Real Estate Industry News » Marketing http://www.realestateindustrynews.com Real Estate Industry News and Information for Real Estate Professionals Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:23:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Getting the Most out of Craigslist http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/marketing/getting-the-most-out-of-craigslist/ http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/marketing/getting-the-most-out-of-craigslist/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:49:26 +0000 Jim Carr http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/?p=1507 Think quality, not quantity.

The “common wisdom” is that you need to post to Craigslist multiple times per day for it to be effective. That, pardon my French, is a load of crap put out by Craigslist posting service companies that want you to pay for more and more ineffective Craigslist ads and reinforced by people

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I just did a post to a real estate investors blog about a video by Steph Davis, the Tampa-based bartender turned wholesaler, on how investors can use the MLS to locate cash buyers for their “flip” deals.  While doing this, I realized many agents may find this information useful as well.  With a

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This morning Trulia, the online real estate search company, announced that “25.6 percent of homes currently on the market in the United States as of October 1, 2009 have experienced at least one price cut. More than one in four current listings on Trulia have been reduced in price for the fourth straight

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By: Dennis Norman

For anyone in the real estate industry the word “virtual” has become a familiar term.  VOW’s, or Virtual Office Websites, were in the headlines for a couple of years while the National Association of REALTORS® dueled with the Department of Justice over the REALTORS® treatment of VOW’s.

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Most agents and brokers today are probably familiar with one or more of these logos from social-networking sites.  In addition, many are probably using one or more of these sites, in addtion to personal websites, blocks and other sites, to market themselves, their businesses as well as reach out to the consumer and

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By: Dennis Norman

The National Association of REALTORS(R) is working hard to get the message out to consumers about home-buying opportunities in the current market.

One of the ways NAR is going this is by it’s “Real Estate Today” radio show which has been steadily increasing it’s local affiliates across the country and, just this

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