I got off the phone with a Hostgator tech support person a few days ago and vowed to write a post reminding real estate agents of why we recommend them for real estate website hosting. Finding a place to host your real estate website or blog is one of the first things you’re confronted with…
If you’re a real estate agent who sends regular marketing pieces to your past clients, contacts, and/or a farm, you might be surprised to know what your potential future real estate clients are thinking about towards the end of the year. (I’m talking right now primarily about home buyers, but of course their mindset affects…
For your real estate marketing, you probably know that you get more online traffic to your real estate website, blog, and social media pages when you use the same keywords in your page titles and text that people use in their online searches. But… how do you know what keywords your prospective real estate clients are actually…
Yesterday I had to call ValueWeb to help out a client who needed his domain name pointed to a different server. During my over half an hour on hold (starting out as caller number 44 — the horror!) I was reminded of how important it is to choose a reliable company for domain names and…
Think you need to spend a lot to market yourself effectively online? Think again! This video shows how one smart agent, Yuno Marioni, is using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Biznik and Active Rain to create a strong online presence. (Without a fancy website, and virtually for free!) Important Social Media Links from the Video: www.Biznik.com www.LinkedIn.com…
The number of U.S. Twitter users more than doubled in March 2009, jumping to 9.3 million users. What’s really interesting is this demographic tidbit reported by the internet measurement firm comScore in the Puget Sound Business Journal: “…45- to 54-year-olds are the most likely to use the service at 36 percent above the average. They are…
When you’re blogging for real estate it’s often interesting to quote a news article or some text from another realtor’s blog in order to demonstrate a point. But when does a quote cross the line and become copyright infringement? Here’s a good article about copyright law that explains in detail what you need to watch…
Do you hate your real estate website? If you’re like 80% of the real estate agents I talk to the answer is a resounding “Yes!” Here’s why you should consider making your next website a nice, clean blog-based site. 1. Your Blog Can Look Just Like a Website A blog is really any website designed on…
I was cruising around the Yahoo real estate section the other day and stumbled upon an interesting research study about how home buyers and sellers choose real estate agents. I definitely think it’s worth your time to read, especially since it’s pretty recent, from April of 2008. The report is called “Online Engagement Affects Agent Selection Process” …
I’m trying out the Smart Youtube plugin for WordPress, by Vladimir Prelovac. It makes it super simple to customize the size of the Youtube player, add borders and change border colors. It also makes the code simpler to copy and paste over, since you just use the straight link and add a ‘v’ after ‘http’ in the Youtube…
