Things to do in Washington DC: September 2010

Free Advertising on Facebook. My Freebie of the day. Facebook has an ad in October's REALTOR® Magazine for a free coupon. It is a free $50 coupon to advertise on Facebook. Facebook is now the most searched site in the World-Something that I learned at Raincamp DC this year. That's big considering Google owns like 67% of the search engine market share. So if you are not advertising on Facebook,you are probably missing out on some potential real estate sales. I'm preaching to the choir on this one.

So here are the three simple steps to promote your business on Facebook 

1. Create Your Company's Free Facebook Page 

     Visit www.facebook.com/page

    Establish your company's presence on Facebook

     Invite your friends to like your Page

2. Promote Your Page with Your Free $50 Coupon

    Visit www.facebook.com/advertising

    Use Facebook targeting to reach the right customers

   Redeem your free $50 coupon

3. Communicate Regularly with Your New Customers

    Offer special promotions 

   Share your latest company news

   Track your sales results

  Why should you advertise on Facebook?

  500 million members.

 You will be able to reach your target customers

 You will deepen your Relationships 

 You can convert More Real Estate Sales - Who doesn't want that.

The code is TREF-6T83-0PFP-9NV6. The code expires November 30,2010 so you definitely don't want to miss out on this free offer.

Donna Paul- Long Island Home Specialist Suffolk and Nassau County was very nice to bring this one to my attention via Facebook. How could I have missed this one. Thanks Donna. I really appreciate it. Hopefully PG County MD Homebuyers will find this helpful.

9108 Westphalia Rd Upper Marlboro MD 20774 -Open house Sunday September 26,2010 from 2-5pm.

Why should you buy this Spectacular Victorian Single Family East Forestville Upper Marlboro MD House for sale? Well this house is only four years young,it has four bedrooms (including a master bedroom with his and her bathroom and ample closet space) and three full baths. This beautiful home that features a grand open foyer with cherry wood flooring,tray ceilings,cherry cabinetry,corian counters,Palladian windows,crown molding,morning room,theater room,library and much more.

It is close to the Beltway,Andrews Air Force Base,Parks,Recreation Center and Shopping center.

So before you head back home from where you are coming from whether it is your local Upper Marlboro MD grocery store or grocery store in PG County MD to buy some snacks for the game,after a 1pm NFL Football game when you are very happy that you just want to go out and spend your money on a house because your team won (NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell or his assistant might read this so I can't say what I really wanted to say-LOL),come back and see this Single Family Victorian house for sale in Upper Marlboro MD that I am sure your family would love to make their next home. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at the Open House. This listing is courtesy of Exit Advance Realty in Upper Marlboro MD.

PG County MD Home buyers,Charles County MD Home buyers,St.Mary's County Maryland home buyers,Baltimore MD County Home buyers and home buyers who are looking to buy a house in the Washington DC Metropolitian Area will find this blog very useful.

Hanson Oaks Hyattsville MD Colonial Townhouse on sale

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$115,000 Single Family Home Main Features 3 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 Partial Bathrooms Lot: 1,583 sqft Location 4026 Hanson Oaks Dr Hyattsville, MD 20784 USA To get updates on open home dates and other property events, please click the "Like" button below:

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Lanre "The Real Estate Farmer" Folayan Exit Advance Realty (202) 378-0283 bswiff@yahoo.com http://www.freelistofhomesforsale.com Listed by: Lanre Folayan

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   For more information on the home buyer grant,please give me a call at your earliest convenience. Or you can call Eric Strasser of Suntrust Bank at 301-517-5434 or BJ Matson of Suntrust Bank at 301-257-1270. Click on this link if you know anyone who is looking to Get pre-approved for a home loan in Charles County MD and PG County MD.

Crofton MD Bowling Center -Exit Advance Realty's 70's Bowling Party!

Everybody is invited to Exit Advance Realty's 70's Bowling Party!

When: It is going to be on September 24,2010 Friday from 10pm-UNTIL.

Where: Crofton Bowling Center

            2115 Priest Bridge Drive

            Crofton,MD

           (301) 261-6670 or (410) 721-2401

So if you know anyone looking to have some fun and a good time on a Friday night or looking for somewhere to spend some of that big commission check that you are about to receive at closing this week? Come on and bowl with us. And if you know anyone who might be interested,please let don't know also. Now if I can get find a place where I will get some bell bottom slacks and a Afro-LOL. And click on this link for more information on Crofton MD Bowling Centre.

Exit Advance Realty is located at 8500 Westphalia Rd. Upper Marlboro MD 20774.

Protecting your Reputation. With all the social media sites,websites and blogs out there that make it easy to rant or talk about yourself,products and services (By the time you read this,there will be 1,000 new ones not including the new ones currently in the making),there is a good chance somebody's talking about you or your company online. Why do you think many people have Google Alerts which is among many tools companies are using to keep tabs on competitors and scan for online customer comments.

Many of these applications inexpensive applications are robust for most small businesses. Large companies also use these tools to exchange information among sales,marketing and customer service departments may want to upgrade. So besides Google Alerts,what other tools out there can you and/or your company use to protect your reputation? Here are some that I want to share with you all.

• Google Alerts-I think most of us here know about Google Alerts. If Mr.Untech savvy (that would be me Ladies and Gentlemen-LOL!)knows about this,chances are you do too. But for some of you who don't know about Google Alerts,it sends an e-mail when a specific or phrase is used online. Great way to track what your competitors are doing,recruit,find out dirt about your competitors(Did I say that?)and more.....FREE. I am sure you knew that.

           Please read this blog by Justin Smith-SEO,SMO and Blogging Consult 8 Ways to Use Google Alerts To Find New Leads

• Yext reps-Tracks and reviews your business on websites such as twitter,facebook,yelp,foursquare and superpages. FREE.  Yext Rep - Yext

• Viralheat- It offers geo-location. Features that monitor online conversations by region. Cost $10-$90 a month. Viralheat | Social media monitoring and analytics

• Trackur- Trackur is an online reputation and social media monitoring tool designed to assist you in tracking what is said about you on the internet. Trackur scans hundreds of million of web-pages-including news,blogs,video,images and forums-and lets you know if it discovers anything that matches the keywords that interest you.

  Social Media Monitoring Tools Without the Hassle | Trackur

• Visible Technologies- Visible Technologies is a leading provider of Social Intelligence solutions designed to improve and accelerate business outcomes. Supports 12 languages and let's multiple employees share reports. Cost: $500 a month and up.  Social Intelligence Services and Strategy | Visible Technologies

• Radian 6-It integrates with www.salesforce.com,www.omniture.com and www.webtrends.com. Cost:$600 a month.

           Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6

Famous quote of the day. This one comes from Four time Academy Award Nominated and Academy Award winning actor for the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins. Exit Realty Trainer Johnny Loewy once told me that Anthony Hopkins studies his lines 1,000 times in front of a mirror. How many of us can say the same thing about how many times we study our home buyer and seller scripts? Or view our state real estate contracts? But 1,000 times. Wow! That's a lot of time. No wonder why Anthony Hopkins is a very good and successful actor.

Success doesn't come overnight-But it will come one day as soon as you start doing the work that will bring you the success. It requires Hardwork and persistent. It also requires a lot of heart and faith too. Sometimes in life things are not going to go the way you want even though you are doing it the right way. But as long as you continue to work hard at it and doing it on a consistent basis,you will start to achieve the great results that you seeked out to attain.

So here is my quote of the day from Sir Anthony Hopkins.    

I love life because what more is there.

When you think about it,what is more than life? Nothing. Sky is the limit of how great of success you can achieve. Don't look at this recession as something that is bigger than you. Look at the recession as something that you are bigger than. Same way you have to see yourself bigger than your problems. God gave you life to do great things. So don't they let life problems get you down. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the World. Thank you Tish Lloyd Prudential Laney Real Estate for writing that great blog that you wrote:

CHICKEN LITTLE ISN'T ALLOWED IN MY FARMYARD!

Do Something!

...Live purposefully... Ephesians 5:15

Are you easily swayed by what others say and do,or do you have a plan and stick with it? Are you doing what you love, or just doing things out of mindless routine? Mark Twain said, 'The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation.' In other words, love what you do and do what you love! Many of us never get around to fulfilling God's purpose for our lives because we're so busy keeping everybody happy. This world is filled with people who think they know what you should be doing with your life. No, it's your life, and when you stand before God He won't ask anybody else about it except you!

Are you courageous enough to follow your heart rather than the crowd? Are you focused,even when many voices try to draw you away from your purpose? An interesting phenomenon occurs when you have no strong convictions or clear purpose of your own; you tend to get irritated with those who do. The term 'whatever' seems to be especially popular these days. While we must always strive to live in harmony and to consider other people's feelings and viewpoint, God's Word condemns complacency, indifference and an unwillingness to stand up for what we know is right. We need to be intentional. We can't just stand around waiting to see what everyone else is going to do, then follow the crowd. There are basically two kinds of people: those who wait for something to happen, and those who make things happen. Don't say, 'I wish they would do something about this problem.' You are they - do something!

I wanted to share this with you all because last week I wrote a blog called

It doesn't have to make sense to anybody as long as it makes sense to you-MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY

In the blog I talked about how some people (family members included) are discouraging you during these tough economic times because they feel like you are wasting your time doing Real Estate when they should be the ones encouraging you. So I just wanted to remind you all to please be encouraged. I have to always encourage myself too everyday because it is very,very hard. We have to encourage one other because that is the only way that we can survive this and weather this economic disaster. Be encouraged.

DO SOMETHING -MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY!

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