Consistent Clients – Real Estate Marketing

Empire Avenue is the Social Stock Market, where you can Grow your Social Capital online. Here’s how it works – you get to discover valuable, interesting, cool, fun people online and then based scores or share price, invest virtual currency in their profiles by buying shares in Empire Avenue’s Social Stock Market.

More about Empire Avenue…

• When you join Empire Avenue, you can connect your Social Networking accounts, and they score activity and engagement in each account, giving you a virtual “share” price
• The connections you make on Empire Avenue create “value-based” relationships – a deeper relationship than simply “following” someone, in a completely less intrusive context than becoming “friends.”
• Every day, you’re on Twitter, talking to friends on Facebook, uploading videos or photos, and writing blog posts. Just for doing that stuff, you’ll earn Eaves – their virtual currency – and they dish out some more virtual cash to your shareholders
• Along the way you’ll have a bit of fun, make new connections, learn about different people, and learn about social networking and the value of your network!

Mailchimp is an email newsletter and autoresponder system. It allows you to build your email list, send a series of follow-up email after someone signs up, and integrates with social media and your blog.

With Mailchimp, you can…

• Build your email list by offering a free report or video to encourage people to sign up, and deliver a follow-up sequence of emails
• Send regular email newsletter to stay in touch with your list
• Automatically broadcast new blog posts to your list. This encourages traffic to your blog, makes it easy to send valuable free information to your list, and helps readers get to know, like and trust you
• Create multiple sub-lists to send different information or follow-up to different groups of people
• Share your email newsletter with your social network, increasing your reach

WalkScore.com is a site that measures the walkability of any address. Their mission is to promote walkable neighborhoods. Walkable neighborhoods are one of the simplest and best solutions for the environment, our health, and our economy.  As a Realtor®, Walkscore helps you give Buyers more information about the place they’ll live, and give Sellers an additional marketing tool for their property.

Walkscore lets you…

• Map an address, and get lots of information – find nearby amenities and find the walkability to local restaurants, banks, schools, groceries, shopping, public transportation and more. You can even easily map a clients’ commute.
• Easily print out a properties Walkscore to give to clients – help make their decision easier
• Add the Walkscore Amenity Map to your site to market what’s nearby a property and show commute times.
• Use the iPhone and iPad apps to give valuable info to clients while you’re at a property
• Help Sellers better market their property – each Walk Score point can be worth up to $3,000 more for a property, or a 40 to 200% price premium when a property is within walking distance of public transportation

Have you ever wanted to quickly put together a video using just photos?  Whether you’re using it to promote an Open House,  showcase client testimonials or just provide info and create more interest in a property, YouTube now offers a Create option to help you quickly put together videos. You can find the tool at www.youtube.com/create

Using the Stupeflix Video Maker, you can…

• Pair a series of property photos, stock buyer photos, and property info together with music from YouTube’s  Music Library for a professional-looking Open House video
• Easily add text captions (things like property info, property address, your name & phone number,  client testimonial text, etc.)
• Automatically embed Google Maps into your video, making it easy for prospects to find the property (and without you knowing any code!)
• Get rid of your excuse that you don’t know how to create videos, or don’t have the right software