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How to Leverage Your Listings to Attract More Buyers

There are many ways to attract buyers, but you may be overlooking three easy ways to get their attention. We live in such a busy, loud and chaotic world- how can you grab a buyer’s attention? Discover how to leverage your listings to get more buyer activity! Internet Portals There

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What is the effective date and why is it so important?

There are many important dates during the course of a real estate transaction, but by far, the most crucial one is the effective date. Why? Read on to learn more! What is the effective date? It is the date from which all performance periods are measured. Once the contract is

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How to Effectively Use Boomtown CRM

Here at Dalton Wade, we are big supporters of Boomtown CRM. It is very user-friendly and keeps all of your information in one place, allowing you to get back to doing what you’re great at- being a fantastic realtor. Even if you don’t utilize Boomtown, the tips in this blog

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How to Successfully Follow Up with Internet Leads

It may seem like common sense to follow-up with any leads that you get via your website or social media, but for some reason, they often fall through the cracks. We’ve compiled a list of 6 tips to follow-up with your leads so that you can build and nurture those

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Recent Changes to Financing Contingency: What You Need to Know!

The financing contingency has a long history of confusing realtors, buyers and sellers alike. For some reason, it’s just a hard concept to grasp and sadly, can cause deals to fall through. Recently, in an effort to relieve some confusion, there have been some adjustments. Find out what you need

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How to Overcome Buyer Objection

If you’ve been in real estate for any length of time, you know that there are always a few objections and bumps in the road that you need to work through in order to have a smooth transaction. It’s just the name of the real estate game. One of The

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How to Have a Successful Open House

Do you have an Open House coming up soon? They are a great way to market a house as well as meet potential buyers! Follow these simple steps for a successful Open House: Plan & Prepare Be sure to get everything ready and in order well before the event. Are

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Selling Your Home During the Holidays

Some people warn about selling your home during the holidays and we’re here to put that negativity to rest! When choosing the right agent, who will go above and beyond for you—there’s no need to worry. Here are a few tips if you’re planning to sell your home during the

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Buyer Lead Conversion Training

Setting the right tone. If someone calls me off of Zillow and I can’t help, I transfer it to someone else on the team to pick it up right away. However, if it is not answered for four hours, that is not good customer service! This scenario just cannot happen.

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Four Horsemen for Success

I am going to address four key components every real estate agent should be doing to become successful… I also thought about making this title “running scared.” What do I mean by running scared? You have stepped into an entrepreneurial type of business, but unfortunately in the real estate business,

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Converting Internet Leads

Coming up with best practices around converting internet leads will help you increase your conversion percentage! What is a profitable conversion percentage? If you are in the 4-5 percent range, that is a start. What does this mean? Out of 100 leads, 4-5 turn into closed transactions. A systematic process

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10 Point Checklist for Real Estate Success

There are many little things that you can do in your daily real estate life to provide a better, more professional impression to others. You want to set the right foundation and start out on the right foot if you’re a newer real estate agent. For those of you who

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Advertising On Facebook

A key element to your real estate business in this technology-driven world is having an effective digital media presence. One portion of digital media is your professional Facebook business page. You can create your Facebook business page using your personal Facebook handle. This page is an extension of you and

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Clearing Up the Confusion Surrounding Buyer Contingencies

I have received many questions around contingencies as of late. The two main contingencies in real estate transactions are: 1.) The home inspection 2.) The financing (unless you’re dealing with a 100% cash buyer) Paying close attention to contingencies is important as you always want to protect your buyer’s deposit(s).

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