A quick and dirty guide to how I hi-jacked high quality leads from Zillow — without being a paid member or spending a dime on ads. A few months back, I tried a new strategy on Zillow. It went bonkers. It took about fifteen minutes to implement, and these are the results: Week 1: 13 new leads […]
I had to take a minute to share this with my readers. As you know our company has been working on a brand new technology — Client Alerts! — that we rolled out for the first time yesterday. If you missed it, take a moment to read about it. We predict that this will be […]
As we approach July 4th, I can’t help but think about my own personal “Independence Day”. My Independence Day was September 1, 2002, and if you’ll indulge me I’d like to take a moment to share it with you. I hope that you’ll find it inspirational. I came into real estate like many of you, […]
One of the fastest growing technologies today is text messaging. Think about this: If you are like most people, you receive tons of email and many you just discard without even reading. But I bet you read every single text message you get. So does everyone else. That is why LCM-Text is so powerful and […]
The Washington Post – Bloomberg website recently reported that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates marketing spending by real estate agents at $9.7 billion this year (2015), or an average of $8,825 per-agent! When you consider that the average agent income is $43,828, that works out to a whopping 20% of net income going just for […]
Wow! I think I struck a nerve. My report on Zillow that I published over the weekend quickly became one of the most widely-read and widely-shared articles I’ve ever written. I believe that REALTORS® today, as a whole, have a lot of anxiety about Zillow. And rightfully so. Since my report, I’ve received dozens of […]
If you use my Ultimate Website system, then you’re going to be thrilled to learn that we’ve added yet another technology that will completely change how you get and manage your listings. It is called the Single Property Website Builder. You can now build unlimited single property websites from inside your Ultimate Website. To check out […]
Five-Star Service. When is the last time you experienced service that was truly five-star? Has it been a while? I don’t know about you, but it’s been ages since I have. In fact, I recently had an experience that was a tipping point. It was, in a manner of speaking, sort of a last straw […]
Have you been paying attention to what’s going on in the real estate industry lately? Mergers and acquisitions abound. Hardly a week goes by without us hearing about another major M&A event. Think about some of the major acquisitions in just the last few years. Move Inc. (operator of Realtor.com) bought ListHub, Point2’s syndication business, […]
Several years ago I traveled to San Francisco to attend the NAR Annual Convention. Being a big fan of California red wine, I arranged to arrive a day early so I could visit the world famous Napa and Sonoma valleys. Both are well-known for producing some of the best wine in the world, and I […]