Realtor.com Turns up the Heat and…
…I really like how they’ve mapped it out! The Realtor.com team recently turned on a “heat map” option within their home valuation tool. Here’s a heat map of Ballard in Seattle where you can really see the detail of the more expensive areas (in particular the areas around the water!): It’s clean, fast and well [...]
4realz Exclusive: The ActiveRain team has given me 5…
… invites to join their network. I’m giving them out to the first 5 people who leave a comment. HUGE UPDATE! PLEASE READ! I totally screwed up today! I created this “draft” post a while back to show someone how I could help market their social network. This morning I noticed that the post had [...]
Danilo apologizes for writing the 2nd post on AG that hammers REALTOR.com…
…in two days and it reminded me that I’m about to hammer into REALTOR.com for the 2nd time in a short-while… but I dont’ expect to appoligize at the end… Today’s beef? The realtor.com team managing their blog platform is acting reckless. Here’s the background: Last week, I let the realtor.com team know that Trace [...]
4realz Roundtable today: Tracking and analytics for agents
NOTE: You can listen to the podcast and read a brief summary of the show at the bottom of the post! As I mentioned last week, I’m putting together a list of resources for agents for a presentation at RE Connect… and at the end of the process, I’ll end up with a list of [...]
Trulia adds Spotlight ads and lowers…
…the overall price of their featured listings with a revamp of their ad platform. Some details… What used to cost $50/month for 10 listings now costs $39/month for unlimited listings. In addition, as part of Trulia Pro, agents can also add unlimited spotlight ads. So far, so good… However, similar to Joel, a move toward [...]
Interested in what a local real estate podcast might…
…look like? Join us at 4pm on Tuesday for the first edition of a Rain City conversation.
Matthew Ferrara just left an interesting comment about Realtor.com Home Values…
…that reminded me of this video from the previous head of REALTOR.com: [Ferrara's comment] “…Instead of just copying everyone else, maybe REALTOR.COM (and by extension, NAR) could make some decisions based upon market realities. And the reality is that Zillow (and other similar tools) are really inaccurate because the “conditions” on the ground are always [...]
