Confusing Property Sales Stats
I believe in the psychology of markets and that any economic market is hugely affected by attitude and opinion. That is why I am always amazed that agents and companies will put out horrible news without at least a dose of balance of good news. There is always good news. As bloggers, the most...
Real Estate Search Optimization Myth #6
The Continuing Series; Search Optimization Myths:Get ranked for the top 20 most voluminous words and you will be successful I am realizing that I covered a bunch in SEO Myth #8 . So check that out on more reasons why targeting mostly the biggest phrases is short sighted. As I mentioned before in...
Real Estate Optimization Myth #7
The Continuing Series: Real Estate Optimization Myths:If you just get rankings and Traffic you will be Successful Refer to SEO Myth #8 for an in depth reason why high SERPs and Traffic are not be all and end all to your success on line. In short, the idea is to get more sales. A Search ranking is...
Big Money
I just caught an interesting post on Business Week: While the top quarter or so is making good money, there's a huge army of Realtors at the bottom who would make more money with a full-time job at McDonald's. Nearly a third earned under $25,000 in 2004, according to a National Association of...
Real Estate SEO Myth #8
So my new year resolution is to finish this post out 😉 The 10 Myths about Real Estate SEO Continued:#8 SEO is the single most important action you can do for your website. Years ago I wrote an Ebook called the 5 steps to Online Real Estate Success. The whole premise of the book was that your...
On the Illusion of Bubbles
One out of every 115 people, and if you deduct kids, one out of every 85 adults in the U.S. is now licensed to sell real estate. So we have an over abundance of agents. Walk your dog around the block and you are sure to run into a few competitors. Or are they? Just because you have an over...
On the Bubble Meisters
I cannot figure out why these blogs on a real estate bubble have cropped up all over the web. Its almost like they are invested in a big real estate bust. But why? Are they secretely hoping real estate falls so people put their money in stock? Are they shills put out by Shearson Lehman or Merrill...
Newspapers Are the Preferred Medium for Affluent Empty Nesters
This reminds me of the conflicting health information that is out there. Eggs are bad, then they are good for you type thing. More importantly, I think it shows the diversity of niches that an agent can target. However, before you jump back into that cholesterol rich newspaper ad campaign, the...
Merry Christmas!
A Real Merry Christmas!
Prices Up, Volume Down
Do you love news that says buy now? Tired of the bottom feeders? Well, the bottom has already passed and prices keep going up... while home sales are down sharply from last year's hyperventilating pace, the sales rate in November would be right about the average if you look back over the past 18...
A New Traffic Generator
I just posted a new video for you to check out. I discuss a few problems that I see with technology today as it relates to time. I also give you a great way to to leverage actions you are already taking to create a massive traffic surge.
#9 of Real Estate SEO Myths
#9 of the: The 10 Myths about Real Estate SEO PageRank & Metatags are everything A top ten position will solve all your sales problems SEO is metatag manipulation Content is King The engines love blogs more than regular webpages Get ranked for the top 20 most voluminous words and you will be...
Prices Dropping Sales Rising
Everywhere I look I get the down side of the market. Prices are dropping. In fact, I just got an email this morning from my Pal Mike passing on a recent Inman story. However, it was my dear ole Dad that emailed me proclaiming that sales have actually increased. What was that? Positivity in this...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for reading HouseBlogger. "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." ~W.T. Purkiser And a cool quote I picked up from a workout website:Excuses are for people who satisfied with average or less. Happy Turkey...
#10 of Real Estate SEO Myths
#10 of the: The 10 Myths about Real Estate SEO PageRank & Metatags are everything A top ten position will solve all your sales problems SEO is metatag manipulation Content is King The engines love blogs more than regular webpages Get ranked for the top 20 most voluminous words and you will be...
Out Zillowed By Fidelity
Fidelity just released their Web 2.0 answer to Zillow. Zillow promises "Free Instant Valuation and Data for 67,000,000 + homes . Fidelity (called http://www.cyberhomes.com/ ) offers ,".. more than 100,000,000 property records". The reason I have harped on Zillow in the past is for the misleading...
Blogging is All Local
A recent post by the Real Estate Tomato asks:Why is a nationwide audience a good thing if I specialize in local real estate? I say its not a good idea as a local agent. The number #1 reason realty bloggers do not make money is that they comment on larger geographies and issues that are outside the...
NAR Does Their Job
NAR has launched a huge campaign to the tune of $40 million dollars to help frame the home buying /housing bubble "debate". The Media commentators are posting all over about this major spend. I say debate because it seems that there are forces that would like to revel in the bad news of lower...
Client Gets Punked
I usually do not place clients on the front of my blog. But this one gets up for the A+ effort.
Zillow Gets Some FTC
Almost overnight Expedia made the idea of a travel agent so 1980. The Travel Industry may have acquiesced to the designs of Expedia.com that forever changed the landscape of the travel business. However, the real estate industry is not going down without a fight.National Community Reinvestment...