Simple Sites Serious Success
   Kathy Stephens
   www.simplesitesserioussuccess.com
   602-476-8096

Simple Sites Serious Success provides a number of great services to help your Point2 Agent site look fantastic.  From visually-appealling website designs to custom headers, content creation to Search Engine Optimization, graphics to email marketing campaigns, Simple Sites Serious Success can help you look and be your best online.

Plus, check out two new great widgets!  Best of all, sign up for the Simple Start and Second Steps package before January 1, 2011 and get one free.  Go for the gold with the Super Star Sampler or Serious Success package and get both at no additional charge!

So, what are these wonder widgets?  The first is a custom form that you can add to your Point2 site that allows you to ask your visitor specific questions designed to create a more interactive experience.  The second is a great new slide show where agents can feature up to six of their best listings.  Visitors can control the show AND click anytime to view more details of the property.  Check it out today and watch your site soar!

Call Simple Sites at 602-476-8096 or email them for more information on their services or their great new widgets for your Point2 Agent website!

Check out our upcoming Texas trip schedule to see if we’ll be in an office near you!

Tanya Spilchak, Education Coordinator

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” – Arnold Bennett


Take, for instance, Point2′s recent move to Zendesk. This new support tool has fantastic search capabilities, allows for easier commenting, and it also provides a much more efficient and streamlined method of submitting support requests to the Customer Care Team.  Members can track their personal requests, communicate with a Customer Care Rep via the tool, and receive timely responses.  Long-term, it is going to be nothing short of fantastic.  Right now, though, it seems awkward because it is so new and so unlike the familiar Message Board that we’ve all utilized over the past few years.  It’s uncomfortable the first few times you try and comment or post a new topic because it is a change.

Stop a moment and think about your business.  What has been changing lately?  Has it been helpful?  Has it been challenging?  Break it down into the following categories:

• Challenges
• Wins
• Losses

Now, go over each item you put into those three categories.  Label each as one of the following:

• I can control
• Beyond my control

For those items labeled “I can control”, determine a list of key actions or considerations that are necessary to make them happen.  Or, if it was a Win, how did you make it happen?  How can you replicate that type of Win again?  Maybe you sold a house faster than anticipated.

For items labeled “Beyond my control”, was there someone who influenced that change?  Did you do something to influence that change, but didn’t realize it?  Was it something inevitable that would have happened regardless of what you did?  Those types of changes are an inevitable fact of life.  Lightening hitting a tree, causing it to fall and crush a house you are selling is beyond your control, no matter how much of a control freak you are!

Now, for every single item on the list, indicate what you have learned from that change.  You’ll likely find that you’ve learned more than you realized.  More about your business, more about the people around you, more about your customers, more about yourself.  In dealing with change, you changed.  Embrace it.  Live it.  Celebrate it.  The next time change happens, you’ll find that you look at it a little differently.

“We cannot change our past.  We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll

Desiree Savory, Big Mama Real Estate

Desiree combines her technology experience and pairs it with her enthusiasm to offer immensely popular online personal and group coaching and training sessions.  Topics are specific to the real estate business and include Point2 Agent aspects, Google, Microsoft tools, Top Producer, and Zipform Online.

Check out Desiree’s current schedule, class information, or subscribe to her E-zine at www.BigMamaRealEstate.com.

Want to learn more about how you can use Point2 Agent Syndication to advertise your listings online and gain more leads?

Point2 Agent will be in Arlington, Fort Worth, Garland, Plano, Grapevine, Dallas and El Paso between September 28th and October 1st, 2009!

Click HERE to sign up for the Point2 Agent Event closest to you!

Well, Mrs. O, this is for you! 

All four Getting Started Guides have been modified to be more concise, fewer pages, and fewer unnecessary screenshots.  Take a look at the new GSG’s!

Enjoy!

Tanya

~ Tanya Spilchak, Education Coordinator