Want to grow your social media presence but you’re too busy helping clients buy and sell real estate? Timely is a neat service that helps you schedule your Tweets for maximum impact. The way it works is: Add a Timely bookmarklet to your web browser (just drag and drop). You add your Tweets to Timely. Timely analyzes your previous 199 ... Read more +
The marketing challenge every Real Estate Agent faces is, how to stand out in a crowded market-place. How do you differentiate? What do you do to establish yourself as THE local community expert? There isn’t one simple answer, but rather, a combination of things. Do each of these together, and you’ll establish a brand presence separate ... Read more +
People are visiting your website. Site traffic is up, time-on-site is looking good and you’re even getting inquiries for questions on specific properties. All good signs of a healthy home search experience via your real estate website. That’s good news! The question now is, how do you identify motivated buyers versus people who are just... Read more +
For this month’s client spotlight we’re highlighting Joe Duenas, another client doing a great job combining features from both our IDX plugin and mapping IDX products into his WordPress site. His website LiveSouthCounty.com includes some fun quick search widgets, listing shortcode tricks, and even standard WordPress tools that make for an ... Read more +
Getting more traffic to your site is hard enough. Getting people to stay on your website, once they’ve arrived is a whole other challenge. So it’s important to design your site in such a way that it’s easy to navigate and find what someone is looking for. Things like: Search for homes. Contact you for questions on a property. ... Read more +
An email autoresponder (a.k.a. “Drip Campaign”) is a sequence of follow up emails that get delivered to your subscribers on a schedule that you decide. Why do you need one? It’s an opportunity to connect with you prospects. They’ve subscribed (or registered to your IDX) so they’ve given you their attention. ... Read more +
There are essentially two ways to use dsIDXpress to create and upload MLS content to your real estate blog: Using Shortcodes Using our Link Structure Choose from a variety of widgets to display IDX data Today, I thought we’d hi-light a couple of different ways you should be using dsIDXpress to display MLS content on your website. 5 Ways To... Read more +
Bottom line is, first impressions matter. The moment someone lands on your website, they’re thinking… Am I in the right place? Is this site credible? Is the information here reliable? Who’s the author behind this website? Can I trust this Real Estate Agent? These are all of the various things site visitors are thinking when ... Read more +
When we announced the release of dsSearchAgent v3.2 yesterday, one of the new features enabled is the ability to control lead capture by choosing which property detail fields visitors must be logged in to access. When someone’s browsing the mapping IDX on your website for the first time, this is what they’ll see: They’ll have to ... Read more +
We’re very happy to announce that the latest version of dsSearchAgent has just been released! v3.2 adds Facebook, Google, and Yahoo social log-in options to the registration pages of dsSearchAgent and revamps our saved search editor and profile pages. In addition, we’ve added a new option allowing users to view your IDX in full-screen ... Read more +