website: But I Like My Email Address!
- 04/15/07 08:40 AM
That must be what some folks are thinking. Scan any real estate magazine, or run through a list of email addresses at your local board, and it's amazing what you'll find! They range from the sublime (professionally speaking) to the ridiculous (also, professionally speaking!) Here's my point: your selection of email address definitely influences the number of email leads you'll get. Imagine yourself in the shoes of a prospective buyer or seller, with countless agents offering their services. If the following were the email addresses you were invited to contact, who would be your choice? And which would you write off? Jimmy917589@aol.comIMAQT@homail.comrealestatemagazineleads@punxsutawneyrealestateforsale.comJim@JimAnderson.comAnn@AtlantaHomes.comI'm (22 comments)
website: Does Your Website Exploit Your Web Niche?
- 04/11/07 06:58 AM
In reading May DeLuca's blog How Well Do You Use Your Website , I noticed her item#3 was all about how folks find us on the web. Obviously, if an agent is only found by people searching for them by name, the site is not generating new business. Yet there are so many websites out there, it's easy for ours to get lost in the search engine rankings, unless we've got the big bucks to pay a high cost-per-click for traffic. Or is it?? Here's my thinking: I don't really want thousands of clicks from every user out there who is searching (21 comments)
website: How Good Is Your Website?
- 04/10/07 02:53 PM
How effective is your website? I'm not talking about how many hits you get, or how cool a flash intro it's got, or how many incoming links it's getting. Those are all considerations for a different post. I just want to talk about how well your site does the two basic things a real estate website needs to do: Snag a prospects' interest with listings. Because buyers don't go to real estate sites primarily to find an agent they like the looks of, they go to find properties that catch their eye. So if you don't have any listings on the site to (6 comments)
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