11. November | Realty Ideas Per Day

Spotlight Businesses

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty.

And your realty idea of the day is spotlighting local businesses.

So this is something we should be doing more and more. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about how we should be the “Electronic mayor of our town.” So you wanna go out and do some video. You wanna take some still pictures. You wanna upload these to Google Maps, by the way, Maps is a platform, get on it. You want to be doing 360 pictures if you can. Go out and interview a local business owner and then put them on your blog. Introduce them to your sphere of influence. Let them know about this great store, this great restaurant. They will love you for it.

So, Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. Your realty idea is go out and find a business you love and it’ll make everybody else love it too. Be the “Electronic mayor of your town” so that when people move there, they know where to go and what to do. Where is the best Mexican food? Where is the best place to get your cleaning done? Where’s the best place to get your car washed? Figure it out and tell people how they’re going to live when they move to your town. Bye-bye.

Veterans Day

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCraine, with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is Veterans Day.

So, 11/11 is the armistice of World War I. It was officially declared Veterans Day, and we need to show how thankful we are for veterans. So go out on your social media, each one of them, and post something about Veterans Day, the five branches of service, be sure to include coast guard, they’re a branch. And, you know…sorry, grandson of a coastguard’s man.

So you want to get out there and talk about Veterans Day, and how thankful you are. Keep your patriotic without going overboard, and just have an acknowledgement of how thankful we are for the service that they give.

So, Bob McCraine, realty ideas per day. And again, don’t brand this too much, just keep it about the veterans. So go out there put this on your social media. And I will send you another reality idea of the day tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Dining Rooms

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is market trends. We are now well into the fourth quarter of 2018, and it would be a great time for you to bring everybody up to speed on how homes are moving in the end of the season. So, I don’t know about your market, but in my market, we need about 30 days to close a deal. Whatever we get in needs to be in in November so it closes in December. Unless you just get a cash buyer which, yes, is wonderful. So, go out there, talk about market trends, talk about how houses are doing, is it still a seller’s market? Is it becoming a little bit more of a neutral market? Buyer’s market? What is happening in your area? Market trends are something people wanna hear. Now, we’re doing all these other posts about, you know, costumes, and Halloween, and Thanksgiving, and all this other stuff, so that these posts get through, okay? So, you gotta be talking about all the fun stuff to get people attracted and dialoguing and then this sort of thing will happen. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Market Trends

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is market trends. We are now well into the fourth quarter of 2018, and it would be a great time for you to bring everybody up to speed on how homes are moving in the end of the season. So, I don’t know about your market, but in my market, we need about 30 days to close a deal. Whatever we get in needs to be in in November so it closes in December. Unless you just get a cash buyer which, yes, is wonderful. So, go out there, talk about market trends, talk about how houses are doing, is it still a seller’s market? Is it becoming a little bit more of a neutral market? Buyer’s market? What is happening in your area? Market trends are something people wanna hear. Now, we’re doing all these other posts about, you know, costumes, and Halloween, and Thanksgiving, and all this other stuff, so that these posts get through, okay? So, you gotta be talking about all the fun stuff to get people attracted and dialoguing and then this sort of thing will happen. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Protecting Pets

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is protecting pets in the cold. So we are about to get, in Texas we’re told we’re going to get a wetter, colder winter, which only happens apparently when we try to host a Super Bowl, which we apparently tried six or eight years ago and got iced over for four days. But, and by the way I don’t care a thing about football, so don’t hit me back with Dallas Cowboys, I don’t care.

So if you have pets in the winter, you need to have suggestions for how to take care of them, how to keep them warm. If there’s a pet rescue nearby, do they need some blankets? Do they need some little warmers? I’m sorry, room heaters, things like that. Talk to people that have pets, let’s find out if there’s a need in the community, if there is pets that we know are always outside that we can help take care of some way. Find out what to do for pets in your community and then go out and talk about it. Everybody loves dogs and cats. So let’s do that. Bob McCraine, realty ideas per day. There will be another realty idea of the day posted in your box tomorrow.

Volunteering

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie, with Texas Pride Realty.

And your realty idea of the day, is volunteering at seniors centers. Now this is when I talk about a couple times through out the year. We’re coming up on the holidays, seniors are lonely. They don’t have family around sometimes. Maybe they’re not going to see their family during the holidays. Maybe they’re alone.

So go volunteer at a seniors center and maybe take 5 or 20 people from your office there as well. And it doesn’t have to be like, you can go to a senior care facility, but you can also go to the city. Most municipalities now have seniors centers that people go to as a day thing. And you can go there and just kind of help serve lunch, and sit among the ladies and the gentleman, and play cards or whatever. Just have a day where you go volunteer there and go meet people and just say hi.

So seniors centers at the holidays, critical time. Holidays are a time of much joy, they can also be a time of much depression. Go to the seniors centers, help out somebody. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. By the way, post on your social where all the seniors centers are. Get more people to come with you. Bye-bye.

Election Day

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And if I time this right, it should be Election Day. Go out encourage everybody to vote, try not to take a side, I know it’s super hard, we all have our opinions. I certainly have mine, I’ve taken all my political opinions that I can keep out of the way and I put them into a private group. So, there’s a private group that nobody, except for my friends, gets into and that’s where I can say anything, but I don’t put them out in the open. So, encourage people to go out and vote. Congratulate the winners if you feel so engaged. Talk about the future of the community, but do so in a way that’s not going to polarize at least half of your audience no matter which way you stand. I do believe that people are drawn to you if they agree with your opinion, and they’re pushed away from you if they don’t. So, those who are drawn to you will be drawn to you. They’ll figure you out. Those who are not going to be drawn to you, you don’t need to put it in their face. Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. Happy Election Day. Go out and vote.

Winterize

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your realty idea of the day is winterizing your home. Now I live in Texas, so we go through summer, summer, half a day of fall, and right into winter. So depending on your part of the country, you may need to have your furnace checked. You may need to have oil put into the reservoir for the furnace. You may have to have your roof done, ceiling, windows, and trim and paint and things like that. Anything to make your home weatherproof and cold proof would be beneficial. So, I don’t know your part of the world. Educate me. What do you need to do? Do you have a need to have a stockpile of ice, in case it…I’m sorry, ice, salt in case it ices up? Maybe you need to get some new snow shovels or get your snow blower checked or whatever it is you do. Put it out there, tag me in it. I would love to see what other parts of the country do throughout the winter season. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Days of Gratitude

November 21, 2018 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is one that I see a lot of people do right now. It’s the 22 days or 24 days of thankfulness. Okay? So, there’s 22 days to Thanksgiving, and they post something every day that they’re thankful for. So, you can make it about anything you want to. You can do it in pictures. You know, here’s 24 days or 22 days of things I’m thankful for. You can do it with words each day. Write a little paragraph. Just have something that people begin to expect to see so that every day they expect to see something new from you. And now it’s themed about Thanksgiving. So, 22 days of thankfulness this year and start with being thankful for your clients, being thankful for your family, being thankful for your car, being thankful for whatever it is you’re thankful for. I’m thankful for you. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Holiday Home Security

November 21, 2018 · by autobotposter

Hey, everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, and your Realty Idea of the Day is travel during the holidays. So, let’s talk about securing your home, having additional drive-bys, you know, have the police drive through, if you have good neighbors, have them check on your house. Let’s talk about security in your home at the holidays.

So, there’s all sorts of new security cameras we’ve talked about before, the electronic locks, the Nest cameras, the SimpliSafe system. I think Nest also now has a home security system. Anything that you can, one, monitor your home and who’s around it, and two, having a live person come through every couple days and check your mail and pick up any newspapers and things like that is incredibly important. So, let’s remind people, when they’re about to head out of town for the holidays, that you are a housing expert, you’re a neighborhood expert, and here’s something they could do to protect themselves.

Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.