Archives for April 2014

“Top 5 Ways to Generate Real Estate Seller Leads This Spring”

April 24, 2014 MGeslock

I had the chance to meet Chris Smith at Keller Williams Family Reunion in Phoenix in 2014. I have followed his blog “The Tech Savvy Agent” for years. Chris is a respected voice in the real estate tech community. Here is his bio from his Face Book page.

About

co founder Curaytor, co author of Peoplework, co host of #WaterCooler, work for dotloop, board of advisors for RentMatch

Biography

I’m the co founder of Curaytor, we provide software, systems and support to salespeople. (http://www.curaytor.com/) I am the co author of #Peoplework which was written with the CEO of dotloop Austin Allison and raised $73,000 on Kickstarter! My web show #WaterCooler airs weekly here: http://curaytor.com/water-cooler Feel free to contact me Chris@Curaytor.com or @Chris_Smth on Twitter

Chris does a weekly Google Hang Out where he talks to the best of the best in the real estate world. Here is his latest video on YouTube.

If you are looking to capture you “unfair” share seller real estate leads in the market, associate yourself with the best in the business….. I plan on being that guy.Your first step is to subscribe to my blog and engage.

Mark Geslock teaches WordPress every Wednesday

April 23, 2014 MGeslock

Mark Geslock, the Team Leader at Keller Williams in Fredericksburg leads a WordPress class every Wednesday from 2-3.

He teaches form the beginners to advanced students. The goal with the real estate web sites is to increase the SEO-Search Engine Optimization for the agents.

In today’s class Kathy made her first blog post and was amazed how simple it was.

Felton and Sharon activated there existing blogs and added existing content.

Keith, who has attended all of the classes, jumped right in and started posting.

Come me and join me at Keller Williams in Fredericksburg every Wednesday from 2-3 for WordPress Wednesdays.

New Subdivision in Fredericksburg Stonewall Heights

April 21, 2014 MGeslock

Stonewall Heights is a 12 lot subdivision that is proposed in the City of Fredericksburg.

East side of Lafayette Boulevard, approximately 220 feet north of Morningside Drive, adjacent to Braehead Woods Subdivision.

There are 12 lots that are proposed. They will be served by Fredericksburg City water and sewer.

They range in size from 7,502 square feet and 9,044 square feet.

Fredericksburg has seen significant real estate gains of the the last several years.

Craigslist changes the way we post

April 19, 2014 MGeslock

New rules for CL

Craigslist has changed.

I knew that this was coming. This has been changed in other markets but not in Fredericksburg yet.

This will now change the way real estate agents get leads.

The Fredericksburg area craigslist has now been changed. They will no longer allow links to sites. They will also not allow links to more information pages. So when you use the Keller Williams EEdge system, it will not allow you to put the link that point back to the listing. This will dramatically changed how Keller Williams agents in Fredericksburg are getting lead generation.

New rules for CL

Now you can only post once in 48 hours. You risk your account being blocked or put on hold. As soon as I read about a work around, I will blog about it.

In my opinion the next best thing will be using a blog. You will have to work Google on getting your name and rank up to the top.

By the way, I teach a WordPress class every week from 2 to 3 on Wednesdays. If you do not change your advertising habits now, you will be left behind.

By using blogging, you will be able to advertise exactly what you want to do because it is your space. You will also be able to enter keywords and descriptions that accurately describe what your blog is about.

Just by writing a blog, that will not put you on the first page of Google. You need to be specific and what you were writing about. If you just write Fredericksburg real estate or the best real estate agent in Fredericksburg, you are competing with thousands of other agents doing the same exact thing. If you use keywords that are more specific, such as Kingswood subdivision or Lees Parke subdivision, you will have a better shot at getting found on Google.

In my class on blogging, you will learn how to insert photos and name the photos. Why is that important? Have you ever use the image Google search? No one will ever search for 1279X.jpg. However they may search for Lee’s Park homes for sale. If you name your image Lees Parke subdivision Spotsylvania, overtime Google will rank it. Try it HERE.

There are several tools that will continue to get your page higher up in the ranking of Google. The one that appears to be working the best is what is called a link wheel.

Be aware that our real estate world is ever-changing. Not only the market conditions but the way we do business. With this change to the Fredericksburg area craigslist, Fredericksburg’s best real estate agents will adapt and learn how to use the market tools.