Great Ideas to Build Your Real Estate Business

In our June issue, the majority of our monthly poll participants said that they would like to learn about increasing listing exposure. In response, the focus of this issue is gaining additional exposure for individual listings.

In this issue:

• Featured Article: Get More Exposure for Your Listings!
• There’s Always Something New at iHOUSE Web Solutions
• Customer Close-Up: Stephanie Webb
• iHOUSE Tips and Tricks
• iHOUSE Blueprint Monthly Poll

Get More Exposure for Your Listings!

One of the common challenges in today’s real estate market is finding new and innovative ways to get a listing “out there” in front of buyers. Today’s tech-savvy buyers and sellers have come to expect a marketing plan with many effective tools. The following article details some ways to update your traditional marketing methods to include new, property-centered technology. More…

There’s Always Something New at iHOUSE

NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL iHOUSE CUSTOMER! The iHOUSE Exclusive ListingLaunch System!

Sell your listings faster with ListingLaunch™, the ultimate listing promotion tool set. While editing or adding a new listing, you can select additional marketing tools and submission services that are sure to increase listing exposure. Easily add your listing to the top of Trulia Real Estate Search Engine, set up a Spotlight Single Property Website or a ListingLine™ Lead Capturing Real Estate Hotline directly from your listings page.

Because we are so confident that you will love these new services, iHOUSE is offering the first ListingLine hotline for ABSOLUTELY NO COST and 1/2 off Spotlight pricing through ListingLaunch for a limited time to ALL iHOUSE CUSTOMERS!

See what ListingLaunch can do for your listings by visiting our site or by contact customer support at 866-645-7702.

Don’t have an iHOUSE real estate website? No problem, take a test drive today. Once you activate your site, you can experience the lead generation power of ListingLaunch and other iHOUSE Web Marketing tools!

iHOUSE Web Solutions Webinars – Learn Something New!

iHOUSE Web Solutions is committed to helping your business grow and succeed. Therefore, we are now offering educational web presentations explaining specific real estate marketing techniques at ABSOLUTELY NO COST!

These programs will be held every Wednesday starting August 8, 2007, and you only need an Internet connection to attend. You can register to attend out next seminar on: “How Real Estate Hotlines Can Double Your Lead Generation Power” by visiting our site.

Blueprint Special offer: Spotlight Summer Specials!

Show your clients that their listing is your #1 priority with a Spotlight Single Property Website

iHOUSE Customers: Purchase Spotlight through our ListingLaunch system, receive 50% off! That’s only $49.98! Click here to learn more about what ListingLaunch can do for your listing!

Non-iHOUSE Customers: Buy one Spotlight Single Property website and get the second one AT NO COST! Just enter SPT100 during signup to take advantage of this special offer. Visit our site to create your NO COST Spotlight account today! *Only one use of SPT100 per customer, offer expires 8/31/07.

NEW! Customer Close-Up: Stephanie Webb of Albuquerque, NM

This month’s Customer Close-Up features Stephanie Webb and her website www.nmhomesandproperty.com.

Stephanie’s Story:

Stephanie Webb has been in the real estate industry since 1998 and her husband JD has recently joined her. Stephanie moved her way up, after initially being exposed to the real estate business as a clerical assistant. Before starting her own business, she was a buyer’s agent focusing on marketing and technical support. “I looked at my husband and said, ‘This would be good for both of us.’ I brought him into it as something that we could do together and enjoy.” Stephanie and her husband also do treatment foster care and have 3 children. Of their foster family, Stephanie says, “It’s healing to the soul to be able to help a child. We’ve been able to do foster care primarily because of our careers in real estate.” Read more…

iHOUSE Tips and Tricks

As you increase listing exposure, you will gain more traffic to your website. Website visitors will want to see more information about your listings.

Did you know that the iHOUSE File Manager accepts any file type? You can even use the file manager to store video, power point presentations, or floor plans for your visitors to download. Click here to learn more about File Manager.

iHOUSE Blueprint Monthly Poll

Take the August Blueprint Poll Now!

Last month, we asked which source is the most influential in suggesting new marketing tactics for your business. The results show that most Blueprint readers learn about new real estate marketing trends mostly from magazines and E-zines.