Gary Martin Hays, attorney and safety advocate, and David Carroll, real estate technology expert, recently hit five separate Amazon.com best-seller lists with the new real estate book, “Sold!”

Atlanta, Ga. – June 12, 2012 – David Carroll, Founder of softRealty.com, and Gary Martin Hays, Atlanta personal injury attorney and recognized safety advocate, recently joined a select group of the world’s leading real estate experts to co-author the book, Sold! The World’s Leading Real Estate Experts Reveal The Secrets to Selling Your Home for Top Dollar in Record Time!. The book was released by CelebrityPress™ – a leading business book publisher.

Sold! The World’s Leading Real Estate Experts Reveal The Secrets to Selling Your Home for Top Dollar in Record Time! was released on Thursday, May 10^th, 2012 and features proven secrets and strategies from some of the world’s leading real estate experts.  These experts share how to realize maximum sales and profits in an uncertain real estate environment. David Carroll and Gary Martin Hays contributed a chapter titled “Creating a Recession-Proof Marketing Strategy.”

On the day of release, Sold! reached best-seller status in five Amazon.com categories – reaching #1 in two categories: Real Estate and Buying & Selling.  The book also reached best-seller status in the Marketing, Direct Marketing, and Marketing & Sales categories.

Gary Martin Hays is not only a successful lawyer, but is a recognized safety advocate who works tirelessly to educate our children on issues ranging from bullying to internet safety to abduction prevention.  Gary has been seen on 9 television stations, including ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates.  He has appeared on over 108 radio stations, including the Georgia News Network, discussing legal topics and providing safety tips to families. He currently hosts “Georgia Behind The Scenes” on the CW Atlanta TV Network.  Gary is also an author of the best-selling business books, Trendsetters: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal Top Trends To Help You Achieve Greater Health, Wealth and Success! and Champions: Knockout Strategies For Health, Wealth and Success From Today’s Leading Experts.

In 2008, Gary started the non-profit organization Keep Georgia Safe with the mission to provide safety education and crime prevention training in Georgia.  Keep Georgia Safe has trained over 80 state and local law enforcement officers in CART (Child Abduction Response Teams) so our first responders will know what to do in the event a child is abducted in Georgia.  Gary has completed Child Abduction Response Team training with the National AMBER Alert program through the U.S. Department of Justice and Fox Valley Technical College.  He is a certified instructor in the radKIDS curriculum. His law firm has given away 1,000 bicycle helmets and 14 college scholarships.

David Carroll established himself as an innovator in real estate technology after launching softRealty.com in 2007. He has been a speaker at prominent real estate technology conferences such as Inman Connect, RETechSouth, and Real Estate Bar Camps. Having engaged with heads of MLSs, National Brokerages, and real estate agents of influence these past few years, he has learned quite a bit about how real estate agents can thrive with technology and social media, even during the worst housing market of our time.

In late 2011, David incorporated this vast knowledge of how real estate agents should connect and market online with his extensive background in technology and launched WebSocial.ly – an online marketing platform for building socially optimized websites.  WebSocial.ly takes the best practices of social media, search engine optimizations, and website design to help real estate agents and other professionals establish and dominate in their niche brand marketing.

From CelebrityPress®:

Regardless of whether you are an experienced salesperson, new to sales, or you wish to review the most contemporary concepts in today’s real estate market, the ideas that these Celebrity Experts® bring to the table will be worth their weight in gold when you read and incorporate them into your daily work-schedule.

After such a successful release, Gary Martin Hays and David Carroll will be recognized by The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists.

To order a copy of the book, please go to http://www.celebritypresspublishing.com/publications/sold.php

To learn more about Gary Martin Hays, visit http://www.GaryMartinHays.com.  To find out more about Keep Georgia Safe, please visit http://www.KeepGeorgiaSafe.org or call (770) 934-8000.

Learn more about David Carroll at http://www.softRealty.com and http://www.websocial.ly

About Celebrity Press™:

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