Chicago area Realtors are trying out a new real estate widget that allows them to extend their social media presence by beefing up their ability to share real estate listings. Available to Chicagoland real estate agents and brokers, Share My Listings is a new real estate widget developed and offered by Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED). [...]
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As a real estate tool, Facebook offers real estate agents numerous benefits. Facebook can be effectively used to spread your influence as a Realtor, connect with potential home sellers and home buyers, expand your listing reach, demonstrate your web-savvy marketing skills, drive traffic to your real estate website and listing domains, and much more. But [...]
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The integration of video chat with Facebook and Google+ offers Realtors and real estate firms an exciting new communication tool. Readily accessible from Facebook and Google, video chat is easier to use than Skype, making it an effective way for real estate agents to log face-time with long-distance clients. Email communications and tweets are adequate tools for [...]
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Ever wonder where your property website traffic is coming from? Over the past 6 months we have compiled analytics on over 1,400,000 visitors to approximately 15,000 single property websites and created this infographic to showcase our findings. Our study shows that having a top level domain name is clearly an advantage for both SEO and direct traffic.
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If your like most real estate professional, you like the idea of social networking but finding the time to “network” can be daunting. When it comes to social networking, remember quality is better than quantity. You don’t have to spend all day on facebook or twitter to be a good social marketer.
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Many of us were quite suspicious about social media at first, taking a “wait and see” approach, unwilling to invest the time and work needed to participate in social media. But it’s becoming very clear that social media is here to stay, and that not participating in social media is quite costly in terms of [...]
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With 500 million users and growing, Facebook is the place to be these days. The potential reach is amazing, and not tapping into it would be a mistake. It’s true for any business, and it’s true for real estate agents as well – if your target market uses a social media tool, you should be [...]
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As more and more Internet users are accessing the Internet via mobile devices, a growing number of companies and sites are responding to the need of mobile users for a user-friendly Internet experience. Traditional sites have yet to offer a user-friendly experience to mobile users. In the meantime, mobile apps make mobile Internet access fast [...]
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For many years Real Estate agents have struggled to create professional, engaging videos for their listings. The expense of having a professional video shot has always been cost prohibitive and the quality for most do-it-yourselfers usually leaves something to be desired. Virtuets seeks to solve these issues by enabling real estate professionals to create property videos that won’t [...]
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So you have a blog, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Great! You’re already doing better than the majority of agents, who have yet to leverage the power of social media to promote their real estate business. But now that you’re actively participating in social media, you should keep in mind that there’s a reason it’s called “social” media – you should be social! Even if in real life you’re an introvert and don’t particularly enjoy socializing, you should view social media as your opportunity to develop an alter ego and be much more social than you are in real life. Here are a few tips on how to be social.
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