Michael Coffey

It's truly a great day to be at Keller Williams Charlottesville! It is so exciting to be here with you.

We just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you. We have had the pleasure of meeting many of you over the past week. Thank you for welcoming us into your market center and into your lives. We have so much great work to do together and are excited about getting started. If we have not had a chance to meet you yet, please stop by our office and say "hey." Please make sure and come to the Team Meeting this Wednesday at 11. This will be a truly energizing time you won't want to miss.

Along with becoming your Team Leaders, we come with systems, tools and opportunities. We need your feedback quickly. If you have had any experience with listing REO's (bank foreclosures), doing BPO's (broker price opinions) or you have successfully taken short sales to settlement, please contact Pam or me as soon as possible. Of course we are going to be teaching these areas along with normal lead generation techniques -- and MUCH, MUCH more! Please let us know if you have an area of expertise and also what you feel you need to help you grow your business. We are here to help.

Here is our contact information:

Matthew Durbin

Cell: 571-215-8991

email: durbin@kw.com

Pam DeLancey

Cell: 571-215-9024

email: pamdelancey@mris.com

Your partners in phenomenal growth!

Matthew & Pam

Here are some of the REO company websites that allow you to register for business. These wre discussed at our last agent mastermind. eMail me for complete list at mcoffey@kw.com

http://www.abnamro.com

http://www.acranet.com

http://www.acslinks.com

http://www.advantagevaluation.com

http://www.allcoastfinancial.com

http://www.americanhm.com/realtors.aspx

http://www.quickbpo.com

http://www.appraisalbank.org

http://wwww.asdamerica.com

http://www.asgbpo.com

http://www.assetforeclosure.com

http://www.admreo.com/signup.html

http://www.assetlinklp.com

http://www.assetval.com/Register.aspx

http://www.atlasreo.com/index.html

http://www.auctionservicesgroup.com

Mega Agent Roundtable

January 19, 2009

Blogging and Social Networks

• Active Rain
  • ActiveRain Real Estate Network is a free social network and marketing platform for real estate professionals. This network helps agents to create business relationships both within the industry and with the consumer. Sign up free with this link.... http://activerain.com/action/referrals/mcoffey1

Meetup.com

•o Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

•o Find a group here: http://www.meetup.com/topics/ or start a group here: http://www.meetup.com/create/

Plaxo

• • Connect to your family, friends, and business network. We make it easy to find who you know; Use Pulse to discover the great content your friends are creating all over the web - and share your own; or Take your address book and Pulse with you to Outlook, Mac, and your mobile phone. Sign up here: http://www.plaxo.com/signup?page=2
• Twitter
  • Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: sign up here: https://twitter.com/signup
• Inman Connect
  • Industry news/blogs and events: Subscription based at http://www.inman.com/
• FranklyMLS.com
  • Agents web based search tools for his clients (and yours?) http://franklymls.com/
• Realping.com
  • Welcome To realPING, a consumer focused communications tool that empowers real-time assistance for your website visitors. When questions arise and prospects are on your site, looking at tours, reading your email, they need help NOW. Not tomorrow, not by an email, they demand immediacy. Sunscription based: http://realping.com/index.cfm?action=c1&id=1017
• Myhomemanagement.com

•· Not sure what this was? There is one site that has some links to home managers: Myhomemanagement.com and a site that has links to home maintenance software: http://www.prohomemanager.com/ http://www.managemyhome.com/

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• Whitepages.com

•· Site for phone number look up: http://www.whitepages.com/ or

•· http://anywho.com/

• Facebook
  • Social networking site- referrals? www.facebook.com invite me to ‘be your friend' http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?sid=1458c71127f1e1cb0292c37bcffd8346&id=772488115&hiq=michael%2Ccoffey

• Linkedin
  • Professional networking site...referrals? invite me to be a connection http://www.linkedin.com/in/mvpcoffey

• IDX www.wolfnet.com; www.listhub.com
• SEO Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines . For lots of information, vendors, etc- visit my google search string: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SEO&aq=f&oq=

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• Market snapshot The Market Snapshot system sets you apart from standard drip marketing and automated newsletters which increasingly (and painfully) present prospects with a flurry of recipes and friendly household tips. Market Snapshot stays on message and positions you as the local market expert, by sending the up-to-the minute MLS graphical reports to address demanding consumer queries. http://www.topproducer.com/Products/Market-Snapshot/

• Click to Call/ Push-to-talk technology (PTT), which requires no dial-up and is always "on," Click To Call allows you to initiate a telephone call from any internet application see google search strings http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=click+to+call%5C http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=real+estate+IVR+solutions&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

• I.V.R.- customer interactive voice response systems see my google search string
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=real+estate+IVR+solutions&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
• "The Platinum Rule" book Mastery of The Platinum Rule will give you an unfair advantage over other salespeople. .... www.amazon.com/Platinum-Rule-Sales-Mastery-Prospects/dp/1933596899 - 307k -

• Listhub- ListHub, the premier listing asset management network, will integrate seamlessly with Keller Williams Listing System (KWLS). The integration with the ListHub network will provide Keller Williams agents with a single-point of entry for their listing data - one entry into their MLS and all their listing details will also be pushed to the KWLS for posting on more than 125+ home search sites on the Internet.
• IDX www.listhub.com

Or do it yourself....

• Postlets http://www.postlets.com/home.php
• Craigslist http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites

•- PropertyMinder, Inc. - Internet Marketing, Web Technology, Content Management, Post-Sales Follow-Up and Search Engine Advertising offers a suite of agent productivity tools ranging from the basic website to fully inclusive content rich websites with sophisticated client relationship management, lead generation and tracking tools. PropertyMinder is a complete solution for experienced and new real estate agents who want to grow their business by leveraging the power of Internet technology, computer training and marketing coaching.

• Jott.com - put into text V.M. (voice recognition) http://jott.com/
• Virtual tours (realestateshows.com) www.mouseonhouse.com

LEVERAGE

• TP8i www.topproducer.com

• Elance.com

• Google Alert
• Twitter
• Relay
• Realbird.com
• For Outlook: Xobni

TRUISMS

Narrow your niche ‘Push' it to drive traffic Provide content

•- Info

•- Listings

•- 1 stop shopping

•- Online directory

• Brand your website

•- Search Savers

•- Immediate response

•- Meet expectations

•- Consistancy

Hello all!

I hope everyone survived the first storm of 2009 with little or no disruption to your business. In our last mastermind, we shared many different tools that may assist you in your business. Attached are a list of those tools and their respective websites. I am also attaching a second list ... this one of of REO sites that agents can register to gain REO business. This list was developed as part of our REO certification course. If you would like more information about the course, please let me know.

The next Mastermind is Friday, February 20th at 10 am. In this mastermind we will focus on Lead Conversion/Call Conversion.

I am also scheduling three seperate breakout groups for a more detailed (and hands-on) exploration of the technoliogy we discussed

1. Web site design and optimization

2. Social media and social networking (includiing blogging)

3. On-line marketing of your listings

Please let me know if you are interested in attending any of these( or all of these) so that i can schedule accordingly.

Thanks for your participation...remember: a rising tide lifts all boats!!!

Mike

PS_ please no comments about grammer or fonts! (lol) ... first comment volunteers to be scribe at our next session! :-)

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for." John A. Shedd

NVAR Market update in Reston Feb 3rd

...excerpt from Christine Todd, CEO of NVAR... "If 2008 can be compared to a sickening roller coaster ride that went off the track, could 2009 be compared to a mighty sailboat caught in the "perfect storm"? Depending on how good the captain is, we don't know if we will end up at the bottom of the sea as the Andrea Gail did or ride out the storm, tattered but alive!

People who know me characterize me as an optimist. I agree with that! But, also I would sprinkle in "a large dose of reality" to that characterization! Trying to get a handle on the national real estate market is a mixed bag and difficult to do. Some regions of the nation will take years to absorb an overbuilt inventory of new homes. Some regions will see homes abandoned or foreclosed upon as the unemployment rate in those neighborhoods remains above 10 percent with no prospect of newly created jobs. And, other regions will have problems moving inventory as the population in that region continues to decline. So what can we expect in the Northern Virginia and metro-DC region?"

Join us February 3, 2009 at 10 a.m. as Christine Todd, CEO of NVAR shares with us her predictions for 2009. In this session we will explore the Market statistics that are an essential part of understanding the local real estate market. Ms. Todd will share her overview of the Northern Virginia and Greater Northern Virginia markets. Data includes sales and listings totals, average sales price and total dollar volume, with comparisons to the previous year.

Keller Williams Realty

12355 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 120

Reston, VA 20191

Phone 703-679-1719

......"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for." John A. Shedd