Face book group to increase the traffic of your webpage.

 

0 commentsGabriel Duque • June 23 2010 08:57AM

Should I Invest Time on Social Media?

I will like to ask some questions to you and request for a simple answer.

When you are looking for the answer to a certain question (or a product) which one of the following things you do?

•a.       Look in a dictionary

•b.      Use printed advertisement (magazines or newspaper)

•c.       Pay attention to see if any TV or Radio add gives you the solution

•d.      Google it or use any other search engine

•e.      Email friends and family to see if anyone can send you an URL that will contain the answer to your problems.

Multiple authors recommend that you should have a presence on the Internet. Maybe you have already a Webpage and are asking yourself why you cannot find your page when you Google it? The problem is no one is looking for you business! You are the only one interested in selling your product or services to the possible prospectors.

The answer to your problems is simple, but requires some dedication on your part. If you want to obtain a solid Internet presence Virtual Florida Tours can offer you all the help you need.

•a.       Business and Personal Web pages

•b.      Interactive virtual tours of your business or listings that will be automatically posted to your webpage

•c.       Free training in how to get to the front page of Google search engine

•d.      All the other needs for your Internet advertising.

Let the world to see your business now!

Allow us to help you. Do not hesitate no more Virtual Florida Tours is the solution you are looking for.

Contact us by calling at 305 331 8960 or simply click here and we will contact you as soon as possible.

4 commentsGabriel Duque • May 29 2010 10:27AM

How to Have a 24 Hour Open House?

Stephanie Andre does a fabulous work on how to stage your home for an open-house. She forgets that you will have to keep your house ready for a visitor on a daily basis. The realtor will place an automatic padlock that will allow people to visit your home while you are out. Sometimes you will like to remove all this aggravation by limiting the times that the realtor can show your home. This results in fewer chances for buyers to see your home and as a result less possibilities to sell your home.

From a realtor point of view this is also an inconvenience since you will have to check with your client when the house is available to be seen. This reduces your possibility of selling it. Also if the day is cloudy or it is raining it is almost impossible for your clients to picture your listing on its best lights.

How can you overcome these difficulties? Is it a way for the lawn to stay fresh and cut as it was just recently cut? Is there a way to make your client to agree to allow anyone to visit his property at any time without previous notice? How can his house be ready for a visit even when she is sleeping at night? Can the house look at its best even under a hurricane?

The solution for all this problems and to keep your clients happy at the same time is on the use of virtual tours.

Can you picture showing all your listings from the comfort and security of your office? Can you imagine how more listings you might obtain if you use this technique?

For your entire Internet advertising needs please call Virtual Florida Tours at 305 331 8960.

1 commentGabriel Duque • May 23 2010 07:28AM