Stunning Inbound Marketing!

Famous quote from Guy Kawasaki: “If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, focus on inbound marketing.”

One way to get there: Set targeted email and Text campaigns.

Don’t send your consumer’s canned marketing messages. Organize your contacts into more specific groups and send messages on channels they love. Emailing, texting or even social media!

By implementing these low cost but effective tactics, you can keep growing your contacts and influence year-round, whether the market is booming or in a slump.

With fresh automated syndication of contents, planetRE Socialite CRM can provide you a steady stream of automated branded campaigns preset to different segments. Best news, there is NO WORK for you!

New rich contents can be sent every week, twice a month – or any timetable!

See the stunning results below for yourself!

9 WAYS TO LANDSCAPE FOR MAXIMUM CURB APPEAL

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Photo courtesy of Darren Patt Construction

There are a million and one ways to add curb appeal, but your home’s landscaping is one of the most important.Home sale price data shows that you’ll get double your investment back on landscaping when you’re trying to sell your home. But it doesn’t take a scientist to see that a drab lawn and an overgrown tree can ruin even the most beautiful home’s mojo. Don’t let bad landscaping ruin your home’s appearance. These 10 tips will help you get your landscaping gorgeous and maximize your curb appeal so you can sell your home for what it’s really worth, or just enjoy a lovely home year round.

1. PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS

Don’t plant haphazardly. Take a look at the colors of your home, and choose plantings that make those colors pop.

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Photo courtesy of Gelotte Hommas

2. Add Some Color

If you can’t find plants that tie in with the colors of your home’s exterior, then place large-scale glazed planters that pick out the same tones and make even mismatched plantings look intentional.

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3. Lead the Way

Curb appeal starts at the curb, so make sure the path to your door is clearly defined. Decorative urns or colorful border plantings are two high-impact ways to do the job.

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Photo courtesy of Edmund D. Hollander Architect Landscape Design

4. Make it Shine

Landscaping features such as paths, walls, and other hardscaping get dirty over time, making the home’s whole exterior look dingy and dark. Make sure to have your landscaped features professionally pressure-washed, so they can shine.

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Photo courtesy of Phil Kean Designs

5. Tailor Border Plantings

Large, scraggly, or random-looking plants can overwhelm new eyes and obscure features of your home that you should be playing up. Make sure your border plantings are tidy, grouped by color, and just large enough to cover up foundations and external vents, without covering windows or impinging on paths.

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Photo courtesy of Ag-Trac Enterprises LC

6. Brighten House Numbers

Small details like your house numbers can make a big difference in the overall effect of your landscaping and curb appeal. Replace or paint house numbers so they pop–you could even coordinate them with your door color or the accent color you’ve chosen for your landscape plantings.

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Photo courtesy of Darren Patt Construction

7. Trim Trees

Cutting down trees is one landscaping rule of thumb that’s no longer completely necessary. Trees can add charm and character, particularly in rustic-styled properties–just make sure trees are trimmed to complement the house’s best qualities. Light and sightlines should be able to reach the house easily.

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Photo courtesy of Seaside Construction

8. Light the Path

If you haven’t invested in landscape lighting, consider it: it can seriously boost your curb appeal. Lighting under steps, on path borders, and trained on trees and water features will allow your landscaping’s best features to shine even on gloomy days.

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Photo courtesy of Advanced Renovations, Inc.

9. Create a Soft Landing

Draw buyers and visitors in by softening the transition between your home and the street. Potted plantings on a porch, green wreaths on the door, and a path that meanders through your landscape instead of going straight to the door are three great tricks to try.

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Written by Jacqui Adams
This article originally appeared on Porch.com

 

 

 

 

 

Do you like a half baked croissant or a fully baked one?

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Leads are the same way. Unless you fully “bake and incubate” them, they do not convert to business — no matter what source you originally acquired them from.

planetRE Socialite CRM offers you endless possibilities as a broker or an agent to fully bake and manage your leads — to crispy brown using automatic email, texting, social media and predictive marketing.

Call us and find out!

Drag and Drop for Paperless Transactions

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Drag and Drop is the latest innovation in planetRE Transact that allows you to “drag”groups of selected documents from your desktop, folder or email and “drop” right under your online transaction folder. You can then securely store, share across multiple devices and manage them!. It is as simple as that. At the end of the transaction you can burn a company branded CD/DVD for your customer or for your office or choose toVault them under long term secure storage using secure two factor authentication.

With such ease of document management, embedded electronic signatures with a choice of Docusign® or Adobe EchoSign® and a host of work flow and file review features, planetRE offers you the easiest cloud solution to take your entire company paperless.

If you are a single agent, team agent or a 1000 agent brokerage company we will take you paperless in less than a week. If we cannot, we will give your money back(*).

Call us to discuss ways to go paperless and be on the cloud. The convenience, elegance, ease of use and compliance is finally here!

planetRE Releases Cutting Edge Features for Paperless Transactions

City: Santa Clara, Calif., Date : March 10, 2015

New features with Drag and Drop, Dynamic Workflows, File Review and Integrated texting takes standards to a whole new level

planetRE, the nation’s leading technology cloud vendor for online real estate, has announced new cutting edge features for its flagship SaaS platform Transact™ — to help agents and brokerage companies collaborate with documents efficiently and go paperless with ease.

The new Drag and Drop feature allows dragging groups of selected documents from desktop, folder or email and dropping it right underneath the online transaction folder. Users can then securely rename, store, manage and access across multiples devices. These documents can utilize embedded e-signatures with Docusign® or Adobe EchoSign®. At the end of the transaction users can burn a company branded CD/DVD or Vault™ them under long term storage using secure RSA® two factor authentication.

Dynamic work flows enable users to create and enforce variety of contingency based business processes which are typical for real estate transactions. These help streamline the flows under listing and transaction phases. The new Integrated texting allows agents and their ecosystem to be in touch on the transaction with all conversations saved and indexed in log files for compliance review. New changes in file review allows speedier and more efficient ways of transaction compliance approval.

“Document management complexity and compliance has risen significantly in most states with new regulations and so is the need to manage workflow, review processes and client collaborations” said Subrao Shenoy, CEO of planetRE. ”planetRE offers the most easy to use features for a real estate enterprise in document management, work flow, file review standardization and communications using timely collaboration between customers, staff and vendors with logging of all email and texts”.

About planetRE
planetRE is a privately held, leading cloud vendor, providing Enterprise software to the real estate industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA; its primary mission is to provide cutting edge cloud platforms to the global real estate industry in areas of CRM, Transaction and Financial Management. More information about planetRE Transact can be found onwww.planetre.com.

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