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October 29, 2020 By Kim Hughes Leave a Comment

Choosing a Transaction Coordinator

When you first start out in real estate and only have a few clients, it is easy to get it all done. Then you close a few houses, get a few referrals, list a few houses and the cycle continues and grows until you aren’t getting it all done at the end of each day. When you are busier than you can handle by yourself, how do you find help and what kind of help do you need? Think about the parts of your business that you can delegate to someone else and still get things done. Probably one of the easiest things you can get help with is finding someone to be your transaction coordinator. They will work with you and your clients to ensure nothing slips through the cracks allowing you to continue selling other properties while getting this one closed at the same time. Because they offer a systematic approach, they may even do this better than you do since you were pulled in so many different directions.

Choosing a Transaction Coordinator

Sounds simple, right? It can be but the challenge is finding the right person to perform this task. How do you go about finding someone?

Ask other local agents in your office or town how they handle this.
Find a newer agent that has closed a few deals but not built their business to where they want it to be yet. While this often means they may outgrow helping you at some point, you can work with them, they can learn more about the business and you get the help you need all at the same time.
Talk to your broker. They may know someone you don’t that would be able to help you with this.
Ask other home professionals that you interact with. They know who closes the most deals and does it well. Talk to your title company, closing attorney, home inspector, and anyone else that will tell you who gets properties closed.
Call Kim Hughes & Company. We offer transaction coordinators that will work with you to successfully close transactions all while keeping you and your clients updated. Having us handle this for you means you don’t have to find and train the right person. We already do this every day.

Closing transactions is a very important part of your job and it is critical to find the right person that will work on your behalf to deliver clients the best service each and every time. Your service is what determines your success and you need someone that will deliver that as well as you do.

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Ready to take your business to a new level? Here are some great blogs to help you get started:

3 Tips to Rock Your Transaction

Social Media Marketing for Real Estate

Is It Time to Bring on an Assistant?

Does Your Website Need a Face Lift?

7 Tips to Have an Amazing Newsletter

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November 8, 2016 By Kim Hughes 2 Comments

Blog Tips for Real Estate Agents

As a real estate agent, the importance of blogging fresh content regularly, can’t be stressed enough.

Blogs get picked up by search engines, drive traffic to your website, and eventually result in new leads. When people need information about your community or buying or selling a home, you want to be the one they turn to. Blogging can help establish you as an expert in your community. Provide great content on a regular basis, and your audience will keep coming back for more.

What makes up great content? We at Kim Hughes and Company research the latest trends for our clients, including information on local markets, in order to put together an effective blog strategy that gets results. We find that posting evergreen content that is informative, educational, entertaining or addresses problems and concerns really works to engage our real estate agents’ audiences. A blog article that utilizes keyword stuffing (overuse of keywords throughout the article) and too many links will come off as spam – this should definitely be avoided.

Blog Strategy

While it is important not to go overboard, your blogs should contain a few top keywords, active links, tags, alternative tags (alt tags), and your call-to-action. Include a high quality photo in your content that contains alt tags as well. There are several great royalty-free sites to find photos that can be used commercially.

Your blog should ideally be hosted on your website in order to drive traffic there. Share your blog articles on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. This is a great strategy to boost your blog and website visibility, and to improve your chances of reaching a wider audience through sharing.

Ideas for Blog Content

Here are a few topics that we post that really get results for Kim Hughes and Company clients. Consider posting 2-3 times per week. The important thing is to be consistent. This will help retain a devoted following for your blog and help it achieve a higher search engine rating.

Just listed and just sold properties
Listing price changes
Buyer topics such as first-time buyer information, mortgages, credit reporting
Seller topics such as how to boost value, timing the market, pricing, etc.
Homeowner topics such as renovations, home safety and maintenance
Current real estate market trends and local statistics
Community events and holiday information
Press releases for company changes and awards

Although blogging can be time-consuming and can require some strategizing to maximize its effectiveness, it is a proven strategy for boosting business that shouldn’t be overlooked. Hopefully you have gained a little insight and a few ideas to consider from the information above. Don’t have time to manage blogging? Contact me today for a consultation, and I will be happy to discuss how we can help.

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March 26, 2010 By Kim Hughes Leave a Comment

Zamzar

Are you tired of having different programs on your computer to convert your many different types of images, videos and files? One program to convert your .jpeg, one program to convert your videos and on, and on, and on. Wouldn’t it be great to have to go to just one place and not have to download anything? You bet it would! Why not try Zamzar?

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