All Posts Tagged With: "Wordpress"

My 9 Favorite WordPress Widgets for Realtors

Widgets are a great way to add valuable content, increase your credibility, foster engagement and “share-a-bility” of your content, and make your site more interactive with your customers.Widgets are available for use on most WordPress.com and WordPress.org sites.

I am very excited to be giving a special presentation today in Vancouver, BC at Agent [...]

2 Easy Ways to Work Smarter Using Social Media

Are you working smart with social media?

As a real estate agent or broker – you have to ask yourself: “Am I spending my time wisely or is social media a ‘time suck’?”
Can you track views, clicks, likes, and conversations? Can you track when your name or company name is mentioned across all platforms? If not, [...]

Just Released: 3 New Upgrades to Facebook Pages

It seems like just about every day there are new updates to Facebook pages!

Just yesterday there were 3 new changes that were announced that I am super excited about:

You can navigate and interact with other areas of Facebook as your Page. This means you can choose to receive notifications about fan activity, Like [...]

3 Simple Steps to Backup Your Social Media Accounts

If you are a real estate agent or broker, have you ever wondered how you can back up all the data that you put onto Facebook, Twitter, and your blog? There are tons of quick and easy ways to back up your social media data.

First of all….why backup your data? You may be asking why you’d [...]

8 Ways That Your Web Presence Makes You Look Tech Illiterate (And How to Change That)

Seth Siegler is the cofounder of Simplistate, an eco-friendly, virtual real estate brokerage. He is also the owner and founder of Robot Workshop – a real estate technology solutions company specializing in IDX and PPC based lead generation. You can find his real estate industry blog at www.sethsiegler.com. We are also pleased to announce that [...]

Seven Important Ways for Real Estate Agents to Get Started with Internet Marketing of Their Business

Guest Blogger, Mike Bowler, Sr. has been in the real estate business (Lansing, MI) for the past 32 years. During that time he’s educated and consulted with hundreds of REALTORS. Mike is a former owner/broker of Coldwell Banker Bowler Real Estate and is currently an Associate Broker for Coldwell Banker Hubbell Briarwood in Lansing Michigan, [...]

Agentpress Launches Wordpress Themes for Real Estate

AgentPress is a brand new Wordpress theme released today, designed specifically for use by the real estate industry. The theme is a collaboration between Wordpress designers StudioPress and the real estate blog MyTechOpinion.com.

You can see a live demo here.
It’s a sharp looking design that really pushes Wordpress beyond its blogging basics. For just shy of [...]

New Local Market Explorer plugin for Wordpress

Great news for those of you who are building your web sites in Wordpress. Zillow has announced the release of the new Local Market Explorer WP Plugin.
The LME plugin, which was built by Jonathan Mabe and Andrew Mattie, developers with Diverse Solutions, automatically creates rich pages on your blog that incorporate data from Zillow, Education.com, [...]

Building Broker Web Sites in Wordpress

Wordpress is a remarkable piece of software that only grows more powerful every day. Case in point – Premium Wordpress Themes can take a blog and transform it into a online magazine. Choose an even more specialized theme and Wordpress can become a Contact Manager too.
Many agents I talk to are starting to use Wordpress [...]

Statistics and Analytics: Tools

In a past life, I used to do a ton of analysis on website visitors and usage. Well, I still do actually, but for my own purposes. You see, if you run any website, this is something you need to pay attention to.
It doesn’t matter if you’re running a local real estate blog, [...]