City to Host Sun Prairie Realtors Summit July 31st (City of Sun Prairie)

The City of Sun Prairie is hosting a summit for Sun Prairie Area Realtors on Wednesday July 31st from 1-4:30 p.m.  The summit will be held at WPPI Energy at 1425 Corporate Center Drive in the Sun Prairie Business Park.

The keynote speaker will be Mr. Kevin King from the Realtors Association of South Central Wisconsin.  Other topics will focus on helping local Realtors best market Sun Prairie's assets including our school district, our library, and our public and private recreational and athletic facilities.  City staff will be available to answer questions regarding public safety, our public utilities, and current infrastructure projects, as well as providing a general development update for the City. Attendees will also learn more about the Locate in Wisconsin properties database from Mr. Luke Fuszard of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corportation (WEDC).

Refreshments and networking will be at Buck & Honey's immediately following the summit, and sponsored by Hometown News Group and the Star. 

Space is filling up fast.  If you are a Realtor, Broker or are otherwise involved in Real Estate in the Sun Prairie area, you can still RSVP at the following link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dLttOacDyO6SXeRtM6CTKSHs6GB3coBnwaoFibIzrok/edit?usp=drive_web#

Successful Internet Marketing for Your Small Business (Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation)

Successful Internet Marketing for Your Small Business

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Sun Prairie Public Library (Community Room)

Registration is Required.

Registration Fee: None (Free)

Just having a website isn’t enough.  Learn the keys to building a successful web marketing strategy. This lunchtime seminar will show you the four steps needed to create and update your site to be more effective. We’ll discuss the primary ways that businesses generate qualified website visits focusing on search engine marketing. Also, we will review ways to improve your website to convert more of your web visits into leads and sales. It will discuss domain names, pre-design work, design elements, and Internet marketing secrets to better ranking on search engines.Whether you already have an online strategy, or if you are just getting started, you will leave with actionable information to grow your business.

To register, call WWBIC at (608) 257-5450 or register online at https://wwbic.com/successful-internet-marketing-small-business-madison

Sun Prairie Community Development Authority Under Mayor John Murray Begins to Expand its Reach (Sun Prairie Star)

CDA Board extends deadline to August 31

Link to Full Article: http://www.sunprairiestar.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=52&ArticleID=7688

Blogger's Note: It's great to have a group willing to talk about what we can do to better market the community. I'm looking forward to feedback from our CDA as we move forward on some of these initiatives.

The marketing strategies I outlined at this meeting are pretty basic for now, but they should get us through 2011. Key points for the short term: 1) Focusing on 2-3 target sectors, 2) Ensure we have accurate, current community profile information in digital and hard copy formats, 3) Maximize our online presence, and 4) Reaching out to local commercial Realtors, regional developers, and national site selection consultants for specific types buildings and properties.

As for some things we'll be looking at beyond 2011, they include looking at how to encourage more entrepreneurship, expanding the housing options for higher income earners, and pre-qualifying our industrial parcels as certified development sites.

Have some ideas? E-mail me at nstechschulte[at]cityofsunprairie.com.

Sun Prairie Realtor Relies on Streaming Video to Market Properties (Laura Lahti, Century 21 Affiliated)

Laura Lahti, a Century 21 Realtor, has been successfully using a new marketing tool called MVT (My Video Talk). Laura uses the MVT marketing tools to conduct video emails, access to conduct webinars for training and educating her buyers and sellers, taking tour of different listings and sending it to an out of town clients, being able to be online with clients face to face and having a uploaded document on the screen and being able to explain it to the client. MVT marketing tool not only is great for real estate, but it can be used for all sorts of jobs and it’s great to for personalization, cost saving and effectiveness.

Click here to check out an example of Laura's use of MVT.

Click here for more information on My Video Talk.

For more information, contact Laura at llahti@c21affiliated.com or 608-825-7552, or click here to view her Century 21 page on the web.