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How To Get A Home Buyer Rebate Or Flat Fee MLS Listing

The internet has made it easier to buy or sell your home as you can get a flat fee MLS listing by going online and sell your home using this valuable tool.  They have also made it more attractive for buyers as they can allow buyers to get  home buyer rebates from agents using this system.  If you are a seller or a buyer of property, you have many options from which to choose.  You do not have to just take the conventional route of using a traditional real estate broker. 

The internet has made it easier to buy or sell your home as you can get a flat fee MLS listing by going online and sell your home using this valuable tool.  They have also made it more attractive for buyers as they can allow buyers to get  home buyer rebates from agents using this system.  If you are a seller or a buyer of property, you have many options from which to choose.  You do not have to just take the conventional route of using a traditional real estate broker.The internet has made it easier to buy or sell your home as you can get a flat fee MLS listing by going online and sell your home using this valuable tool.  They have also made it more attractive for buyers as they can allow buyers to get  home buyer rebates from agents using this system.  If you are a seller or a buyer of property, you have many options from which to choose.  You do not have to just take the conventional route of using a traditional real estate broker.

Is A Boat Rental Club Right For You

Owning a boat is a dream for many Americans, but one that can turn into a nightmare of unforeseen costs. Many novice boaters don’t realize all the costs associated with purchasing a boat and wind up with an expensive driveway ornament aside their car instead because they can’t afford gas, insurance or the other myriad things boat owners must pay for.

In recent years, enterprising business people have begun offering a solution for the high price of boat ownership: Boat rental clubs. These clubs rent out their fleet of boats to members on a daily, weekend or even monthly basis at a discounted cost. For example, one marina in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida charges non-members $329 to rent a 21-foot bow rider, but a member of the club would pay just $136, not including gasoline.

Typically, boat rental club members must pay yearly dues in order to receive the discounted prices. However, once most boaters add up the costs of insurance, gasoline, storage, docking and maintenance, not to mention the actual purchase of the boat itself, they find that joining a rental club saves them money. Boat rental clubs may also offer their members other benefits such as discounts on equipment rentals like skis or scuba gear, discounts at local restaurants and a special price on gasoline and oil.

Membership plans vary from club to club. Some offer annual memberships with a high initial cost and lower costs for renewals. Some offer a flat annual fee with no further rental costs. Some offer seasonal memberships. Be sure you understand all the terms of the membership agreement and don’t allow yourself to be pressured into more of a membership than you feel you need. For example, if you’re new to boating and unsure how much you will actually use your membership, a multi-year contract is probably not the best choice for you.

Finally, if you are an avid boater and plan on taking your boat out for several days every week, or for a series of long trips, a boat rental club may not offer you the same savings as it would a more casual boater. To see if a rental club would save you money, total up all the costs associated with your boat and divide that by the number of days you plan to use it in a year. Then add up all the costs associated with a boat rental club membership and divide by the number of days you will use your membership. Whichever number is lower will be the most cost-effective option for you.

How to Skyrocket Your Sales This Year

Completely grasp the power of the Best Buyer Concept and you will double your sales within the next twelve months. The concept is easy to understand, yet powerful: There’s always a smaller  number of ideal buyers, compared to all the possible buyers, so ideal buyers are cheaper to market to and yet bring greater rewards.

A magazine used this strategy to double sales in 15 months flat. Here’s what they did:

They took a database of 2200 advertisers and sent promo-pieces to them each month. After learning this
strategy, they did an analysis and found that 167 of those 2200 advertisers bought 95% of the advertising in their competitor’s magazine.

This concept is called «The Dream 100 Sell,» a concept where you go after your «Dream» prospects with a vengeance. This magazine sent the 167 (best buyers) a letter every two weeks and called them four times per month.

Since these were the biggest buyers, the first four months of  intensive marketing and selling brought no actual reward. In the fifth month, only ONE of these Dream clients bought advertising in the magazine.

In the sixth month, 28 of the 167 largest advertisers in the country came into the magazine all at once.
And since these are the biggest advertisers, they don’t take quarter pages and fractional ads, they take full pages and full color spreads. These 28 advertisers alone, were enough to double the sales over the previous year. The magazine went from number 15 in the industry to number one in just over a year.

Lesson learned: Market to your best buyers

Now you’re probably thinking to yourself, who are my best buyers?  If you sell to the business-to-consumer market, chances are, your best buyers live in the best neighborhoods.If you are a dentist, accountant, chiropractor, R.E. Broker, financial advisor, restaurant, or even a MLM professional you should consistently go after the folks who live in the best neighborhoods.

They are the wealthiest buyers who have the money and the greatest sphere of influence. If you send them an offer every single month without fail, within a year, you’ll have a great reputation among the very wealthy.

If you sell to the business-to-business market, it’s usually fairly clear that your best buyers are the biggest companies. So what are you doing, every other week, no matter what, to let these companies know who you are?

There’s no one you can’t get to as long as you constantly market to them, especially after they say they’re not interested. People will not only begin to respect your perseverance, they will actually begin to feel obligated.

This doesn’t happen right away, but even the most hard-bitten and cynical executive or prospect begins to respect you when you refuse to give up. The publication I mentioned earlier went on to double sales two more years in a row. They  consistently marketed to the best buyers and much more aggressively than they did to the rest of the buyers.

A company selling to manufacturer’s used this strategy to target the 100 biggest manufacturers in the country. For the first three months no one responded to any of the calling or phoning.

But after three months executives started saying: «I just have to meet you. I’ve never had anyone continue to call me so many times after I said no.» Within 6 months they had gotten in to
see 54% of those they targeted.
The secret is to NEVER give up.

Just keep going after those companies again and again. Or if you sell to consumers, commit to sending a promotional piece every single month to those wealthy neighborhoods. Eventually, all the wealthy people in your area will know exactly who you are.

Now the question is: Who are your DREAM prospects and how committed are you to getting them as clients?

How to make the Switch to Booth Rental or Salon Rent a Chair?

Just because a competitor across the street has shifted their salon to rent a chair or booth rental business model, does not mean that you should follow suit. You may be under pressure if they try to poach your staff or you lose a stylist or two however, sometimes-forced change is good and in this case you might be forced to take a long hard look at your business model to decide if its for you? If you have good quality staff and you’re happy with running the traditional model you need not worry. Nevertheless, it’s always better to keep your ear to the ground and be ready for any changes that your competitor might make at your expense right?

One of the basic issues in managing the switch to rent a chair is dealing with the present and future employment status of your employees. Ideally you should try and convince some of the more ambitious staff to be entrepreneurial and take a leap of faith, as your existing staff already knows the systems and procedures and are acquainted with the work and salon culture. This makes for a significantly smoother transition for all parties but not always possible. Moreover if your existing staff make the switch, it will be a testament to you and the team further sending a message to other stylist in your area that you must have something going on if your own team are keen to make the switch.

Depending on your Government’s Labor Laws, you may or may not be able to ask your staff to resign from his or her existing position in order to take on the new venture. There should be no termination from your side unilaterally or else you may spend considerable time in court dealing with unfair dismissal claims. It really has to be the employees idea and their free will to resign because they favor the new contract and concept, and are happy to, in writing, terminate their existing employment contract to become self employed. At this time, you will also be required to pay all holiday pays, superannuation, etc as if the employee were leaving your salon.

If you have any apprentices and you decide to change to rent a chair or booth rental, it goes without saying in most states and countries, you cannot terminate the apprentice. Be sure to do your dewdiligence with you local governing body. In this case you have to let them continue their training and employment with you till they organically move on, and till that time, your salon will have to run with a mixed structure.

If you’re planning to shift to the rent a chair model, systems and procedures need to be clearly defined for its success. The very first thing you need to determine is the booth rental contract including such topics as, percentage rent or flat fee, professional products and payment and supply, inventory and stock control, billing clients, will the stylist make there own appointments, marketing, etc…

Some of your qualified employees may not be ambitious enough to make the switch to a booth renter. Being an entrepreneur is not for everyone so do not terminate them or else again, you could be spending considerable time in court defending your actions.

Good luck.