Presenting the Best Home You Know How

Today, more than ever, the presentation of a home that is on the market is important to the sale of that home. According to a recent study, more than 63% of home buyers choose a home that is ready to move in versus one that requires a little more work. While the price of the move in ready home will be higher, the couples are seeing the chance to live in a pretty decent home without the NEED to renovate right away as being a strong benefit. For the real estate agent, this means presenting the home as move in ready. If the home is in need of repair or renovation, the market may be dry for that home. But, there are always means to push the home as the perfect one for your clients.

Connect With the Buyer’s Emotions

When showing a home that is not move in ready to a potential buyer, make sure you choose a renovation that offers some emotional connection for the buyer. This could mean a full basement or an attic space if those are the things they want the most in a home. If there is a fenced in yard, but the painting needs to be redone, give them a monetary comparison of how much the paint will cost versus the fence.

When talking about emotions, it is also important to convince the home seller that all personal effects need to be removed from the home prior to showing. The potential buyer wants to visualize their life in that home, not the life of another family. The emotional connection between a home and the small children that live there is strong and the potential buyer may immediately feel they don’t want to put the small children out on the street.

Make Simple but Powerful Changes

Of course, the best solution is to prepare the home for showing before the potential buyers walk through the door. Throw a fresh coat of paint on the walls, change out any dead plants in the front of the home, dress up the entryway with a few bright flowers and tidy up the law and walkways. Inside, make sure the home smells good and the carpets and floors are fresh and clean.

Presenting a home for sale can be about more than just making sure the home is ready to sell. The potential buyer walks into every home hoping this will THE ONE and too many times the home is just not ready for a buyer.

A Limited Guide to Business Presentation Papers

Everything about how your business looks reflects on how your business works. From resumes and daily information management to proposals and presentations, your business needs to look its best in today’s marketplace. In this short guide, we’ll explain the products we offer and the applications for these products.

Bond paper is a high quality durable writing paper similar to old style bank paper. It gets its name from having originally been made for documents such as government bonds. In the modern business place, it is most often used for letterheads and other stationery as well as paper for electronic printers. For day to day operations, building presentation guides on a budget, and hard copies of large data, bond paper is the paper of choice. Because bond paper is in high demand, the selection comes in many sizes, colors and textures.

Paper made of linen can be very strong and crisp, which is why the United States and many other countries print their currency on paper that is made from 25% linen and 75% cotton. Most wedding invitations and commencement announcements are printed on linen paper. For an executive and exquisite look and feel, linen paper is a time-tested favorite. Irish linen paper is a pH Neutral, recycled content, chlorine free paper made from wood certified and audited to ensure it complies with environmentally sustainable practice and principles known as “Well Managed Forest Standards.” It is manufactured to resemble and mimic traditional linen paper while being environmentally conscious.

Offset printing is most often used for large quantity, single run documents such as tests and newspapers. In this process, an inked image is transferred from a plate to a blank cylinder, which in turn transfers the image to the printing material as it passes between the blanket and the impression cylinder and pressure is applied. This is also called “offset lithography.” Offset paper is paper that has been manufactured with properties that make the paper suitable for this process. Some of the properties include dimensional stability, resistance to curling, high surface strength, a surface free from and/or resistant to foreign particles and a high level of resistance to moisture penetration.

Finished paper is most commonly used in magazines and other publications as well as in the office as specialty printer paper for sleek, stunning presentations. Gloss Finish is a coating on paper that provides a higher reflection of light which results in a shiny appearance. Gloss coatings reduce ink absorption, which allows excellent contrast and color definition. Matte finish is a coated paper finish that is flat, not shiny like a gloss, but still keeps much of the ink from being absorbed by the paper and produces an excellent image. Dull finish is a flat finish that has been supercalendered when manufactured. Supercalendering is an additional papermaking process where the paper runs through a set of alternating steel and fiber covered rollers. Supercalendering produces a very smooth thin sheet. It is slightly smoother that a matte finish. Kromekote is a premium glossy coating. It provides an extremely flat, ultra-rich high gloss and a highly absorbent surface. Kromekote coating is most often used on digital photo paper of all densities from light bond paper to heavy, rigid cardstock.

Of course, as in other areas of business, there are some brand names that stand head and shoulders above the rest. Some of the best include Springhill offset, Kromekote coated paper, and Valley Forge paper. Presentation is a delicate time, and it’s best to go with the tried and true producers. By paying attention to all details, even such as these, your business will grow to unprecedented heights.

Unique Way of Presenting Corporate Christmas Gifts to Your Employees

Christmas is a time when you exchange or present Christmas gifts to everyone who is near and dear to you and who plays an important role in your life. These gifts represent your warm wishes, to send across your feelings and for motivating and inspiring. Thus, this is the best time to present gifts to your employees, partners and bosses.
 

If you do not want to spend time in engaging yourself in selecting and placing a bulk order for a personalised or corporate Xmas gift and do not want to spend much money on them either, then there are few great and simple ideas for you in store. Without spending much time and money on ordering a bulk of personalised gift items, you can still find amazing options and methods to convert affordable yet useful gift items into personalised gift items which show your gratitude and warm wishes towards your employees and co-workers on this Christmas.
 

Corporate Christmas Gifts Ideas:
 

Employee Gifts: Christmas shows your appreciation towards the hard work and efforts put by your employees throughout the year. Thus, in a sense it’s a payback time, therefore the gifts should be special. However, mostly the gifts handed out by corporate are usually predictable and non-exciting. Therefore, select an innovative and fun way of presenting creative yet practical gift items.
 

Corporate Party: organise a corporate Christmas party for your employees and co-workers. These parties do not necessarily need to be a grand and an expensive affair. However, it does not even needs to be dull and boring like a conservative buffet style dinner parties and a sit down gossip session after dinner.
 

Include seasonal music, decide some theme or arrange a fancy dress competition and award the winner. You can also arrange a Santa Claus Fancy dress competition where the contestant who looks and acts the best like a Santa gets the prize! Select a good array of food that goes along with the festive mood.
 

Gift Distribution: try an innovative way of gifting Christmas gifts this year around.Make different gift baskets and hampers like yummy gourmet hampers containing scrumptious cookies, or selection of dark chocolates, Christmas cakes of different flavours, etc. You can also get some wine baskets, book baskets containing, most selective bunch of books, a collection of DVDs, Music, gardening tools, sport gears, etc.
 

Arrange these kits on a display and allow your employees to take a pick from them according to their own preferences and taste! Make sure you get a good number of each type of gift baskets. Or, if it is possible for you, try to find out the hobbies of each of your employee and gift them a gift basket accordingly.
 

Personalise the Gifts: To personalise these gifts add a certificate to them to give them an intimate feel.
 

Every company hands out Christmas gifts to their employees, however, the way and the manner in which they are presented makes all the difference.