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Great Yahoo report on how home buyers and sellers choose agents

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Services for Real Estate Pros with The Agent Guide LLC

There's a really interesting report on the Yahoo broker's page that gives some valuable information about how people find, research and choose agents, online and off.

Go to the Yahoo Broker page, and then it's the second report in the list at the bottom of the page, called "Online Engagement Influences Agent Selection Proces."  I think this is really useful info to know when considering how you're going to invest time and money into connecting with people, and what topics they are most concerned about.

I did a summary of this report on the Tools For Real Estate blog, so I won't go into it again here but you can visit that page if you want to.  Either way, I recommend downloading the report from Yahoo (it's an easy read, plenty of graphs) and there's another good one on that page called "Embracing the Online Real Estate Market."

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Matt Liistro
National Credit Fixers - Matt Listro - Bridgeport, AL
Your Credit Repair Expert

Thanks for the info!

 

Nice find.

 

:)

Feb 24, 2009 01:20 AM
Pat Champion
John Roberts Realty - Eustis, FL
Call the "CHAMPION" for all your real estate needs

I'm going to read this it certainly will help.  Thanks for sharing.

Feb 24, 2009 01:22 AM
Pat Champion
John Roberts Realty - Eustis, FL
Call the "CHAMPION" for all your real estate needs

I'm going to read this it will certainly help.  Thanks for sharing.

Feb 24, 2009 01:23 AM
Kristin Johnston - REALTORĀ®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

Great post and article..I am gonna read it now too.  Thanks and much success this year!

Feb 24, 2009 01:41 AM
Elizabeth Bolton
RE/MAX Destiny Real Estate Cambridge, MA - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge MA Realtor

Hi Irene, Thanks for pointing this out.  I've printed off both reports - it looks like lots of great info.  I scanned through a few pages and wow! - word of mouth dominates - very interesting stuff. 

Liz

Feb 24, 2009 05:50 AM
Tools for Real Estate
The Agent Guide LLC - Kirkland, WA

Glad you all found this helpful!  Elizabeth, I was surprised at how strong of a factor that still is considering online reviews, etc.  What I got from the report too is now people get recommendations from word of mouth and then go online to confirm.  That's where so many agents weed themselves out these days, with a generic company website or no site at all.  Good to know.

Feb 24, 2009 06:29 AM