Childers, situated on the Bruce Highway on the east coast of Queensland, is a National Trust town dating back to pioneering days and boasting wonderful historical buildings. Brisbane is only three hundred kilometres to the south and Bundaberg with a population of over forty thousand people is within fifty kilometres. Hervey Bay, home to the humpback whales which migrate every year, is only seventy kilometres away.

Beautiful Woodgate Beach, with it’s eighteen kilometres of flat beach ensures you are only a short drive away from fishing and sailing. Childers, with its lush green landscape, is an ideal choice for semi-retirement and the diverse local agricultural industry has plenty of work on offer .

As a local family man, I established Andy’s Realty with the goal of breaking outside of the traditional real estate industry. My aim is to provide new levels of customer service and here at Andy’s Realty, my primary focus is on you and your real estate needs.

At Andy’s Realty,we specialises in residential, land and life style properties. Whether you are buying or selling real estate you will always be of our top priority. Andy’s Realty is intent on exceeding client’s service expectations and that is why so many people choose our business when they wish to buy or sell their home.

North West Property Agents is a locally owned and operated Real Estate Agency that flourishes on providing professional, friendly and dependable services to our ever growing list of clientele.

The Principal and staff at North West Property Agents invite you to explore our site and contact us for further information about our Real Estate services across the North West Coast and its surrounding regions.

We look forward to being of assistance to you, your family and friends for all your real estate requirements, “Sales, Rentals or Property Management”.

Introducing Straddie Sales and Rentals who provides comprehensive real estate services on North Stradbroke Island including residential sales & investment portfolio management.  Your dream of owning a slice of this island paradise can become a reality.

Straddies also offers the largest selection of affordable holiday accommodation where dolphins holiday at Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island. Surrounded by the calm waters of Moreton Bay, the Pacific Ocean and dune forests Amity Point is a tranquil uncrowded seaside village with a rich and colourful history, a relic of simpler times appealing to families and anyone looking to escape, relax, wet a line & rejuvenate.

At Law Property Australia, we only market new properties. This specialisation allows us to provide you with the best possible service in your search for a brand new home or apartment. Our goal is to only source properties in areas with sound growth potential and that offer a range of lifestyle amenities - thus enhancing your investment as an owner-occupier or as an investor.

We offer pre-planned and constructed “Turn-key homes” - virtually ready to move in to, pre-planned home and land packages on selected blocks of land ready to build, and apartments and townhouses; at this stage, all located in the greater Brisbane area, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast.

We aim to provide a high level of one on one service from experienced and qualified property professionals. You will gain the benefit of our knowledge of the property market as well as being able to make use of our knowledge and research on each area in which we are active.

Premium Property Finders

A buyers agent is helpful when you work long and often anti-social hours, with family commitments pulling you one way and the added stress of searching for a home, it can be too much, especially when you’re trying to fit this into late evenings, short weekends and the odd day off. Finding a home or investment property using a buyer agent is not just time consuming, but stressful and frustrating at the best of times.

Premium Property Finders are your buyers agent.

With a buyers agent you wouldn’t need to go through this scenerio: have you ever spent every minute of the day looking for a property, trying to re-arrange your life going to open houses, which are all staggered at different times of the day and week? You eventually find something but it’s going to auction and the Agent exaggerates and tells you the property will go for a lot less than it actually will. You spend thousands of dollars on pest and building reports, re-arrange your entire auction day, turn up at the auction all excited, then the first bidder throws in a bid way above your budget. Happens all the time!

How many times do you want to go through that disappointing nightmare?

By using us as your buyers agent this will not happen.

How Can I Get the Most Out of My Limited Advertising Budget?

Making every advertising dollar count takes some planning. Each ad must contain the right message, be targeted to the right customer, and be placed in the right vehicle at the time the customer is ready to buy.

The Right Message

Delivering the right message increases the chances your potential customer will make the purchase of your product/service. Issues to consider in crafting the right message include the benefit your product/service provides the customer and the advantages over the competition. Make it easy for the potential customer to say Yes! What is it that makes your product/service special? Once you have identified the benefit, be sure to develop the message in the most appealing way.

If the benefit of using your service is saving money, for example, the message might be “Reduce your automobile insurance by up to 50%”! This is a very different message than “Save money on your automobile insurance”. You’ve added a comparison that gets attention. Providing measurable results within a given time frame lends a sense of urgency. “Lose 20 lbs. in 30 days” is much more powerful than “guaranteed to help you lose weight.

Consider the benefits of your product/service, the advantage(s) over the competition, and provide a sense of urgency for the most effective response to your advertising.

The Right Customer

Targeting the right customer greatly increases the results of your advertising efforts. If your perfect customer is a homeowner, it makes little sense to include renters in your targeted audience. Identifying your perfect customer requires a little research. Most businesses operate under the 80—20 customer rule, meaning 80% of revenues are generated by 20% of their customers. Do you know who your perfect customers are? A review of your sales records will be instructive.

Many beauty salons, for example, perceive their perfect customers are the women who stop in 3 or 4 times a year for color and other expensive treatments. A look at the records may indicate that the customer spending more dollars annually is the woman who comes in for a shampoo and set every week. She spends less money each visit, but the volume adds up over the course of the year. Know who your perfect customers are and allot 75-80% of your advertising budget to attracting more of them.

The Right Vehicle

Advertising rates are based on the number of readers or viewers they reach, no matter the profile of those readers or viewers. Choose advertising vehicles that not only fit within your budget parameters, but are targeted specifically to your perfect customers.

• Print Advertising

Large metropolitan newspapers have huge readership, but may not be targeted to your perfect customers. You pay to reach thousands, or perhaps millions, of individuals who are not all good prospects for your product/service. Community newspapers with limited geographic reach, specialty publications with targeted readership, and special interest magazines are generally better buys. Many national magazines have regional advertising opportunities that are more cost effective and reach a more targeted geographic area.

Direct mail campaigns can be very cost effective, sent to the right list of potential perfect customers. Your own database of existing customers is a good start, and lists are available for purchase, as well.

• Broadcast Advertising

Radio advertising can be cost effective for annual or semi-annual promotions or during certain seasons. In some areas, local and regional television ads are available on network stations. Cable television ads are affordable in most areas, and many stations will assist in the production of your ads.

• The Right Timing

The final factor to consider for your advertising plan is not only when, but how many times does it take to make the sale? Obviously, if you’re selling seasonal products or services, your ads need to be placed accordingly. But whether your product/service is seasonal or something to be purchased any time during the year, consistency is key. Placing one ad in one publication or sending out one direct mail piece and expecting to generate sales is foolhardy.

Even the right message to the right customers in the right vehicle needs to hit your customer when he/she is ready and able to make the purchase. A series of ads or postcards with a consistent message is necessary to generate results from your advertising.

SOURCE -http://www.lupra.com/

Strategic Planning

Too many people think strategic planning is something meant only for big businesses, but it is equally applicable to small businesses. Strategic planning is matching the strengths of your business to available opportunities. To do this effectively, you need to collect, screen, and analyze information about the business environment. You also need to have a clear understanding of your business - its strengths and weaknesses - and develop a clear mission, goals, and objectives. Acquiring this understanding often involves more work than expected. You must realistically assess the business you are convinced you know well.

In addition, strategic planning has become more important to business managers because technology and competition have made the business environment less stable and less predictable. If you are to survive and prosper, you should take the time to identify the niches in which you are most likely to succeed, and to identify the resource demands that must be met.

Source -http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/plan/writeabusinessplan/SERV_STRATPLAN.html

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Tip 7: Use the Law of Attraction to attract your ideal clients

The best way for your business to grow and your income to triple is to be attracting your ideal clients. Your ideal clients will be pleasurable to work with, they will appreciate your skills and service and they will refer people to you.

The Law of Attraction would say: visualize clients you want to work with, see yourself working with them now, and feel what it feels like to have an abundance of ideal clients. If it gives you joy to serve them, then radiate that joy and watch how it magnetizes those ideal clients to you. This is the difference between having work you tolerate and work that you love.

Follow these tips, and you’ll be thriving in any economy.

Author - Dr. Maya Bailey, author of, Law of Attraction for Success Minded Professionals, integrates 20 years of experience as a psychologist and12 years as a business coach with her expertise in the Law ofAttraction. Her powerful work creates a success formula for success minded professionals ready to double and triple their incomes. Get Dr.Maya’s free report, 7 Simple Strategies For More Clients in 90 Days, by visiting www.90DaystoMoreClients.com .

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Tip 6: Be clear on what makes you unique

As you begin to market yourself to clients, be sure to present reasons to them as to why they should work with you instead of someone else.

When I present this idea to my clients, they often go blank. Does this ever happen to you? If so, then with the help of a mentor or a coach, have someone help you discover your strengths.

For example, one of my clients did not realize how much she had going for her. She was a great negotiator, very attentive to details and at the same time was very personable. She would bend over backwards to be sure that her clients felt comfortable. When she realized her uniqueness, her business grew, as she realized how much she had to give.

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Tip 5: Find and educate your clients

Clients for almost any service are hungry for knowledge. Remember to approach any selling opportunity as an education opportunity. Even if they aren’t ready to buy at that moment, they will remember who was honest and helpful when they are. Find a way to offer a class or seminar and increase your exposure and credibility even more!

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