{"id":126,"date":"2007-08-21T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/126\/seller-driven-new-business\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T17:10:10","slug":"seller-driven-new-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/126\/seller-driven-new-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Seller-driven new business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard from Realtors that &#8220;__% of my business is repeat and referral clients&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always felt that a referral from a happy client is one of the best compliements you can receive &#8211; so if a Realtor&#8217;s business is based almost entirely on those contacts, then he\/she must be doing something right.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, I&#8217;ve realised that about 2\/3 our new clients arrive because of referrals from other Realtors who have been happy with our service and products&#8230; and the other 1\/3 is actually driven by Realtors whose sellers have specifically requested that they use our services!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of any more of a ringing endorsement than to have Joe Public see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/videos\/vancouver\/\">our Photos and Video<\/a>, and think, &#8220;this is the tool I want to use to sell my property&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>This morning, we received the following email from new client, Paula Baverstock, of Prudential United Realty. Her client, selling his condo, contacted us for more information about a week before he listed the property. He insisted that Paula use our services to market his condo. Her email was brief, but high-impact: &#8220;The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/vid\/1153_gardencity\/\">photos and video<\/a> are great \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we have got a heck of a lot of good feedback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More success stories to come&#8230; Want to see your name in print? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:info@vopenhouse.ca\">Send us your feedback<\/a> on a tour that we&#8217;ve done for you or an experience you&#8217;ve had!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often heard from Realtors that &#8220;__% of my business is repeat and referral clients&#8221;. I&#8217;ve always felt that a referral from a happy client is one of the best compliements you can receive &#8211; so if a Realtor&#8217;s business is based almost entirely on those contacts, then he\/she must be doing something right. Similarly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vopenhouse.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}