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How Real Estate Professionals Can Use Foursquare - 07/20/10 11:17 AM
If you have not yet heard of the popular app Foursquare, you are sure to hear of it soon. With all the talk of security and privacy on the internet, it is hard to believe that an app that is all about letting people know where you are would have such a meteoric rise, but it has. And as the old real estate cliché says, it is all about location, location, location.
Foursquare lets users check-in at various locations, giving them the opportunity to win prizes and compete with other users to become the most frequent patrons. Foursquare users relish gaining … (12 comments)
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Upgrade Your WordPress Website and Boost Your Bottom Line - 07/15/10 11:39 AM
Recently when we asked a web designer we know why she was thinking about a career switch, she said that many web designers were doing this because programs like WordPress made it possible for people to design their own websites without hiring people like her.
WordPress was at first just a site people used to set up blogs but with time the software has evolved. If you are very web savvy or have a friend who is, you can use WordPress to create a professional looking website that will look like you spent a lot of money to have it designed.
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Does Choosing REALTOR® Over Real Estate Agent Give Consumers an Advantage? - 07/14/10 07:46 PM
In the face-off between REALTORS® and real estate agents why should home buyers and home sellers care? Is there an actual advantage in choosing a REALTOR® over a real estate agent to handle your home purchase or home sale? REALTORS® say yes. Real estate agents say it's all a matter of semantics.
The majority of home buyers and home sellers seem to agree, treating the two terms synonymously, a practice that makes REALTORS® cringe. REALTORS® pay a premium in time, energy, education and fees to earn the right to place the registered REALTOR® trademark before their names. In several recent posts … (5 comments)
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After Lead Generation, You Must Listen Well - 07/13/10 11:48 AM
The tools that Go Pro Systems provides are great for lead generation and lead conversion. We even have new "3 in 3"" guarantee- real estate agents we'll help you generate three listings or three buyers within three months, but when that is all over it will still be up to you to pay attention to what your clients are saying.
That's right technology can and will get you there, but once you are there, it is up to you to take the ball and run with it. If your efforts lead to you meeting and conversing with potential clients, but do … (4 comments)
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Why REALTORS® Code of Ethics Matters - 07/12/10 01:19 PM
Although it's a distinction few consumers make, there is a tremendous difference between a real estate agent and a REALTOR®.
A REALTOR® may be a real estate agent, but a real estate agent (or broker) is not necessarily a REALTOR®. REALTORS® are real estate professionals who belong to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), subscribe to the REALTORS®' Code of Ethics, and agree to abide by the ethical business practices and consumer protection standards set forth by this self-governing arm of the real estate industry.
In practice, REALTORS® are often business owners operating a real estate agency with which a number … (7 comments)
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Why Real Estate Professionals Need Blogs - 07/08/10 01:27 PM
Depending on who you ask, on what day, blogging is either old-fashioned since we now have things like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter or it is much more viable way to promote your business than having website with content that stays in place.
More often than not, the people who say that blogging is dead are very tech savvy and started blogging when it was still new. Now that blogging has become part of the norm and is a established online communication medium, it is no longer cutting edge, so they want to abandon it.
Now, what is very old-fashioned is having … (10 comments)
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REALTOR® or Real Estate Agent? Difference Is More than Semantics! - 07/07/10 01:25 PM
Many home buyers and home sellers use the words "REALTOR®" and real estate agent interchangeably, but the distinction is far greater than most people imagine. This is one of those rare cases where words do make a difference. The distinction may seem minor to consumers, a matter of semantics, somewhat like using Kleenex (a registered trademark) for tissue or jello (an informal spelling of the registered trademark Jell-O) for gelatin; but in the real estate world, there is a huge difference between a real estate agents/brokers and a REALTOR®
In 2003, a real estate agent who was not a member of … (7 comments)
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Advise Your Clients Not to Let Buyers Move in Before Closing - 07/06/10 01:43 PM
Most of the time when we buy something, we do not get to take possession of it until we have paid for it. Unless there is some kind of rent-to-own agreement in place, a seller will normally hold onto an item or a house until they have received payment. However, there are exceptions to every rule. In rare cases in real estate, a seller may end up allowing a buyer to move in before closing.
As a real estate professional, you may have experienced or heard of a colleague experiencing some kind of glitch where things do not go as planned … (65 comments)
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The Virtual Realtor: How Technology Is Changing the Real Estate Game - 07/06/10 11:44 AM
It didn't start with Facebook, but Facebook caused the paradigm shift. Before Facebook, people communicated over the Internet via email. Some, particularly the younger crowd, used IM (Instant Messenger) to chat. The tech-savvy experimented with My Space; but it was Facebook that brought social media into the mainstream and changed the way we communicate. Thanks to the comfort level we have developed with Facebook, people now turn first to the Web to interact with each other and obtain information. Facebook wove social media into the fabric of our daily lives and in so doing changed the way we communicate.
The paradigm … (14 comments)
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New Tools to Help Realtors Manage Social Media Accounts - 07/01/10 10:48 AM
Real estate professionals use social media for outreach and new applications to help you manage your social media and marketing output are rolling out all the time. If you are adventurous and do not mind switching things around now and them, you can try social media tools until you find the one or ones that work best for you.
If you find that you have a hard time keeping track of contacts, you might want to try Flowtown. This application does digging for you and presents you with the results. If you have someone's e-mail address, Flowtown can tell you their … (7 comments)
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