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You can place a link to our client e-newsletter, Property Lines, on your website. Contact Claudia ccoury@hallen.com or Gina guriarte@fhallen.com in marketing to get the link. |
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Congrats to Tom Fleming from our Greenbrae office and his efforts in the 24 Hour Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society, July 25-26. Tom's team raised over $3,510; Tom alone raised $1600.
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Carolyn Metz and a number of agents from the Santa Rosa office are stepping up to the plate and creating a corporate sponsorship of the Amgen Tour of California to be held in May, 2010. Their goal is to keep the tour in Santa Rosa. The Amgen Tour is the premier annual cycling race in the US.
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Marathon Woman - Brent Thomson, manager of the Tiburon office, did an amazing job in the SF Marathon. Her time: 4:25:02
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BusinessWeek's 'Hot Property' Blog
BusinessWeek editors Chris Palmeri, Prashant Gopal, Peter Coy, and Dean Foust chronicle the highs and lows of the housing and mortgage markets on their Hot Property blog. Hot Property was named among the 25 most influential real estate blogs of 2007 by Inman News. |
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Worthy Website |
Because we can all relate and could use a laugh:
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Greetings!
We hope you're enjoying the summer. In this issue, we keep it light and give those who may have missed a past issue a chance to catch up on some hot topics.
See you in September! |
Find Frank Howard Allen on Facebook and Twitter 
Frank Howard Allen has joined the ranks and jumped head first into social media. You can find us on both Facebook (fhallen.com/facebook) and Twitter (fhallen.com/twitter). Our Facebook account focuses on highlighting company and agent achievements, a spotlight of spectacular properties (through our Weekly Trilogy) and our company newsletters and blogs. Our Twitter page is a more general forum, focusing on Real Estate and Economic industry news and articles, local stats, helpful tips, local news and events and, of course, sharing (retweeting) useful information and links related to home ownership, moving, and home improvement. |
Marketing and Tech Tools - Mid-Year Re-cap
In case you missed a past issue of Frankly Speaking, here are some of the popular topics we wrote about. Click on the link to see the full document.
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Tech Tip: Reports from myFHAllen.com
To have reports print out correctly from the new myFHAllen.com, with background colors and images, remember to make the following changes to your computer settngs:
1. Open Internet Explorer and click on Tools, then Internet Options
2. Click on the Advanced tab, and check the box for Print background colors and images.
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 Discovery Museum Passes - Still Available
The Bay Area Discovery Museum has generously offered us some free entrance passes to present as gifts to our clients. If you have clients with young children and would like to give them a pass (good for five people), e-mail Karen Foley: graphics@fhallen.com.
Quantities are limited; one pass per agent; first come, first served. To learn about the Discovery Museum, visit their website.
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Food for Thought . . . .
Challenging times provide great opportunities to offer outstanding customer service. Click here for a great blog post on just this topic.
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| A Warm Welcome To Our Newest Agents
Mill Valley - Strawberry Office: Tom Bolles |
Quote for the Month
"Using social media doesn't make you a good Realtor; being a good Realtor makes you a good Realtor." - Robert Hahn, Managing partner of 7DS Associates, a marketing, technology and strategy consultancy focusing on the real estate industry | |
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We welcome your feedback and suggestions for future issues.
Write to us at: pr@fhallen.com
Sincerely,
Your Marketing Team |
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