Thursday, October 28, 2010

Real Estate Maintenance

What happens on a normal day when you are not showing property or writing contracts for your clients? This is it; you keep up on your blogs and websites. Having 4 websites related to real estate and buying homes and property takes a lot of work. Not just in the content of the sites, but making sure that they are in the search engines for all to locate.

Even though the websites are out there and ready for searchers all over the world to view, some of the content may be out dated such as open house dates, and other websites you may have linked to that have gone by the wayside. Then there is the Twitter, Facebook and other daily rituals that you attend that gets the word out...

Another aspect is checking your email and your email listings that you have going out to prospective buyers. At any time most realtors have a number of lookers that wish to learn what properties are out there before they buy. Then I must delete all of the website placement companies that say they can get me better exposure on the web. They insist that searchers can’t find our sites. If this is true why do I have up to 50 emails a day from companies that have found my sites?

Maintaining your sites is a big job, some pay to have others do this for them and make the time available to do other realtor things. I choose to do it myself and keep everything on the sites new and fresh. Visit the websites and see what all the fuss is about…

Photo of the Day - The Idaho Statehouse as taken by me!


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