Still driving around town filling your flyer boxes? So were my brother and I up until a few months ago. Then we discovered real estate text marketing for our listings instead… no more stuffing flyer boxes!
On 07.27.10, In Tech Profiles, by michael
Rogers Healy, 29, is the founder of Rogers Healy and Associates Residential Real Estate, a thriving brokerage with 18 associates in Dallas, Texas. He’s a member of NAR’s 30 under 30, and personally closed $15 million in sales in 2008, working with celebrities such as Tony Romo, Jessica Simpson, Roy Williams and Britney Spears.His latest venture is The30under30.com, a networking site for 30 under 30 alumni, and AgentAmigo.com, a website for agents to communicate about “off the market” activity.
On 07.27.10, In Tech Profiles, by michael
Kat Barry is a successful Realtor based in Pittsburgh, PA and a 2009 member of NAR’s “30 under 30″ She sold over $7 million in real estate in 2008, and has been featured as the local expert on HGTV’s “My House Is Worth What” five times.
On 07.27.10, In Tech Profiles, by michael
Shawn Anen, 28, is a top producing real estate agent based in Wayne, New Jersey. He’s a member of the 2009 “30 Under 30″ class featured in Realtor Magazine, and he’s sold over $60,000,000 in real estate. Here are his thoughts on technology as it applies to real estate:
We often talk about the latest and greatest real estate technology tools, but rarely about where our social sphere, buyers, sellers, prospects are at in terms of technology. My sense is that a lot of where they’re at is based on their age.
How do you provide real estate disclosures to buyers and their agents? For some, they can be uploaded to the MLS for agents to download. But there are many people still printing out mountains of thick paper stacks. I wanted an easier way for those who don’t have the MLS option (for example when buyers at an open house request them), so I created Full Disclosure as a side project.
You already know that fresh content and useful data are two of the keys to a successful real estate website. Luckily, a new breed of online companies has popped up to help provide you with the charts and data your visitors want, updated automatically.
How do you spot a short sale expert? By how badly they reflexively cringe every time you mention the words “short sale”. If you’re new, here’s the first in a series of short sales training tutorials.
Google Voice gives you one main phone number that rings all your phones, saves your voicemail online, and transcribes your voicemail to text. Basically, it makes your voicemail as easy to check and track as your email. It also has a few other cool features, such as spying on messages while they’re being left, and the ability to easily make cheap international calls.
If you’re like many Realtors, your interaction with the NAR mothership probably consists of you sending them money, and them sending you political alerts. But lately the National Association of Realtors has really stepped up to help strapped real estate agents by offering many useful NAR tools for free.