Realty Ideas Per Day
By Bob McCranie
Realty Ideas Per DayNov 21, 2018
$10,000 for Upgrades? What would you do?
Hey everyone, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is, what would you do with $10,000 for home improvements? If you won the prize tomorrow and you had extra $10,000 in your account, what would you change about your house? Post that as a question on your social media. See how people reply. Some people will be like, "I'll change my kitchen," or, "I'll change my bathroom," or, "I'll paint the house," or whatever. The question then becomes, is it better for you to do those repairs or should you and I go out and find you a house that has the fabulous kitchen, or has the fabulous backyard, or has whatever it is you're looking for? Hey, let's plant the idea that people need to move and buy a home. Asking them what they would do with $10,000 is a seed for the idea that what they have may not be what they want, and we can go find that. Bob McCranie. Texas Pride Realty. Always be looking for the angle to see how you can help your clients buy or sell a new home. Take care and have a great day.
Starbucks Open House
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the Starbucks open house. So, let's say that you don't have a listing right now that you wanna hold open or can't hold open and you need to be able to get clients. Go to a Starbucks or a local diner or anywhere you like to go hang out for a couple hours. Have breakfast, have a cup of coffee, and put a sign on your table that says, "I'm a realtor, ask me a question." Now, be sure this is a place that has good flow of traffic on a weekday or weekend because you don't wanna sit there at a place that you're the only person. But sit there, put a sign on your desk, have it on the back of your computer. One of my agents wears a hat all the time says, "I'm a realtor, ask me questions." Put that up there. Hold an open house no matter where you're at and see people will come up and ask you stuff. People will come up and start a conversation if you invite them. So, put the sign up, put it on the back of your screen, put it on the back of your hat, whatever. "I'm a realtor, ask me questions." Go do a Starbucks... There is no excuse for not having an open house almost every weekend. I do Facebook open houses. I sit in front of my computer for an hour and just talk into the computer and whoever dials into the Facebook Live, gets to talk to me. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Taxes & Shredding
Hey, everyone, it's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea is taxes and shredding. So it's tax season, you know, obviously it's not due until April, but a lot of people do them early. Don't know why. Anyway, so talk about the fact that record retention is something they have to do. I think it's four years worth of records you have to maintain, but that 5th, 6th, 7th, 20th year, it's time to shred them. So what we do in our company is we have a shredding day. We hire a shredding truck, costs us $200 an hour for the truck to come to a parking lot. And we invite people to load up their cars and bring boxes and boxes of things to shred. It's shredded and then recycled and you don't have to worry about identity theft. So talk about the taxes, talk about your receipts, talk about records, and talk about you hosting a shredding day, or if you don't wanna host one, find someone who is doing one, maybe a local bank or a mortgage company you tie in with. Host a shredding day, protect their identity, help them shred their documents. Take care. Bye-bye.
Pet Photo Contest
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is a pet photo contest. So, let's say you go out on your Instagram or your Facebook and you come up with a hashtag like, "#bobspetcontest." And you ask people to post the best pet pictures they have of their pets. Whoever wins gets a Starbucks card, gets whatever, and you get connection to them. This doesn't sound like it's a real estate post. It's totally a real estate post. So, when you do this, go out to their post, comment on it, create that connection, and then name the winners. Whoever wins gets a prize. You take it over, you do a pop-by, you have a reason to go talk to them and ask for the business. But by doing this, you also increase your social media connectivity because when you have conversations, Facebook and all the others go, "Oh, they like to talk to each other." And then when you have a listing or open house or something like that, they say, "These people talked before, let's show them that again." Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, pet photo contest, it'll be fun. Bye-bye.
Ask for the Business
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is ask for the business. How many times do you see salespeople out there and they're promoting themselves and they're doing things but they never come around to, "I'm ready, are you ready to buy and sell? I'd like to be your agent." Ask for the business. Go out on your social media and say, "Hey, I'm Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty, insert your name here, and I would like to list your home," or, "I would like to help you buy or sell a home." "Do you know just one person looking to buy or sell a home, please refer them to me." Ask for the business. We make so many other conversations starters, we do so many things, but do we ask people and say, "Hey, I want to be your person." So ask for the business and see what comes back. It doesn't hurt to ask. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Go ask for the business. Bye-bye.
Best Apps for Real Estate
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is "Best real estate apps." So, we all have our favorites and I'm not gonna go into them here, but we all know which app we like better. Maybe it's your personal app, maybe it's realtors, Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, whoever it is. Tell your sphere what to use, promote the app that you like to have used when you're showing people homes, and also talk why you think that one is better. So, we all have our...I'm not gonna go there. I'm so not gonna go there. But promote the one that you want out there. And if it's your company's app, great. If it's your personal app, great. Share it, get it out there. I really don't like it when somebody shows up and they're looking at houses and they're using an app that I'm like, "Yeah. Don't use that one."
So, anyway, tell people, educate them, show them what you want, share it on your social media, get them used to taking advice from you. All these tips, some of them may not apply day per day. Like I don't care about pools, or I don't care about this, but over time people will learn that you are the person to come to for real estate questions. Take care. Bob McCranie. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye
Winter Pool & Pond Maintenance
Hey, everyone, Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is winter pool and pond maintenance. Yes, it's winter. Nobody should be getting in the pool, maybe the hot tub, but not the pool. But what do you have to do to maintain your pool and your pond in the winter? So I know if you have a pond, you have to keep the fish warm. There are pond warmers you can put in. I know with a pool, like you have to keep the leaves out of it, the pump is still running hopefully, don't leave the pump dry, don't leave the pump not running. And you want to have the water at the right level and you want to clean the pool and get all the leaves out from the fall. But in your area, what are the pool and pond maintenance ideas that people need to know? Now, above ground pools, I don't know because I never had one. But I have an inground pool, I know what to do with that. And I've had friends who have ponds, so I know to do that. But talk about that because people in your area may have an inground pool or above ground pool, they don't know what to do with it. So pool and pond maintenance during the winter. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day tomorrow.
Land vs Improvement
Hey everyone, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the value of land versus the value of the improvement on the land which is the house. Bad drawing. Anyway. So in parts of the country the land is worth more than the improvement that's upon the land. In the Texas area the improvement on the land is worth more than the...I'm sorry, the improvement is worth more than the land. So when you're moving from California or the East Coast and you're used to paying extraordinary prices there for a three bedroom, two bath 1950s pier and beam house, well that house is really not the value. The land underneath it is the value. And because you have such a narrow strip to live on, that land is really worth something. In Texas and in some of the middle states we have land galore. So our land value is nominal but the improvement on the land is worth more. So talk about your area. If values are going up and down talk about why. And there's two components: land and improvement. Take care. Bob McCranie. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
College Bound
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is find the people in your neighborhood who have kids who are college bound. Find the kids in your neighborhood who are taking their SATs or ACTs or do they still not even take those? I don't even know because it's been so long. It's been a long time. But, find the parents with kids going off to college because you know what, they'll need to downsize soon. Find those kids now. It's January, they're gonna be taking their tests through the spring and then applying to colleges. And maybe you talk to people about applying to schools. Find the kids that are about to go to college. Their parents will want to downsize in September, build the relationships now. This is a great social media post, "Hey, are your kids about to take the ACT or SAT?" Just, you know, come up with questions and meet people in your sphere and then find out if those people need to downsize at the end of September, October when those kids finally go to school. Take care. Bob McCranie. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Snow Removal Tips
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is snow removal tips. So we don't get a lot of snow here in Texas, but when we do, we don't know what to do with it. We don't have the plows, we don't... We're not built for this. But back East, they're built for four feet of snow all the time and they still go to school, but how do you remove snow from in front of your house? How do you remove ice? Is it by hiring a company? Do you get the shovel out and send the kids? What do you do or do you do what Dallas does and just wait for the next day, it'll melt?
So snow removal tips. How can you do it without straining your back or hurting yourself? Who can you hire to come do it? I remember when I lived in DC, we always had to re-shovel our driveways because as soon as the plow came by, it put the snow right back in front of the driveway again. So, anyway, snow removal tips, it might be a good time to talk about it in your community and if you don't have snow, talk about something else. Just keep getting out there on social media. Take care. Bob McCranie, Realty Ideas Per Day. There'll be another realty idea posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Best Schools
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is best schools. Please ignore the horrible apple I tried to draw on this, it's not worth your time. Anyway, the best schools in your area. People are moving into town and they want to know where is the best place to put our kids in school? And best can be multiple things. Best could be with the highest graduation rate. It could be with the best teachers. It could be a special needs program that people don't even know is there. There are lots of kids that need different things. Reading skills, Math skills, special needs sort of skills. Find out what your school systems have and then highlight them. Go interview principles, go interview teachers, go interview school board members, they would love to be on your little videos and out to the community. Talk about schools, what's the best. And again, best could be different for each person. So anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. They'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Best Value Neighborhoods
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is, "Best value neighborhoods." So, what defines best value? You do. So, best value could be where you're going to get the lowest price house. Best value could be where you're going to get the most appreciation. Maybe the best value is the largest house for the smallest amount of money. Maybe the best value is a new home, construction home that is in an area that's so far out that it's really inexpensive.
Think about what defines best value and then make some videos and picture posts about what is best value. And maybe this is a good poll to put out to your sphere of influence. "What do you consider to be the best value in a home? Is it lowest price? Is it the design you want? Is it the area? What defines best value for you?" And then follow up with each of the people who post on there about what you could do for them to show them the best value homes.
Anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there will be another post tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Garage Doors
Hey, this is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And it's time to talk about garage doors. Have you ever backed into one? Have you ever accidentally forgotten to raise it, or had the lock thrown on it when the garage door was trying to open it, or whatever, or had the springs break? Let's talk about how garage doors function. Let's talk about companies in your area that repair garage doors. Let's talk about how garage doors affect a home in a storm. If the wind can push through that garage door, get into the house, it can hurt the home. So let's talk about insulating garage doors. Let's talk about garage doors in a way no one has thought about to talk about in their house.
So come up with a few ideas. Maybe go to a garage door company and interview the manager and say, "Hey, what should I know about a garage door in a home?" It's a part of the house nobody thinks about it. It would be such an interesting post and do a little video on this and talk about, you know, "Do you have the one-piece garage door that raises together, or is it, you know, the four slats, or do you have one that opens up?" Oh, that'd be a... I mean, I would love to watch this post. Tag me in it. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day tomorrow. I want to see garage doors.
Heaters & Furnaces
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is heating and furnaces. So, we are in the dead of winter right now in Texas. And January and February are our coldest months and we're already using our heaters and our furnaces like crazy but not nearly as much as our friends up in the north. So, what is it that people who are moving to your area need to know about heaters and furnaces in your area? Up here...down here we have mostly gas and electric. I know on the East Coast there is a lot of oil. So, people have to have oil in their tank to run their heating furnaces through the winter. What is it about your area that people should know about? Everyone knows they're gonna get four bedrooms and three baths, they don't know how they're going to live there. So, talk about heaters and furnaces in your area, how people winterize and take care of things. Talk about what it's like to own a home here. I know that I have to have my heater checked every...I have the air conditioner checked in spring and heater in the fall just to be sure there's no problems with the gas line and that the filters are changed and everything is fabulous. Anyway, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Is this the year?
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is to ask the question, "Is this the year you buy yourself a house?" Ask your sphere, is this the year that they want to buy or sell a home, "And if so, give me a call," insert your name, insert your company. So just asking people the idea and putting in their mind that this could be the year that they go ahead and make that purchase. This could be the year where the market's shifting and houses not flying off the market in hot neighborhoods and hot areas. Maybe buyers are ready.
So let's go out there now... Or maybe sellers are ready. Because hey, they miss this market, they can still catch up on the new one. So let's go ask people, "Is this the year you buy or sell? Is this the year... Maybe your kids have all graduated. Or, you know, you had a baby, it's time to get a bigger house. Is this the year you buy or sell a home?" Ask your sphere, see who answers, comment back. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. It doesn't hurt to ask. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Winter Back To School
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is to talk about, sorry, kids, it's time to go back to school. So, school is gonna be starting back up from winter break, people are gonna be forgetful, they're gonna drive out early in the morning and not realize there are kids out there. Let's do the same warning we did in September when school started, let's remind people that there are kids now out at school buses stops and walking to school in the winter on maybe on ice and snow. Take extra time in the mornings, drive carefully. You also might wanna talk about winter snow closings. If you are in an area where there is possible snow closings, talking about where people should tune in, how to find out which schools are open or on delay. I bet a lot of parents already know this, but you might be a beacon of knowledge to those who don't. So, anyway, talk about school, talk about kids going back to school. This is also another time to talk about maybe there are kids in your neighborhood who don't have enough, they don't have school supplies for the next semester, things of that nature. Talk about going back to school mid-year. Talk to you later. Bye-bye.
Storage Ideas
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea of the day is storage ideas. So we all just took down our holiday decorations, we're trying to put them in our shed, or in our attic, or in a closet somewhere. What do you know about storage? What do you know about asking people maybe, "Hey, do you need a home with more storage? Let's go buy you that." "Hey, here's a storage company down the road that has these little cubes and they're running a promotion this month." Maybe you tie in with somebody like that. Maybe you go to the container store and find the cool little close-lid sort of plasticy things that people put all their stuff in. Come up with some way for you to talk about storage and why storage is so important in a home and how you can facilitate them having more storage. "Hey, maybe it's time to clean out your garage and get a system in the garage for putting things away." Maybe it's time to get a shed in the back of the house. Come up with something, talk about storage. People need it right now. Take care. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
House Ideas
Hey, everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is to ask your sphere what are the projects they wanna do around their home in 2019. So, the beginning of the year is a good time to be thinking about, "Hey, new start, fresh ideas, what can we do? Do we need to do exterior paint? Do we need to do interior? Do we need to do floors? Do we need to remodel that bathroom? What do we need to change in our kitchen?" Ask your sphere what they would change in their house and maybe ask them to take a picture of what it is right now. Oh my gosh, the backyard is just horrible. Let's take a picture of it, show it online. And I don't know, maybe make it a little contest. Who has the worst problem that needs to be fixed? Whoever wins gets a $50 Home Depot card. Whatever you wanna do. That actually may be a really good idea. I'm gonna steal that. Anyway, so, what is it you wanna do around your house, take a picture of it. Will the the best idea or the worst idea get some $25 gift card or whatever? Here's the thing, everybody wins. And when you get those comments, comment below. Make the connection. Talk to you later. Bob McCranie. There'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Testing the algorithm
Everyone is Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty idea of the day is one that I did a couple of days ago and it seems to be really paying off in a lot of directions. So what I did was I made a post that says "I'm testing the Facebook algorithm comment if you can see this post". It's gone crazy. So in Facebook world you have your to 3,000 people that you're friends with but Facebook only shows you probably about 30 or 40 of them that you enter interact with on a frequent basis. This post lets you churn that list of other people up so they start logging in and seeing your posts. When they comment, you reply back to them so you don't want to just LIKE what they say, you want to REPLY to what they saying. That creates that connection that we've talked about before this way when you post about your open house you new listing they will see that post as well. So go out there today test the algorithm and let me know how that works for you talk to you later they'll be another Realty ideas today posted tomorrow bye bye
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Hey everyone. It's Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your Realty Idea of the Day is Get Your Newsletter Out. If I time this right, this is the first of the month and we need to get your newsletter out to people. I am very much about diversity, and I like to celebrate all holidays. So in my newsletter, I'm gonna put in there different days of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, obviously some of the other events around Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, things like that. So I'm also gonna go back a few posts ago and I'm gonna include the safe ways to get home on Uber and Lyft if you're going to a party, so that you don't have to worry about people getting too drunk along the way. So go out there and celebrate all the holidays. Get your newsletter out to your sphere. Put the newsletter, if you can, make a pdf of it and put it on your website and then share that on social media. So Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. Get your newsletter out, celebrate everyone because, you know what? They all buy houses and we need that money, so let's sell those houses. Take care. Bye-bye.
Holiday Cards
Goals - Share them!
So go over them and say, "You know what? January, I had this that I really wanted to accomplish. Here's what I got, here's what I did, here's the amazing thing that happened. You were a part of that for me. I so appreciate you. Here's my goals, maybe, for 2019." Go ahead and preview those. So make people part of your accountability. Make them part of your success. Tell them how grateful you are for them.
This is a great video idea, by the way. This is a great Facebook Live video that can then live on Facebook forever. I've seen a couple of really heartfelt Facebook Lives recently. Go out there and do this. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. Another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Buh-bye.
Giving Trees
Table Suggestions
So, let's talk about place settings. Let's talk about glassware, let's talk about silverware, what order do they go in. Let's talk about decor that you can put on the table inexpensively. Let's talk about how many people are gonna be there. By the way, the best place to get a tablecloth that runs the whole length of a 40-person table, go buy a bolt of fabric at the store. Go buy a bolt of felt, basically, and just put it on the table. It looks amazing. Trust me, I've done this.
So you can talk about all the different decor ideas. And you can ask people for their suggestions and pictures of their tables from previous years. So this would be a great post to get people interacting.
So, Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, they'll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Christmas Stamps
Holiday Travel Tips
Food Drive
And your realty idea of the day is one I think we kinda touched on a few days ago, but let's get really into it, food drives. Food drives and food pantries in your area.
So I know at my local grocery store if I go shopping there, they have these pre-made bags of groceries 10 bucks added to your bill. And those bags go straight to the Homeless Shelter and the food pantry. You can have a food box in your office and you can do a pop-by for everybody and say, "Hey, does anybody have any food? Do you want to donate? I'll come by your house." Shake hands, see how they're doing, talk about how great their...pretty house is, grab those bags and take them to your office. Have a competition between you and the other brokerages in town to see who collects the most food. Let's do things at the holidays that frankly we should be doing the rest of the year. And talk about food, drives and the hunger and the need for sustainable food sources in your community for those who are less fortunate.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There will be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Spotlight Businesses
And your realty idea of the day is spotlighting local businesses.
So this is something we should be doing more and more. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about how we should be the "Electronic mayor of our town." So you wanna go out and do some video. You wanna take some still pictures. You wanna upload these to Google Maps, by the way, Maps is a platform, get on it. You want to be doing 360 pictures if you can. Go out and interview a local business owner and then put them on your blog. Introduce them to your sphere of influence. Let them know about this great store, this great restaurant. They will love you for it.
So, Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. Your realty idea is go out and find a business you love and it'll make everybody else love it too. Be the "Electronic mayor of your town" so that when people move there, they know where to go and what to do. Where is the best Mexican food? Where is the best place to get your cleaning done? Where's the best place to get your car washed? Figure it out and tell people how they're going to live when they move to your town. Bye-bye.
Veterans Day
So, 11/11 is the armistice of World War I. It was officially declared Veterans Day, and we need to show how thankful we are for veterans. So go out on your social media, each one of them, and post something about Veterans Day, the five branches of service, be sure to include coast guard, they're a branch. And, you know...sorry, grandson of a coastguard's man.
So you want to get out there and talk about Veterans Day, and how thankful you are. Keep your patriotic without going overboard, and just have an acknowledgement of how thankful we are for the service that they give.
So, Bob McCraine, realty ideas per day. And again, don't brand this too much, just keep it about the veterans. So go out there put this on your social media. And I will send you another reality idea of the day tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Dining Room
Your realty idea of the day is dining room choices.
So we're coming to the time of the year the probably one or two times of the year where you will use your dining room. If you're having people over to eat you will have a need for, you know, 4 to 6 to 20 people to sit around your dining room table.
So let's talk about dining room choices now we're a little early in the month. Let's talk about plating and maybe we talk about how tables should be set, maybe something elegant we can put on the table. Or we can talk about dining room furniture, the size of dining rooms. Maybe this is a good question for you to put out there, do you have a dining room where 10 people can sit down? Let's go find you that house.
So I know... I serve Thanksgiving for 35 or 40 people. Honest to God I do. But we do it in the backyard because we have room for the tables, there's no way I'm getting that in the house. If it rains, God help us, we'll just find a place to eat. But find out what people need for dining in the holiday season. Let's go sell them that home. Let's talk to them about why a larger dining room might be fitting for their friends and family at the holiday season. Bob McCranie, realty ideas per day. There will be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye, bye.
Market Trends
Protecting Pets
So if you have pets in the winter, you need to have suggestions for how to take care of them, how to keep them warm. If there's a pet rescue nearby, do they need some blankets? Do they need some little warmers? I'm sorry, room heaters, things like that. Talk to people that have pets, let's find out if there's a need in the community, if there is pets that we know are always outside that we can help take care of some way. Find out what to do for pets in your community and then go out and talk about it. Everybody loves dogs and cats. So let's do that. Bob McCraine, realty ideas per day. There will be another realty idea of the day posted in your box tomorrow.
Election Day
Winterizing
Days of Gratefulness
Thanksgiving Recipes
So what we want to do right now is we want to go out on social media and we want to ask the question, "What's your favorite Thanksgiving dish? What's maybe a family recipe that you've had? What's some food that you'd love to have for Thanksgiving?" Let's have a photo contest, let's have a recipe contest. Let's find some way to...maybe if we get really good recipes, we can have a little cookoff. We can have a little challenge, have people vote for which one you want.
Ask questions on social media. This is a great question. It's a photo question. People can put that on your Instagram or your Pinterest or your Facebook. It's a recipe question. People are gonna make their little videos, or just list what's in the ingredients.
So foods at Thanksgiving, what's important in your family, what do you want to see on the table, give us a recipe for it. Bob McCranie, Realty Ideas per Day, there'll be another Realty Idea of the Day in your mailbox tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Halloween Contest Winners
So what we wanna do is we wanna post the best pictures we got, put them into an email, send them out, and recognize maybe the best kid's outfit, the best adult's outfit, the most scary, the funniest, dog/cat outfits, pet outfits, whatever. Come up with categories so there's a lot of winners. And then, what you do is you let everybody know that, "Hey, there were so many good entries this year. Everyone's gonna win a Starbucks card. Everybody who entered is gonna get something." And then you go do pop bys with all those. And you go see people and say, "Hey, that was a great costume. Here's something from me at Banana Realty, think of me anytime somebody's about to buy or sell a home." And that's a great way to include people, make them feel like a winner and get those great pictures in and then everybody gets a little reward for thinking of you.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there'll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Battery Change
So I'm huge about fire safety. If you watch me, I talk about fire safety at least two, three times a month if I can. Changing the batteries is important. Now, some smoke detectors are coming with lifelong batteries, that's great. But there's still a lot of smoke detectors out there that require the square 9-Volt batteries. I would go buy 20 or 30 9-Volt batteries and do a pop by and say, "Here's two batteries, go change your smoke detectors. Do you need three, do you need just one? Do you need somebody to come in and, you know, if you can't get on a ladder, do you want me to get up there and change it for you?"
Fire safety is incredibly important and we need to have working smoke detectors throughout the home. So talk about that. People will get the time change. They'll understand that. They won't remember to go change their batteries. Help them with that. Get some batteries. Take them around, hand them out to people. And then post about that on your Instagram, on your Facebook, on your Twitter. You can even do that on LinkedIn. And just talk about, "Hey, I'm out with Steve today and we're changing batteries for people. If you need some, let me know."
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there'll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Your History of Halloween
So, you know, we don't want to get into anything too controversial about the roots of Halloween and where it came from historically, but maybe you can go into what Halloween meant to you as a kid. Maybe you can talk about some of your costumes growing up that either you made or your folks helped you make.
I remember when I was growing up, we had these big plastic masks that held on with elastic and the kind of nylon suits when I was like 5 or 7 years old. And then my mom made some costumes which are really cool. But the store-bought things were just kind of clunky and awful. Maybe you can have some pictures, if you have them, of you as a kid in Halloween costumes.
Talk about the history of Halloween as it meant to you. What was your favorite candy to get in the bag? What was something that your folks warned you about? "Watch out for the guy down the street with the knife." Or no, no. Did you go out to haunted houses as kids? What was it about Halloween as a kid in your history that made that important to you? Go on your social media, do a video about it, post some pictures, get as many comments as you can and then comment back.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty, there'll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Trick - or - Treat Driving
Best Chili
Now, this is one that you can ask people to contribute pictures or text recipes, however, they want to do it. I love watching the little video recipes. I don't cook, I watch how they make stuff, anyway. So the best chili recipe, which one is the best for you, which one is your sphere...maybe you have a chili cook-off, maybe this will lead to an event where you can have your clients come in and test all the different chilies and offer a prize and be in the middle of it all.
So best chili recipes. Now I know regions have different styles of chili. I know Texas supposedly, you don't put beans in Texas chili. I like beans in chili, so I must not be from Texas. And then you have things like Cincinnati chili, which is served over spaghetti and it's sweet and it's actually really good. So every region has a different idea of what chili is, just like they have a different idea of barbecue. So let's talk about that and get the best recipes and post them on our social media.
Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There'll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.
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Candy Corn
Spooky Vs Fun
So the question I have for you today and you can ask your sphere of influences, do you do scary Halloween spooky? Or do you do fun Halloween? I like to do fun Halloween, I don't like to be scared. So I don't get all the scary movies that come out during the season and I don't get into the vampires and werewolves, but I love the fun of Halloween. So this is something you can ask your sphere and you can post this as a poll on Facebook because Facebook loves polls now. If you're not doing polls, you need to be doing polls. Find a picture of a vampire, a picture of something fun, and just ask people which version of Halloween they prefer. So this is going to be a great...you've got three great months here with three national holidays between, you know, the Christmas season, Thanksgiving season, Halloween season, harvest, whatever you want to call it, you've got ample opportunity. Get in front of people. Scary spooky or fun Halloween, which do you prefer?
There'll be another Realty Idea of the Day posted tomorrow.
Never Too Late To Sell
So, I don't think it's ever too late to try to sell your house. But your market may have a different philosophy. What do you feel? So go out there on social media today and talk about, "Hey. Yeah, the several months are gone. But we still have September, October...I'm sorry, October, November, December to get this done. Call me today." Anyway, go out and make this p
Shrubs & Trees
Now I know in some parts of the country, you have to wrap them in burlap and try to shelter certain plants during the cold season. Now is the time to be prepared for that, as opposed to, "Oh my God, we're having a cold snap tomorrow. We're not ready." It's also time to cover your faucets if you're in the colder areas. Get your faucet covers ready because when we have that first cold sna