As you know, a lot of Realtors these days are utilizing social networking to get the message out about a home that they are trying to sell on behalf of their client.

In this week’s market update Dan Polimino tells us how anyone can get listings of homes sent right to their email inbox.

I venture to guess that if you own a business or are in a business that sells a product or service, you have felt the tidal wave of indecision by consumers as of late.

More and more realtors, as well as consumers, are using social networking these days as a way to market and sell properties. I am sure that by now, you have heard about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare, and many others.

Many more people know me as a marketing guru rather than a real estate agent and most of the emails I get are usually asking for marketing ideas or advice. As you know from time to time, I like to share novel marketing ideas here to help people buy and sell homes.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]