Fed may need to buy more mortgage bonds: Williams (Reuters)
Reuters - The U.S. central bank may need to buy more bonds to bolster a housing market whose distress is at the heart of a "frustratingly slow" economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday.
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you aware that according to the Harvard Business Review it costs up to 8 times more to gain a new customer than retain an old one (“Zero Defections” by Frederick F. Reichheld & W. Earl Sasser, Jr.). If you do the math you will find that the 20% is only worth 4 % of your business in real terms. You do not want to lose your past clients! As president of Creative Agent Solutions, an Arizona based virtual real estate marketing company; I can say one of the main features of our real estate marketing service is to utilize a Client Database Management system that allows us to maintain communications for our agents with little effort on their part. We formulate a desired contact strategy with agents and produce 100% customizable direct mail to their clients on an annual, quarterly or monthly basis. Designed pieces include postcards, letters, and folded card formats and can include calendars, recipes, sports schedules, magnetic dry erase boards and more. The contents are fun and full of helpful and informative tips for the agents’ clients. Some subjects for example can include home improvement tips or knowing when to refinance. Each piece works to keep our agents name in front of their clients year round and also prompts their clients for onward referrals. Agents can keep their client list up to date all year round by simply faxing a client update form to us, that way the mail count is always accurate. The service is competitively priced and pays dividends as agents get referrals from clients already in their book of business by the most powerful medium of all – word of mouth. In the competitive world of real estate, that's a solid gold guarantee not only of continued repeat business but of new business as well.


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