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Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World
By Ryan Ward | February 12, 2008
Greatest real estate agent in the world! What’s that mean to you? Well, for this, it’s actually a competition to learn a bit more about how to use the internet to market ourselves as real estate agents and to help effectively market our listings on the internet not only locally, but, around the world like only the internet can. The idea came from a friend of mine, Eric Bramlett. Here’s his entry to the greatest real estate agent in the world and there’s a host of prizes including a website valued at almost $5,000 offered by Morgan Carey, owner of Real Estate Webmasters and 5 articles written by Eric Bramlett for the winner of the competition. Really, it’s about the learning, but, I thought it would be fun to try to put together what we might expect from this “Greatest Real Estate Agent”. While I’m at it, I’d like to give some credit to Eric Blackwell for his interesting idea on a twist of the greatest real estate agent in the world contest.
I suppose a good place to start would be an agent who really knows, understands and can explain the local real estate market to the client. Next, I would expect the this agents negotiation skills would be superior to those around him and I would expect that this agent would be very honest with their clients and would favor tactfully conveying messages - even when they are not good to their client instead of telling them what they want to hear.
The greatest real estate agent in the world would have an uncanny ability to to remember homes that expired without selling and have more that other agents don’t know about to show his clients. They would also deeply care about each and every client they had an opportunity to meet with and I bet this agent would have no trouble remembering names either (I admit, this is definitely one of my weak points). Most importantly, I think that the greatest real estate agent in the world would work diligently and on behalf of his clients to be the best advocate possible going above and beyond to provide a level of service unsurpassed by other agents.
So, what do you think? What else would you expect from the greatest real estate agent in the world? Please let me know and feel free to send a link to this post which would certainly go a long way towards helping me win.
Topics: Atlanta Real Estate |
February 12th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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February 13th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Super Agent would need to be able to explain, interpret, and convey the trends of the market to their clientele. Not to say that we need to be soothsayers BUT I think the agent that can understand the economics and trends whether their easy to identify or not could put lots of extra money in the clients pocket at the end of the day. No different then a stockbroker, you want him to call you (first preferably) when it looks as if the market is going to sell off.
This also will help the super agent to price correctly and place offers for buyers if you have no clue what the market is, then you cant be very effective in negotiations.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Ryan, Good Luck. I would say that they are a few front runners that I would expect to see and you are one of them. Mr. Blackwell may give you a run for your money. Should be interesting. Good Luck again.
Annie
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February 14th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Nice entry Ryan. For now I have not decided to join in the competition since I don’t currently have the right format and am considerably out-classed by the competition, you included. I will learn lots though by watching close.
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You’re #1 on my Dc, Ryan! Good job so far.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Ryan, you are #2 on big G for the term Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World, good job!
I just learned about this and think may be late to enter the competition, not that I would win but I think it would be a fun learning experience. I may still enter just to have fun.
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February 17th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Thanks,
It’s a good learning experience and a great prize.
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February 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Ryan, not sure what you’re doing yet, but it’s certainly working. However, I’m showing Eric’s 10 man team as leading the pack right now, so maybe you’d consider hedging your bets and joining my team of the 100 greatest real estate agents?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
There are still 2 months left and I’m sure it will change considerably over the next couple of weeks and then settle into 5 or so contenders. I was #1 a couple of days ago and it might turn out to happen again…I’m not jumping ship at the #3 spot
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February 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
The best part of the contest for me, so far, was that I found your blog. I’ve enoyed the posts I’ve read especially the one on tightening up loose ends.
I haven’t visited all of them, but your site seems to have been broadly appealing for a long time. I’m glad I found it.
Haven’t been to Atlanta for many, many years. I usually pass it by from Florida to Philly
February 19th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Thanks Ardell. I don’t really think of myself as a very good blogger, but, I enjoy it and I’m learning. All you have to do is look at a few of the oldest posts (about a year) to see that.
BTW, I’ve got a client trying to sell their home in Seattle so they can buy down here…I need to see who they are listed with…
February 19th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Just email me the address and I’ll get you the info pronto.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Hello fellow real estate agent contestant - glad to see you came back
February 19th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Hi Knox. Welcome to my little corner of the web…
February 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Good Luck Ryan!
I was going to enter the competition, but now I think I’m just going to sit back and learn from the “greats:.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 am
Good work, Ryan. You are currently number 3 on Google and you have over 9,000 links in Yahoo. Keep it up and you could win this.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Ryan - you’re ranking pretty well for this little contest. I’m sitting on the sidelines just watching all the fun. Good luck!
February 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
the greatest realtor in the world should be voted #1 by their community . there should be a Top Ten list of requirements to meet, including the realtor who gives back the most to his community, the realtor who is voted #1 by their piers and/ or their community. the realtor who has developed the best customer satisfaction, which is measured by percentage of repeat and referral business.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I agree with you because it’s one thing to be able to market a website and get in ranked, but what do you do if you can’t help these people out because you know little about the market? To be a great agent you have to know your target area and be knowledgeable at your market, A lot of agents don’t have this ability.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Good luck on the contest Ryan. I hope you win it.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Ryan, you seem to be falling back in the Big G, No more sleep for you.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
You keep doing great Ryan, nice to see you at the top
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I don’t remember how long this contest goes on, but it is pretty entertaining to watch.
March 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Sam,
My recollection is it runs until May 1. It seems to have gotten a lot quieter in the last week or so.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
It got quiet because everyone got sick of the mean spiritedness and demeaning statements. Who wants to participate in that? Seems theres always a few that want to tear up the playground so no one can enjoy it.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Cal,
We often hear that from both sides with regard to Active Rain. Many get angry with people who don’t simply say “Great post!” while others get sick of a hundred comments that say “Great Post!”.
I agree though that using other people’s blogs to talk about a pending lawsuit was over the top, and reacted accordingly.
However having an SEO contest and expecting not to discuss the differences between content driven SEO and other types of SEO, doesn’t fit the Wikipedia description of an SEO contest.
When ActiveRain and Inman News sponsored “Project Blogger” last year there was a lot of controversy. That controversy helps to establish different guidelines for future contests, and so was deemed of benefit. Though I am not hearing about a second Project Blogger, so maybe the sponsors did not agree
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Active Rain?
Pending lawsuit?
Reacted?
Differences?
Fit Wikipedia description?
Controversy?
I said, “It got quiet because everyone got sick of the mean spiritedness and demeaning statements”. Thats all.
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April 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
How’s the competition going? I see there is a lot of people entering this little seo contest.. Keep up the good work.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I’m #3 right now - we’ll see if it hold up…
Thanks Eric. I appeciate it
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