“A penny saved is a penny earned.” – Benjamin Franklin. That statement was made in the 1700s. In our era, a penny is worth pretty much nothing (sorry Lincoln.) Lets face it, even a dollar is a joke. What can you actually buy for $1 besides all of the value meals at fast food restaurants? I’m not knocking the $1 value fries from BK but who eats BK everyday for every meal? No one that I know or you either I hope because I can bet you that person won’t be around that much longer.

Wouldn’t you like to have a little bit more extra cash to put in your savings? My favorite Agent BizzUp Features when combined together can help because they are tools that are included in your Agent BizzUp Account. These cool features are services that you are paying other companies for but are free with your Agent BizzUp Account. After doing some research, I’m about to show you on average how much money you are saving per month by obtaining an Agent BizzUp Account.

Business Class Email

Every time I notice one of our customers are not taking advantage of the free business class email that is included with their account, it irks me. Why wouldn’t you want to use something that is better quality and free? Our business class email server is the email server to 40% of all the Fortune 100 Companies. Seldom will you have a problem with our server, plus…  need I say it again? Its Free! Microsoft Exchange charges $10/month for this service.  Since a business class email is included with your Agent BizzUp Account, you just saved an average of $10/month.

Syndication

The average agent has to manually insert their listings to sites that feature their listings. If you have had to perform this task, then you know how tedious it can be. You have to upload all of the photos (which takes forever) and insert all of the property details, etc. If you want to put an end to that tedious work, you have two choices. Choice number one is to hire a syndication company that will be glad to do your work for you. Choice number two is to get an Agent BizzUp Account where automatic syndication is one of our complimentary features. With the click of a button, your listing is automatically syndicated to all of our syndication partners which include trulia.com, oodle.com, zillow.com, foreclosure.com, vast.com, hotpads.com and craigslist.org. I searched for syndication companies and many charge a whopping $11.99/month. So far you saved $10/month with the business class email and now you are saving another $11.99/month with the syndication feature.

Email Campaign

I love how our email campaign templates are user friendly. Just choose which template you like and Bara Bing Bara Boom! All of your contacts will receive the campaign in no time. Bulk email servers charge $15-150 depending on how many contacts you are sending to, every time you use their service. Speaking of campaigns and contacts, I love how you can create contact groups to send campaigns to. I’m not going to send a client looking for a rental, a property for sale or a client with a $200,000 budget, a 1M home. Having this option enables you to email only those contacts in that particular group looking for a specific property type. Plus Agent BizzUp’s Permission Based Email Marketing has outstanding reputation with the ISPs. That means every contact in that group will receive your campaign. Lets say you used a third party bulk email service at the minimum price ($15) four times this month. That’s $60/month you just saved by not using a bulk email service, plus you saved $10/month with the business class email and $11.99/month with the syndication feature. Woo Hoo!

Webmaster Services

Last but definitely not least, with an Agent BizzUp Account, I am my own webmaster. I can change the look and feel and perform updates whenever I want. One reason I enjoy the option to update my website myself is because updating a website regularly is a factor in Search Engine Ranking. If you update your website on a regular basis, it is likely that web crawlers will have to visit your site more often, which in turn might help your ranking score. I searched for the average price of a webmaster and found it to be Starting at $45/hr. Another cool fact a lot of customers don’t know is if you already have a website built, Agent BizzUp can convert that site into our customizable template for a one time $150 fee. Being my webmaster is the money saving “Egg Mcmuffin” feature of them all. If you use your webmaster on average two hours a week, that’s $360 month you saved by having total control over your website with your Agent BizzUp Account. Plus $60 you saved by not using a bulk email service, $10/month with the business class email and $11.99/month with the syndication feature. That’s $441.99/month and $5,303.88/year you can put into your savings account.

All of these features are services that you would have to hire different companies to accomplish unless if you have an Agent BizzUp Account. If you have an Agent BizzUp Account and you are not utilizing these features, you are limiting your money saving potential. Now sit back and imagine what you would do with $5,303.88? This kind of reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” – Jackie Mason

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o you plunged into your marketing dollars and had a beautiful website created for your business. The site is up and running but whats next? You know that the more visitors you get on your site, the more profits you will see. So how do you attract visitors to your site? The best way to get visitors to your site is by ranking high on Search Engines. I’m about to show you 8 effective ways to rank higher on Search Engines and you won’t break the bank because these tactics are Free to use.

#1 I’m going to start off with the most important and effective way to rank higher on Search Engines. Its not what you say about yourself that gets you ranked anymore. What gets you ranked is what other companies have to say about you. If you get 123 Company to mention you on their site through a link to your site, then you will rank higher. “How do I do that” you ask. Well one way to accomplish this is by creating an “award” for great service or a “seal of approval” for a service. You can create just about any type of award or trophy you would like. Get creative and make sure that what you decide on will be something that companies are going to want to be a part of. For Example: an award for having a great looking website or a great user friendly experience. You would create a symbol like a seal or trophy or whatever you prefer that links back to your site.

#2 Another technique to rank higher on Search Engines is to blog. You can create original informative articles and add a link to your site that will enable the article to be shared. Make sure to be as creative as possible.

#3 More so, if you do read an article comment on that article and be sure to leave a link to your site. Remember, what you write is a direct impression of your company. Be direct about your opinion but don’t write anything that may be mean or offensive.

#4 Get familiar with Alexa.com and download their browser toolbar (free version). Just having the Alexa toolbar on your browser may significantly improve your website popularity stats as it will be recorded every time YOU visit your own website.
- Use Alexa.com website owner options to provide more information about your website (create free account).

#5 This one is a no-brainer… Become more active on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Use these social websites to build your network and get others to include links to your website. Specifically on Facebook, if you get someone to like you and your Facebook is linked to your website, that will help you with the rankings.

#6 Stay away from framed pages! Most Search Engines have trouble seeing what is inside of a framed page. They only see what is outside of the framed page, therefor, all of the content in the framed page is not being considered for your ranking. If you are using a framed page from another site, then that site is getting credit for all of the visits, etc.

#7 Original Content is another great way to help you rank higher. The more elaborate you are about your services,  Search Engines will figure out what your site is all about and they will navigate visitors to your site which will in turn help you rank higher.

#8 Last but not least, do not forget to submit your URL to the top Search Engines. This should be the last thing you do since you want to make sure your site is Search Engine Friendly and Optimized. The description and the targeted keywords are very important factors. Collect the best targeted keywords that will drive qualified visitors to your website. You want to target keywords that can generate a decent amount of traffic. Make sure you choose keywords that are not too competitive like- real estate. Instead choose a phrase that you are most likely to rank for like- Franklin Springs GA Real Estate.

With an Agent BizzUp Website, you may accomplish all of these things. Agent BizzUp’s websites are easy to navigate and best of all, they have an amazing customer service team that is willing to guide you through this process. Agent BizzUp’s Real Estate Search Engine Optimization Services have been ranked among the best marketing services. If you feel like any of this is too challenging for you, hire one of the professionals at Agent BizzUp to do the work for you.

You just saved a bunch of cash reading this. All I have to say is…. WINNING!

Imagine an email service that lets you send over 2,000 emails anytime you want. All of your clients, contacts, friends, etc will  receive a message via email with just a few clicks. This Super Service sends over 2,000 emails per hour with practically no limit on how many emails can be sent. They also offer an email list of about 150,000- 1M email addresses. What business would not want to reach an extra 150,000 potential customers for a low price?  If I had 3,000+ contacts  I would definitely want to take advantage and send one email campaign and be done with it. Who has time to wait for 200 emails to be sent per hour with a limit on how many emails can be sent? Definitely none of the realtors or brokers I know. With over 3,000 of your contacts plus an extra 150,000 contacts the bulk email service is providing, you should expect to have your inbox invaded by responses to your email campaign. Sounds enticing right? Well, not quite so. My experience with bulk email services was a lousy one…

One hour goes by and I see nothing. Two hours go by and I have about two emails in my inbox but they have nothing to do with the emails I sent to my contacts. At this point, I start to doubt myself. I started to think, “Did I possibly send the email campaign incorrectly. I know I didn’t double check my work but a task so simple should have no room for error.” I waited by my computer desperately hoping and anticipating some type of response. Three cups of coffee and 8 hours later and no responses. I start to frantically worry. I knew at least 100 people on that list that were dying for that type of house to go on the market at that price. “Did I do something wrong? Did I say something wrong? Could all of those people have found their dream house so soon which is why they haven’t responded to my campaign?” Then it finally hits me like Ike did Tina. “Why don’t I call a few people on my contact list and verify that indeed they did receive the email campaign? That way I can be sure that I am not crazy and I did send out the campaign.” Smh.

I called my first contact and confirmed that they did not receive the email campaign. Same goes for the next 19 on my list. My assistant and I spend days calling my contacts only to come to the same conclusion, only about 2% of my contacts received the campaign. I thought a bulk email service was supposed to save time, not waste time? Geesh!

This is a similar scenario for anyone that invests in bulk email services. You are promised something like an “unlimited” amount of email campaigns sent from that server. In reality what you are getting is exactly that- an “unlimited” amount of email campaigns being sent from that server. They forget to tell you that they do not promise that the campaign will be received and that the campaign is sent to random email addresses that are most likely not interested in your service. They also don’t tell you that it is a waste of time and money because in fact only about 2% of your contacts will receive the campaign.

This whole concept has to do with “spamming.” A server that sends a huge amount of emails at a time is blocked by the receiving server as spam. If I am speaking a little too technical, I will break it down like this: If just .01% of the contacts in your campaign decide to to treat your email as spam, your entire server will be considered spam and your server will be blocked from the ISP it was trying to reach. .01% of 3,000 is 3.33. That means that if out of those 3,000 contacts, 3 of them treat your email as spam, that entire server is blocked.  This process only has to happen one time for that bulk server to be blocked. Therefor, if their first customer had that situation happen, then the bulk server’s entire server has already been blocked since day one. By the time you hired them, they were already considered  spam servers. That’s right ladies and gents, your entire campaign  has just been blocked and treated as spam because the server you hired to send out the email campaign is a company considered to be a habitual spamming server.

The reason for this is to protect email accounts from spam. No one wants to be harassed on a daily basis by annoying emails. Unfortunately, some company’s businesses thrive on emails. They are naive about the whole concept of spam because as far as they are concerned, they are not sending spam. They are sending out an email campaign to clients that are interested in receiving emails from their company. That is not the definition of spam. Spam is emails that were sent to you uninvitedly. So why should your emails be treated as spam when in fact they are not?

Unfortunately, the spam filters are just robots. They do not know when an email is expected or not. What they do know is the history of the server the email is sent from. Just like the saying goes- “You are who your friends are.” Well,  something similar can be said for email servers as well. “You are who your email server is.”

In order to send a big amount of emails from a server, it takes a good standing relationship with the major ISPs like Google, Yahoo, etc. The relationship does not happen over night. You must nurture it like a flower. If a bulk email server sends out 10,000 emails as an email campaign, the ISP is going to block that campaign. The ISP prefers to block all 10,000 emails from being received even though only a few would have been spam. The ISP  will block them before they possibly get 10,000 unsatisfied email clients all receiving spam. On the contrary, if a permission based email marketing server sends out a campaign, they are not going to send 10,000 at a time. They gradually send out the emails. The ISP does not send out a red flag because a few hundred emails every few hours from that particular server is the norm for that server. That server nurtured the relationship between itself and the ISP for the ISP to know that it sends out a few hundred emails frequently and they are not spam. As their relationship blossoms, so does the amount of emails that may be sent from that server. It is a time consuming process for permission based email servers but the customers get to reap the benefits.

Permission Based Email Marketing is the opposite of Bulk Email Servers. True, they have limits on the amount of emails that may be sent, but at least you know that ALL of your contacts will receive the email you intended on them receiving. It is not a waste of time nor money. What you see is what you get.  All of your hard work and time are going to good use.

Agent BizzUp’s Permission Based Email Marketing is a perfect example of this great feature. Agent BizzUp imposes limits and enforces them so that ISPs won’t block their email campaigns. If you are an Agent BizzUp user, you can be sure that your marketing campaign will reach its destinations. Because of their good standing reputation with the ISPs, they are able increase their limits gradually. Kuddos to Agent BizzUp and their Fabulous Team!

Just like “A diamond is a girl’s best friend,” Permission Based Email Marketing  is a successful business’ best friend.”

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