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 Are you allowing other agents to utilize the Internet and technology better than you are?  

 Helping Real Estate Agents Become
e-Competitive™
A real estate agent can put
"e-PRO®" on their business card but it takes a good Internet strategy to become e-Competitive!
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Who is Ask Bucky?
Keith Byrd (aka. AskBucky) was one of the first 100 employees at Cisco Systems where he led a product team reporting directly to John Chambers, Cisco's current CEO. From the late 80's through the early 2000's Keith traveled worldwide speaking at seminars and events educating corporations how to securely connect to the Internet. He was Vice President of Marketing for successful high-tech start-ups for seven years before retiring from Silicon Valley and moving his family to the California Central Coast in 2002.

It was his move to the Central Coast that led Keith to the real estate industry. Keith was surprised to see how little the Internet helped him in his house hunting and decided to get his license to learn the industry first-hand. Keith quickly developed his Internet strategy and implemented one of the first IDX sites in his area. Keith has also served as Board of Director for his local Realtor Association and also helped evaluate and implement a replacement MLS system for 4000+ members. Keith also started one of the first real estate Blogs in 2003.

Keith's Internet strategy has proven to be very successful. Today, Keith refers out all the leads he receives through his web sites to a team of Realtors around his area. This allows Keith the time to travel to give his Internet seminars to other Realtors (outside his area!).

In December 2007, one of the vendors Keith uses for his IDX solution issued a press release naming Keith as their top Realtor website in the Nation. Read the press release here

It's rare to find someone with a technical and Internet background that also understands the real estate industry as well as Keith does. The AskBucky.com seminar offers a great opportunity for agents to learn from Keith's experience, accomplishments, and creative ideas. AskBucky.com addresses a need for education currently not available for agents wanting to take their Internet strategy to the next level.


Ask Bucky.com helps real estate agents with what they need to know to become e-Competitive:

  • Picking the right Internet strategy for your real estate business
  • Creating a website that keeps prospects coming back
  • Understanding search engines and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Generating leads through the Internet
  • Marketing your listings on the Internet better than your competition
  • Managing Internet leads
  • Implementing a successful real estate Blog
  • Taking and displaying great photos of your listings
  • Choosing product and services - which are worth it and which aren't 

AskBucky.com offers an educational seminar for agents and brokers to understand what it takes to execute a successful Internet strategy.  Currently available Internet marketing seminars and online classes are good overviews, but only scratch the surface with what an agent or broker needs to know to compete. AskBucky.com covers the topics that agents need to understand to make the right decisions when it comes to strategy, plus the products and services to help execute that strategy. In other words...become
e-Competitive!

Here's a good example of the need to be e-Competitive. An agent is called by a tele-salesperson selling Internet leads. The sales pitch sounds good on the phone and the agent signs a year contract for $3,000. The agent soon finds that the leads are poor. Did the agent ask the right questions before committing $3,000? Or, maybe the agent didn't know the right questions to ask?! 

AskBucky.com was created by an Internet-industry veteran turned REALTOR, Keith Byrd. Keith has created a lead generating Internet strategy and shares many of his proven techniques in his seminar. Keith's real estate business model has evolved to one where he refers the leads he generates through his local real estate websites which allows him to travel and help other agents (outside his area!) have similar success.


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 The AskBucky.com seminar will discuss the
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This seminar is also useful for web developers so they can understand how they can best help their agent/broker clients execute a successful Internet strategy. One mistake agents make is pay a lot of money for a web site but find out the web site developer doesn't understand the real estate market, resulting in a web site that looks good but does not generate leads.

Keith created AskBucky.com to help other agents execute a successful Internet strategy. His technical and marketing background plus first-hand experience with real estate and the Internet enables him to provide a wealth of knowledge that is not offered from any other real estate coaching or training service.

 

The AskBucky.com Educational Seminar

Keith presents an educational seminar on the topics listed at the top of this page. While the seminar information may be too detailed for agents and brokers that are novices with the Internet to fully understand, it does provide an eye-opening educational experience for all levels of attendees. The information provided may also help agents and brokers save thousands of dollars on ineffective products and services being pitched to agents on the phone or at industry tradeshows.

 

Contact Keith for more information.

byrd@AskBucky.com
 

805-459-4723

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