Our listings are now displayed on Craigslist, backpage.com, Oodle, Google, edgeio, Propsmart, Vast and HotPads, in addition to the other sites we’ve been usings like: Oakland County Homes, SKBK.com, SothebysRealty.com, SIR.com, MoveInMichigan.com, Yahoo.com, and Trulia.com.
Internet exposure is a major part of our commitment to our clients. According to statistics from the National Association of Realtors, nearly 80% of homebuyers are using the internet for their search, and the numbers are rising every year.
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Written by Maureen Francis
SKBK Sotheby's International Realty, 248.430.4450
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teresa boardman 10.04.06 at 8:02 am
Around these parts if it isn’t on the interent it isn’t for sale.
Maureen Francis 10.04.06 at 8:19 am
I am with you on that one, Teresa!
rudolph d. bachraty 10.04.06 at 8:41 pm
maureen – which sites have proven to be successful for you and your clients?
-rudy.sellsius°
Maureen Francis 10.05.06 at 12:14 am
Rudy,
We get the most phone calls and direct business from our own site, oakland-county-homes.com. We use the other sites to get clients there.
The statistics we have on this blog are much better than we had on our old blog, so we are going to be able to do a better job of tracking this now too.
Thank you so much for stopping by.
Maureen
Jay T. 10.05.06 at 3:03 pm
The first stop on my three hour tour… (Inside joke. Some will get it, some not so much)
Maureen, why can’t I see your sidebars anymore?
And are you doing the Techorati tags by hand, or did you find a plug-in?
Maureen Francis 10.05.06 at 3:24 pm
I have no idea where they went Jay. What bad timing. I invite over everyone from the island and I am caught with my sidebars down.
Thanks for the heads up.
Jeff Dowler 10.05.06 at 3:34 pm
Love your site – and thanks again for the tour idea posted on ActiveRain. I have been using the same websites for advertising – love the “low cost†but frankly not a lot of response. Part of that is probably due to the market we are currently in.
Jeff in Sunny San Diego
Kristal Kraft 10.05.06 at 10:50 pm
MF, How many points do we get for commenting here?
Your blog is very nice. I love the piece about the farmer’s market. That’s my favorite Saturday thing to do. Of course they aren’t very “farmy†anymore. Our markets are more gourmet with all kinds of prepared goodies, flowers, fancy food and the like. They are a happening for the weekend!
lisa dunn 10.06.06 at 8:25 pm
Top Notch agents know technology and how to harness it to help their clients. Glad to see Michigan has you to help them!!
Jeff Dowler 10.06.06 at 8:44 pm
Thanks for stopping by one of my blogs, http://www.FansofCoastalSanDiego.com.
I used to live in the Detroit area (Dearborn Heights) eons ago. My wife worked for GM while I was in grad school. We had a new car every year for a bit and I do remember all the new cars everywhere…and people driving VERY FAST. But I also remember that you hardly EVER saw a foreign car…and you didn’t dare work for one of the bug automakers and drive such a thing.
Marlow 10.06.06 at 9:30 pm
Though putting your listings “everywhere†is good in the short-term, it could be very harmful in the long run. By providing content to these other real estate portals, an agent is helping to make them a “go-to†site. Every listing you post there makes that portal site stronger, gives them more free content and provides them with more eyeballs. Eventually, consumers will just go to these portal sites instead of to agent sites. The portals will then sell the leads they get, back to the original agents who gave them the free listings to begin with.
Agents and their companies would be better off in the long run to hold back and spend time, energy and money into developing their own wonderful, high profile sites instead of making these outsider-owned portal sites so powerful.
Maureen Francis 10.06.06 at 9:36 pm
Marlow, I don’t disagree with you at all about that. You have a good grasp of the bigger picture that many agents seem to miss.
We, as an industry, have been slow at embracing technology, and that is creating the problem. As an agent I don’t have the resources to build a super high profile site. Even most brokers didn’t understand this issue until recently.
Can we really put a bandaid on the situation now?
Aimee Zoyes 02.28.07 at 11:21 am
We have just launched a new resource website for the home industry in Detroit. We plan to build up our membership in the next year and keep expanding on the site’s SEO and content to provide Metro Detroit with a new way to “shop” on line for their homes.
Check it out and let us know what you think so far-
gethomesdetroit.com