About Bell County, TX

The Bull stops here....that's right Bell County Expo will host the PRCA Rodeo February 9, 10, 11.

For the 25th consecutive year, the Bell County Expo Center will host the Bell County PRCA rodeo.

This year's PRCA event is set to begin thrilling spectators and fans on Thursday February 9 at 7:30 p.m., with pre-show activities beginning at 7 p.m. The rodeo is held every year in conjunction with the Bell County Youth Fair and all of the net proceeds from the rodeo go to the youth fair board to directly benefit the youth of Bell County.

This year's event is sure to please with nightly events such as bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, tie-down and team roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing and the fan favorite bull riding.

Rudy Burns, a 38 veteran rodeo clown is marked as one of the highlights, along with three time Announcer of the Year, Boyd Polhamus entertaining the crowd with his commentary throughout the events.

Thursday night is Military Appreciation Night, worth a $2 discount with a valid military id.

Get out your hats, boots and western attire! Gather your friends and family and head over to the the Bell County Expo Center for the 25th Anniversary PRCA rodeo.

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The many hats of client service. The last two weeks I have had a couple of requests from clients that I feel are worth mentioning.

I have a property management client who recently acquired a vacancy on his property. This property had previously been leased by some of his friends, so he had furnished it with a few dishes, a vacuum cleaner, a sofa and love seat. This client states that we should just leave the items for the next occupant. I advised against this and he agreed that he would just donate or sell the items. Great he is taking care of it.

About a week after this discussion, he contacted my business partner and instructed her to place an ad on Craigslist to sell the sofa/loveseat. She informed him that he could do that himself, however, he decided that she should handle this for him since he is out of town. Ok so today's hat is a Furniture Salesperson.

Next we have a client who is a property management client as well as a real estate client. A couple of years ago, I assisted this client in purchasing a home for his child to live in while finishing his education at TAMU. During this two years, I did not manage the property, however, if they were short a roommate we would help with leasing. After the graduation of his child, we are given the task of leasing and managing the property for him.

After his child moved, I went to the home to see if I needed to do any type of make ready prior to move in of the new occupants. There were several items left in the home and garage, so I contacted the owner and I offered to pack them up and hold them at my office. He agreed and said he would be down in a couple of weeks to get them.

Well, it has been about ten months and now this client is calling because Dish Network is billing him for the receivers and remote controls. He called asking if we had them. He had totally forgotten the conversation about moving and storing his items. So this week as a service to him, we are packing the receivers and sending them to Dish Network so that our client will not face those charges for a receivers.

UPS is scheduled for pick up tomorrow morning.

I hope that in our business of building client relationships,that going a step above and beyond our contractual obligation will earn client loyalty and increase referralls.

Well I just finished packing away all of the Christmas decorations, cleaning out the holiday refrigerator and trying to get my home back to normal. While packing, I was remembering the fun we had eating, opening gifts and spending quality time together. It made me think of a special gift that I received this year.

My broker's daughter, Megan, age 10 came to the office several times during her Christmas break. Each time she visited, she spoke with one of us and asked a lot of questions about what we liked, what our hobbies, etc. where. We all thought that she was just being an inquisitve kid.

On the day of our office holiday party, Megan attended and she had a gift that she had made for each one of us. These gifts were so unique and personal that it brought tears to my eyes when I opened mine. I love western clothes, and western decor....so of course I got a new cowgirl hat. Now this Cowgirl hat is a one of a kind and no other cowgirl can have one just like mine.

Our whole office staff was completely touched by the thoughfulness of this young lady. She is a diamond and will bring a sparkle to any room. I hope that everyone has been touched by a gift from the heart....there is nothing better than that. As for me I will wear my new cowgirl hat as often as I can, I think I may have a Mad Hatter's Tea Party for my granddaughters and we will invite Megan to join us I of course will be at the table in my fancy new Cowgirl Hat!!! Thanks You Megan!!!!

I am going to keep it short and sweet on this post. I'm an agent that markets Belton real estate (among others), and if I've learned anything about real estate, it's all about numbers. The more people that see what you have to offer, the more chance that someone will be interested, and finally, the greater the chances someone will buy.

Now there's a lot to be said for targeting markets, and focusing in on prospects that fit the bill, i.e. ones that have the money to pay and are looking to buy.

But I think that sometimes we get too focused on targeting the right buyer, or we spend too much time with any one particular prospect.

That's where we have problems, we end up wasting a lot of time, and not getting the results we desire. That's where automation comes in, and that's why I love marketing online. If you can create a system that can funnel visitor after visitor to what you have to offer, then turn them in to leads that give you their contact information, without you having to be involved, that's the ticket.

Then you can focus your time on working the leads that come through the system. You do what you do best (which is selling properties) while the system markets and delivers the leads.

So don't get caught spending all of your time getting people to see you and what you have to offer, get a system to do that, then focus your time on working with your leads.

So...what do you think? Please leave your comments below.