real estate marketing: Pinterest for Real Estate Marketing - 03/16/15 08:18 AM
I love Pinterest. It is one of my favorite traffic sources (behind SEO) to generate new readers to my sites.
 

 
A few fun facts about Pinterest:
 
Pinterest is in the top 20 websites in the United States. 50 - 70 million monthly users. It is a SEARCH ENGINE. Boards rank in the top SERPs with search engines.  
Pinterest is the top social media platform that I see a lot of real estate agents not using (or not using properly) as part of their real estate marketing plan. 
 
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real estate marketing: Marketing Regular Sale vs. Short Sale vs. Bank Owned - 06/05/09 10:08 AM
The current market has created "options" for buyers - regular sales, short sales and bank owned properties. Has this new market changed how you market your listings and business?
Do you find that you market each property "type" based on what type of sale they are? A regular sale gets more attention because you have a seller to answer to? A bank owned is marketed more because it's the hot item in your area? You are marketing less because it's a buyer's market? What are you selling and how are you marketing your properties different than you did 1 year ago? 3 years?
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real estate marketing: Are You a Doctor or a Real Estate Agent? - 06/01/09 02:07 AM
In my previous life I worked with the marketing of medical education, a lot of the doctors had so many designations we had to limit them to fit in our marketing materials. Some of the physicians understood but others took it as a personal attack of their work to achieve the designation with various medical societies and insisted that they all be included.
As a real estate agent, you have your NAR accredited designations, REO designations are popping up from everywhere that some asset managers require of you, luxury designation from various institutes and groups, and on and on and on. You too, … (30 comments)

real estate marketing: Benefits of Social Networking - 05/20/09 06:13 AM
As real estate agents we all understand the importance of social networking. With society so fast paced today networking can be a difficult thing to accomplish along with everything else that needs to be done. Modern lives are much more complicated and busy and using tools to help agents connect with home buyers and sellers can increase your business immensely.
Utilizing web sites like Facebook, twitter and youtube not only will increase the exposure of your business, it will allow sellers and buyers to get to know you on a personal level. People really like to work with people they know … (1 comments)

real estate marketing: OUTSOURCING YOUR MARKETING EFFORTS - 05/18/09 08:55 AM
As most agents know there never seems to be enough time in the day. By leveraging your time to get the most powerful opportunities for your business is one of the biggest obstacles facing Realtors. Utilizing tools new technology have made available can make all the difference in the world.
Agents have begun using the internet as an advertising tool simply to help save them some time and energy. Real estate agents are now seeing the potential this medium has.
It is expected by home buyers and sellers now for an agent to have a web site and update it frequently.
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real estate marketing: Advertising Through Your Blog - 05/17/09 01:29 PM
A blog put simply is a type of website that has regular entries of commentary, current events having to do with the business posting the blogs, and can also contain other material such as graphics and videos.
This definition doesn't come close to really describing how a blog can help propel your business to be more successful then you ever thought possible.  By keeping up a regular blog not only will you be keeping in touch with past clients and any future clients just joining your sphere of influence, you will be putting your name out to millions of people.
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