Just For Fun: Movie Quiz

If you’re looking for stimulating business news, please skip this post.  If, however, you just want to take a break for 10 minutes, continue on.

The AARP Bulletin had the 50 best things ever said in the movies in their latest edition.  Ok,  I admit it:  I am a ‘Senior Citizen’ by many definitions, I belong to AARP (great discounts!), and I find their two publications refreshingly youthful and positive.  So there.  Just for fun, I thought I’d reproduce the 50 quotes — less ten I thought were pretty lame — and challenge you to name either the movie or the actor who spoke the words.  If you think you have them, you can post your answers in a comment and the prize, to be awarded to everyone who gets all of them correct will be . . . the joy of having completed the task without error!  Here goes:

  1. Play it, Sam.  Play ‘As Time Goes By.’
  2. A census taker once tried to test me.  I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chainti.
  3. You don’t understand!  I coulda had class.  I coulda been a contender.  I coulda been somebody.  Instead of a bum, which is what I am.
  4. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
  5. Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
  6. After all, tomorrow is another day!
  7. Badges?  We ain’t got no badges!  We don’t need no badges!  I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!
  8. We rob banks.
  9. It’s alive! It’s alive!
  10. You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
  11. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?  You just put your lips together and blow.
  12. I’ll have what she’s having.
  13. Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
  14. Rosebud.
  15. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
  16. All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up.
  17. I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.
  18. Fasten your seat belts.  It’s going to be a bumpy night.
  19. I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!
  20. I’m walking here!  I’m walking here!
  21. Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you’re gonna get.
  22. Oh, Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon.  We have the stars!
  23. Round up the usual suspects.
  24. I see dead people.
  25. Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?
  26. What we have here is a failure to communicate.
  27. You talking to me?
  28. Go ahead, make my day.
  29. Show me the money!
  30. There’s no place like home.
  31. You can’t handle the truth!
  32. I’ll be back.
  33. If you build it he will come.
  34. Plastics.
  35. We’ll always have Paris.
  36. Houston, we have a problem.
  37. Here’s looking at you, kid.
  38. The stuff that dreams are made of.
  39. I am big!  It’s the pictures that got small.
  40. May the force be with you.

 

Get Your Marketing Accent on the Right Syllable

We are very focused on the Internet right now.  We should be.  We have great new websites that, if managed properly, will become major lead generators.  Every Help-U-Sell broker needs to carve out the time and energy tolearn how to maximize their web presence and to continue those management functions into the future.  That’s a given.

But let’s not forget where most of our business comes from day in and day out:

Signs

Every successful Help-U-Sell broker I’ve talked with says the same thing:  A kickin’ website is essential, but most leads come one way or another, from signs.  Even website leads sometimes happen when a consumer sees the URL on the sign and responds.

It all gets down to visibility.  Are you in a location where your office signage can be seen by residents of the area you are targeting?  Do you have a sufficient number of  listings* in your target area to make your presence known? Are you supplementing your office signage with a car wrap — which is a mobile billboard for your business?  Do each of your sellers have a number of open house and directional signs and have they been coached to use them at least once a week to promote their seller-held open houses?  Have you  put blitz signs up in the marketplace?

All of the above (and more) function to remind the public that you are here and you can save them money.   Once they get that, they call . . . or visit your website . . . or walk in.  So:  please make your new website a priority.  That’s essential.  But also constantly evaluate your visibility in the marketplace, which all boils down to signs.

By the way, Robbie tells me that all of the new office websites are up now.  Many do not have IDX yet,  but you can see them and work on them, even if you were not at the Tech Summit.  The current address for your new site will be in this configuration:  officename.helpusellbeta.com (example, ‘Help-U-Sell Acme Realty’ — acmerealty.helpusellbeta.com).   The manual — which includes complete documentation for the new sites — is up on the Download Library.  If you need help with any of this, contact Robbie, James, John, Lori, or Tami at corporate.

*What is a ‘sufficient number of listings?’ That varies, but it’s certainly not 3.  Or 5.  If you’re going to be visible you’ve got to be in double digits and probably more than 20.  Our stronger offices routinely carry 40 – 100 or more.  If you are not getting enough leads, the first place to look is your listing inventory.  The second place to look is how you respond when leads come in.  It’s amazing  how many leads are trashed every day because we’re not strong on the phone or we’re quick to dismiss them as ‘not serious.’  It’s more amazing how many of these end up buying in the next 30 days.

PS:  lstill has Help-U-Sell Open House Directional signs in their clearance center. They are a bargain1

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