Advice, Tips or Tricks for a Green Horn

[RPBrown]

Hi everyone, I'm Rob and I have been a full time Realtor for about 4 months. I was hoping that some of you vetrans could lend me a hand with advice on how to drum up some business. I have a farm area of about 350 homes and I have been passing out informational flyers and other goodies once a week. I'm also doing a mailer to the homes in my track. I have been to training classes, started the GRI series and I am always reading up on what's going on in the RE world. I started a blog, facebook & fanpage and I have a website. I have asked other agents if I could sit on their open houses but everyone is sitting on their own hoping to catch business for themselves.
Any advice would be great.


Thanks

[Toby Lane]

Welcome Rob! You will find lots of information here on real estate. This is also a good site to find information about developing a website for your business. Good luck with your new career.

[RJO Salt Lake]

Hi Rob! Sounds like you're already doing all the right things. Check out the forum on Blogging and you'll find some good tips. Welcome!

[SLP-NYCT]

Welcome Rob,

You will find a lot right here, but have you tracked the turn over rate of your farm yet? One thing I learned when I got into the biz was that people were farming areas that had extremely low turn over. When asked why, all they could say to me was...This is my farm.

Best way to get listings is with FSBO's and your Circle of Influence. Best way to get buyers is web presence and your circle of influence.

[Benjamin Dona]

Hello and welcome aboard Rob.

Sounds like your off to a good start. Try to find a good mentor - someone you respect in the biz and ask them what is working for them in your area.

[Dave Kovaleski]

This forum has a ton of info for everything you have asked. Spend some time here, get to know the community and read, read, read this forum.

Good Luck and welcome!

[GreggRio]

Welcome, bet a web presence immediately. if you can't afford an REW site yet, get something and start blogging with links back to your site with articles about areas you represent or know.

[donnalong]

Welcome! Just the fact that you are out here learning tells me that you have a great chance to be successful. The internet has been good to us!

[Ryocheck]

I would work on getting traffic to my web site and going after FSBO's if you have nothing else.

[Mitch]

I agree with Ryan as far as generating traffic to your website. Most people on here are very into their lead generation programs with their websites. Before you start driving traffic though, be sure that your site has the proper capture tools set up to generate leads. Feel free to PM me if need any help understanding that stuff. I'ld be glad to give you a few tips!