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REDX for Lead Prospecting?

REDX for Lead Prospecting?

Has anyone heard about — or used — REDX for prospecting leads?

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Local Real Estate Marketing Tips

Local Real Estate Marketing Tips

Bad real estate marketing tips can feel like a hamster wheel. It is just going around in a circle with no real direction. PPC campaigns and social media advertising is great for exposure,but they often have horrible conversion rates. Recent content on GeekEstate has done…

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Anyone Using Zapier?

Anyone Using Zapier?

I’m testing a “Zap” that automatically submits information from Gravity forms into Pipedrive (which I’m currently evaluating as a potential CRM for 360modern.com) as a deal in our pipeline. There are all sorts of integrations supported, from Gmail to GitHub to Stripe. Is anyone else…

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How Realtors Can Improve Their Search Engine Rankings

How Realtors Can Improve Their Search Engine Rankings

Real estate is changing in many ways and the manner in which potential homebuyers and sellers are researching and addressing their real estate needs is being shaped by the web. Real estate agents need to be ever aware of these trends and how to setup…

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Agent Search & (Lack of?) Consumer Adoption

Agent Search & (Lack of?) Consumer Adoption

I touched on agent search last week, but wanted to write a short follow up post digging into the topic further. Zillow has an agent search (Trulia, too), as does Realtor.com. Homethinking is still around, as is AgentHarvest. Another is Agent Findr. Homelight recently raised a new…

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How to Build Local Expertise With the Help of Your Clients

How to Build Local Expertise With the Help of Your Clients

Lets make the assumption you want your brokerage/franchise to be viewed as the local expert for the areas you serve. (let’s be honest: what agent DOESN’T want to be the local expert?) Lets make the assumption you buy into the long term lead generation concept/strategy…

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Where to Find “Easy Clients”. Sigh

Where to Find “Easy Clients”. Sigh

I kid you not, the following was an inbound search term that found Geek Estate today: how to find easy real estate clients using craigslist Really? Are real estate agents really that lazy? If a client is going to pay you thousands of dollars in commission…

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My toughest competitor is the local Board of Realtors

My toughest competitor is the local Board of Realtors

First they told everyone to remove all branding from photos, which I agree with, but then they said they will put their branding on every photo. So now every new property photo on my website and thousands of other websites promotes their website. This is…

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Long Term Defensibility as a Franchise with Deep, Unique Local Data

Long Term Defensibility as a Franchise with Deep, Unique Local Data

I think a lot about long term strategic defensibility when evaluating any business (& building my own). The best companies, focus on what they do better than anyone else, that is extremely hard to duplicate — and stay focused on executing on increasing that defensibility. You’ve…

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Best Times to Post Real Estate Ads on Craigslist

Best Times to Post Real Estate Ads on Craigslist

This morning I noticed the following search term in our analytics: best times to post real estate ads on craigslist Since I’m not an agent/broker using Craigslist, I obviously don’t have a good answer. Anyone reading have any tips to share based on your own…

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