The EPA has just released a study that confirms it is safer, not to mention cheaper to drink tap water than bottled water.  There is less scrutiny placed on health standards and reporting for bottled water than tap water. Now here’s a great way to be safer, save money and Be Green in your real estate office all at the same time. Instead of buying cases of bottled water for your office, why not buy a Camelbak water bottle for all of your agents and encourage them to be healthy and hydrated with their very own branded water bottle. You can purchase [...]

As reported on MobileMarketer, MSearchGroove recently evaluated three mobile voice search tools for the iPhone- Google, Yahoo and ChaCha. The researchers from MSearchGroove evaluated the overall performance of the voice-enabled mobile services from ChaCha, Google and Vlingo for iPhone with Yahoo by asking a series of 18 queries from six typical mobile search categories such as navigation, direction, local information, general information, social and long-tail. In the category of queries asked as questions, ChaCha accurately interpreted 94.4 percent of the tests and delivered accurate search results in 88.9 percent of cases. Google’s results on the other hand were pretty dismal. On the other hand, Googles voice [...]

I have been writing a lot about edutizing lately and have been offering several methods for attracting new customers with educational pieces containing relevant, timely information consumers are interested in. We talk a lot about how it is very important to share local market statistics to consumers to help them understand the ins and outs of the marketplace. Importantly, by sharing this imformation agents and real estate associations can reinforce their position as local experts. […]