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When Mike Kehoe of Birdview Technologies reported to the Inman Conference that one of his clients received over an 11% conversion rate, I smiled with pride. For the site mentioned was designed and optimized for traffic and conversion by Spider Juice Technologies. Years of testing and bucking the "common" knowledge had paid off. You see, we have discovered that the most optimal way for...

The California Association of Realtors released its "2005 Use of Technology Survey" Tuesday during the "Tech Tuesday" opening session of their Centennial Realtor Expo in San Diego. The survey found that 33 percent of realtors' business is coming from the Internet. While just 33 percent of their business comes from the Internet, 67 percent of realtors reported that the Internet...

Google and Yahoo, and MSN are all indexing blogs with a new sophistication and intensity than ever before. Yahoo and MSN have both made their RSS Readers available thru their personalized services of my.yahoo.com and my.msn.com. Indicating that they are paying attention to rss/blog feeds. Just like it has been known by many SEO Companies in the know, that the registration forms at the...

As a side distraction I like to Coach Youth Football. It started out as a way to see more of my son. It then became a passion. It was just last night that I was preaching the power of leadership to one of the kids. I told him that there are many new players on our team, that are desperately looking to others to show them what to do. To show them how far is too far. They need...

Mike Kehoe of Birdview Technologies sent over his notes from his talk at the Inman Conference. I went ahead and and put down the highlights. You can get his slides at the bottom of this post. Birdview Technologies serves consumers MLS data from 130 MLSes with 1 Million listings. Birdview also serves their clients thru webdesign services. On any given month Birdview clients get over...

Borrell And Associates recently released their report on Online Real Estate Advertising. The report details $11.4 billion in real estate advertising and focuses on this year's projected $1.8 billion in online media spending. It found out that the search engines are tapping local agents and real estate brokerage firms to the tune of more than $500 million and are rapidly growing share....

Just got in from the Inman Conference which in my opinion is a must for todays online real estate agent. The most important aspect was the networking. There were plenty of elbows to rub and lots of relationships to make. If they gave at an award for conference networker, the statue would go to Michael Stark of PostYourProperty.com for sure. I bet that guy picked up a hundred link...

A recently completed report on home sellers and home buyers(Hebert Research for HouseValues Inc.), shows that home sellers take on average 9.3 months from the time they begin researching until they sell. It takes home buyers 16.7 months, on average, to research and buy their next home.  The study aslo found that: First-time home buyers invest an average of 20.5 months in the entire...

Viral Marketing is commonly defined as : Marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message. Hotmail was probably one of the greatest examples of Viral Marketing.  Mega Blogger Seth Godin wrote about it in his important Book, "Unleashing the Ideavirus" I was prompted to write this piece because of a cute Viral Marketing campaign  for the New...