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I ran across this terrific post from Dennis Miloseski, Founder and CEO of Milobox, a new real estate web development company.  He talks about ten reasons why agent websites fail. He hits on a lot of great points here. Enjoy. 10. There is more emphasis on you, rather than your listings. Most agents are paying way too much for web sites that stroke their egos, building the “look at me bio sites” rather than leveraging open services of the web to give their properties the most exposure online – the real job of any agent site. Remember that most visitors are [...]

Here is a snap shot of a Trulia performance report sent to a Cenutry 21 Hometown agent on the Central Coast of California.  Rick has 11 listings on Trulia and was delivered 14 click throughs.  This number is remarkably close to the effectiveness of listing syndication from our Northern Nevada MLS Listhub case study.  Agents should expect to get a little more than one web visit per listing today on Trulia.  Perhaps there are exceptions to this forecast, but nevertheless this evidence is an indicator. Lets help Rick together. Please post about Rick's website and link to him from your [...]

Piles and Piles of consumers are visiting Zillow every day to look at home values and browse listings.  Sounds like a great place to advertise if you are an agent or broker, perhaps?  Does anyone really know? A long time ago I learned that simple logic often leads to bad choices.  In the simplest terms, if consumers are looking for real estate information on Zillow, and I advertise on Zillow, those customers will come to my website, convert into a lead, and use one of our agents to buy or sell their home.  Seems like a logical conclusion and we [...]