An Active Rain "Battle of the Bands" Battle of the Best Marketing Plans & Systems. Okay, I have an Active Rain Contest idea. A really good one. So here it goes. I kind of fell into this. If you follow my blog, you'll recognize a lot of this idea which went from brew to stew. As in good stew. Jumbo, Yumbo, Sizzling Stew.
An Active Rain "Battle of the Bands" Battle of the Best Marketing Plans & Systems. I started meeting with an agent in my Southern Maryland turf who has opposite strengths and weaknesses. We both wanted to know some stuff the other agent did. Good stuff. Like how to I nail the pricing on listings year after year. Or like how can I speak as eloquently as her? And so on. So we started the Friday Challenge. Each week we put a new Marketing Project on the table and then present and then go back to the drawing board and come back improved. Then somehow I expanded to use GotoMeeting.com because I wanted Janie Coffey from Miami aboard. Then a few agents who have gotten in my path via sharing and or commenting on Active Rain have gotten aboard. Now it is a fully functional group that brainstorms a project every Friday with the goal of improving each aspect of our systems and presentations. We are not in competition with one another because we all all from other areas of the country due to Active Rain Connections.
An Active Rain "Battle of the Bands" Battle of the Best Marketing Plans & Systems..What is unique is that we are unleashing something that is normally held close to the vest. The one thing agents do not share. The one thing we need not dare ask. So we are doing just that as a result of Active Rain interactions. Then it occurred to me today. Why not have a Battle of the Bands or a Battle of the Best Marketing Proposals and Systems at the end? Actually, Janie can take credit for that part of the idea. Let's have Bob Stewart and a Web Coach and some Real Bird folks and the Active Rain group serve as IDOL judges. Then we get the best of the best and points, too.
An Active Rain "Battle of the Bands" Battle of the Best Marketing Plans & Systems... So is anyone else game to do their group and go up against the "Golden Results" Team? So far, we have brainstormed Listing Powerpoint Presentation ideas on GotoMeeting.com. You literally hand over controls to the other presenters during the two hours. Already, I have seen Janie take my monthly Price workout ideas and Casper Showing concept and Star Trek it up with tools on Real Bird and Zillow and Trulia. My mouth dropped and it was my idea...but to see where she ran with my idea. Well.....It was RUNNING in the Rain in motion.
When I was in Sixth Grade, I had to write an Essay on "What Freedom Meant to Me." It was a contest offered for the Sixth Grade by the American Legion. My Dad read my contest entry and laughed and said I would not be winning any contest entries with that. It kind of hurt my feelings. So I rewrote it. Just like we redo each of our presentations each week. So imagine the Thud at the Sixth grade graduation Ceremony when my name was called. Nothing has changed. Good ideas get better with Brainstorming. So, you know when my initial Buyer Powerpoint Presentation was not up to snuff yesterday and I went away knowing it needed to improve, as in major overhaul , I already have a call in to Curtis Hall ...a.k.a Buyer Agent Guru of the Universe and the Phoenix RE/MAX Agent in my database... to get some good tips. You know I liked the sound of that THUD at the Graduation Ceremony.
So our projects include Powerpoint Listing Presentations, Powerpoint Buyer Presentaions, Process Systems /Excel Checklists for Listings, Contracts and Buyers (for 8i) , Social Networking Systems (yeah Janie C) , Luxury Home Systems, Expireds and FSBO Systems, Pricing Workout & Monthly Seller Meeting Systems and Scripts, Pre List Packages, and Short Sale Stuff. And the lists continue to build for our Friday Challenges.
Anyone want to form a group to accept the Challenge? Yoo Hoo, Bob Stewart, ready for the Big Kahuna of Active Rain Contests? The thing every agent wants to know but is afraid to ask? Let's get ready to show and tell and the AR Judges can decide on who wins this Active Rain Ride.
GOAL... to brainstorm each major component of our real estate business and by collaborating SOAR with each system by interacting with a small group of Active Rain agents on gotomeeting.com around the country. CHALLENGE: We are using GotoMeeting. We are using Dropbox. We are using Google Wave. We are in Star Trek Turf to do this. You'll see stars and have fun doing it. And may the real STARS for each of these topics claim their place in the spotlight or with points (maybe) or hopefully both.
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