I sat in on yesterday’s webinar “Getting More Business with the $8000 tax credit and Your First Home.  WOW!  I cannot believe all of the great reasons to buy right now and what is even more impressive is the tools that Keller Williams Realty is offering you to help you get more first time home buyer business closed!

I have created a folder on our office intranet, www.LanierPartnersBarrowJackson.com, under Group Documents called “2009 $8000 Tax Credit”.   In this folder, you will find the powerpoint from yesterday’s webinar that has great marketing ideas.  You will also find two documents provided by HomeStar that will help you better understand the tax credit and how to educate our clients about it.  Finally, you will get my notes (Aha’s and Action Plans) from yesterday’s webinar.  I have copied these below.

I will also be covering these notes along with the powerpoint and all I learned yesterday on the webinar in a lunch and learn after our next team meeting on August 4th!  

 Aha’s and Action Plan  from “Getting More Business with $8000 Tax Credit and Your First Home

Review posted power point from webinar for great marketing ideas including postcard that features get a free copy of Your First Home and markets agent as First Time Buyer Specialist.

Team up with other agents and vendors to host a regular Buyer Seminar.   Promote heavy on facebook and twitter, be purposeful about getting people there!  Seminar instructions at www.MillionaireSystems.com!

Purposefully promote all the great reasons to that NOW is the time to buy

               $8000 Tax Credit is 8000 reasons to buy now

               Mortgage Rates are still low and Down Payment Requirements are Minimal

               Affordability

Use the Median Home Price Chart at Millionaire Systems to show prices are at most affordable levels since ’03-‘04

               Choice of Inventory

               Motivated Sellers  mean great incentives to buy

               The above list is 5 great blog posts!

This Week In Real Estate video at http://www.kw.com/kw/2009TaxCredit.html

               Post it on your website, your blog, your facebook back, etc

Use the website www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com to get educated and educate clients and customers!

FREE downloads at www.MillionaireSystems.com for Your First Home including 9 Great Reasons to Buy a Home and Advantages of a Buyer’s Agreement.  Great content you don’t have to re-create!

Order copies of Your First Home at www.MillionaireSystems.com.

Add Your First Home Focus Box to your website home page.  Visitors can register for a free copy.

Contact your entire database and ask them who they know that needs to buy their first home before the tax incentive expires!

Put a great looking listing along with an offer of a free copy of Your First Home on your email best buy list to everyone you know and ask them to forward to their friends and family.

Use the tax credit to create urgency!  Time is running out!

Read SHIFT Tactic #9 Overcoming Buyer Reluctance five more times!

Become a fan of Your First Home on FaceBook!