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Posted by Michael Saunders on September 23, 2011
With demand for seasonal, vacation and annual rental properties on a steep rise throughout Southwest Florida, Michael Saunders & Company is pleased to announce that it has completed the steps necessary to significantly expand the size and scope of its rental and property management division.
Now under the direction of Jayci Grana—who has just been elected president of the National Association of Residential Property Managers—the company is now poised to provide a much broader range of services to areas within our region that traditionally experience the greatest demand for seasonal, vacation and longer-term rentals; as well as to homeowners looking to lease out their properties. Jayci comes to Sarasota from the Orlando market area where she headed-up one of the largest rental and property management operations in the country.
Over the years, Michael Saunders & Company has managed over 700 individual rental properties as well as two well-known Longboat Key resorts—Veranda and White Sands. With our expanded rental program now fully operational, the company now leases and manages residential properties from our offices in Sarasota, Bradenton, Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Lakewood Ranch, Palmer Ranch, Venice and Englewood; as well as our newer offices on Boca Grande and at IMG Academies in Bradenton. Additionally, we have just opened a dedicated sales and leasing office at Heritage Oaks Country Club, east of downtown Sarasota, where it will be responsible for all rentals in this beautifully maintained and gated country club community. (more…)
Posted by Michael Saunders on January 14, 2011
Michael Saunders & Company-Christie’s Exclusive Affiliate For Sarasota, Manatee And Charlotte Counties – To Offer Increased Global Visibility Due To Strengthened Ties Between Christie’s Fine Art Auction House And Its Real Estate Business.
SARASOTA, Florida – (January 11, 2011) – Southwest Florida’s luxury real estate market – already seeing an increase in sales due to corrected pricing and an improvement in overall economic conditions—got another shot in the arm today with the announcement from its international hubs in New York, London and Hong Kong that Christie’s, the world’s leading art business, has changed the name and look of its exclusive property brand to Christie’s International Real Estate. It was formerly known as Christie’s Great Estates.
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Posted by Beth Ward on December 2, 2010
Joins Other Leading Names in Business and Technology in Being First to Showcase Their Products and Services to Business Professionals Worldwide
NEW YORK, New York—(November, 2010)—LinkedIn, the world’s largest online site for professional networking, announced today the launch of Company Pages, a new feature designed to help businesses build positive brand awareness and confidence in their products and services using trusted, professional recommendations and endorsements.
Announced today in New York at LinkedIn Connect:10, the site’s annual customer appreciation event, several leading-edge businesses—including Michael Saunders & Company of Sarasota, Florida—have also been chosen as charter members to help launch the new feature.
MS&C joins such icons of American business and technology as Microsoft, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, JetBlue, E*Trade, Samsung Electronics, Avaya, Deloitte, Harvard Business School and AT&T, in forming the exclusive worldwide springboard for Company Pages.
“That Michael Saunders & Company has been tapped to join these household names in American business and technology in promoting an important new networking opportunity is a huge tribute to our Information Technology department,” said Michael Saunders, the company’s founder and CEO. “Besides the distinct honor of being regarded as a technology leader within our industry, this is yet another new initiative we offer our agents to help them succeed both personally and on behalf of their clients and customers.”
Company Pages is designed to help showcase a company and bring its brand(s) alive before the more than 80 million LinkedIn members worldwide. It will spotlight each company’s standout products, services and company culture in an environment visited daily by millions of professionals as they make critical business decisions for themselves and their companies. Empowering customers and employees to become brand ambassadors, Company Pages will help grow a company’s business “virally” through word-of-mouth, traditionally the most trusted and effective form of advertising. At the same time, business professionals can use the site to trade endorsements that help build-out their personal brands, highlight their experience in a given field and provide added value to their professional connections.
“Company Pages take product and service recommendations to a whole new level of believability and authority, allowing members to benefit from the considered perspectives of those whose opinions they trust and relate to the most—their acquaintances and professional colleagues,” said Jeff Weiner, chief executive officer of LinkedIn.” In addition, by displaying their strongest recommendations to prospective customers and employees on LinkedIn, businesses can use Company Pages to fuel growth and trust in their brands.”
Today tens of millions of professionals follow more than a million companies on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on new developments and opportunities. Company Pages makes it easier for businesses to engage with these professionals by serving as a dynamic content-rich corporate profile of record. Additionally, it includes several other key features to help businesses engage current and prospective customers and employees. For more information about Company Pages, please visit the LinkedIn blog, at htt;//blog.linkedin.com.
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Posted by John Butzko on November 4, 2010
LinkedIn, the world’s largest online site for professional networking, announced today the launch of Company Pages, a new feature designed to help businesses build positive brand awareness and confidence in their products and services using trusted, professional recommendations and endorsements.
Announced today in New York at LinkedIn Connect:10, the site’s annual customer appreciation event, several leading-edge businesses—including Michael Saunders & Company of Sarasota, Florida—have also been chosen as charter members to help launch the new feature.
Michael Saunders & Company on LinkedIn joins such icons of American business and technology as Microsoft, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, JetBlue, E*Trade, Samsung Electronics, Avaya, Deloitte, Harvard Business School and AT&T, in forming the exclusive worldwide springboard for Company Pages. (more…)
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Posted by Michael Saunders on June 11, 2010
Punta Gorda has faced hardships and overcome them with strength and unity. That same strength and unity has shaped their community into one that is entirely unique in the Southwest Florida area. It is a close-knit community that believes in hard work and teamwork – values it shares with Michael Saunders & Company. We are honored that our company has been welcomed into Punta Gorda with such open arms, and we look forward to a long and lasting relationship with its outstanding family of residents.
Click on the image below to read the Charlotte Sun Herald article written by John Wright:
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Posted by Michael Saunders on April 30, 2010
Southwest Florida Brokerage Joins 11 of the Nation’s Most Progressive Real Estate Firms in Expanding And Improving Its Social Media Presence
SAN FRANCISCO, California—(April 20, 2010)—Roost Inc. (roost.com), a real estate technology company that displays over four million real estate listings and provides advertising solutions to real estate agents and brokers, announced today that Michael Saunders & Company—along with 11 other of the country’s top real estate brokerage firms—have signed on to its Facebook-based platform, Social Real Estate. Roost’s brokerage solution is an extension of its free Social Real Estate Toolkit, released earlier this year; and is the first Facebook application to integrate a full, MLS-compliant property search.
In addition to MS&C, companies that have executed agreements with Roost include Intero Real Estate Services (CA), Surterre Properties (CA), Real Estate One (MI), Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate (NY), RE/MAX Alliance Group (AZ), Amelia Bullock Realtors (TX), Century 21 Advantage Gold (PA), Zephyr Real Estate (CA), FresYes Realty (CA), Seven Gables Real Estate (CA) and Jordan Baris Realtors (NJ).
Michael Saunders & Company is the only Florida-based brokerage to sign-on to Roost’s innovative new Facebook-based real estate platform.
“It became clear to us quite some time ago that Facebook, chief among other social networking platforms, was filled with strategic marketing opportunities for our company; but we wanted to make sure we approached it properly and in a way that was at once effective, efficient and coherent from a brand perspective,” said Michael Saunders, founder and CEO of the 34-year-old Gulf Coast brokerage that bears her name. “Roost made it very easy to move forward with confidence because it disseminates real estate content we know consumers want; then customizes it to reflect the values of our brand.”
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Posted by Michael Saunders on June 4, 2009
Michael Saunders & Company has won the Excellence in Customer Service award for June, presented by the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. The award, sponsored by The Bank of Commerce, was bestowed today at a well-attended chamber networking event held at Southpointe Land Rover. Tom Martin, senior vice-president of lending for the Bank of Commerce, introduced company founder and CEO Michael Saunders and made the presentation.
Accepting the award on behalf of her 33-year-old company, Saunders was effusive in attributing the honor to her agents and staff. “I wouldn’t be here without the diligence and hard work of all my agents, who are on the frontlines every day making sure that each customer’s experience is as memorable as it can be—for all the right reasons,” she said. “Coming as it does in the midst of such an unforgiving market, this award is all the more gratifying and I accept it on behalf of the entire company.”
Photo cut line: Michael Saunders proudly displays the award for “Excellence in Customer Service” from the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. Joining her is Tom Martin, senior vice-president of Sarasota’s Bank of Commerce, who sponsors the award.
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Posted by Michael Saunders on May 20, 2009
Over four hundred of the best and brightest Michael Saunders & Company agents, partners and speakers at the Reinvent Yourself 09 event held last week at the Chelsea Center in Sarasota, FL:
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Posted by Michael Saunders on May 19, 2009
Much of the Michael Saunders & Company Reinvent Yourself 09 conference held last week pushed the notion that the fundamentals of the real estate industry, specifically the way we market property is and will be changing drastically over the near future. In fact if there is a bright spot to the housing and economic turmoil it is that it forces these changes to happen all the quicker: in the same way that higher fuel costs prompt more efficient vehicles, the evolved real estate agent is now leaner and smarter when it comes to marketing your home.
Out, are the single property advetisements in the newspapers and magazines – a quick appeasement for a seller, and not much else. Why would a potential home buyer wait until Sunday to look at one property in the newspaper when they can get instant gratification and look at all available properties on the market at once on the web?
In, are the targeted effects of social networking, otherwise known as the larest ongoing cocktail party on earth. Facebook, with over 275 million active users, now has a population greater than the 4th largest country on earth and is trailing only China, India and the United States in citizens. Bob Corcoran of Corcoran Consulting Inc. outlines some great techniques in a recent article on his website: (more…)
Posted by Michael Saunders on May 18, 2009
Drew Thomas interviews Drayton Saunders prior to Reinvent Yourself 09
Updates from Reinvent Yourself 09:
Drayton Saunders discusses tactics with Drew Thomas of 107.9 WSRZ prior to the event in Sarasota, FL. Hear Drayton’s views on keeping customers on the pulse of the market through new communication methods below:
Drew Thomas interviews Drayton Saunders at Reinvent Yourself 09
Has Florida coming through the worst of the housing crisis? Listen to Steve Harney share his views on the market’s outlook and his call for leadership under difficuly circumstances:
Drew Thomas interviews Steve Harney at Reinvent Yourself 09
Michael Saunders and Matthew Ferrara discuss the connection between the marketplace, the consumer and the agent and what it means for the future of real estate:
Drew Thomas interviews Michael Saunders and Matthew Ferrara at Reinvent Yourself 09
