Real Estate Technology Blog

I just received this newsletter from Trulia and found it very interesting. See http://www.trulia.com/newsletterThis is very valuable information that buyers and sellers should be aware of.  In most areas the foreclosure properties are MUCH lower in price than regular listings.  Seems to me that r...

If so you could be loosing out on important emails without even knowing.  Just think - what if buyers are contacting you about a listing and you never receive that email?  Chances are the buyer won't contact you a second time and probably won't call you.  They will be under the assumption that yo...

Following are open stats for the last couple of weeks on a few of the top performing flyers created on ClassifiedFlyerAds.com.  The counts are for the top performing flyers combined but should give you an idea on what directories you should be using.  Note: Flyers created on ClassifiedFlyerAds.co...

I stumbled upon http://www.cooltext.com/ and thought I would share it here on ActiveRain.  Its not anything fancy but it is an easy web tool that will allow you to create cool text graphics, buttons and fonts.  You can then use them in your blog posts as signatures or other fun text.  Best of all...

Do buyers search the Internet for "Property" or for "Real Estate Agents"?  This question from one of our customers drove me to do a little research on searches and I did come up with some very interesting information.  Following is a chart that displays estimated clicks per day for some popular a...

For the past year now I have seen so much finger pointing on who we should blame for the real estate market issues. I have been wanting to write an article about this for a long time now but Sharon Simms blog post at http://activerain.com/blogsview/362960/PRICE-we-have-the is what really inspired...

We thought we would share some insight with you.  Many of you post your listings in online directories and are probably aware of the benefits.  We ran a query on 2 of the most active flyers created this week and following are the views these flyers (listings) have had in each directory.  The repo...

Ad2Cell - SMS Lead CaptureBuyer requests listing information from their cell phone by texting a short flyer identification to a mobile address.Buyer then receives ad instantlyon their cell phone with the listing information, url to cell phone friendly flyer and your contact information.You receiv...

This is big news and if it happens may shift the search engine giant Google. Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. You can read the full article from TechCrunch at http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/wow-microsoft-offers-446-billion-to-acquire-yahoo/How will Google the c...

If you haven't seen the cool Walk Score widget you should check it out at http://www.walkscore.com/.  You can also add it to your website and blogs by requesting a walk score id at http://www.walkscore.com/tile.shtmlWe have recently added the walk score widget to our ClassifiedFlyerAds.com Real E...