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Wall St Journal offers online property ads

The Wall St Journal's real estate site, realestatejournal.com, is now offering property ads online for your luxury listings. The cost is $350 for 60 days, far less than advertising in the print Wall St. Journal.

A new benefit for members of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing is a luxury listing on the Wall St Journal site.

So many designations ask for an annual fee to keep the designation, but offer no other value. That is not the case with the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. Just this one benefit alone is worth more than the cost of the annual membership.

Thanks, Laurie Moore-Moore, for continuing to add value for your members.

7 comments • Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS • August 22 2008 06:58PM

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So glad you are pleased with the newest benefit of being a member of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing.  All current members actually get SIX consecutive 60-day Online property listings on the Wall Street Journal website!  That's a value of over $2,000.  Expired members can renew and take advantage of this offer, too.  In today's challenging market, when everyone needs to stretch their dollars, we think this is a BIG benefit.  We're glad you do, too. 

Posted by Laurie Moore-Moore over 3 years ago

Laurie - it's so good to see The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing adding value for its members. When sellers are looking for more exposure and agents are needing to control costs, this is a great value proposition for all.

Posted by Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS (ALVA International, Inc.) over 3 years ago

Sharon, thanks for this post.  I am a luxury agent here in Aiken and have been thinking of joining the Institute and getting the certification.  Beyond the ads, what other benefits do you think are the most rewarding? 

Posted by Jane Page Thompson over 3 years ago

Jane -

  • despite being in the business for 20+ years, I learned a lot from the course
  • I'd take the course away from home, so that you can learn from other attendees with different perspectives and markets, and so that you can make some good referral contacts
  • the annual Leaders in Luxury conference is great education, great networking, great fun, and also leads to referral business
  • being listed as a luxury agent on Wall St Journal, as well as the new property listing on WSJ
  • having the designation gives credibility to buyers and sellers
  • it's a cross company designation so you don't lose it if you change companies
  • press releases that are sent out to members to customize leads to good PR, exposure and more business
  • market graphs tool has been beneficial to business
  • negotiated prices on advertising, marketing packages, and other things
  • referral network
  • Institute blog, videos, news, trends, ideas
  • "Third day" current topics and exchange of information
  • Networking with other CLHMS agents - call for information, hints
  • E-books on current real estate topics
  • Research results from very expensive sources
  • Availability of mailing lists
  • Access to Laurie Moore-Moore
  • Wonderful friendships

Is that enough for starters?

 

 

Posted by Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS (ALVA International, Inc.) over 3 years ago

WOW!  I'll Buy!!!  Thanks for the sales pitch(no wonder you've been successful for so long), nobody in my market has this so it is GREAT to hear from someone "in the Know"!!!   Thank you, I hope to see you in the future.

Posted by Jane Page Thompson over 3 years ago

Thanks Sharon for sharing this information.  Always looking for ways to advertise our homes with great exposure.

Posted by Team Honeycutt (Allen Tate) over 3 years ago

Jane - I do get passionate about what I believe in!

Allen - we're always looking for more ways to tell our sellers that we're marketing their properties.

Posted by Sharon Simms St Pete FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS (ALVA International, Inc.) over 3 years ago

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