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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
I wasn’t sure if the title of this post should be “and I blogged to tell about it” or “I lived to blog about it!” Either way I sure had a busy day the other day. I know some people wouldn’t want me talking about their situation so I try to change things up a bit. But this has seriously been one of the busiest weeks just this week and the other day when all that happened was even crazier. I don’t know what else to say about it but it’s been seriously hard to fit everything in my schedule. It’s strange how that works but I can say one thing for sure, if it has been a buyer’s market, with this many buyers out there it might change pretty quick! I am not sure what is driving everyone out to buy or at least to take a look at what is out there but I have a feeling that the tax credit is play...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? Ok for the most part I have stayed out of the talk surrounding the bailout(s) and the rest of the fallout. Not that I am not interested but for the most part I have little or no control over what is going to happen anyways. I don’t have stocks and I just have a strong belief in the old saying if it’s something you can’t control then there is no need to worry about it. I prefer to worry about the things I can directly control. But this AIG thing is really starting to well not starting to it’s just completely out of control. I don’t even know what to think anymore. Literally not just every day but every hour there is a new story out about something else they are doing. It just doesn’t seem like it could get much worse until I just read this story. A...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? As if I have to tell you another reason to get yourself and your listings on YouTube but if you are not thinking out of the box then you might not realize there is a vast, hardly tapped market. How about mobile video? This is a pretty new area for a variety of reasons. First of all it was nearly impossible to have enough bandwidth to view movies on a phone. Secondly it was pretty much impossible because phones just couldn’t process movies. They were basically too limited and the resources necessary would kill an older phone. But then the age of 3g networks and the I-Phone / Blackberry craze hits and voila you not only have a market you have a need. So this is a no brainer for those of us in the Real Estate industry to get ourselves and our listing...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? You know it’s hard to explain what it feels like when you consider that most people know little about computers so the smallest computer feats make you seem like you are some sort of computer genius. The reality of computers is that most of this stuff is pretty easy it just takes time to learn. Most people are not inherently good at working with computers; they have merely spent more time learning all the nuances. I am often approached by people who are just amazed at what I can do and yet I always say that I am self taught. It’s true. I did take a few programming courses but I am no computer programmer. I designed a few websites but this time last year I had never designed a website in my life. That’s why I keep telling people that anyone can do ...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? I guess you can only praise Apple for their marketing efforts because they have done the impossible, take an insecure computer platform and market it to the masses as infallible. How else can you look at it when anyone even reading the words I just wrote is already calling me a liar? In fact the last time I even suggested something to this effect I was practically run out of town by an angry mob with burning torches screaming at me for even suggesting that a Windows pc could be more secure than an Apple computer. Yet I provided proof and people wouldn’t even bother to click on the articles and read them. It’s no wonder because when you show people that a machine running Vista was more secure than a Mac you probably seem to sound like an idiot but ...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? The legend of free marketing and offering your services for free certainly seems like a gimmick. But is it? Think about this for a moment because as strange as this sounds it’s not really a gimmick at all but a fact of marketing that a lot of people might overlook but not Chris Anderson. If you don’t know who that is he is the head of Wired magazine as well “the guy behind the long tail theory.” You can just do a search for long tail if you aren’t sure how important that is to marketing and websites. So can you run a business and make money when your services are free? Maybe. In fact it works all the time. You can check out this article here for some interesting ideas as well as some historical facts around this marketing oddity. In fact this coul...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? As Real Estate agents we know how important our word choice is and how we must be constantly careful of what we say or do or risk certain liability. Often we are placed in situations that we must know every detail of the law especially such areas as agency relationships or we risk some very huge consequences. Without proper agency disclosure, the simplest thing such as discussing price could get you in trouble with either the seller of the home, the buyer or the licensing board. Not only is it important that you constantly adhere to the law you have to realize that everything you say and do will be used against you. This is even more important today as technology improves and it becomes even easier to record conversations on video or audio. Even a...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? If you wonder why I keep writing so many posts about Facebook Connect it’s because everyone is talking about it and it’s probably the biggest thing to hit social networking all year. It’s certainly even bigger than all the changes on Facebook itself. Well now Connect is coming to the I-Phone and I think this will be a big hit as well. I don’t own an I-Phone but a lot of people do and one thing for sure is that the 3G means connectivity and combine that with Facebook and you have a winner. So far it looks like a lot of games are using Connect but I would think that’s just the tip of the iceberg. An interesting idea might be to figure out how to make this work better for you or your website.   Check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Agent Website! If yo...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? Everyone has been talking about how important Facebook Connect is and with good reason. The API lets you do so much with Facebook that it’s a no brainer that this would spread like wildfire to other websites and apps. Who wouldn’t want to connect to perhaps the biggest social network there is? I did within 30 minutes of the news dropping and you can actually see it in action on my Eau Claire Real Estate website. In fact I already had one person comment as to how I did it. Then you take Twitter’s great API which is perhaps one of the most important reasons for Twitter’s success and certainly why there are so many great tools available for it and combine that with Facebook and you have basically have a triple punch knock-out combo. I don’t know what ...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale?  I admire the power of capitalism but I also fear what it does to this world, the lives it has destroyed and the lives it will destroy. Why Billionaires are put on some pedestal in this country I can’t quite understand. I for one think Bill Gates probably deserves where he is at and I think he is a relatively modest person. He is also quite a philanthropist and I think that deserves mention. The same goes to Warren Buffet. But of that list few deserve praise. They squander their fortunes and give little in return. Who am I to judge but at the same time let’s think of the children for a moment? If we put these people on a pedestal then they certainly deserve some scrutiny. Everyone had a fit when Phelps was on video doing whatever it is he was doing...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale?   I am sure many people have been following the Madoff scandal. It seemed like every day there was a new piece to the puzzle from him still living in the lap of luxury but with armed guards to apparently have been doing this close to 10 years without even a glimpse of getting caught. I even read many news stories that said he might not even go to jail!!! Apparently stealing millions and billions from everyday people isn’t enough to warrant a crime. I honestly don’t know what suddenly changed but something did because now he is facing 150 years behind bars.   But surely there is more to this story than meets the eye because anyone who has lived in this country for the past 25 years or so knows that if you steal millions of dollars from poor people m...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? If you aren’t sure what Google Friend Connect is or you never heard about the announcement you can read an older post here. If you want to see one of the new features in action you can go to my Eau Claire Real Estate website here and see what is known as the social bar at the top of my site. In fact I would appreciate if you signed in. It uses open social so you can log in using a variety of different methods. What better way to allow users to interact with your site?   Well now according to Tech Crunch Google has updated the API to make it even easier to use. What this means for you an even wider range of great tools available. This could really revolutionize how websites function and behave. I would even look for more integration with other appl...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale?   You might not have ever heard of Google Voice because for almost the last 2 years Google has been mostly silent about its development but this is perhaps one of the biggest new applications that they have announced in many years. In fact it could be one of the biggest ones ever next to Gmail. What is it exactly? Well it’s like having a universal phone number, like how Gmail was meant as a way to centralize all your email accounts and make it a one stop email app; Google voice has some very interesting capabilities. The one downfall it seems and I guess you have to understand this is that you probably won’t be able to transfer your existing phone number. But perhaps you have a home phone, an office phone and a cell phone this would let you drop a...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Looking for Eau Claire Homes For Sale? If you have been on Facebook in the past week you probably have seen the notice about changes coming. I wrote a post about some of the changes here. The hype has been huge and rightly so because now Facebook is a bit more like Twitter and hopefully it just adds a lot to functionality. If you want to see for yourself log into Facebook. I noticed that it still hasn’t rolled out to my area yet for whatever reason. I don’t know if I am in a different area or how it works other than its not here for me yet. I do know that they tweaked the pages and have that rolled out but I don’t have a page with much on it so I didn’t see all that much of a difference. I am waiting to see what it looks like with all the new features at once. You can go here for a tour...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
I recently updated my Eau Claire Real Estate website to include more information about our community. My goal has always been making my website a community portal and basically a one stop shop for information about Eau Claire Wisconsin and the immediate area. So far I have implemented a weather page and now recently I have added local news and sports as well. I intend to continue adding more relevant information from a variety of topics. I hope this is a service that you will enjoy using. I know that the site is growing very rapidly and I intend to keep up pace with the site as well by continually adding content that is relevant. Make sure to check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Agent website! If you have something to say please leave a comment. If you would like to work with an agent w...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
If you want to sell your home in Eau Claire Wisconsin give me a call today for a free comparative market analysis. This is an important first step in the sale of your home and getting the right price the first time can be everything when it comes to getting your house sold. It can be a tough market to sell homes especially if you are not competitive when it comes to price. Simply put overpriced homes are just overlooked. Buyers are smart shoppers and they have a wealth of market information at their disposal. When it comes down to deciding which home they want to see they seldom pick the ones that feel overpriced. Instead the focus of their energy goes to homes they feel are a good deal. Call me at 715-894-1001 for a free consultation today. I will show you what we can do to get your h...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
The 2009 First Time Homebuyer ( $8000 ) Tax Credit For Buyers in the Eau Claire Wisconsin area This new tax credit is one of the biggest deals in real estate in many years. It certainly has great potential to heat up the market so to speak. I am busy contacting every buyer in the area who might qualify because this program is such a great deal. I am including some information below but if you have any questions please call me. Here is the official statement from the NAR (National Association of Realtors) Here are some FAQ about the credit. Here is a tax credit chart. Just hover over any of these links and the information will appear. This information is provided by the NAR here. This is a great opportunity to buy a home in the Eau Claire area. If you have been on the fence thinking abo...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Finding the best Eau Claire Real Estate Agent and Realtor is important. If you are serious about selling your home then you need someone with serious marketing skills. Today the internet is more important than ever and having an agent with a huge internet presence can really make all the difference. Not only is it important to make sure that your listing appears on a variety of websites but you must be sure that the home is being aggressively marketed instead of just passively. What’s the difference? Passive marketing in real estate is what I would call “making it available.” This includes all the traditional methods used such as a sign in the yard and entering the listing in the MLS ( Multiple Listing Service) But in today’s market your agent must go further than this to get it sold. ...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
Eau Claire Open Houses - Chippewa Falls Open Houses – Altoona Open Houses If you are looking for open houses in Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, or Altoona Wisconsin make sure you check out my website. I have recently designed a page that makes it easier to look for open houses online. I know that it is hard to schedule your weekend without knowing about open houses ahead of time and now you can search online for open houses in your area days in advance rather than waiting for the newspaper. I do this as a convenience for you because I understand the frustrations and limitations of the newspaper. It’s fast and free and just waiting for you to check out. Let me know what you think. Make sure to check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Agent website! If you have something to say please leave a com...
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By Shane OnullGorman, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Real Estate Agent & Realtor- Buy or Sell
(Eau Claire Realty, Inc.)
What are you looking for in a Real Estate Website in Eau Claire Wisconsin? I have a question for home buyers and sellers in Eau Claire Wisconsin. What exactly are you looking for when it comes to buying or selling your home in the area? What do you want out of a website or what have you come to expect? Is there anything that you wish a site had or that it could do? What information would be helpful for you? Do you think some websites are overloaded with information or do you think that some don’t have enough? Is there such a thing as too much? Well if you get a chance check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Website and please let me know what you think. There is a place to leave comments on my website. Make sure to check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Agent website! If you have something to...
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