I was so humble, I was shaking in my boots!
Not that anybody else is doing better, the market just dropped dead. My last two deals went south and tomorrow, probably that escrow too. Survived on my savings and now that is all gone. So, what to do?
I love taking pictures and not that I am any good at it but still, love it. For my real estate website, I've done about 70 slideshows of homes for sale. I figured, maybe I can do the same for offline businesses and put it on Youtube.
Those slides are "kind of" amaturish (help, do not know how to do a spellcheck in this forum), but my clients loved them. Even potential buyers would spend hours on my website, raving about all the information I had available for them.
Well, raving or not, they are not buying. So, what did I do? Not being on a fan of cold calling and dropping in on business owners, I figured, nobody is going to kill me if I just stop by and give my speil. So, today, I did.
Stopped by this tearoom with lots of old-fashioned little goodies that mostly would appeal to women. Had a chat with her and belive it or not, she has never even heard about Youtube!
Told me that her business is faltering and about to "celebrate" 10 years in business, fighting to survive. I felt so bad for her and gave her my business card. She said she'll call me tomorrow after checking out Youtube.
What I have decided to do, as a learning experience, is to do 5-10 slideshows for free, just to learn and get samples. I told her it was totally FREE of charge and that I would give her additonal information how to help herself.
She has NO money for advertising but I figured, once I gave her all the tools to do it herself, she would probably gladly recommend me to other business owners.
On my way back to put some fresh flyers on one of my listings, I decided to pull of the freeway and go and see this other business owner. He's got his property for sale and since I am a Realtor, told him I was NOT there to solicit his business.
Told him straight to his face that I am a struggling Realtor, explained that I was looking to make a few slideshows for some businesses and he did not have to pay me a dime.
He replied that if my venture ended up bringing him any revenue, he'd be happy to share! Took all my photos, working on them right now.
Feeling a little bit stronger in my backbone (lol), decided to stop by this home builder on my way home. The homes are selling for $500,000-$600,000 thousands!
Was a little over-whelmed but did tour the models. Here is my question in regards to the builder:
1. Should I just Youtube him?
2. Would it be better to burn a bunch of CD's with pictures of the homes that he could give to the potential buyers and if so, what should I charge?
Anyway, I feel good about myself, finally taking action and my mind is racing for what else I could do. Of course, this is just a starting point and I have not made a dime yet but as "they" say, ask and you shall receive!
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