The start of my real estate brokerage career just happened to coincide with the dramatic increased use of the Internet by home buyers and sellers. As a marketer, this sounded like the Holy Grail because unlike other advertising outlets (newspapers or magazines) the Internet is clearly a highly trackable medium.
As it was explained to me many years ago, I was not only going to be able to see where consumers to our website came from but also what they did [...]
So I was reading Marc Davidson’s 1000Watt blog post from last Thursday titled “Why agents will one day rule the real estate world” and I was in a little disagreement with Marc’s view of the real estate search world as it relates to consumers. Now Marc, who I’ve known for a few years, did not bash on real estate search but stated that maybe today’s real estate search sites might be complicating the process by offering too much [...]