I am now realizing that marketing yourself as well as your listings on-line is a full-time job in itself! I have been in the field for a few years and I use FMLS, realtor.com, my company's website and a few others but until just recently I had not branched out to utilize other helpful sites. I do believe I read somewhere that approximately 75-77% of buyers search the Internet for homes which means it is imperative to be on-line in this industry. I have compiled a nice size list of sites that are useful for Realtors to list their homes on.
Squidoo - I haven't quite worked this one out yet!
And of course there is always Active Rain, Craigslist, and Google Base. I also learned about Google Knol through a fellow AR associate. (I wish I had bookmarked it so I could put a link to his page).
Here are a couple other sites that I really like that are worth checking out:
Please feel free to add to these lists of sites. I am sure many will find it useful.
Now that I have profiles set up it will only take minutes to add and change listings but doing the research to find these sites took some time. However I must give a shot out to AR because I got a lot of useful information about these sites by searching blogs!
I am working on getting a few more blog sites where I can post my information as well...to help with SEO of course. So far I only have a Google blog (it is still in the works of being up and running). If you know of other great ones that you would recommend please share.
I seem to be keeping busy. My office has quite a dilemma but a good one to say the least. We are brainstorming as to whether or not we should rearrange some clients/responsibilities to add to our plates or if we need to hire another community manager. I would be lying if I said having too much work was a problem. I am excited because real estate is picking up as well (which is what I love). Right now I manage 6 communities but I must admit I am excited that real estate is picking up, that is my true passion!
Technorati Profile (Plug: Technorati is great for your blogs as well.)I spent the weekend in the office working on brochures, new listing flyers, a direct mail out and re-vamping a pre-listing packet. Busy, busy I love it!
"In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models."
~ Akira Mori
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