Wednesday, May 13, 2009

2008 Realty Executives International Top Awards

Rich Rector, President and CEO of Realty Executives International recently announced the winners of the 2008 Top Awards. Click here to launch a video announcement about those top notch Executives, Broker/Owners and Regional Developers who defied the market and continued their climb to the top.


In Addition, from our MidSouth Region, Sherry Dinges, Dell Palmer and Mark Graham also placed in the Top 100. Sherry Dinges, Broker/Owner of Realty Executives Dinges Real Estate in Huntsville, Alabama, placed #49 by Commission Dollars and #87 for Units Sold. Dell Palmer, Broker/Owner of Realty Executives, The Dell Group in Madison, MS placed #42 by Commission Dollars. Mark Graham, from Realty Executives, The Executive Team in Hattiesburg, Mississippi placed #91 in Units Sold. Congratulations Sherry, Dell and Mark!

Realty Executives International Launches First-of-its-Kind National Online Lead Generation Program to Drive Home Buyers to Local Brokerages

Backed by Industry’s Top Lead Management Technology, Unique Program is Designed to Drive Leads Directly to Individual Offices Rather Than Company’s National Site

PHOENIX, Ariz. – April 27, 2009 – Realty Executives International (http://www.RealtyExecutives.com) today announced an innovative online lead generation program, pay-per-click advertising strategy and bold new technology initiative.

Unlike other international real estate franchisors whose advertising campaigns solely drive consumers to their own corporate sites, Realty Executives is taking a 180-degree turn from that approach as it launches a comprehensive local lead generation strategy to drive buyers directly to local brokers’ websites.

To support this initiative, Realty Executives is providing its franchisees with co-marketing funds to help them promote their own company and generate leads online. In addition, Realty Executives is also offering its franchisees advanced lead generation and lead management technology to help cultivate consumer relationships and convert those leads into closed sales.

As part of this initiative, the company announced that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Market Leader (http://www.MarketLeader.com)—an innovator in online marketing technology and services for real estate professionals—to offer the company’s RealtyGenerator technology platform to Realty Executives’ network of offices. RealtyGenerator is a proven lead generation and lead management system that helps real estate brokers grow and manage their business. RealtyGenerator’s powerful lead generation and client management system has been continually enhanced over the past five years and now powers more than 200 leading brokerage companies throughout the nation.

“Our number one goal is to help our brokers and sales associates generate more business, and there’s no better place to do that than online where the overwhelming majority of buyers are now looking first for properties and sales associates,” Realty Executives International President Rich Rector said. “The Internet is transforming our business, and with this new program, we are helping Realty Executives brokerage companies grow their market share and build a new profit center for their business and their sales associates.”

With Realty Generator, we’re no longer experiencing the “slow market” that everyone else is talking about,” said James Watson, a Realty Executives broker in Missouri. “Instead, we’ve increased market share and increased sales by 200%. Our sales associates love it – and some say it delivers more leads than they can handle.”

Rector said some Realty Executives offices are already using RealtyGenerator as part of a recent pilot phase to the program, and these companies are benefiting from the leads the program has generated and the tools that have been provided to help convert those leads into clients.

RealtyGenerator's powerful lead generation and client management system has been continually enhanced over the past five years and currently powers more than 200 innovative brokerage companies throughout the nation.