This question is for Real Estate Agents Only!!...?

Question

If this was a Perfect world, what would your ideal Agent Website Service do for you?
Please give me detailed answers. I am asking this for informational purposes only. Don't worry!! I am not marketing anything!!!

Answer 1

-Current office listings, easily updated
-local IDX (The part of MLS that the public can access)
-simple instructions to contact agent
-an easy to use "Please contact me" form
-an easy to use way for the agent to write articles
-designable appearance
-A good loan calculator with current rates, although there is a *LOT* of abuse and deception out there for those who have this. There is an additional major difficulty with this in updating from the lenders.
-a reliable low cost host

I've got six of the eight.

Answer 2

The ideal agent web site would allow you to promote, properties, distribute information and receive solid leads. It would offer the general public a great way to obtian information they are seeking, it would act as a great communication tool with buyers, sellers and agents, it would offer an ideal environment to act as your grand central station from which you the agent (or your admin staf) to receive, organize and distribute any and all of marketing and advertising.

Where to find such options, well that is the hard part, I do not think there is a one stop solution, but here are a few that when you combine some or all of their features may come close to what it is you are looking for.

www.success.com
www.point2agent.com
www.efrogg.com
www.srep7.com
www.realtytimes.com
www.gooder.com

each of these companies have something or a number of features that will get you closer to the ideal setup for your website.

But don't forget, the internet like all aspects of our business is a work in progress, therfore, it will never be done or perfect.

When you have created and provide a service by which you can rely on 70 to 80 of your cashflow to come from referral business, you have achieved, in my opinion, the closest thing to the ideal real estate business service set-up.

So when you intergrate the internet into your service ensure that you incorporate the wishes and need of those that you are likely to receive the lion share of your referrals from (agents, network of affiliated or allied resources, and or you client/friends database)

So do a survey with your most reliable people in your database, and ask them what they would want in your web pressence, and implement these into your website.


You can see that this will be a big project, so don't loose site of where your current results and business is coming from.

Good Luck

Answer 3

I'm not an agent now, but used to be.

I believe that the agent is due more of the percentage of the sellers fee. Brokers make a lot of money off of the backs of others.
In an ideal world, the web could be used as a very cost effective method of home comparisons, customer outreach and banking.
As such, the broker/agent percent of the take should weigh greater for the agent.

;-)

Answer 4

the position do you stay? im a authentic resources agent in nj... you are able to both call your community authentic resources business organization, the guy who solutions the phone is often your realtor. As a shopper, you dont extremely favor an excpetional authentic resources agent. All brokers are approved and comprehend what they're doing and as a shopper you purely prefer to locate someone that you want bc you'd be passing a at the same time as with them. once you settle on to promote thats a unique tale

Answer 5

if this was a perfect world... we dont need any ideal agent websites...

Answer 6

Sell every house as fast as I can list it.Just think of the time and gas I could save.