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Indeed, congratulations are in order for Mr. Shafran for closing ONE MILLION DOLLARS in life time commissions with HomeGain's Agent Evalator program.

 

Here is the press release documenting this achievement.

Here is the blog post.

And here is what Joseph Ferrara of Sellsius had to say ( a comparison to Zillow and Trulia)

 

Find out at midnight tomorrow night on the HomeGain Real Estate Blog who will be the latest HomeGain Member to be inducted into the HomeGain Million Dollar Club.

As Robert DeNiro says in Raging Bull "everyone is an authority"!

And there is no shortage of them these days - many of them self proclaimed 'social media experts'.

You hear them everywhere "don't pay a dime for marketing" or "Twitter your way to riches"  

All these experts make THEIR money telling you where you should not spend their money (while they collect their seminar fees from YOU) 

Here is a blog post from Heather Lawson who is doing lots of things the experts tell her not to and is doing well.

It's called "How Listening to the Wrong Experts Almost Ruined my Real Estate Career"  

BTW on Monday HomeGain will be announcing another agent who made a million dollars using HomeGain's Agent Evaluator.

How much are you making listening to the experts?

 

 

The latest episode of HomeGain's "Ask the Experts" is now available for listening on the HomeGain site.

This episode's participants included:

Barry Karch of Prudential in El Paso, Texas, who discussed how to generate online business,

Mitch Ribak of Tropical Realty of Suntree in Melbourne Florida who answered questions on how to convert leads, and

Carl Medford of Windermere Properties of Pleasanton, California who discussed the virtues of being a Virtual Realtor.

Click here to read more and to listen to the program.

 

Congratulations to our new Plantinum, Gold and Silver club members. Great to see real estate agents still closing plenty of deals in this environment and HomeGain is proud to be helping them!

Next week we will announce our second $1,000,000 agent!

Click here to see our recent Platinum, Gold and Silver members

These members earned their commissions through HomeGain's Agent Evaluator program

You can also check out our Buyerlink and AgentView marketing programs here.

   

Recently there has been a spike in existing home sales. A good part of that spike has been attributed to the activity of first time home buyers. Some HomeGain members say that the first time homebuyers are attracted to the $8000 credit under the Obama stimulus package. 

Will first time homebuyers be enough to support the housing recovery?

See "First Time Home Buyers Boost Home Sales".

 

What do you think of people who have thousands of followers on twitter? Are they connecting better than you?

Do their followers really follow them? Are the mega twitterites getting any business from their prodigious followings?

I recently posted "I agree to talk while you are talking" in an attempt to answer some of these questions.

Please take a look and provide thoughts here or on the HomeGain blog.

 

HomeGain®, the first website to provide free instant home values, today announced the state results of a nationwide survey of current and former HomeGain Realtor® members' opinions on the Obama stimulus plan.

Last week HomeGain released the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 700 current and former HomeGain members. The survey asked their opinions on home values and the impact of the Obama stimulus package. On this blog we published the national and regional results.

We also released survey data from Texas, California ,Illinois , Florida  and New York.

The HomeGain member survey received national coverage and the results were noted in USA Today, Dallas Morning News,Boston Globe, Crane's Investment News, Sellsius, Dallas Magazine, Orange County Register, RIS Media, Philadelphia Daily News, St. Petersburg Times, the Boston Real Estate Blog, Real Trends, Realtor Magazine, Inman News, Transparent Real Estate, Agent Genius and other blogs.

Today we released the state survey results on Realtors' opinions on the Obama stimulus plan.

Visit "Realtors Give Thumbs Down to Obama Stimulus Plan" for state survey data.

 

Last week HomeGain released nationwide, regional and state survey data on our members views on home prices and the Obama stimulus plan.

You can review the national and state data at the links above. Today we released data that shows that while the housing market is poor nationwide, many Realtors in certain states are not expecting futher price declines.

More than two thirds of California and New York Realtors, however, are expecting futher price declines.

To review more survey data visit "Realtors'® View of Direction of Home Values Varies Widely By State" on the HomeGain Real Estate blog.

 

 

Earlier this week HomeGain released the results of a survey of nearly 700 real estate agents. The survey asked their opinions on home prices and the impact of the Obama stimulus package.  

On our blog we published the national and regional results.

The HomeGain member survey received national coverage and the results were noted in USA Today, Dallas Morning News, the Boston Globe, Crane's Investment News, Sellsius, Dallas Magazine,  the Orange County Register , RIS Media, Philadelphia Daily News, the St. Petersburg Times, the Boston Real Estate Blog, Real Trends, Realtor Magazine, Inman News,  Transparent Real Estate, Agent Genius and other blogs. 

In the past few days, we published the Texas home values survey data the California home values survey data, the Illinois home values survey data and the Florida home values survey data.

Today we released the New York home values survey data.

Click here to view the New York Home Values survey results.