Great News for EXIT MidSouth's Agents!
Our website www.withEXIT.com  has a Featured Listing section enabling us to put our agents e-listings.
Since October 2010 we have had over 1,000,000 hits on these listings from Google.
What does that mean to YOU? The added exposure is just another way EXIT MidSouth is promoting our agents' Listings.

Privacy Alert: Facebook Photo Tagging
Opt-out of Facebook's face-recognition software now.

Here's a tip you can share with your clients to help protect their privacy (and possibly dignity!) on Facebook.

Recently Facebook began using a face-recognition algorhythm to try and "find" you in photos your friends have taken and posted online. Once Facebook thinks it's found you, it recommends your friend "tag" you in the photo. Being tagged in a photo associates your name with the photo (and even links to your Facebook page, once tagged).

This might not sound like a big deal... until a friend happens to upload a candid picture of you unwinding that you'd rather not have pasted all over the internet.

The good news? You can opt-out of this setting. For a video tutorial on how to turn this "feature" off, check out this original article by Whitson Gordon on Lifehacker.com:  

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How to add Videos Strategically to withEXIT.com

BY  Key Yessaad,

 I have included 2 videos on the topic of how to leverage www.withEXIT.com for your YouTube videos and make the process SEO Friendly. Adding Videos is quite simple, but if it does not link back to your own content then you are not building Link Juice (SEO) to your own Website.

This is  the year all of you need to embrace video; I coach many agents and they are truly using Video to create the conditions of visibility - if you can remember that your 'potential clients' want to see you before they meet with you; then you will start the journey of positioning yourself with videos. Think of it as 'Farming' using video!

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Agents looking for ways to track your prospecting?

In the sales business it is simply a MUST to prospect for new business.  However, as deals come together the workload of managing deals distracts from prospecting.  This isn't revealed until there are too few PENDINGS in the forecast.  A great method to make sure that JOB 1,  prospecting, gets done is to have metrics on the amount of prospecting you plan to do in a given week.  Also in real estate sales it can be discouraging when your focus is on commission, when focus should instead be placed on the TASKS required that will undoubtedly generate deals that lead to commissions.

If you recall the movie Pursuit of Happyness, the lead character played by Will Smith only focused on what he could control which was making 200 cold calls per day.  If he achieved his goal he was satisfied.  The day was a SUCCESS.  He couldn't control if they bought from him, but he could control making 200 cold calls.   Just as in the movie, you can't make someone buy from you but if you prospect enough you will generate business.  

To help with keeping you focused on prospecting and on the amount of prospecting, not the results, the region has made a Success Activity Tracking Sheet that you can download at box.net and apply to your real estate career.  The use of this sheet is simple.  At the beginning of the work week, sit down and write out your goals for the week in each of the categories listed.  Not all methods may apply to you, and you may want to add more for some categories.  Now keep this with you during the week and as you prospect simply fill in the shape under the category.  By weeks end you should have met or exceeded your goal and you can get a mental image of your success.  Test yourself by not ending your work day until you complete your tasks and meet your goals.  Have an accountability partner in the office to show your sheet to each week.  Reward yourself when you have met your goals with an ice cream sundae or golf.

SUCCESS is the Progressive Realization of a Lofty Goal!