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My name is Micah Shepard and I entered the real estate
profession in July, 2005. My first full year of business
was a success, in spite of the huge challenges I faced.
Coming into the market on the tail end of several years
of positive growth created some tough obstacles for me.
Fewer homes were being sold, and the transition from a seller's
to a buyer's market was well underway. Listings that would
have once sold quickly were taking many months to sell.
Fortunately, I understood that having a presence on the
Internet with a great website would be critical to my success.
A friend in the technical sector referred me to Myers. After
speaking with a Myers salesperson, I was quickly convinced
that Myers could provide me with a website to get started
quickly and keep going strong.
My Myers website has given me the critical edge that has
led to my personal success. I closed over $4.5 million
in my first year of business. It's increasingly evident
that agents, who aren't focusing on their present and future
technology needs, including the Internet as a significant
marketing and communications channel, are being left behind.
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My
Myers representative sometimes uses my site to illustrate
what it means to have rich consumer content and effective
networking strategies with local businesses. I strive
to continually develop my website content to make it interesting
and informative to prospective buyers who visit my site
from all over the country. I've had buyers from Hawaii,
California, New York, Ohio, and New Jersey, all of whom
went to my site, "checked me out", and did a
lot of electronic communicating with me long before I
ever sat down in front of them.
Myers makes it easy for me to update and continue to
enrich my content, and my site is very visitor-friendly.
Historic Beaufort is the third oldest city in North Carolina,
full of historic homes, and of interest to boaters, historians,
retirees, and young families. It's now becoming popular
with SCUBA divers because of the many historic shipwrecks.
Even Blackbeard once had a home here, and it's said that
his ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, rests just offshore. It's
wonderful to be able to appeal to prospects by displaying
all this on my Myers website. My goal for my second year
in business is to surpass my first year accomplishment
of $4.5 million.
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