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Basic data that should be systematically collected include:

• Purchase item number and description
• Quantity required
• Date item required
• Date purchase requisition received or authorized
• Purchase requisition or authorization number
• Supplier(s) quoted
• Date supplier(s) quoted
• Date quotes required from supplier(s)
• Supplier quote(s)
• Supplier price discount schedule
• Purchase order number
• Date purchase order placed
• Purchase price per unit
• Quantity or percent of annual requirements purchased
• Planned purchase price per unit
• Supplier name
• Supplier address
• Supplier promise ship date
• Supplier lead time (days or weeks for purchase item)
• Date purchase item received
• Quantity received
• Purchase item accepted or rejected (unit/lot)
• Storage location
• Buyer
• Work unit
• Requested price change
• Effective date of requested price change
• Date price change approved
• Ship to location

These basic transaction data are needed for purchasing decisions and management control systems, especially if these are computerized.

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Mobile Homes – Hmmm. I don’t think I want to live in a mobile home park.

Well the truth is that many people don’t. But there are some who might change their minds if they were familiar with some of the fancier more resort style mobile home parks.

In my opinion the nicest mobile home park in the Riverside area is Rancho Caballero.

It is not a parking lot lined up with homes. It’s a beautiful hillside community overlooking the city of Riverside and the Mockingbird Canyon. Many of the homes are on view lots. Many have nice size yards. The park is full of mature trees and nice water wise landscaping that adds to the ambiance. It’s located just outside of the Riverside city limits, 4 miles SE of the 91fwy.

Rancho Caballero provides many amenities including the following; Jr. Olympic size pool, a wading pool for the tots, and a heated sports pool. There is also a large Jacuzzi. Down by the Jr. Olympic size pool there are umbrellaed tables and chairs, lounge chairs, a built in BBQ, counter space, sink, covered picnic tables, and restrooms.

There is a baseball diamond, basketball and tennis courts, and a hiking area. There is a billiard room and separate card room. For those of you who like to walk it’s a 1 mile (not flat) walk around the outlying streets in the park. Too hot or cold out? There’s a small gym also.

The club house is very nice. It includes a great kitchen, restrooms, a gorgeous view and it’s a perfect place for residents to hold a party or any kind of get together. The park holds various holiday and non-holiday parties compliments of the management. They may also offer a few free hours of  child care for a few weeks in the summer, maybe swimming lessons, or something else they feel the residents will appreciate.

Rancho Caballero is a gated community located in a lower crime area. The schools are some of the very best the Riverside area has to offer.
 
To top all of this offer home values are down over 50% right now. I have two very nice triple-wide homes listed in the park. One for $30,000 and another for $39,000. The space rent is $682 per month. Where else can you live for about $1,000 per month and still have a home to sell if you ever decide to move?

The home I have listed at $39,000 was purchased for over $80,000 in 2005 and the seller’s have done more than $39,000 in updating and upgrades over the past few years. The seller’s loss is your gain.

Please call for more information on the available homes in this great resort type park and the available homes.

Linda Christopher, Realtor
951-780-7225

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Making an offer shouldn’t be like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick.

(Originally Published 7-08-06)

Dear Tom: We are interested in a house that has been on the market for a long time and hasn’t sold. Clearly the Seller is asking too much or someone would have bought it by now. We want to make an offer but we don’t want to waste anyone’s time. So, we thought we would just make our offer to the Seller verbally through our Agent and their Agent. What do you think? Waste Not, Want Yes

Dear Want: Except for rare instances (mostly relating to counter offers and counter to the counter offers) I am not a strong proponent of throwing verbal offers casually out into the ether of the marketplace, as though one were tossing strands of spaghetti against a wall, just to see if something might stick.

As anyone who has worked in this business long enough will tell you – talk is cheap, even if the houses aren’t. I don’t know how many times in my career, an Agent has called to say that he/she was bringing in an offer on one of my listings, only to have some sudden mysterious act of “client interruptus” take place in the form of a last minute change of heart or a debilitating attack of buyers remorse – in which case the mythical offer got hijacked before it actually ever materialized in the flesh.

I stopped telling Sellers a long time ago that we “might” have an offer coming in every time someone calls to say they are “working on something.” Too often it gets emotions worked up and adrenalin shooting through the system needlessly. There’s nothing worse than a Seller waiting  in vain for their date to show up and the dance to begin – sitting all “addressed up with no place to go.”

So rule of thumb is: unless there is a bona fide Purchase Contract completely filled out with someone’s John Hancock on it staring up at me from the safe harbor of my own desk – it ain’t an offer.

It might be a dream. It might be a flight of fancy. It might be a negotiating ploy. It might be unrealized potential. But it ain’t an offer.

As a Buyer there’s another angle you might want to consider. By making a verbal offer, you could be selling your own interests figuratively short if you are really trying to convince the Seller of  a property that has been on the market for a while to sell his/her interests literally short.

Think about it! When you tender a verbal offer, you are in effect saying to a Seller: “If I were to hypothetically think about writing an offer on your home somewhere in the range of some price, how do you think you would hypothetically respond to such an offer, were I to actually make it?” Hardly compelling stuff, is it? Specially for a Seller stuck in the morass of their own mind-set.

I guarantee you that as long as Sellers are thinking about the prospect of selling their property on a purely hypothetical basis, rather than a real one, the vast majority are going to revert back to the same conceptual set of expectations that convinced them to overprice their property in the first place.

There is only one way to transition your interest and their dreams out of the realm of the hypothetical and into the real. Put your offer in writing. Make it appear on their dining room table. Force them to review its terms and conditions in a way that requires them to do some actual soul-searching and confront their own presuppositions.

A real written offer alters the internal process of even the most recalcitrant Seller. It says to them that the whole ordeal can be over if they just agree to sign on the bottom line. And that is compelling to someone who is tired of living in the fish bowl of the marketplace.

This isn’t to say, of course, that you can write any offer at any price and expect Sellers to immediately cave in and hand you the keys and the deed to their property. What it hopefully means is that you can create an opportunity to get your foot in the door and begin a dialogue about acceptable price and terms without getting it slammed shut abruptly in your face.

Talking the talk isn’t enough. You’ve got to help the Seller walk the walk and do the difficult work of coming to grips with their own deflated expectations. Don’t worry about wasting anyone’s time. It should only take your Agent 20 minutes to write up the Purchase Contract assuming you have a reasonable sense of what you want to offer. The Seller has already wasted much more of their own time than you ever could.

It’s been a scary real estate market for sellers but those that have some equity -

it’s a fantastic time to move Up, Down, or Over.

There are some beautiful homes out there available at great prices. Add todays prices together with the very low interest rates and you would have to wonder if there could be any better time to buy the home you really want.

Linda Christopher 951-780-7225

$8,000 First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit at a Glance

• The $8,000 tax credit is for first-time home buyers only. For the tax credit program, the IRS defines a first-time home buyer as someone who has not owned a principal residence during the three-year period prior to the purchase.
• The tax credit does not have to be repaid unless the home is sold or ceases to be used as the buyer’s principal residence within three years after the initial purchase.
• The tax credit is equal to 10 percent of the home’s purchase price up to a maximum of $8,000.
• The tax credit applies only to homes priced at $800,000 or less.
• The tax credit now applies to sales occurring on or after January 1, 2009 and on or before April 30, 2010. However, in cases where a binding sales contract is signed by April 30, 2010, a home purchase completed by June 30, 2010 will qualify.
• For homes purchased on or after January 1, 2009 and on or before November 6, 2009, the income limits are $75,000 for single taxpayers and $150,000 for married couples filing jointly.
• For homes purchased after November 6, 2009 and on or before April 30, 2010, single taxpayers with incomes up to $125,000 and married couples with incomes up to $225,000 qualify for the full tax credit.

By Robert Gelinas

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Features, functions, and technical capabilities may be the product of ingenious imagination, technical brilliance, and visionary insight – but have no tangible value at all, leaving top buyer decision-makers looking askance after an enthusiastic presentation, asking, “So what?”

The 23:50 Dilemma

Many years ago, I sat through a presentation by a Sales Rep from a Telecom company.  At the time, I was a network architect with a multi-million dollar annual budget to spend.  The Telecom Rep was giving a rousing pitch about their new high-speed digital line they wanted us to buy.  Mind you, this was in the days before the Internet, when most enterprise data networks were connected via dedicated circuitry.

Amid the hundreds of data circuits we had circumnavigating the world, we had one particular dedicated data line that went from our Texas headquarters to a backup data center in Colorado.  Our major database and file backups each night took between eight and ten hours to transmit over our “old and slow” existing data line.

The Telecom Rep boasted that his new high-speed digital line, a line that would cost about ten times that of our existing line, could transfer all of our data “IN ONLY TEN MINUTES!”

Wow.  Everyone in the room was impressed.  That was an order of magnitude faster.  They could do in ten minutes what we currently took ten hours to do.  That sure sounded like progress.

I raised my hand and asked, “So what, pray tell, do we do with this dedicated application data line the other twenty-three hours and fifty minutes of the day?”

Telecom Rep’s face went pale and he didn’t have an answer.

He could have said many things, such as our ability to use that line in conjunction with multiplexing and switch technology to eliminate many other circuits and potentially enjoy a net savings, or to add new applications such as video-conferencing, etc.  But he didn’t.  His pitch was simply “faster is better” and in his mind that’s all we apparently needed to know.

Yet, our “old and slow” eight to ten our file transfer each night worked just fine.  There are twenty-four hours in each day, and the fact that the existing process used between a third and half of them wasn’t problematic.  The job got done every day.  And paying ten times the cost for it to get done in a faction of the time didn’t yield any net new benefit.  Nothing else would be accomplished.  So what was the point?

Needless to say, Telecom Rep didn’t make a sale that day.

The Hybrid Disaster

With all the “green” hype about the urgent need for people to all run out and buy hybrid cars, industry statistics have shown them to be a business disaster.  Toyota’s Priius is by far the best selling hybrid car thus far– it’s just a shame Toyota says that they lose money on every unit sold.  There’s a killer business strategy for ‘ya!  “But don’t worry, Boss! We’ll make it up in volume!”

I also read recently that if you went out and bought a new Priius, the money you’d save in gas would only take you something like over 100 years to break even for the purchase.  Again, so what’s the point?  You honestly think you’re saving the environment?  If so, look up the study that showed that it takes more energy to build a Priius than it does to build a Hummer.  And then there’s those nasty batteries to consider, and their disposal, etc.

The point here is that some technologies don’t really solve the problems they are alleged to solve, and other technologies simply don’t solve any problems at all.

A Solution Looking for a Problem

Probably the most common business blunder made by many technology companies is to develop an idea purely based on the ability to do so, or to do something “new and different” with no associated idea of an actual commercial market for the manifestation of that idea.  Unfortunately, that kind of thinking is usually the precursor for the “If we build it, they will come” business strategy faux pas.

Remember the cliché, “Find your niche and fill it.”?  It’s twin in the technology world is, “Find a real business problem that technology can solve, and solve it.”

Sadly, this occurs far less frequently than it should.  And it is the primary source of consternation for technology marketing professionals confronted with a company who sincerely wishes to grow, but who has a very difficult time putting their finger on why it is exactly that their product or service is special, unique, or even exists.  Thus begins the process of “Reverse Engineered Marketing.”

Reverse Engineering Marketing is the creative and imaginative storytelling exercise of starting at the end of the story, with a defined product or service, and then conjuring up one or more viable business scenarios that could have led to that point.  It’s a lot like playing Jeopardy where they give you the answer and you have to come up with the original question.

Contestant:  I’ll take Healthcare Mystery and Miracles for $500, Alex.

Moderator:  Viagra

Contestant:  What failed blood pressure medication was found in during field trials to be a cure for Erectile Dysfunction?

Unfortunately, in many cases, a common conclusion may reveal that there is no unique business problem out there that a particular product or service was originally designed to address, rather it is but one of many common “me too” products or services that mimic the commodity offerings of large, established competitors.

Therefore, with the lack of any unique value proposition, and in recognition of the fact that rarely can be found any markets that are truly being underserved, the resulting business decisions for those kind of offerings tend to be more driven by low price competition and “big megaphone” saturation marketing for acquisition of mindshare – which, incidentally, yield some of the worst ROI for overall Cost of Sales (COS).

In a perfect world, your company should never be in this situation because your products/services were all designed based upon proper market research, and in-depth validation of a specific market need.  But the world isn’t perfect, is it?  So what do you do if you’re in this situation?

Go back to basics.  You really only have one of four strategic marketing alternatives.

The Four Horsemen of the Metamorphosis

Obviously, if what you’re currently doing isn’t working, you need to do something different.

Now if you’re sales are virtually non-existent, and that’s because not only does no one want what you have to offer, but you also really don’t have any competition out there offering anything similar, that may be because what you have to offer is “New Coke”, or the “Edsel”, or some other complete dud that has no chance and never should have been developed in the first place.  In that situation you need to go back the drawing board and start again – only this time, start with looking for a real problem to solve, not just something to make for creation’s sake.

On the other hand, if what you have to offer is legitimately viable as a product and/or service, as is evidenced by other competitors out there successfully selling something comparable and validating its need, then you must consider one of following four options.

The Superiority Strategy

Is your product or service already superior, or can it be made to be clearly superior, to the leading offerings in your particular market?  And when we say “clearly superior,” we’re not talking about winning the race with a photo-finish by a nose, but rather a far and away Secretariat-esque 22-lengths clobbering the competition kind of “superior” offering, and doing so for a comparable expense by the buyer.  The price comparability is important.

That is, it’s easy to argue that a Ferrari is a better car than a Chevy Cavalier, but you’d expect that from a million dollar car compared to a $20,000 car.  But what if you could buy a Ferrari for $20K?  Wouldn’t people line up for that?  Of course.  And if you can pull that kind of a value proposition off, this might be a viable path to clearly differentiate your offering and subsequently corner the market.  However, in most cases, this simply isn’t a practical option due to underlying costs needed to demonstrate a significant magnitude of superiority.

The New Argument Strategy

This one can be actually the most effective, if you can accomplish it.  This strategy involves redirecting your product/service either to a new target market (e.g. from hypertension to ED), or creating an entirely new rationale for its value to an existing target market (e.g. ground shale garage oil stain cleaner becomes Kitty Litter).

Another example: during the Router Wars of the mid 1990’s, the leading vendors were Cisco, Proteon, and Wellfleet.  Their products were networking gear that provided data connectivity between computers.  Period.  It was hard to sell a router other than one of those three in those days, and in a short period of time, the latter two fell away and all there was left was Cisco.

I worked for a networking company at the time that offered, among many products, a router.  In a router-to-router competition, Cisco was seen as the industry leader, and therefore the “safe” choice, and the lion’s share of the sales went to them.  I had to come up with a new idea.  That new idea came in the form of a special project we did for the federal government.  They wanted a router that not only provided connectivity, but also “security” – literally encryption of the data stream.  We made it for them as an enhancement to our existing product.  They loved it.  And then we realized what that could do for us in the commercial market.

Suddenly, the sales scenarios were no longer about just moving data from point A to point B, but it was then couched in terms of getting it there safely, securely, and privately.  With this argument I was able to take a business unit from virtually nothing to over $50 million in revenue in less than two years.

So what can you do to refocus your offering with a new message to a new market segment, or to completely change the rationale of the argument to your existing targets?  The answer to that question may be more than just a revamp of your story; it might mean changing the offering itself in a small way or a big way.  But if you can do it, you might find an entirely new spurt of revenue momentum and market share.

The Viral Infection Strategy

This is actually a function of a “Divide and Conquer” approach.  It’s used when you conclude that you are never going to get your target market to abandon their chosen #1 vendor.  This is, outwardly, a function of “peaceful coexistence” with that vendor, seeking out a multi-vendor story, where you are positioned as complementary and actually synergistic to the incumbent.

However, once you are in the door and installed, then, inwardly, the strategy becomes to “infect from within,” demonstrating value, adding new capabilities over time, and eventually nudging the other vendor out of the spotlight.  This is a much more long-term and patient strategy, but can be effective when the no compromise “them or us” proposition has failed.

The Delay Strategy

This strategy was perfected by IBM decades ago.  This is used when the competition’s offering is clearly superior and you are about to lose.  However, in the course of getting the bad news, you also are educated as to why the competition’s offer is seen as superior and you understand what yours is lacking.  Thus, your counterpunch becomes: “Oh, we’re just about to announce not only all of those features you want, but also a few more besides that in about six months.  You certainly don’t want to invest in a technology that’s going to be obsolete six months from now.  It would be better to just delay your decision for a short time and get what you really need.”

And if they buy that pitch, then you have six months to add whatever bells and whistles you’re missing.  The idea here in this strategy is that if you can’t win, then no one will.  It’s a strategic retreat: Live to fight another day.

Connecting the Dots

The common thread in all of the previous four strategies is the necessity to have to modify, enhance or evolve what you have to offer, specifically to accommodate a new storyline that leads from a real problem to your solution as part of the Reverse Engineering Marketing exercise.

So if your offering is something you conjured to life because you could, not because you should, and that didn’t work out so well for you, then you need to seriously consider your own Reverse Engineering Marketing exercise – not just if you can, but because you should.

About the Author

Robert Gelinas is the President and CEO of JPE Inc. Consulting (www.jpeincconsulting.com). He has spent over 20 years in the IT industry as a senior executive and sales and marketing leader, having built many national and international Enterprise IT sales and marketing organizations.  He has both an extensive Fortune 500 background as well as a wealth of successful Start-Up experience. He is also a published novelist, writer, publisher (www.archebooks.com) and frequent public speaker on both IT marketing and the writing and publishing industry.

Congratulations … U.S. Treasury Department understood that Short Sales were very hard to close and so made a step in the right direction: 1) major step: A lender is required to give a “yes or no answer” to offers within 10 days!!! There are other provisions as well: a moving allowance, incentives for sellers and lenders, commission rules, and a stipulation that releases sellers from debt liabilities.

Here’s an initial article:  Reuters news story.

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“You’d have thought we moved to Mars,” says Gibbs. “He still wants to go home despite having made tons of friends.”

Moving is one of the most stressful events in life—even more so for kids. But you can help ease the transition. Here are some tips:

Involve children in planning. Help them find local Web sites so they can learn about schools, sports and events in their new city. The goal is to increase familiarity and build excitement for the new area.

Communicate. Take time to speak with children about the move–and particularly about their fears or concerns.

If possible, allow children to pick their own bedrooms. This makes it fun and exciting. Let them help decorate as well.

Keep a few prized possessions out of the boxes. Familiar items, such as a blanket or stuffed animal, bring comfort to skittish kids.

Encourage children to make new friends. Introduce them to children in the neighborhood. Invite a classmate over for a play date. Or throw a kiddie housewarming party!

Seek help from professionals. A knowledgeable real estate agent can help you learn the area, give you leads on local children’s activities and make the whole move go more smoothly.

On Nov. 6, President Obama signed legislation that extends and expands the homebuyer tax credit. Now, for the first time, the credit is available to current homeowners as well as people purchasing for the first time.The first-time homebuyer tax credit has been instrumental in helping the real estate market recover. The credit has brought new families into the housing market, and they in turn helped reduce the inventory of unsold homes.

The expanded credit is expected to encourage more investment in residential housing. Here are the details*:

•The $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit is extended through April 30, 2010, giving buyers who have signed a purchase contract by that date until June 30 to close on their home. The actual credit is equal to 10% of a home’s purchase price, up to a maximum of $8,000.

•A new credit of up to $6,500 is available for repeat homebuyers who purchase a principal residence if they have been living in their current home for five consecutive years out of the past eight years preceding the purchase.

•Income limits have been increased. Now, single buyers with incomes up to $125,000 or married couples earning up to $225,000 may be eligible. Partial credits may be available to homebuyers who earn more.

•The credit is extended until April 30, 2011 for certain qualified military buyers.

•The credit applies only to homes priced at $800,000 or less.

If you’re planning to buy, act quickly. Experts say there will be no further extensions of the tax credit, so this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save money while buying a new home.

For more information about the tax credits, or to learn about available properties in your area, call our CENTURY 21 Office today.

*This is not meant to be tax or legal advice. Consult a tax professional for details.

The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 has extended the tax credit of up to $8,000 for qualified first-time home buyers purchasing a principal residence. It also authorized a tax credit of up to $6,500 for qualified repeat home buyers. Here are some FAQs

www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com

Here is my first video tour of a property that I made for a buyer of mine. This is a great bank owned home in a gated community around a golf course in San Juan Capistrano. Please take a look and let me know what you think!

Helping you build your dreams!

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This is a selection of the properties sold with Clark Real Estate during November. For information about these properties or any others sold by Clark Real Estate, contact us at our office on (07) 3256 1600 or by emailing: sales@clarkrealty.com.au

Raleigh Road, Virginia
Price: $435,000
3 bedroom house
Located in a brilliant position only 200 metres from Virginia Golf Course and Virginia train station.Generous in size, this genuine 3 bedroom house has a large living room and separate dining room with hardwood throughout. Other features include split air conditioning system and 12 year old kitchen.

Colorado home mortgage rates continue to sink this week, reaching 4.54 percent on a 30-year fixed loan Wednesday, according to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace.

Rates averaged 4.62 percent last week, 4.66 percent the week of Nov. 9 and 4.77 percent the week of Nov. 2, Zillow reported.

Zillow says its figures on mortgage rates are based on borrower credit scores over 680 and a down payment of 20 percent or more.

The average 30-year fixed nationwide rate was 4.57 percent Wednesday, Zillow said.

Separately, Freddie Mac calculated average 30-year fixed mortgage rates nationwide at 4.78 percent with an average 0.7 points for the week ending Wednesday, the lowest rate since April 30. Freddie Mac calculates average rates for a broader range of credit scores and down payments.

The average 30-year fixed rate was 4.83 percent last week. A year ago, it was 5.97 percent, Freddie Mac said.

Low rates and the homebuyer tax credits, continue to get much of the credit for a rebound in housing sales.

The Commerce Department Wednesday reported sales of new homes rose a better-than-expected 6.2 percent in October, although they slipped in the western states, including Colorado.

The National Association of Realtors says sales of existing homes surged 10.1 percent last month.

And a Metrolist Inc. report on Nov. 6 said that in the Denver metro area, home resales increased 2.9 percent in October from September, but were down 7.6 percent from October of last year.

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…Remember! The next time you are in a conversation with someone who is thinking about a move – IN ANY CITY OR STATE IN THE US OR CANADA – call me first! I can help make sure your friends, family members and work associates are very well taken care of.

Internet Supply chain is an end-to-end logistics process:

 Begins on a lead for product sale (bid) from one of the leading sales arena’s (EBay, Amazon, Yahoo, others)

 Ends with full customer satisfaction (shown as feedback …) – the buyer got what he ordered just on time, exactly what he saw in the store and he likes it!

Between the edges of the process, exist all the handling of goods – the supply chain:

 Picking – packing goods – goods insurance – goods distribution– goods delivery- post goods to the end customer.

The Process of Internet sale is based upon:

 Trust, shorten & cut cost & handling time, ensure & protect the payment, do the process of supply chain efficient and reliable to make the

customer to come back to our virtual store and buy from us.

When you sell in the web, you have to take into consideration a few parameters:

• The dimensions of your products (the net size of the package:  hight,width,depth)
• The wight of your products (less than 500 gram, 10 kg , more …)
• The variety / assortment of products ( single product with revisions , number of categories with large scale of products , a finite number of products (5-10) )
• Upon sales statistics consider the frequency& forecast of sales (one sale a day , 10 sales a week ,20 sales a month , other )
• The availability to stock against the handling time + shipping time promised in the listing
• The time& energy spent on the supply chain process via see the payment and enjoy it ….
• The gap between the selling price and the cost of handling (supply chain…)

Seller who considers those parameters should decide how to handle wisely his sales in order to spend accurate time and money

 in the logistics, satisfy the customers, and enjoy the profit.

Two main options (may have more.) are offered to handle the web supply chain   

• Wholesale supply chain – if you sell light (less than 500 gram) small products ,in a limited scale , can effort once a week delivery ,have the time to handle the shipment via simple postal service don’t have to insure the products and have a full customer satisfaction feedback record – YOU THE SELLER ARE DOING THE SUPPLY CHAIN HANDLING.

• Drop shipment supply chain - if you sell big heavy (a few kilo product), the product should be handled with a courier door to door delivery is preferable, you need a place to store your inventory and handle it and still you want to save your reputation as a full customer satisfaction feedback seller.  YOU THE SELLER HAVE AN INOVATIVE & CREATIVE WAY TO SUPPLY CHAIN YOUR GOODS (please read the post about drop shipment).

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Sometimes I forget to tell my buyers and sellers that if they decide to move out of the area, county, or state, I can help them by doing some research to help find them a really good Realtor.

I look for someone who has more than a flashy website. Someone with a lot of experience in a particular area or type of real estate. I often speak with brokers or managers to ask about personalities and if an agent is part-time or full-time. I find out if they are a Realtor or just a sales agent. If they have time or even desire to take on a new buyer or will they pass a new buyer on to an assistant or member of their team (which isn’t always bad, but I want to know ahead of time). I find out if they have ever had their licence suspended.

Buyers often just call a listing agent on a particular home that appeals to them. This can often be a big mistake but more about that in another blog.

I look at a lot of information and ask a lot of questions before I take a chance in referring a buyer or seller to another Realtor.

Last month I posted this question and here are some of the responses I received from various individuals across the country:

*Painting your home a clean, neutral color inside and out is an inexpensive way to brighten up your property quickly ~ Julie Lawrence, CFP® Lawrence Financial Planning, Tampa, FL.

*Buyers want to purchase a property that has no items in disrepair and that ideally has already been fully renovated (i.e. move-in ready). Those properties that are in good repair and fully renovated sell much quicker and for higher prices ~ Michael L. Nelson, Nelson Design Group, Birmingham, AL.

*The first step and sometimes the hardest for homeowners is to understand the current real estate market. All the staging and decluttering in the world isn’t going to help a homeowner who’s pricing is out of step with the market. Second step would be getting the home “show ready” ~ Cyndi Bell, Keller Williams Realty, Austin, TX.

*For most the first step is to de-clutter. Too much stuff detracts the potential homebuyers from being able to visualize their stuff in the home. Randy Ballard, Realtor at Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate, Atlanta, GA.

Every business needs to generate leads. Without leads you don’t have a business. If you can crack the lead generation challenge you’ve overcome one of the major reasons why a new business venture fails.

Selling to family and friends, previous customers and clients, walk-in business etc. dries up sooner or later, and limits growth, revenue and profits.

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