- Be organized and professional. Think of your rental or apartment search like you will want to make sure you stand out as the best applicant.
- Know what you really want. And what you don’t want. And after that, be flexible with the rest of your criteria for your apartment. When you know what you want but go easy on the details that don’t matter, you will make a decision more easily and quickly.
- Be prepared. You may decide on the spot that this is your dream apartment - so have a deposit and/or credit check fee ready when you go on your apartment search. Be prepared with all the information you need to complete a rental application.
- Leave professional messages. If you get the message machine, speak slowly, clearly, and repeat your name and phone number, use your cell phone number if possible to make yourself more available.
- Keep your credit in good standing. Review a copy of your credit report and correct any errors on it. When you fill out your rental application, be sure that it’s consistent with your actual credit report.
- Review your references. Contact your references for your apartment application and get their okay to use them as your reference. Also, make sure the contact information and job you have for your apartment references is current.
- Make a good impression. Be professional and demonstrate that you’ll take care of the apartment and property.
- Map out your appointments. Make appointments to see apartments in the same area so that you don’t waste any time driving across the city unnecessarily.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Rental Apartment Tips
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
How to Drive Web Traffic!!
On the Web as in life, you need more than a better mousetrap to get the world to beat a path to your door. You can have the best product ever invented, the most brilliant product ladder every structured, the most compelling sales copy ever written, the most inviting sales pages ever designed, and the slickest shopping cart ever engineered, but nothing will happen until someone clicks a link and winds up on your website. We’ve built our house and have tidied up, it’s time to begin inviting those 30 million prospects over to check the place out. To do that, we need to begin attracting BIG traffic. Traffic-building strategies that everyone tells you are "free" require a substantial investment of skull sweat, time and money. Nevertheless, it still makes sense to do the cheapest stuff first
- Structure lucrative arrangements with affiliates and joint venture partners, and they’ll drive tens of thousands of new leads and customers to you.
- Search egine optimization to your web pages and thousands of leads and customers will find you organically.
- Become a master of co-registration and you’ll attract more traffic than you’ll know what to do with.
- Stick your content on all the social and business networking sites and they’ll drive web traffic to you for free.
- Offline Campaigns (TV, radio, print, direct mail)
- Renting e-mail lists and sending an offer to them
- Placing banner ads on sites in your market niche
- Pay-Per-Click campaigns