Hey guys, hope all are having a wonderful weekend!  My partner and I are considering a team approach.  That is, having 2 other Realtors join up with us and a part time assistant.  Recently, we've been asked by several Realtors, and have enough business and many leads not being touched so I've decided to review that option. My partner and I are meeting Monday morning to set a plan in action but I'm not sure how I want to set this up.   We've had a great first quarter, and am now managing my own office, and getting ready to test for my Broker's license and think in this slow market it might be a good time to set it up. What are your thoughts? Do any of you currently have a "team" of more than 2 people? Have you ever had one? How is it working for you? How do you set commission structures? Thanks!!

 Melissa

Okay guys, second blog here, so as I've been chatting with you all, I've been updating my website.  I'm not the most saviest of website owners at all.  I've been reading about website optimization and getting kinda mad at my rating dropping...continually.  Now I'm not a competitive crazed person by any means, but when this first came about I was number 1 in Virginia.  I'm down to 11 per this new index rating.  Obviously I know there is work to be done on my website, I wouldn't be up at 11:30 Sunday night if not, and I try hard to keep it looking decent.  So I went onto this meta tags analyzer.  I figured it was just some free thing that would tell me how I was ranking for on different search engines and  that is was computer generated etc.  Is it possible there is a person on here actually reviewing it?? At first it said I had too many characters on this and that, pretty basic I thought.  And then, I get to the keywords analysis, and its says "keyword relevancy to page content is terrible".  I'm thinking WOW, did you have to hurt my feelings!! Has anyone tried one of these free analyzers?  How are you choosing meta tags to make your website generate more exposure?  I feel like I get a decent amount of leads off my site, more than anyone within our company, I have more listings than I want and a good amount of buyers consistantly. I've never been one to ask clients specifically how they reached me because I grew up in the area and know a lot of people, maybe that is a mistake and I should be asking?? Any thoughts? 

Hello everyone!  I've been trying to send this and for some reason its not going thru, but let me try one more time, I'm new to blogging!!  We've just opened up a new branch, quite a distance from our other offices and are considering sending postcards to local neighborhoods.  I've heard so much negative talk regarding mass mailers, just wanted to get some feedback, is this working for anyone to capture new territories?  Thanks for any advice!!