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Street Advisor ~ Be The Local Expert For Your Street & Town!

Street advisor is a website that allows you to be the local expert for your street and neighborhood. As a Realtor, this is another excellent opportunity to be out in front by being the trusted advisor to potential buyers as well as residents of your town.

Like other review sites such as TripAdvisor.com for travel, epinions.com for products, and Yelp.com for restaurant reviews, StreetAdvisor is for streets/neighborhoods. Street advisor is FREE to join. It's a new kind of on-line real estate community where people provide a real-life "insider" view. StreetAdvisor allows you to be the residential guide through summaries, stories, pictures, videos, and your insight and opinions.

StreetAdvisor is an online community where homeowners, renters, and buyers can share and learn about quality of life on specific streets, along with the neighborhood, local services and related details known only by those who have lived there.

Each person can rank the streets where they live, lived or visited, contributing to the overall StreetScore ranking displayed for each street. If a review doesn't yet exist for their street, they can be the first to add it.

Consumers can share and discover vital details including noise levels, traffic, neighbors, entertainment, and public services, etc. in a way that wasn't previously available on the Web. It also allows for firsthand recommendations and negative experiences about local businesses, entertainment, services, lifestyle, and back road gems that people outside the town may not know about.

In addition to street reviews, people can contribute and read content for cities, states, and countries. This extends the community for people to communicate with each other and encourages conversations specific at every level.

This is just another great way to brand yourself in the public eye as "THE SOURCE" to go to when it comes to Real Estate!

I just did my 1st review on the site in my home town of Hopkinton Massachusetts for the street I live on. I plan on doing more reviews as my time allows. Streetadvisor is very new. There are very few who have taken advantage of this site yet. In my town, I will be the 1st to use it.

This offers a great opportunity to members of Active Rain to be the 1st in their community! As a Realtor, you are probably going to have a better handle of the in depth details a person may be looking for about a specific neighborhood. This is a site that is bound to grow as the web 2.0 and social marketing expands.

You are able to create a profile and of course provide a valuable link to your website or blog!

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The above information regarding Street Advisor was provided by Bill Gassett, the team leader for the #2 RE/MAX RE/MAX Executive Realty logo Team in Massachusetts in 2006.

Bill can be reached via email at billgassett@remaxexec.com or by phone at 508-435-5356. Bill has helped people move in and out of Hopkinton Massachusetts and other Metrowest towns for the last 22 Years. Bill's office is conveniently located in the center of Hopkinton MA at 77 Main Street.

I have a passion for Real Estate and love to share my marketing expertise! I would welcome the opportunity to earn your business.

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Posted by Bill Gassett Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate on 01/17/2008 03:19 PM

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47 Comments on Street Advisor ~ Be The Local Expert For Your Street & Town!

JAN

2008

Bill,

I think I am going to nominate you for the Mogul networker of the year award! Every time I stop in you have connected somewhere else and added valuable content. Absolutely incredible!

Bill, I have just joined and I'm working on a review for my town of LaPointe, Wisconsin. Thanks for the valuable tip!

Karen - You are funny! Missy Caulk has started to call me Mr Social Network - LOL I am not sure I want these titles :) I think this could be a good site to be on if it catches on.

Eric - Good job my friend. Hope you get some traffic from it.

Thanks for the heads-up; but OMG - How can you keep up on so many sites?! What IS your secret?

Yeah! Thanks, sounds awesome:)

It's a Good Life!

Fran

Ok Bill, just for you, I joined. You maniac, lol

Bill, I'm getting so social I can't keep up with all the invites...I think I'm going to have to hire a social secretary! LOL ;-)

Jim - It really isn't that hard. Active Rain is where most of my time is spent. There are other sites like some I have mentioned in my blog but honestly they don't require any baby sitting.

Fran - You are quite welcome. I thought it looked great when I saw it.

Missy - It's funny how things work out but a short time after my posting I got an email from Adam Spencer who is the CEO and founder of Streetadvisor thanking me for doing the post. He seems like a really nice guy. He asked if there was anything that could be done to improve the site. I would be interested in your thoughts?

Linda - That is funny. If it turns out we need social directors, I am sure there will be quite a bit of business coming our way :)

Bill, oh my another place to go...thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks, I love my street and now have a chance to brag on it.

Gena - You are welcome :)

Retta - There ya go! It makes it very worthwhile when you have the passion to write about something you know well.

JAN

2008

I just saw your post in Google and checked out street advisor. I used to be a resident of Hopkinton many years ago. It was great to look at some of your pictures. I have memories of watching the Marathon from town center.

Bill-As always, Thank YOU for keeping us well informed. I'm excited to check this one out. Have a wonderful weekend.

Jim - Thanks for dropping by and commenting. I am glad you liked the pictures. I plan on adding some more in the near future. The Boston Marathon is great! As you know being in Hopkinton on that day is something else! Hopkinton is a great place to live.

Julie - Thanks so much. Street advisor looks like a place that would be right up your alley :)

JAN

2008

Bill - U da man. You keep pointing us towards the best sites. Many thanks.

Thanks Tom - I created a profile for my neighborhood - pretty easy to do.

JAN

2008

Hi Bill, thanks for the great review. I've written a blog post about how realtors can make the most of StreetAdvisor.com here - http://blog.streetadvisor.com/streetadvisor/2008/01/new1-1.html

I saw very few comments in my community when I checked it out last year. Actually, as a real estate agent, I couldn't imagine saying anything negative whatsoever about your street or neighborhood, so I hardly see where agents have much to offer to this venue. But who the heck knows? Maybe it will take off big time. So little time. So many sites.

JAN

2008

Brian - You are welcome. I just went over to your blog and made a comment.

Hi Elizabeth - I know what you mean. I probably would not be highly critical of an area either but would touch more on what the strengths are of a particular neighborhood.

Bill- Oh not again! :) It's nice that you share this with all of us really. You have guided me to more than one great place on the web. I will have to check it out!

JAN

2008

Hi Midori - No problem. Hope you like it :)

Now Bill...This one I'm interested in : )

Sandra - Go for it. I expect a shining review of your neighborhood!

Hi guys,

I've been keeping an eye on the comments about StreetAdvisor, and I must say a big thankyou for everyone getting involved. It's always great to see interest in what we are doing over here at StreetAdvisor HQ.

Elizabeth, StreetAdvisor has so many uses for Real Estate prefoessionals like yourself. Remember you don't have to write negative comments at all, rather what you KNOW about the area. Some people LIKE noisy streets (young party goers, university students) while other don't like it at all. Some people LIKE the fact the street maybe close to a freeway, others might not. It all depends on the person reading the information. BUT, someone like yourself can use StreetAdvisor (for free!) to find what the locals are saying, and get that extra piece of inside information that the next realtor doesnt have.

Any more question, i'd be glad to answer them personally either here or just mail me at adams@streetadvisor.com

PS. We will be at Inman SF Connect again in July, so be sure to come and say hi!

JAN

2008

Adam - You are making some really great points. I just sent you an invite to join Active Rain. This would be a great platform for you to get your message across.

JAN

2008

Congratulations Bill. You were quoted in the latest Street Advisor news letter. Which points to this blog.

Jeff - Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know that. I will have to go check it out.

MAR

2008

Thanks! I love it and have signed up and am going to start writing about the different streets that I service.

Your welcome deb. I have to do more Street profiles myself. These overviews do very well in the search engines.

MAR

2008

cool I'll check it out. It sounds great and another way to let peope on your street know who the real estate agent is near them.

Ross - The Street Advisor site is a great way to gain instant exposure and credibility. The post are highly indexed by Google - Best of luck with it.

MAR

2008

Thank you for sharing Bill. I have registered with StreetAdvisor I will stay tuned and attempted to become more familiar with how the site supports my community marketing efforts.

Hi Dionne just do a few reviews of some streets you know best and you will be on your way :)

OCT

2008

HI BILL!

Awesome info! I already know that you're the street advisor for Hopkinton MA, but thanks for sharing so that we can all get on board!!

Thanks for sharing such great info - I will check it out!

Bill

I did topix, for two towns, I guess I can do this too.

Richard

Yvette - At least I like to think so:) Good luck with the Street Advisor site.

Norma - Your welcome. Good luck with it.

Richard - Topix is my favorite site out of all of them. Hope it is bringing you some traffic.

I might have to give the site a try. Thanks for the tip

Carol - Your welcome. Hope you get something out of Street Advisor.

OCT

2008

Wow Bill - Another site to join. But it sounds worthwhile so I will go over there and sign up. Sometimes its hard to keep up with all of the places where I am on the web. Thanks for sharing.

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