Do you remember the last real estate seminar you attended? While you were there you were probably exposed to some new marketing or selling techniques. How much of what you learned that day have you actually started using? Do you even know where you put those Real Estate Seminar Notes you … [Read more...]
Why Do Realtors Need Technology?
Using technology effectively is a low cost, high impact way to control and increase your business. This past summer I had a unique opportunity to review my business and in particular my use of technology. I left the company I had been with since 1997 and dissolved a 7+ year business partnership. In … [Read more...]
Top 10 Online Real Estate Tools
Lifehacker today has a great story for Realtors although it is really pointed towards home buyers and sellers. The article describes 10 tools, including Zillow of course, that help people get through the buying and selling of reale estate. … [Read more...]
Big Changes at Canadian MLS site
Here in Canada we have been looking forward to a big change in the way that the Canadian MLS site was going to be presenting listings. The changes are now live. So what kinds of changes would be ground breaking to you? Here in Canada the MLS is now mapped with Microsoft Virtual Earth and you can … [Read more...]
How to make web 2.0 work for you
I just ran across an article on social marketing (you know the non web 2.0 buzzwordInfluential Interactive Marketing: 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO)There are a lot of tips on this page on how to get your site recognized and none of them are the good content variety tip. Most … [Read more...]
Realtor Marketing Ezine
I am starting a Realtor Newsletter, on the internet these are known as Ezines. The reason that I thought that it would be a good idea to start this is that there are a lot of subjects in internet marketing for Realtors but there is no real start or end. The idea of this newsletter is that I can have … [Read more...]
Realtor Newsletters – 5 Tips
Realtor Newsletters offered to your opt-in list subscribers provides many benefits in terms of driving traffic into your site as well as boosting the potential for buyers and listings. This is a marketing ploy that will not hugely dent your marketing budget and will not also require many man-hours … [Read more...]
Real Estate investing
When it comes to investing, everybody has certain goals and aspirations. However, we have found that there are certain guidelines every aspiring real estate investor needs to know: 1. Compare Property Values and Rents Financial statistics only go so far; the best measure of a property's market … [Read more...]
Special deals from the National Association of Realtors
Here is a list of different things that you can get deal on just for being a member of the National Association of Realtors; The Pacific Institute The Pacific Institute, an international corporation specializing in personal and organizational performance improvement and professional growth, offers … [Read more...]
FSBO to Realtor system?
I have just run across an article about a strange new website called hungryagents.com. The idea behind hungry agents is that if your are looking to sell you list your home on this site and Realtors are supposed to bid on your listing. With the number of Realtors in most markets I am not sure why … [Read more...]