CEO Message - Feb. 4th, 2008

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST MONTH IN THE NEW CORPORATE OFFICE


It’s been only four months since we opened in our first state, California, on October 1, 2007. We are now opened in eight more states - Arizona, Oregon, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, and Tennessee. Several more openings in additional states are right around the corner.

We formally opened the corporate offices on January 2, 2008. It’s been a very busy and productive month recruiting Realtor Associates. First we concentrated on hiring 12 Telemarketers for each of two shifts. The first shift is 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EST. This shift starts calling states on the EST zone and works west as the morning progresses. The second shift starts at 1:00 pm and works until 5:00 pm, focusing on the CST and PST zones.

We are generating on average 1800 calls a day from the call center. Of those 1800 calls, we generate an average of 230 Realtor leads who are interested enough to want more information. We are currently working closely with the Telemarketers to turn these 230 leads into working leads, with the intent of closing 10% a day.

We have several new members of our team. Tammy Archibald has been promoted to Manager of all Telemarketing Closers. Karen Shipman has been promoted to Manager of all recruiting activities. She supervises Tammy Archibald and oversees the Call Center and the Closers.

Chris Fraser has been hired as the IT Department Supervisor, and is working diligently to develop all the systems that an operation of this size requires. We are currently investigating which programs are best for Video Conferencing and Phone conferencing. We hope to have these systems in place shortly.

Another item of interest is our new ability to use electronic signatures. This will streamline our operation in many ways, including giving us the ability to close a Realtor on joining us while we’re Video conferencing with them.

We have also established both Sign Standards and Business Card Standards in the last month. Our CFO, Mr. G. David Powell, will have the systems in place shortly that will handle the tracking and electronic storage of all documents for as many as 20,000 Realtors. We’ve been able to achieve the goals we set, to be ready to handle the growth of ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES.

Our Closers tell us that several of our Broker Affiliates have been excellent at working with them to bring on-board new Realtor Associates. Our goal for this month is to recruit ten Realtor Associates in each of our states. We need all our Broker Affiliates to help in achieving this month’s goal. Don’t hesitate to give Tammy Archibald the contact information of any Realtor in your area who you think would have an interest in joining ALLISON JAMES ESTATES & HOMES.