Consumers are going to visit your Real Estate Site for one of four reasons: Search for Homes. Find out how the market is doing. Inquire over what their home is worth. Learn about the local community. How easy you make it to access all of that information is going to determine whether they decide to work with you or not. Is your site easy to ... Read more +
Your website is your digital storefront. Now, more than ever, people are making decisions about whether they want to work with you or not based on what they discover about you online. In short, first impressions matter. What does your website design say about the person or business you are? A good, professional design can reveal a lot about you and... Read more +
Maybe you don’t like talking on the phone. Maybe you don’t like the sound of your own voice. Maybe you just get too many solicitation calls so you’d rather talk to customers on your own terms, when you’re ready to call them. Here’s the problem… Nobody cares what you want. Your customers care about what your ... Read more +
How do you attract and engage visitors on your site long enough to get them to consider your offer? Today’s video aims at answering that very question. It’s a great video presentation from Dr. Susan Weinschenk with some useful tips to consider… Can’t see the video? Click here. Principle #1: If People Have Too Many Choices, ... Read more +
Let’s face it… First impressions matter. Even when it comes to web design. In order for your site to be successful, you need to attract and retain your site visitors with a combination of good design and great content. If visitors arrive at your site and it’s poorly designed, cluttered, and the content is outdated you can bet site... Read more +
I got my first website in 2002 (I think). My first blog in 2003 – I was blogging on a network called Xanga. Then, in 2004 I moved to Typepad and then later to WordPress. Some of you have had websites longer then me I’m sure. Can you believe that the first published website dates back to the early 90’s? It was published by Tim ... Read more +
This is what our standard mapping MLS IDX Solution looks like: You have the mapping solution with two business cards containing all of your contact information and our dsSearchAgent logo embedded as the header. Some people don’t know that you can have the header removed (just contact Customer Support with your Account Name/ID and your website... Read more +
With dsIDXpress you can load property search results and individual property details based on a relatively simple URL structure. The URL structure always starts with: /idx …so if your domain name is yourblog.com, the dsIDXpress “virtual” pages would always start with: yourblog.com/idx You can display search results from the MLS ... Read more +
One of the most common problems with most real estate websites is a lack of focus. In this video, we’re looking at a sample Home Search Page and I walk you through how removing elements, reworking a layout and writing some basic copy can bring more clarity and focus to your page to drive visitors exactly where you want them to go and take ... Read more +
My name is Jennifer and I am one of the Account Executives here at Diverse Solutions. My job is to set up websites and to provide support and training on our AgentCast, Agent Reach, dsAgentChat and dsSearchAgent products. I encounter many questions and issues in my work day about the Agent Cast office, so I thought I’d use this post to share some... Read more +