Perhaps it’s just me, but it doesn’t seem like Frontdoor is on the front of the mind of many Agents on the market today. The site, launched six months ago by HGTV, now has more than three million listings, combined with a bunch of articles and videos catering to buyers. Are Agents catering to Frontdoor or...
Problogger is one of the best resources around for budding blog authors, regardless of what industry they’re in. A good introduction to how to think about blogging on your site is this post on how to make your blog sticky. Getting readers to a blog is only half of the challenge – the other, and arguably more...
1000watt Consulting redid their Web 2.0 mindmap for Agents, giving a good overview of the different players in this new media landscape at the moment. One complaint? Sites like Single Property Sites aren’t included. That aside, it’s a great resource to see the different real estate marketing and technology...
Denver — July 15, 2008: Single Property Sites, a Web 2.0 company, announced Google Analytics functionality across its network of single property Web sites. Beginning immediately, agents are able to install the Google Analytics tracking code onto any of the property sites in their network. The Google Analytics functionality...
Here are the results of a Yahoo! survey of 500 home buyers and sellers on how the Internet plays into their real estate decisions. Home buyers and sellers consider approximately two agents on average before making a final decision. The Internet impacts consumer trust. Forty percent of respondents credited a site in...
Interesting discussion going on over at the 1000WATT discussion blog, talking about what Real Estate will look like in the future. The entry questions whether a physical location is even necessary any more? One comment points out that according to the NAR, 80% or more potential customers start their search for an agent...
I was reading the Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog, which seems to be on vacation at the moment, and caught this post on Facebook as a tool for Agents to market their properties. Joel goes through several advantages to using Facebook for real estate marketing, including being able to keep in touch with past clients,...
This article made waves in the past day over at Inman News. Marc Davidson devotes his column to talking about the changes in the real estate industry and how brokers and agents are going to have to work closer together now that the “10 years of real estate’s sex, drugs and rock and roll has lifted.” There’s...
ActiveRain announced a brandable version of their popular blogging platform today. This looks interesting and will be a great tool for Real Estate Agents to expand their blogging presence online. It also includes the capability to post simultaneously to several different areas of the ActiveRain site, making it a good...