...well, I think if you don't blog now, you may miss the boat when something leapfrogs blogging.
Either that or your laptop might fall off your lap.
Seriously.
Steve
steven.stearns@obeo.com
Obeoman
Just a heads up, I'm sure the more active bloggers have seen one of these already. I was cleaning out my spam comment-catcher and found one headlined "Sell My House Pasadena California."
As an industry, this sort of thing is damaging to the reputation and, sadly, mostly out of the control of individuals. Probably worth monitoring the kinds of messaging used in the spam and making sure your own messages are completely different in tone/scope (unless the spam is working of course... heh).
Happy Monday everyone,
G
I'm curious, what's the best video platform for Realtors? WellcomeMat, Mixpo, Youtube or others?
Whose had experience using any of them? What have been your results?
Share your experiences in the comments below.
I'd like to see what everyone thinks about this service. Will it be relevant to Real Estate? The site is www.socialspark.com
The service, as far as I can tell, connects businesses and bloggers. There are two main components to the site:
1) Bloggers - they build a profile and can have others rate them on their previous work or experience (similar to LinkedIn profiles), and
2) Businesses/Services - they post their blogging needs on the site and have bloggers bid to write (market) about their brand or service. more...
Hey all,
Been quiet the last few days, I hope everyone's doing well.
I recently finished a blog post about doing analytics benchmarking. It's part of my series on on site optimization (getting people who visit your site to convert), not to be confused with search engine optimization (getting people to visit your site).
Please give it a look-see and let me know how I can improve it. Thanks!
We just started this group and want to get the idea juices flowing!
Do you provide or know of a great tool or service to help those in the Real Estate industry flourish? We are hoping for some truly successful, original, cutting-edge, and creative ideas and services.
Does anyone out in Inman world want to throw their idea, service, or tool into the ring? more...
Zillow just launched a new offering for consumers and lenders; their Mortgage Marketplace. Any lenders planning to use the product to find new business? What are your experiences so far? How was the experience? Post your thoughts in the comments below.
Slow a little here for the past couple days (I hope everyone is out closing deals). I figured I'd throw out another topic:
If you could know one thing about visitors to your site/blog/online-presence what would it be? For those of you who know lots about your visitors already, what if you could know just one thing, what would it be?
For example, on the site I manage directly, if I could know just a single thing about my visitors I would want to know how soon someone is planning on making a purchase. I could do a fair bit of marketing with that information.
What about you?
Can anyone suggest a good idx solution for an agent website? I'm wondering about two distinct things:
1. Should it be map-based search or a pull-down menu search form, or both, or something else entirely?
2. Who are providers with whom other realtors have been happy?
We've just, finally, been granted the ability to use IDX by our board and I'd love to set it up once, correctly from the start. We can frame, we can FTP, we may be able to get access to the RETS feed but it's not entirely clear yet.
Any advice would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
Lori
This is for anyone tracking the performance of your web site. What do you consider the goal or conversion of a visitor into a lead? Becoming a registered user? A contact form? Something else?
Those of you not tracking this sort of thing, is it because it's too difficult/time-consuming or just that you do all the tracking at the sales level?
Thanks!
This morning I was in deep thought about the newer service available, which allows you to create an individual domain for each of your listings. As the domain name, you list the address of the home, then hang a sign rider at your listing with the website address: ex: www.1234yourstreet.com more...
It seems that there are 2 inman groups here called "Real Estate Marketing" . The other is "Real Estate Marketing 2.0" but I don't see that it's any different. Should these not be combined? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Lori Turoff
It seems that there are 2 inman groups here called "Real Estate Marketing" . The other is "Real Estate Marketing 2.0" but I don't see that it's any different. Should these not be combined? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Lori Turoff
It seems that there are 2 inman groups here called "Real Estate Marketing" . The other is "Real Estate Marketing 2.0" but I don't see that it's any different. Should these not be combined? Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Lori Turoff
Does anyone know of a product out there that agents [or anyone] can use to organize all of their online community involvement, memberships, archive comments and questions they've made [maybe], blog updates, video marketing... a way to see it all and to some degree manage it easily online? is this making sense? there's probably something obvious available and it's probably called something that i have no clue about... please point me in the right direction, thanks!
Hi,
I have a question i want to ask our Real Estate Experts, Is it to early to bring video to the real estate world?
I talk to a lot of Agents, Brokers, Owners and it seems like nobody wants to come out of the BOX. People keep doing same thing over and over again and expect different results, I think Thats wrong.
Personally i think in todays real estate market you need to be much more creative, find the marketing tool that will help you stand out from the rest, THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!! and Video marketing just might be that tool. more...
I wanted this group to be a place where people could post ideas, advice and tips on how they are integrated Web 2.0 technologies into their business.
A couple ideas to kick start the conversation:
Are you blogging?
Are you using social networks?
Have you tried video?
