August 31, 2011

About Ray

Meet Ray Wood.  Ideas man

Ray is currently

  • Founding CEO of Bestagents Real Estate Group.  Bestagents provides real estate professionals with brand affiliation, innovative marketing and business concepts and support.
  • Founding partner and National Marketing Director of LockedOn Interactive. LockedOn is advanced contact management software to help real estate professionals convert contacts to cash.
  • National campaign manager for Aaron Shiner Live and Facebook for Real Estate Live coaching events

A story on the success of Bestagents was recently published in The Australian Newspaper

Career Highlights & Achievements

  • 1990 Started Wood Brothers Real Estate with Brother David In Armadale (Melbourne)
  • 1994 First Edition of How To Sell Your Home For More is published
  • 2000 How to Sell reaches 25,000 sales
  • 2004 How to Sell reaches 50,000 sales
  • 2005 Founded Bestagents
  • 2005 First Bestagents fully branded office opens in Wodonga Victoria
  • 2006 Sells out of business partnership with David to focus on BA full time
  • 2007 How to Sell reaches 75,000 sales
  • 2010 How to Sell reaches 105,000 sales
  • 2010 Parters with Sydney Real estate million dollar performer to produce Aaron Shiner Live.  2010 Aaron Shiner Live sells out in Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne
  • 2010 LockedOn Real Estate Software launched in Sydney

Skills

  • Bestselling Author: How to Sell Your Home for More (over 120,000 copies sold)
  • Developed a highly successful Personal Marketing System for real estate agents
  • Public speaking and event management
  • Coach and mentor to Bestagents Membership
  • Real Estate Website design, function and flow, social media expert

Bestagents Member Comments

“Dear Ray, this November will mark my first year in real estate.  It has been an interesting learning curve and totally worthwhile.  I will have earned over $100,000 in commission and have kept very accurate records as to where each dollar came from.  I have established that your book and marketing ideas make me (on average) $7,000 each month.  These are listings and sales I would not have had without using your tools.  Thanks so much for helping me kick start my career.  I’m looking forward to working with you on my goals for my second year!”
Daniel Mendes (Harcourts Forest Lake, Queensland)

“Ray’s Real Estate Marketing tools make me an extra $100,000 each year.”
Steven Stretch (First National Plympton, South Australia)

“Using Ray’s book and letters has been a highly profitable experience.  So far Paul and I have achieved at least one extra listing and made one extra sale each month”  
Nikki Knight and Paul Johnston (First National, South Australia

“I measured my success right from the start and can attribute
the book to $40,000 in additional fees in the first three months.”
Scott Hay (Remax Coorparoo Queensland)

“In less than two weeks, I have listed three homes exclusively
from using the book.  At the moment, one listing is close to selling.”
Paul Theo (Noosa Realty, Noosa Heads, Queensland)

“Since Ray started working with us, business has tripled and we’re still growing.  It’s just great to own a marketing edge in our community and people understand how we can help them with a better real estate experience.”
Glenn Preston (Leeton Bestagents, Leeton NSW)

Media publicity for How To Sell Your Home For More

“How to Sell Your Home For More  is a ‘How To’ Gem”    The Melbourne Age

“A must read for intending property vendors”     The Australian Financial Review

“How to Sell Your Home Fore More offers readers very simple strategies for buying and selling property that can save significant amounts of money.  This book is invaluable in today’s erratic real estate market.”       Wealth Creator Magazine

Why Real Estate Agents need to leverage social media

The are more than 1 million registered Facebook users in Canada and the US aged 25 and up and the number is growing every second.   If you’re a driven real estate professional always on the lookout to innovate and catch your competitors napping, it won’t be long before you are marketing on FB (if you’re not already).

And think about this:  When we advertise in the newspaper, we’re paying to reach people who don’t want or care about our message.  With Facebook we can target very specific demographics like age and area.  We can even target people who have an interest in ‘real estate investments’.   This is real marketing power that you can begin using the second you set it up.

Facebook recently passed Google as the most visited website on the planet and their meteoric trajectory is set to go even further in the next few years.  So if you catch this train as it’s leaving the station you’ll also catch your competitors napping and connect with the tech savvy Facebook users in your neighbourhood.  They are growing in number every hour.