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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'First Choice Realty', 'Announcements', 'arkansas', and 'jeff kennedy'</title><link>http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=First+Choice+Realty,Announcements,arkansas,jeff+kennedy&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'First Choice Realty', 'Announcements', 'arkansas', and 'jeff kennedy'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Debug Build: 61019.2)</generator><item><title>Websites Hits are UP!  This Could be a Good Sign of Things to Come!</title><link>http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/blogs/jeff__paulia_kennedy/archive/2009/01/27/websites-hits-are-up-this-could-be-a-good-sign-of-things-to-come.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ae76e432-0a53-4fb6-a43d-0a5137ba906f:414923</guid><dc:creator>189123</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;&lt;img align="left" border="2" height="121" hspace="7" src="http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/photos/blue_heron/images/414278/original.aspx" style="width:168px;height:121px;" width="168" /&gt;Website hits are up!&amp;nbsp; The Kennedy Team&amp;#39;s website, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;www.BestofHotSprings.com&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt; expects more than a 33% increase in site hits by the end of January.&amp;nbsp; Historically, this website averages 35,000 hits per month.&amp;nbsp; As of today, with&amp;nbsp;one week remaining in the month, 42,500 hits have been calculated with an average of 1,635 hit per day! That&amp;#39;s 470 more hits per day than the usual 1,166! If this increase in web activity continues, and it is expected that it will, The Kennedy Team should have 52,300 hits by the end of January 2009. &lt;strong&gt;What a great way to begin the New Year!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;The Broker at the main office at Trademark Real Estate, Inc. also reports a swell in activity with increased showings on all of the office listings.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;I asked Paulia Kennedy, real estate marketing guru, if she was advertising her listings any differently.&amp;nbsp; Paulia&amp;#39;s reply was, &amp;quot;I&amp;nbsp;recently changed our print ads and&amp;nbsp;focused on a professionally designed general print ad in the homes magazines which is different from the other agents&amp;#39; ads showing just little pictures of houses.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paulia continued to explain, &amp;quot;Another reason for good hits on the site has been the attention paid to our holiday gifts that we sent out in December. We received lots of thank you&amp;#39;s along with good referrals.&amp;quot; The gift that keeps on giving!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;Paulia and the Kennedy Team have a number of new listings this month.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;ve been posting virtual tours nearly every week. As a result, there are many more Kennedy Team lawn signs out there as well.&amp;nbsp; Paulia said, &amp;quot;We&amp;#39;re also getting more people say they see our signs everywhere... (and we&amp;#39;ve got more signs out there now).&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along with these results Paulia is confident that the market is changing for the better. She has seen an increase in buyer confidence, and the Kennedy Team is preparing for a booming real estate market in 2009!&lt;img align="right" border="2" height="300" hspace="7" src="http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/photos/blue_heron/images/414275/original.aspx" style="width:250px;height:300px;" width="250" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yourvirtualwizard.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font color="#800080" face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;Janine Gregor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;Virtual Assistant to Paulia Kennedy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font face="Times New Roman" size="3"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Press Release - Outstanding Month of June, 2008 for Trademark Real Estate, Inc., of Hot Springs, Arkansas</title><link>http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/blogs/jeff__paulia_kennedy/archive/2008/09/08/press-release-outstanding-month-of-june-2008-for-trademark-real-estate-inc-of-hot-springs-arkansas.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">ae76e432-0a53-4fb6-a43d-0a5137ba906f:355220</guid><dc:creator>189123</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Hot Springs, AR, August 2008)&lt;/strong&gt; - The Kennedy Team - Jeff &amp;amp; Paulia Kennedy &amp;amp; Debi Jones, REALTORS with Trademark Real Estate, Inc. are pleased to mention that their sales for the month of June of this year broke several records.&amp;nbsp; The Kennedy Team sold a little over $10 million in real estate transactions in June, 2008 in spite of the &amp;quot;slowing economy&amp;quot; that seems to make the headlines on a continuous basis these days.&amp;nbsp; Not only did the Kennedy Team excel in sales during this month, Trademark Real Estate was very pleased to have several top performers during this month, which resulted in $23.5 million in total sales for the month of June ... breaking many records for the leading real estate firm in Hot Springs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s no denial that the real estate market today is much tougher than ever before, however, the Kennedy Team and Trademark Real Estate, Inc. are full-proof that it&amp;#39;s possible to get things done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Kennedy Team contributes their success to a combination of factors.&amp;nbsp; They are true believers in continuous education in the real estate market, and they have earned over a dozen awards and designations for their specialized training in the real estate market.&amp;nbsp; They also believe in good old-fashioned &amp;quot;hard work&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; This belief is what lead them to expanding their team to a total of five members that they have today ... Jeff &amp;amp; Debi are the licensed Sales Consultants who are always on the ground working in person with their clients, while Paulia is also a licensed agent and does all the &amp;quot;behind the scenes&amp;quot; work with all the marketing and working with their internet clients.&amp;nbsp; They have also added two other part-time non-licensed assistants to their team, who help with all the other many details of marketing the clients&amp;#39; homes from custom sign building to preparing virtual tours.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not only is hard work and education key ingredients to a successful team, the Kennedy Team believes that working for the best real estate firm in Hot Springs is mandatory!&amp;nbsp; Trademark Real Estate, Inc. continues to be the leader in the real estate industry year after year in Hot Springs, and also ranked Number 9 in Arkansas last year.&amp;nbsp; Lorna Nobles, Broker/Owner of Trademark Real Estate seems to focus on all the right things.&amp;nbsp; She made one of the best decisions a few years ago when she made the decision to purchase the ground where Trademark now sits.&amp;nbsp; She chose a high-profile location right smack in the middle of the popular &amp;quot;7 South&amp;quot; area on the highly-traveled Central Avenue.&amp;nbsp; She then built an upscale Mediterranean-style commercial building.&amp;nbsp; Lorna has a few other philosophies that are always visible in her beliefs.&amp;nbsp; She believes, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s extremely important to give back to the community that gives to us.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Lorna leads her whole team by participating in many community philanthropies and expects all of her agents to help.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Trademark earned the &amp;quot;Small Business of the Year&amp;quot; award from the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce in 2004 &amp;amp; 2006 for their continuous involvement with community philanthropies.&amp;nbsp; Lorna makes no exceptions to another rule - &amp;quot;Trademark only accepts experienced top performers who work full-time or more&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; She also believes strongly in &amp;quot;hard work&amp;quot;, and believes it&amp;#39;s absolutely necessary to give it your all, with no distractions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the marketplace becomes increasingly competitive, the leading edge approach is proving vital to achieve the sales results clients expect.&amp;nbsp; Always introducing innovative ways to increase the effectiveness of their service, Trademark Real Estate, Inc. is definitely your choice.&amp;nbsp; For information, call 501.318.3200 or visit their website at &lt;a href="http://www.trademarkrealestate.com/"&gt;www.TrademarkRealEstate.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CONTACT:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Paulia Kennedy&lt;br /&gt;Trademark Real Estate&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 501.655.6247&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 501.318-3201&lt;br /&gt;Paulia@bestofhotsprings.com&lt;br /&gt;www.BestofHotSprings.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-End-&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>