Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Marketing Real Estate In A Web 2.0 World

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Ok, for the last several years, you have been hearing about real estate being marketed via social media, blogging, video web portals, and syndication. You know it exists, you know people are doing it, but you’re unsure whether or not it produces results.
The answer is yes, it can produce results, but are there some rules [...]

Buy Your Next Home on Facebook

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

After reading this title you’re either saying, “No one is buying homes off Facebook,” or you’re thinking “What the heck is Facebook?” Don’t worry. I’ll explain both.
Facebook is a social networking Web site. What’s a social networking Web site? It’s sort of like making 40 phone calls to friends. If you called 40 people just [...]

Google Street View

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

For the last year, Google has featured a cool little tool called Street View. It’s an add-on to Google Maps, and here’s how it works. Look up a city or a specific address on Google Maps and if the streets are highlighted in blue it means those areas have been pictured by Google for Street [...]

Will You Google Your Next Home?

Monday, February 18th, 2008

A lot of people – techno geeks, real estate folks and Web developers among them – are watching and waiting for the next big thing to come out of Google’s corporate offices. That “thing” just may be Google Real Estate. By all accounts, Google will unveil their search engine for a national, Web-based real [...]