Archives for January 2006
Inman News is doing a series on converting and tracking online leads. Today’s article gave a brief overview of what some of the top companies are doing, but all I really got out of it was that the top companies are generating a ton of online leads, an…
Ever wanted to know how your site ranks on the top search engines? I just found this cool tool…. click the link below, scroll part way down the page and enter your web address in the submission form, and the keyword you want to check. In about 30 se…
NTP is suing RIM for patent infringements. How on earth does that matter to real estate professionals? Well…. RIM is the company from Waterloo, Ontario, that makes Blackberries, which have become very popular among Realtors. NTP owns some patent…
I’m not sure how great these quizzes are but if you’re interested this seems to be a neat quiz about a career in real estate.http://www.ebby.com/careers/irefy.shtml?section=careersyou can follow this up with an online personality test. Note. You do h…
www.realestatebooks.org is a new online bookstore that sells only books related to real estate. Excerpts and reviews are available for the books which are broken into different categories such as sales strategies, marketing and technology. The bookst…
NAR does a survey of homebuyers and sellers every year that gives insights into how the industry is changing. Although NAR is out of the US, CREA does not do a similar survey (as far as I am aware) so we have to go with the American stats. When it com…
I previously did a post on sites that all real estate professionals should bookmark, well, I missed one. www.brokeragentnews.com is loaded with good articles on this business.
One article in particular, titled “In pursuit of real estate mastery” outli…
It has been prophesized that the computer and online real estate companies would put real estate agents out of business once all the listing information was on the internet. Alas that is not the case. While parasitic online companies with no marketing…
I found this article on the Business Week Online Blog called Hot Property. Zillow.com is the latest idea from Richard Barton, who founded Expedia.com and changed the way we travel. He spoke at the Inman News conference in New York City yesterday, and …
In November, Colorado passed a law requiring all their agents to be finger printed. This story was posted on Inman news yesterday. Sounds out of this world – big Brother type of stuff. Alberta has also proposed in its rule changes that agents and broke…