After all of the hustle and bustle, the holidays are finally here. Traditionally there aren't a lot of people out touring homes this week, so it gives you some time to take a breather and get caught up on office duties, while sipping egg nog. If you haven't taken a look at your Zillow Profile l
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12/19/2009
This week Zillow made a couple of announcements that I have been busy answering questions about all week, so I thought I'd make a quick video response about: 1) Rentals on the site and 2) Featured Listing and manual listing change. Please either click on the links above or watch the video below
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12/18/2009
Recently Facebook expanded the options available to users to better control who they allowed to see what information on their Facebook page. I encourage you to really think though what policies you enact on your page to correspond to your goals of using the site. Are you just using Facebook to
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12/17/2009
There are two big product changes on Zillow today. The first is the addition of Rentals to the site, which I blogged about here. We are very excited to now have this functionality available to both Agents and home shoppers. The second change has to do with listings that are manually added to t
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12/15/2009
I have an investment property in Florida. In the last three years, twice I’ve listed it for sale. Twice I’ve ended up renting it. Twice I’ve relied on my agentto help me with the decision making that took me down this path to simply get the home occupied. It is a big reality that today’s real est
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12/15/2009
I just got back from a Real Estate Bar Camp in Atlantic City, and like so many conference I attend lately, social media marketing dominated the conversations. A lot of talk revolves around: how can I get Twitter followers, how can I get Facebook friends, how can I get LinkedIn contacts. Then ta
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12/07/2009
Last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, an annual survey about the home buying and selling process. There were over 9,000 respondents from around the US. The report contains tons of detailed information on the demographics, beha
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12/01/2009