DC Real Estate and Area Events: District of Columbia: Friendship Heights

Online local business referral directory. Do you have one?

Before I say much,I want to first thank Mr.Dennis Volz for sharing this brilliant idea with us here on Active Rain. He wrote a post http://activerain.com/blogsview/491606/FREE-ONLINE-Business-Directory. His post will also show you how he set up his online local business referral directory. I am sharing this with you in case some of you missed it or want to get some suggestions on how to form your online local business referral directory.

This is my free online local business referral directory. I just started working on mine yesterday. http://buyahomeinwashingtondc.blogspot.com. I have sent out invitations to local business companies or anyone who wants to advertise on my website for free. I have also sent it to many of many prospects. It is a good way to have an excuse to send them something. You never know. They might know someone who owns a business who might want to advertise for free on my website. Here are some good reasons to have a online local business referral directory.

• Geographic Targetic-The ability to target customers online has improved dramatically.
• Great communications tool-Its so cheap to advertise on some websites now. How much do the great people at Active Rain charge us to write posts here? NOTHING. Since they are such great people I wonder if they can give all of us free cities to advertise on Localism come July 31st? That would be a great idea.
• Great way to make connections-We all know that Internet is the best marketing tool. It is fast and cheap also. (Well not all of them are cheap. But you know what I am talking about.
• Serve your local customers-We all know close to 80% of home buyers start their search online.
• Your customers are online-Did you know that 48 million people went online last year looking for content?
• So are your competitors-It is said that 78% of small business are online and 50% of them will continue to maintain active online.
• ITS FREE - Just in case I forgot to mention it.

Some people I hear make newsletters and have local companies pay to advertise for space on their newsletter (Clever idea).

We all know that everybody knows somebody who wants to buy a house or is talking about buying a house. But if that's the case,how come some ready,willing and able buyers and motivated sellers are hard to find? Having a online local business referral directory can help you find those home buyers and sellers.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at my websites www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very great one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

I have now passed 75,000 points on Active Rain with this post. I seem like yesterday when I passed the 50,000 mark. Now I am over 75,000. But if I write more blogs on Active Rain,I would've been passed this mark. Anyway,I am happy. I want to thank you all for helping me pass the 75,000. I could not have done it without you guys. You know who you are- I am not naming no names this time-SORRY. 

You will think by now I would have this blogging thing down pat-WRONG. Think again. Unlike 96,402 of the members here on Active Rain,I am the only one who has yet to receive a lead here yet-LOL. But I know it is going to come. I have just have to be patient. I forward to that day too. And I look forward to reading and responding to more blogs from you all here on Active Rain. And please continue to support me just like I am supporting you. Thank you all very much. Happy Blogging!

To receive your free list of "houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

Anyone who is looking for another free site to advertise any of their listings? You definitely want to check out www.newcondosonline.com/ I ran across this site this morning. You can set up a free profile. I just finished filling out my free profile on this site. Hopefully it will help me with my search engine ranking. So I decided that I share it with everyone who doesn't know about this site yet. Hope this site helps you gain more home buyers and sellers.

If you want to receive a free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com and www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase and/or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington DC"

Point2Agent has been a website that I have been using for over a year now. Unlike many real estate agents who have using the Point2Agent website and have found success while using it,I don't get leads on this site. So I decided to change the domain name to free list of homes for sale hoping that this will improve my search engine ranking on Google,Yahoo etc. So far I haven't gotten any leads yet. But this website is still a work in progress.

I still plan on adding some things to it such as Audio/Music,IDX,Blogs,Open house announcements and more things to my website to improve my search engine ranking and attract more home buyers and sellers who need information on the home buying and selling process.

So if you have any suggestions,comments or ideas,please let me know. I am hoping the domain name free list of homes for sale will attract buyers to my website. My website is www.freelistofhomesforsale.com. I am thinking of using this domain name as my new outside blog.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at (202) 378-0283 (Direct) or (301) 560-6700 x1154 (Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan - Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington,DC"

Today I got an e-mail from someone at Wanna Network.com It was about a web blogger name Vlad Zablosky who is being sued by Ben Behrouzi at eperks. Ben Behrouzi claims that Vlad's post has caused him harm and damage- Whatever. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? This is the link to the blog. Please read the story at your convenience.

 http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/?p=3219

To receive a free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at 202-378-0283 ( Direct ) and 301-560-6700 x1154 ( Office). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/. Thank you very much. Looking forward to helping you make your home purchase and/or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty."Buy a home in Washington,DC"

Before I say anything,I want to say to all the great fathers out there -Happy Father's Day.

Now the main reason why I am writing this blog. I once wrote on here that on sundays that no one should work/blog. Sundays should be the day that everyone should relax and start planning for the busy week ahead. But today I broke the rule. I feel bad too -SERIOUSLY. I said that people should not work and/or blog today but here I am blogging away. But I have been helping my young brother move into his new house ( Blog coming soon ) and I have been busying doing other Real Estate related stuff ( what's new )these past two days so I haven't had much time to blog. So I am blogging today to try and make up for the past two days. I am not going to blog next week sunday -HOPEFULLY.

I hope God is not too mad at me. I am not perfect. But I do try my best to be obedient. At least I try.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale Washington DC,",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at ( 202 ) 378-0283 ( Direct ) or ( 301 ) 560-6700 x1154 ( Office ). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com. Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan - Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy a home in Washington,DC"

We buy all kinds of home. We will buy your home even if you don't buy ours. Any price or condition. In danger of losing your house. No commission. No fees. You save $$$$. SELL YOUR HOUSE QUICKLY TODAY!  Sounds familiar?

First of all,I want to know if you don't charge no commission and no fees,how the heck do you make any money? Homeowners who are in trouble of losing their homes are falling victims to ads like this. An article on this topic was on Yahoo.com today. To read more about this story and foreclosure scams lurking in your neighborhood,click on this link.

Foreclosure Scams Lurking In Your Neighborhood

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at ( 202 ) 378-0283 ( Direct ) or ( 301 ) 560-6700 x1154 ( Office ). I can also be reached online at my website www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very happy one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan- Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy and/or sell a home in Washington,DC"

We are know that real estate sales are down and that times are rough. It has prompted some real estate brokers to downsize. Some real estate professionals have left the business and are seriously thinking of leaving the real estate business. It has caused conflicts in families of real estate professionals. I remembered reading here the story of a young lady asking whether she should leave or stay in the real estate business. She said that her fiance or husband told her she should just leave because she is wasting her time and that she is never going to make no money. ( I have been there -TRUST ME. In fact,something like that happened to me recently. That's all I am going to say about that. )

I am a firm believer in the statement "If you can see it,you can achieve it". Its one thing to vision yourself being successful. But it is another thing to put action behind your beliefs. Things are rough. But no matter what shape the Real Estate Market is in,Real Estate is and will always be in high demand for Real Estate. But I am not going to just sit and complain about it. I am doing something about it. People not believing in me is making me work even harder on improving my craft and becoming a better real estate professional. I just refuse to lose. I came in this business to win and that's what I am going to do. Successful top producing real estate agents didn't get to where they are at overnight-They worked hard VERY HARD to achieve their status. The Real Estate business is tough? Life is tough and it didn't come with a instructions either. ( It would've been so nice if it did ).

You will win and succeed in this business. You just have to get out there and let people know that you are a real estate professional who knows their real estate market very well. Let them know that you are not about just making a commission check. You want to help them own a piece of the American Dream. Let them know that you care about their wants and needs. People don't care what you know until they know that you care. So for those who are down,feel like things wont get better in Real Estate and not motivated because of the monsters ( media ) lying to the public,don't be discouraged. When no one is there to encourage you,encourage yourself. Let everyone you meet know that you are best thing that ever happened to them because of your knowledge of real estate and services that you are going to offer to them. Be enouraged and don't get discouraged.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at ( 202 ) 378-0283 ( Direct ) or ( 301 ) 560-6700 x1154 ( Office ). I can also be reached online at my website www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very good one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan - Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty."Buy and/or sell a home in Washington,DC"

 One of the blogs that I wrote "If you fail to plan,you plan to fail",I said that most top producing real estate professionals are successful because they have a very effective and successful plan in place. But you need a good database as well. A good database of names of peope and contact information of all kinds of profession.

Well,I mentioned a website yesterday. The website is www.zoominfo.com. The company was founded in 1999. It is a web based service that has information about people and companies. It currently has about 3,854,213 companies listed on its site. You can set up a free profile.

I feel this is a another good way to build your pipeline by e-mailing and/or calling people on this website introducing yourself and the kind of products and services that you offer.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at ( 202 ) 378-0283 ( Direct ) or ( 301 ) 560-6700 x1154 ( Office ). I can also be reached online at my website www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very helpful one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. "Buy and sell a home in Washington,DC"

Pain at the pump has led to many business companies cashing in on trying to gain new business. It seems the nation's pain has been a marketing ploy for some businesses companies gain. Hopefully this gas deal wont get out of hand.

In Washington DC,two days ago,a lady said that she has been waiting in line over night since 10:30pm  just to get free gas. I mean I have heard of people waiting in line for XBox game machines,Play station,Wii and/or the day after thanksgiving sale ( Black friday ). But to wait overnight just to get some gas? That's wild. When you think about it,I am glad that this promotion was done during Winter. Imagine waiting in line for some gas during Winter? You will have to keep the car running all night so the car can stay warm to keep the heat on. But by the time you woke up the next morning,you will probably be out of gas. And that is just a waste of time,money and gas-Is it worth it? I don't think so.

So Mr.Exxon Mobile,if you are reading this,or know someone who knows someone who knows Mr.Exxon Mobile,please lower the gas price. Gas prices would be good at the price of $1.00 a gallon. I heard it use to be that low back in the good old days-That was real nice. Due to the pain at the pump,many people have cancelled their plans of traveling to the beach or to go and visit their family members or friends because gas is just too much. It has altered many people's daily plans and has affected many people and families lives. We can only pray that gas prices go down soon.

To receive your free list of "Houses for sale in Washington DC",please give me a call at your earliest convenience. I can be reached at ( 202 ) 378-0283 ( Direct ) or ( 301 ) 560-6700 x1154 ( Office ). I can also be reached online at www.buyandsellnewhomes.com/ Thank you very much. Looking forward to working with you and helping you make your home purchase or sale a stress free and very helpful one. Have a great day. Lanre Folayan -Real Estate Professional with Exit Premier Realty. 'Buy and sell a home in Washington,DC"