A website is your online office or storefront where
you can advertise your products and services.
The benefits include a capped
cost on your advertising. After hosting, there are
few other costs associated with owning and
maintaining a website.
Your own website allows you to
reach the global real estate market with
information about your products, make new contacts and increase sales as a result.
You can also reach your special
or niche market and offer highly specialized
service to this market with ease.
A website allows you to display
and distribute information that will help your
customers make a buying or selling decision.
Most important, a website is
your main marketing tool when listing properties
and a good website can do half of the selling for
you.
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Agent X was one of the last salespersons in her
office to create a website. She had been selling
real estate for many years without one and was doing
pretty good.
Then one of the young agents
in her office showed Agent X how her website
displayed listings automatically, gathered contact
information, generated leads and responded to
routine information requests automatically.
Agent X concluded that a website
was like having a low-cost assistant to help with
marketing.
After doing some research, Agent
X decided on the Listing Rover automated database
with a free design from the printed catalogue. After
a couple of weeks her new website was ready.
It took a few months for Agent
X's site to be listed on the search engines and soon
after inquiries started to arrive in her email.
After a year, Agent X is enjoying
a nice boost to her existing business and has joined
the other agents in her office "online". |
