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Client Referral Tips 7 – 7

Always be positive even about your competition; just remember to add your abundance of benefits to the conversation.

In our day and age return your calls as soon as you can.  In the past, mail took days and even weeks to reach its destination. Today information travels in a blink of an eye, as a real estate agent we have to also make this adjustment.

Take the time to get to know people.

Learn to make contact with your past clients every day, something as simple as a letter or phone call.

Get into the habit of writing hand written notes every day, this technique is one of the most powerful long term strategies.

Remember those old friends and acquaintances from the past, call them and reconnect, but only if you are sincere.

Consider developing a quarterly newsletter, as soon as you have completed one start accumulating a file for the next one.

Interview an interesting person in your community; invite all to listen in on a teleconference call, and then mail the transcript to your clients.

When you have too much business and you or your team can no longer handle the work load.  Don’t let them go to waist, refer them to another agent in your office

As a courtesy, when you receive a referral and have a positive experience, share the feedback with the source of that referral, this will be appreciated by all.

Never make the assumption that the person you are talking to would not want to work with and refer to you, if they do not want your service today, they might want it tomorrow.

Develop a card system, the best results come when they are had written.

Provide address change letters with your brand association on the material.

Evaluate why your customer wants to do work with you and give them more then they expect.

Mail all of your clients a fridge magnet at least once every two years.

Remember, we are in a people business.

Go to   www.CanadaReferral.com or   www.UnitedStatesReferral.com

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Tips on Search Engine Ranking

Did you know that if you make a comment in a blog post and you add your URL you will get a back link to your web page giving it value in the eyes of the search engines.

Links to your web page from another site are good!!

Also if your web page is new and you you make a blog post, your web page will get indexed faster. What this means is that you will see your web page in the search engines sooner because the search engines will have found your site and then had it indexed.

So make your comments or submit your post with your web page link attached, just be sure that your comments are relevant to the post that you submitting to or you may not see your post on the site.

Three are many ways to improve your search engine ranking, one of the keys tips to remember is that Google and Yahoo are the top two search engines and they love relevant content and they love video.

Watch for more great tips to come.

Oh.. the reason I have this post here is that I found the search term Home London Ontario the other day and it was still available. What is hard to believe is that it is the number one search term for real estate in London Ontario and it was still available.

Well I have gone out on a limb and made the statement that I can get the number one position in 30 days.

I would appreciate your comments or tips.

James Osmar
http://HomeLondonOntario.com

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Google Sites Accounts for 41 Percent of U.S. Online Video Market

Google Sites Accounts for 41 Percent of U.S. Online Video Market

In March, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 5.9 billion videos viewed (40.9 percent online video market share), with YouTube.com accounting for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 437 million videos (3.0 percent), followed by Hulu with 380 million (2.6 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 335 million (2.3 percent). March represented the first time Hulu has cracked the top three in the ranking of videos viewed.

*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks.  Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Google Sites Eclipses 100 Million Viewer Threshold Once Again

Nearly 150 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 97 videos per viewer in March. Google Sites eclipsed the 100 million online video viewer threshold once again, after first achieving the milestone in December 2008. Fox Interactive ranked second with 55.2 million viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites (42.5 million) and Hulu (41.6 million).

*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks.  Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Other notable findings from March 2009 include:

• 77.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
• The average online video viewer watched 327 minutes of video, or nearly 5.5 hours.
• 99.7 million viewers watched 5.9 billion videos on YouTube.com (59.1 videos per viewer).
• 47.4 million viewers watched 349 million videos on MySpace.com (7.4 videos per viewer).
• Hulu accounted for 2.6 percent of videos viewed, but 4.9 percent of all minutes spent watching online video.
• The duration of the average online video was 3.4 minutes.

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