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Thank You Zillow's Sara Bonert and ActiveRain University

By Marney Kirk

Real Estate Agent with Cummings & Co. Realtors

March 29, 2010 06:31 AM

Zillow.com may not be my favorite real estate site (it’s hard to beat my own & ActiveRain), and the Zestimates in my area may be far from accurate, but the tools provided for AGENTS are just amazing.

First, I want to thank Sara Bonert and ActiveRain University for the great webinar today. Sara works for Zillow and graciously gave her time to teach us how to use the site to boost our ActiveRain or personal websites.

If you are not using Zillow, for multiple reasons, you are missing out.

Sara, along with Brad Andersohn from ActiveRain shared with us how to add the Zillow Real Estate Statistics Chart Widget and Newest Homes Widget right on your blog’s sidebar.

Zillow Sidebar Widget

Sara noted how you can write a blog post answering a question on Zillow – post it on ActiveRain for SEO/Google Juice and then return to Zillow and post an answer while linking to your blog post in reference.

Have these things been discussed before? Of course. But sometimes we need a refresher or get new ideas to remind us what we should be doing.

I also want to note that these things that Zillow offers are FREE to agents. You just have to create an account.

And those Zestimates? Well, I find them to be a great talking point. It really does showcase just how real estate knowledge is LOCAL!

For any real estate needs in Towson, Maryland or around the Baltimore Metropolitan area,

THINK MARNEY IN MARYLAND!

Marney Kirk Keller Williams Excellence Realty

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Timonium, MD 21093

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Sara Bonert

Zillow - Atlanta, GA

Real Estate Internet Marketing

Nice widget installation! Thank you so much for dialing into the call today, glad you found it helpful. Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Mar 29, 2010 12:15 PM

Spencer Rascoff

Zillow - Seattle, WA

Nice work Marney. And good job with the co-branding. I clicked through on the widget and now you're following me all around Zillow!

Mar 29, 2010 12:18 PM

Marney Kirk

Cummings & Co. Realtors - Towson, MD

Towson, Maryland Real Estate

Thanks, Sara! I wouldn't have known how to do it without you & Brad. It was really a great session, and I am going to implement questions in my blogs. I'd heard of doing that before, but forgotten. So simple, yet effective! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Mar 30, 2010 01:13 AM

Thanks, Spencer! I didn't know it did that if you came from the widget. That is SO COOL! My next step is to figure out how to install these on my personal website. I have been talking about it forever, but knowing how to do it here now, I am certain I can figure it out for my other site! Thank you for your innovative ideas to promote agents!

Mar 30, 2010 01:14 AM

ActiveRain University

ActiveRain University - Seattle, WA

Thank you for joining us Marney and for posting about the experience. Sara did a fantastic job!
We hope you'll join us for future classes and training sessions in the days ahead.
There's so many tools and so much to learn, I hope ARU will be a great resource for you. :-)

Mar 30, 2010 02:13 AM

Klaus Nicholson

ROSE ANNE ERICKSON REALTY, LLC. Columbus Ga, Ft Benning, - Columbus, GA

Realtor, Columbus Ga Homes, Fort Benning Homes

Marney Kirk, Towson Maryland Real Estate (Keller Williams Excellence Realty)

Thank you for posting your information. I've been to Zillow once and never returned. It is time to revisit their site.

RealtorNick, Columbus Ga Homes, Fort Benning Homes, RE/MAX Champions Realty

Mar 30, 2010 02:43 AM

Jennifer Fivelsdal

JFIVE Home Realty LLC | 845-758-6842|162 Deer Run Rd Red Hook NY 12571 - Rhinebeck, NY

Mid Hudson Valley real estate connection

Marney I did miss Sara's presentation but did see Spencer at RainCamp. I plan to do more with Zillow in the near future.

Glad that you see how this can benefit your business.

Mar 31, 2010 12:55 AM

ARU -- thank you for these great classes. I have learned more in the past week than I have learned in a long time!

Nick -- you definitely should. If nothing else, you need to know what your sellers are looking at!

Jennifer -- Do it! It has GREAT value!

Thank you all for stopping by and commenting!

Mar 31, 2010 01:17 PM

Patricia Kennedy

RLAH@properties - Washington, DC

Home in the Capital

Marney, I think Sara is a wonderful ambassador from Zillow. I met her serveral times at the Inman Connect in New York, and then I started to feel really bad about the Zillow rants I'd written!

Apr 09, 2010 03:24 PM

Al & Peggy Cunningham, Brokers

RE/MAX West Realty Inc., Brokerage - Brampton, ON

Our Family Wants To Help Your Family!

Hey Marney! We were on that call as well and found it very informative even though Zillow isn't here in Canada.....yet. You are right we thought Sara did a great job.

Apr 13, 2010 01:12 PM

Pat, she is fantastic. I have my own issues with Zillow, and their incorrect "Zestimates" for my area, but I have embraced how this helps rather than hurts. It helps to show just how LOCAL real estate is! :-)

Al & Peggy, thanks! She is fantastic!

Apr 16, 2010 12:07 PM

Thank You Zillow's Sara Bonert and ActiveRain University

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