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FlexibleAgents.com Launches Internet’s First Site Allowing Home Sellers to Schedule Listing Presentations Online

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) June 21, 2006

FlexibleAgents.com, the Internet’s first site allowing home sellers to schedule listing presentations online, launched today at http://www.flexibleagents.com. It is the first real estate site on the Internet to allow home sellers to choose real estate agents by viewing agent introduction videos.

Over 87 percent of sellers conducted transactions using the assistance of a real estate professional in 2005. In this increasingly competitive market choosing a real estate professional is becoming more difficult. At FlexibleAgents.com home sellers can view up to six pre-screened real estate professionals. From those six, they can choose up to three agents (based on agent experience and a video profile) to come to their home and give a listing presentation.

“Home sellers are looking for a better decision making process in choosing the real estate agent who will ultimately sell their home,” says Erik Johnson, FlexibleAgents Founder and CEO. “Consumers want to save money when they sell their home, but with flat-fee services like Help-U-Sell® you sacrifice experience and knowledge.”

Help-U-Sell® has been successful in the real estate industry by offering flat-fees for their services, and promoting this as “money in the consumer’s pocket”. Does the consumer really “win” in this deal? Not exactly. Real estate, like any industry requires expertise. The experienced agent is aware of trends in the local area, is an expert negotiator, and obtains top dollar for their client’s home. FlexibleAgents offers the real estate professional the ability to offer consumers what they want – full service at a negotiated price. For the first time, home sellers can view agents in their local area and invite who they want to come to their home and give a listing presentation.

Connecting Sellers and Agents

To schedule presentations online the home seller needs to enter basic information describing their home, this allows the real estate agent to complete a Competitive Market Analysis (CMA). Next, the homeowner enters contact information so the real estate agents can call/email to confirm the appointment. Third, the home seller chooses which agents they want to present, and what time and day they would like the listing presentations.

All real estate agents that are members of FlexibleAgents must have at least 3 years full-time experience in real estate. In addition, they must meet these requirements: a minimum of $ 2 million in sales closed in the last year, be in good standing with their State Department of Real Estate, and be a member of national, state, and local board of Realtors®, adhering to their strict code of ethics.

About FlexibleAgents

FlexibleAgents.com has just launched its innovative service, with the goal of allowing home sellers the ultimate experience in how they find a real estate agent. FlexibleAgents was founded by Erik Johnson and is headquartered in the Phoenix metro area. Visit http://www.flexibleagents.com to schedule listing presentations from top, local real estate agents in your area.

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Marylou Stephens

FlexibleAgents

(480) 862-3948

http://www.flexibleagents.com

FlexibleAgents is a trademark of FlexibleAgents, Inc.

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Real-estate-agent-lists.com Celebrates One Year Helping Real Estate Agents Prosper in Slow Market Using Realtor Lists to Work Smarter, not Harder

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) March 19, 2007

One year ago, Zichron Internet Marketing LLC launched real-estate-agent-lists.com and the real estate market has never been the same. As the innovator in low cost but accurate lists of real estate agents , a population that is ever changing, ZIM has provided real estate agents new, low cost tools to facilitate their business, even in a slow market.

2000 customers and $ 1,000,000 in sales later, ZIM has discovered that the largest market for lists of real estate agents is…well, real estate agents themselves. Bill Bailey, the owner of Zichron Internet Marketing, discovered this phenomenon while operating another list company.

He realized that despite the fact that agents typically have access to their local MLS systems, those systems either make it difficult to download contact lists of agents or they prohibit using the lists for commercial purposes. Additionally, agents oftentimes need to contact agents from other associations (e.g. to promote vacation properties to agents whose clients may live in large cities farther away). Agents also use mailing lists to:

    invite agents to seminars to teach agents how to invest in real estate for themselves

    replace expensive flyers with e-flyers to promote REALTOR events.

    inform agents of internet opportunities that would increase their exposure

    hire loan officers

    expand operations into other states

    create new business alliances with other agents

    recruiting, recruiting, recruiting.

According to Dr. Bailey, the most unusual usage of his real estate agent list was by an agent who wanted to contact other real estate brokers across the country whose name was also “Mary.” By using his database, she was able to create a referral network of “fun, professional Marys.”

Agents are discovering that email marketing is an inexpensive and effective way to partner with other agents in a synergistic manner that benefits each other. This is important in a slow market when cooperation, not competition, can make the difference between prosperity and hardship.

Real-estate-agent-lists.com’s website allows customers to purchase and immediately download realtor lists for the entire United States , individual states or metro areas, or even individual zip codes. Customized real estate agent lists can be also be created on the fly for immediate download.

The success of real-estate-agent-list.com’s business model has yielded copycat competition, which is fine with Dr. Bailey: “The market for this kind of information is so huge that it would take a hundred websites to satisfy it all. I am confident that our low overhead and advanced data collection and verification methods will keep us ahead of the curve.”

About Zichron Internet Marketing and real-estate-agent-lists.com:

Zichron Internet Marketing specializes in the marketing of lists. Bill Bailey has a PhD in information systems and extensive experience in database management and internet development and marketing. In addition to real-estate-agent-lists.com, ZIM also operates business-lists.com and lawyer-411.com.

Contact:

Bill Bailey, President and Owner

Zichron Internet Marketing LLC dba real-estate-agent-lists.com

15105-D John J Delaney Drive

Charlotte, NC 28277

877-485-5044

http://www.real-estate-agent-lists.com

http://www.business-lists.com

http://www.lawyer-411.com

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