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As a busy real estate agent, there are obvious reasons why you should have professional photos taken of your property listings. First, it saves you the time and effort of finding your digital camera, snapping all the photos yourself, and uploading them onto your computer. Plus there’s the logical motivation of the photos simply looking much better when using a professional real estate photographer.
Most realtors understand the benefits that come with embedding video productions of their listings on their websites. In an atmosphere of tight marketing budgets, however, the luxury of hiring a professional to do the task of creating high quality videos has been set aside in favor of more do-it-yourself options.
Two organizations which are slowly changing the way real estate is done – Trulia.com and dotloop.com – are combining forces (is that anything like combining superpowers?) to offer buyers, sellers and brokers an opportunity to improve their real estate transaction experiences.
Now available – yet another cool app for realtors – if they use an iPad. The Portfolio App, created by KnowledgeView, offers real estate brokers an opportunity to harness the power that visuals give to their business.
Exciting news for Trulia.com users. Earlier this week, it was revealed that California based Move, Inc. – the premier online real estate source,has agreed to use the ListHub Syndication Network syndicate listings to Trulia, Inc.
LeaseRunner recently released a rental industry report which revealed some interesting numbers about the rental market. As long time readers may remember, LeaseRunner is the brainchild of Joe Buczkowski, internet and business attorney and finance instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Are you using Google+ hangouts for your business? Seriously, when I first heard about this new tool I thought to myself, yeah, just what we need, another social media option. From Vimeo, to Hulu to YouTube, to Facebook and a whole host of other options, did we really need another way to share content with our followers?
Zillow, Inc, a national leader in real estate information and home search tools, recently announced the launch of a brand new Android™ application called Zillow® Rentals, which marks the first time the company has developed an app dedicated solely to the rental market.
Well known industry news website Inman News conducted a survey called “Diving into the Mind of Today’s ‘Free Agent’”. Directed towards real estate professionals, over 80 questions covered topics such as agents’ earnings, time spent working on various activities, and amount spent on technology and marketing.
