You can also market your property in different ways by highlighting attributes that make it stand out for the competition - gym, dog park, covered parking, proximity to school/retail/business/highway. 

They would be your competition!

Competition might make us reconsider though.

It would seem more competitive now and some suggest that it will get more competitive in the next few months with summer resulting in higher prices?...

Look at number of days on the market and also the saturation level for your price point of how many other properties are in the area.If there are for example 40 properties in your range in a 1 mile urban core radius but only 1 to 2 closes a month then you have heavy competition for the limited buyer pool in that space.

Landscaping needs to be comparable to the price range.Comp the competition, you might upgrade a few things for better marketability, if they don't have granite counters and cherry cabinets, you probably don't either, do upgrades that can be seen, but not over the top. 

Here's one I used a few years back for some specialty items and back then they ere competitive on signs, http://www.mfssupply.com/Welcome-Real-Estate-Agents the biggest issue would be the shipping cost as they are awkward and heavy.  

From what I have seen most of these seminars outsource the signing up and format to a large company that handles all of that.If you spend money a local investor one on one sometimes generates better results.Real estate no matter the asset class is hyper competitive.

Most of your competition is avoiding that call as well.... 

As a follow-up to the above, for home mortgages the 3 major Japanese banks have lowered 10-year fixed rates to 1.05%, with some of the internet banks such as Sony offering even more competitive rates at 0.05% variable rate.