Internet Advertising

Mandee, I believe that to post a listing to AR, you simply enter it just as you would a blog posting.  At the bottom, click the box "For Consumers" and more options will appear, including "Advertising a Listing".  Choose that, and then at the very bottom make sure you choose the appropriate region.  From there it should appear on localism.com  Good luck!

Mandee-  Sara from Zillow here.  I checked out Melissa's post, and the links she is referring to, and commented on her blog twice.  So I won't repeat that here. 

However, as one of the top trafficked real estate sites (4 million people a month), I think it is SO important to make sure your listings are found on Zillow.  Is a great marketing platform for your listings. 

Advertising your listings is very different that participating in our forum section.  You can chose which areas in which you choose to participate. 

While some of the threads can be a bit 'colored', shall we say, I do think there are some strong learning pointed that Realtors can take away from them.  The consumers are actually saying in some of those posts what they DON'T want from Realtors.  You'll find a lot of positive comments when a Realtor makes a post with information that the public DOES want.  However, please note that if you ever see something totally offensive on Zillow, you can flag it and our customer service team will review and take it down when necessary. 

Best to you as you begin putting your marketing plan together.  Sounds like you are on the right track!

Hello Mandee and welcome to the blogging world!

You should check out Postlets.  You can create a listing that looks really cool and then just copy and paste it into ActiveRain, Craigslist, or whatever.  Here's one I listed on craigslist.  I'm not a Realtor, I was just helping my father-in-law sell his house.

I don't buy advertisements from websites, but I've found that you can generate some traffic just by blogging.  Start a few blogs and have them linking back to your website.  Write some stuff very specific about your town.  You'll be suprised how high you'll pop up on Google just from your Blogs here on ActiveRain.  If you search for "Scranton Wilkes Barre commercial property" my Active Rain profile is #2 on the page right now.  Not bad for free.  My company website doesn't even show up and I'm paying for that one!

The best advice is to find some people on here that have blogs about Real Estate Marketing.  Some people have blogs that just lay out A-->Z of what to do to get traffic.  If you email me, I'll dig some up for you.

We should chat about networking.  I'd love to close some loans for you just so I can have an excuse to travel down to State College and have some Grilled Stickies!

Let's Go State!

Mandee...I see you've asked how to post listings to localism.com.  Katie Wethman gave the directions in her comment.  I hope you've tried.  If you need additional help let us know.

Also, when you write a post you should see links to localism.com on the right side of the screen.  That will probably be a big help also.

Cheers,

Kathleen