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Useful Online Marketing Tools for A Real Estate Business

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Real Estate Agent with Americas Best Agents, Inc/Premiere Plus Realty, Inc BK417268

 

One of the most famous tools for real estate marketing is internet marketing. It makes the real estate industries to continuously become creative and find the most profitable ways to advertise and market their properties the best way possible. Fortunately, there have been a lot of gadgets going around in the market today, making internet marketing easy for everyone to see. Using the internet, real estate companies can come up with putting their own websites to publicly display all real estate properties for sale: whether it be a land, residential houses, or commercial properties. Through this, people can go directly to different real estate sites, which lets them view and compare every company’s properties for sale (along with the properties’ details) before they can acquire one.

They can also reach out to their target markets by using another form of marketing strategy: the e-mail marketing. E-mail marketing is an advertising tool used by various companies in promoting their products and services through sending promotional e-mail messages to their own clients. This type of marketing tactic is useful, especially in the real estate world where most clients are professional people who are always on-the-go and can only be reached through their e-mail addresses. Though oftentimes, a lot of e-mail sites have their spam alerts turned on for this specific type of marketing strategy, it’s still one practical way of getting a connection through clients, as well as to potential clients. Why? It is because e-mail marketing can be done and viewed by many people anytime and anywhere. These messages can be read through your cellular phones, laptops, iPads, and other useful gadgets whether you're at home, in your car, or in the business office. This also gives several real estate properties the advantage of giving instant contact details to their clients for their future reference. It's as easy as that.

Other internet marketing tools include Search Engine Optimization (SEO, commonly known as “link-building”) and real estate marketing blogs. While SEO becomes one of the hardest things to do in promoting one’s real estate business, SEO can also become one of the most interesting forms of online marketing. A lot of real estate industries invest their time and money through "link-building". It is because it serves them the advantage of becoming one of the most searched real estate companies in a particular region or country. Being placed on top not only makes them number one on Google and other search sites, it also helps them become one of the top sellers of real estate properties through this type of online advertising. On the other hand, blog writing (like the ones used in social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter) lets one real estate industry to create a promotional idea about its own company, products and services in a shorter amount of time. It also includes writing tips and general ideas about the whole real estate industry. This type of online marketing is used more frequently by other real estate companies since it lets them know how others react to their posted blogs (by allowing people to leave comments to their own blog sites), plus it gives them the authority to write about anything that is connected to the real estate world, which, in the end, may trigger the interests of other people not only in acquiring properties, but in putting up the same business as well.

 

Source: http://www.realestatemarketingblog.org/top-online-marketing-tools-for-real-estate/

 

 

 

Comments (10)

Ellen Dittman
Watson Realty Corp. - Middleburg, FL
#1 Stop for NE FLA-JAX/OP 904.535.1199 (TEXT OK) r

Hi Ginny Lee, I still feel like there is so much to learn in this area for me, so thank you for the post. I have advertised on syndicated websites on my own, and that gradually taught me the "trail" of where the information goes. Our company recently partnered with Smarter Agent and (I am still in set up mode) we are now able to market as your blog suggests. I look forward to this new tools usage and you pointed out that clients can recieve the ad on thier phone. That is great! Have a good day.  

Oct 13, 2010 12:41 AM
Barbara Michaluk
Weichert Realtors | Phone Direct 240-506-2434 | 301-681-0550 office - Silver Spring, MD
Leisure World Specialist / Full Service REALTOR

Ginny, you have touched on some of the many way to use the internet as a marketing tool.  It's growing and evolving as we speak and we all need to stay educated to best utilize all that is available.

Oct 13, 2010 12:46 AM
Fernando Herboso - Associate Broker MD, & VA
Maxus Realty Group of Samson Properties - Clarksburg, MD
301-246-0001 Serving Maryland, DC and Northern VA

This is where the future of our business is going to. ..implementing a solid foundation is good advice

Oct 13, 2010 01:05 AM
Susan Morrison
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Franklin, MA

Ginny.  I found your post with Fernando's reblog.  I thought I would comment here to and let you know that I enjoyed reading it.

Oct 13, 2010 01:12 AM
Ty Lacroix
Envelope Real Estate Brokerage Inc - London, ON

Ginny, internet marketing is a must and there are pluses and minuses to it. Every market is different & the secret is to find what works.

Ty

Oct 13, 2010 01:59 AM
Ginny Lee
Americas Best Agents, Inc/Premiere Plus Realty, Inc - Naples, FL
CRS, Realtor, CDPE & ASP,Americas Best Agent,Naple

Thanks everyone....I love the Internet most of it is FREE and it is a Great way to get more buyers and more sellers...just Google my name and you will see I am everywhere...but it does take a lot of work.

Hope you join my Facebook Page at

http://www.facebook.com/ginnylee7

Oct 13, 2010 02:17 AM
Allison Stewart
St.Cloud Homes - Saint Cloud, FL
St. Cloud Fl Realtor, Osceola County Real Estate 407-616-9904

Ginny- you are so right- it is a full time job!

Oct 13, 2010 03:05 AM
Ginny Lee
Americas Best Agents, Inc/Premiere Plus Realty, Inc - Naples, FL
CRS, Realtor, CDPE & ASP,Americas Best Agent,Naple

WOW lookat all the points you have....how did you get so many? Allison at ST Cloud Homes

Oct 13, 2010 03:55 AM
Cameron Novak
The Homefinding Center - 1000 Palms, CA
Real Estate Broker since 2008

I love the word cloud, but forgot what site you can do that on???  Thanks for posting.

Oct 13, 2010 11:06 PM
Mark Edwards
East West Realty - Suffolk, VA
East West Realty

Another helpful & interesting article, thanks.

Oct 14, 2010 07:32 AM