BUZZRE – Orange County Recap

This past week a group of savvy real estate marketing people got together to put on a seminar in Orange County, hosted by Linsey Planeta of MRealty – Orange County.  They covered various topics including Facebook Strategies for Realtors, the rise of the 365 things to do in fan pages, website consumer experiences, free tools [...]

Why You Should Love Facebook Like

Kabooom!  Hear that?  That’s the sound of the bomb that Facebook just dropped on the entire Internet.  With the new Open Graph system that they have implemented, Facebook wants to plant themselves firmly on every website across the entire Internet.  Perhaps your familiar many sites recently including links to post things to Facebook, Twitter, or [...]

Real Estate's Impact on the State of Now

Director of Business Development, Eric Stegemann was part of a panel at the 140 Conference in April, 2010 in New York. The topic of discussion was real estate’s impact on the real time web and vice versa. The fact of the matter is that Realtors are well ahead of most other industries when it comes [...]

Too Many Choices – Real Estate Web Usability

We’ll begin to post over the next few weeks a multi-part series on web-usability and user interface for real estate brokerage and agent websites that will hopefully help to make your website better.  These are the things we’re intrigued at testing everyday.  We not only use in person samplings, but we also do what is [...]

How To: Create A Facebook Community Fan Page

Many Realtors have been asking lately about the thought process behind setting up a Facebook fan page.  They’ve seen other Realtors setup pages for themselves and they want one too.  The problem with this is that in general, other than your friends, family, and potentially past clients, few others will want to become your “fan” [...]

WordPress 101 – A Basic Understanding for Realtors

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] Below you’ll find the slides for WordPress 101 for Realtors. Click the Download button to get a copy of all slides in PDF format. WordPress Training for Realtors Video WordPress 101 : [...]

Monitor Your Syndicated Listings

Tribus offers our premier listing syndication system that syndicates your listings across hundreds of sites.  Along with our listing syndication system, we offer enhancements and advertising to major sites like Trulia, Zilow, and more.    Unlike other services like Point2, Postlets, and VFlyer, the system works along with your MLS to automatically to push your listings [...]

Realtor WordPress Tip: Setting Up Permalinks

Download: 5 Step Guide on How To Setup WordPress Permalinks Having correct permalinks that tell Google what your posts are about are a very important factor in correctly configuring a WordPress site. Director of Business Development, Eric Stegemann, covers how to correctly setup Permalinks. Optimize WordPress permalink structure for SEO This discussion was given at Social [...]

The Most Effective Realtor Marketing Tool

Lately, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking at events around the country (Request a Consultant Speak At Your Event).  I get many requested topics to speak on: Brokerage of the Future, Increasing Profitability, Social Media, Search Engine Optimization and more.  I always try to relay the fact that Social Media is a branding tool and [...]

Outside.in Hyperlocal Search

2009 was a speaking tour year of sorts for me.  I spoke at over 10 Real Estate Bar Camps throughout the country, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Phoenix, and Los Angeles…  At almost every event I did a session titled hyperlocal media to win at Google.  The conversation almost always starts the same way, I cover Mike Simonsen’s [...]

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