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Your Listings Go To How Many Websites? Maximizing Your Online Advertising

Your Listings Go To How Many Websites? Maximizing Your Online Advertising

Amongst the many qualities of a successful real estate agent is their ability to have a rock solid and comprehensive listing strategy to present to their prospective sellers. In recent years, the push to follow the web 2.0 revolution and feed your listings to every…

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Coldwell Banker is Now Optimized for the iPhone

Coldwell Banker is Now Optimized for the iPhone

Visiting Coldwell Banker on an iPhone now directs you to the iPhone version of their site. My initial thoughts on their iPhone site are similar to Joel’s review. It is certainly easy to browse listings and pull up a listing detail page to see more…

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Does your listing have a great view? How about a time lapse movie to show it off?

Does your listing have a great view? How about a time lapse movie to show it off?

We have a great view from our offices in downtown Seattle. This Saturday I set up my digital camera to take a series of time lapse photographs to record a sunset before the grey clouds return for the winter. This video is the very rough…

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Social Media in Real Estate – Part 1: Twitter

Social Media in Real Estate – Part 1: Twitter

There are a number of free tools out there that can help you market yourself and your listings through the use of social media. Whether it’s posting an item on Facebook, blogging on Active Rain, uploading a video to ZIPVO (my employer), or posting a…

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Are your listings hurting or helping your Google ranking?

Are your listings hurting or helping your Google ranking?

Syndicating listings to 3rd party websites should be part of your SEO (search engine optimization) strategy. It’s a simple formula; you allow your listings to be published on other websites (comparison of who sends real estate listings to what portals) in exchange for a link…

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Quick Blogging Time Saver

Quick Blogging Time Saver

Being the blogger that I am, I’m constantly adding links to blog posts. Anything that makes it quicker and easier to link to something is a win in my book, which is why I found this “Copy as HTML Link” add-on useful. [via Agent Genius]

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The State of the Blogosphere, and How it Relates to the RE.net

The State of the Blogosphere, and How it Relates to the RE.net

I was just skimming some tech news and saw the State of the Blogosphere post on TechCrunch (data via Technorati) with an interesting chart breaking down the types of bloggers maintaining blogs. 79% personal bloggers 12% corporate bloggers 46% professional bloggers This data was based…

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Outside.in Now Lets Your Readers Browse Your Blog Posts by Location

Outside.in Now Lets Your Readers Browse Your Blog Posts by Location

From Mashable: Outside.in has just granted public access to StoryMaps, their GeoToolkit embeddable maps which let bloggers promote their local content in a visual format. [via 1000Watt]

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Why Real Estate Agents have Embraced Technology

Why Real Estate Agents have Embraced Technology

My dad is the arguably the most intelligent person I know, but he has this thing against technology and anything that requires him to do more than press a few buttons. So it was with not a little wonder that I recently saw him use…

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Links for Geeks – September 17th

Links for Geeks – September 17th

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a links for geeks post, so here are a few posts I’ve found interesting over the past few days: 7 MLSs agree to share, exchange data Rightmove Loses Ground In UK Online Property Search Slideshow – Website 2.0 –…

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