I'm a fairly new
real estate agent in Brookline, MA and like most new agents I want to establish great
long-term relationships with my clients and remind my friends and acquintances
that I'm in real estate business should they think of someone who may need my
help. I'm setting up quarterly mailings and e-mailings to keep my name exposed,
but of course I'm realizing that I need to be smart about investing time and
money into such prospecting as my budget is quite limited. Luckily, I just found
a new tool that's perfect for me. It's a new technology (got rolled out in
spring 2008, the latest upgrade Genie2.0 was just launched on Aug 12, 2008)
that provides its users instant comparison shopping across major shopping,
auction and e-Commerce Web sites. It's free for end-users, anybody can download
it here www.myshoppinggenie.com/shoppingsmart

What makes it a
great tool for me is that I can distribute Genies to my friends/customers as a
Thank You gift which they'll love if they ever shop online or just like to find
a bargain online and use the price comparison information to negotiate in
brick-and-mortar stores, while I get to have my face/logo/message appear on Genie
toolbar every time they use Google or any other major search engine. Here's
a demo of how Genie works, this technology is very new so it maybe hard to
visualize  http://mymarketinggenie.com/shoppingsmart/

I'm spreading the
word about this technology to fellow Realtors, my favorite small businesses,
practices, local artists, non-profits ... etc and feel free to do the
same! It's a great way to build that continuous exposure without being invasive (not
to mention how expensive that gets) with a pile of mail or numerous emails which
don't always get read anyway. Whereas this is really subtle, but consistent
exposure AND you can customize/change your message/logo/photo as often as you'd
like: you can advertise a particular listing this week, some promotion or event
another week, or just have your photo with a hyperlink to your website

Feel free to
contact me if you have any questions about it and let me know how you like it. 

More on Genie at www.buyingwithgenie.com

Karina
D

demouka@gmail.com