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Positioning Yourself as the Local Internet Real Estate Expert

The internet’s scope is both boom and bust for a local Realtor. Its use as an information tool fits nicely into the real estate business’ frame work, but its hugeness can swallow well meaning, but misaligned marketing campaigns in a microsecond. How can a local Realtor effectively tap the resources of internet marketing without getting lost in the process?

The answer is to take what works for internet marketers and combine it with the techniques you use in your regular marketing. Internet marketers have already perfected an online sales model you can use. All you need to do is customize it for your use.

The models basic theory is this. Drive people specifically interested in widgets to web sites designed to capture their email addresses, and then periodically email those addresses with ad copy that’s designed to make people buy widgets. The difference is you sell services, not widgets.

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Attracting Prospects to Your Real Estate Website

Before you begin attracting website visitors to your real estate website, it helps to think about the website. I’ve had a few websites in my career, and each has had varying degrees of success. But a few things I’ve learned apply to most any site. Regardless of how you get the visitors, the end result is to give them something worth stopping by for. The following four rules have held true for me with every web site I’ve launched.

Know What Your Site is for
The first rule to follow in attracting prospects to your site is to figure out why you want them there in the first place. Don’t waste the time and energy to lead a group of people to your site for them to find nothing. Have your site serve a purpose.

Know Your Site’s Service Area
The second rule to follow is to recognize your sites geographic limits. Most realtors work in a relatively small geographic area in terms of the web. Realtors in Des Moines have little interest in the San Diego market unless their working RELO.

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Sacramento Home Sales Continue to Show an Upward Trend

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 2008
(RESIDENTIAL RESALE STATISTICS July 2008)

With the closing of the month, July marks the seventh straight month of increased home sales, a welcome trend in a market that was recently plagued by record lows. This month’s rising activity reflects the sales of the many bank-owned properties in the area. The following information, compiled by the Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, is collected from the MetroList® multiple listing service and includes data covering Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento.

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