{"id":857,"date":"2007-12-09T23:42:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/2007\/12\/09\/unique-marketing-idea-to-sell-a-home\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T23:42:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:42:48","slug":"unique-marketing-idea-to-sell-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/unique-marketing-idea-to-sell-a-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Marketing Idea to sell a home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Real Estate Agents: Do you have a unique home that you are going to be listing in the coming months?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a unique marketing idea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/\">Kids Help Phone<\/a>, a national toll free help line for kids runs an event every year called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/\">Homes for the Holidays<\/a>&#8220;.   The idea is they get 4 or 5 beautiful homes to agree to have their houses toured at Christmas time.  Designers and Decorators then customize those homes so that they are perfect for the event. Then they sell tickets for $20 &#8211; $50\/person  to tour the home.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not use this to your advantage?<\/strong>  If you have a house that you will be listing before next Christmas, why not apply to Kids Help Phone to have it included in the homes for the holidays? (assuming your clients agree)  What a great way to have a few hundred visitors to a paid open house, all while supporting a great charity.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are the cities in Canada that run this type of event (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/Vancouver_event.html\">Vancouver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/Calgary_event.html\">Calgary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/Lethbridge_event.html\">Lethbridge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/Edmonton_event.html\">Edmonton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidshelpphone.ca\/homesfortheholidays\/StJohns_event.html\">St. John&#8217;s<\/a>) plus I&#8217;m sure other charities across North America have something similar.  <\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/unique-marketing-idea-to-sell-a-home\/' data-title='Unique Marketing Idea to sell a home' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/unique-marketing-idea-to-sell-a-home\/' data-title='Unique Marketing Idea to sell a home' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Real Estate Agents: Do you have a unique home that you are going to be listing in the coming months? Here is a unique marketing idea, Kids Help Phone, a national toll free help line for kids runs an event every year called &#8220;Homes for the Holidays&#8220;. The idea is they get 4 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}