Real Estate Agents – Making the most out of your downtime

Although the Real Estate market has gone downhill in Michigan, there are still a great number of experienced agents that don’t want to give up on their chosen career path. 5 year ago agents were busy on the phone, replying to emails, faxing, & driving all over town meeting buyers/sellers. I learned a lot about the Real Estate market from my Macomb County Realtor.

The market has since changed, but this doesn’t mean their won’t be a need for a Real Estate Agent. Squidoo has put together a website which allows realtors/brokers to establish themselves as local experts in the areas they service.

Real Estate agents are able to post information about the city/county they want to target most from a Real Estate standpoint. They can include information such as prime neighborhoods, school district information, other general information that would be informative to a current/future buyer.

This will establish a relationship with potential new clients. Whether buying, or selling people would much rather use a Real Estate agent they can trust.

Next steps if your a Real Estate agent or Broker.

• Become the online Mayor of your zip code
• Create website
• Create blog (host this on same domain as your website, i.e. contemedia.com/blog instead of contemedia.wordpress.com)
• If you already have a website, revamp it to meet the current markets needs
• Monetize your success after you’ve established yourself as an authority in your field

Use this downtime as an opportunity to use your knowledge in a field that is getting a lot of negative attention. People are still buying and selling houses, maybe not in the numbers they were once were. But, I think more effort needs to be put in, if you intend to be in the Real Estate business for the long haul.

Free Classified Sites

There are so many FREE classified sites online that want your listing.

Placing an ad on the sites listed below is a great tool. The traffic you will receive from the classified sites won’t be monumental, but the traffic they do send will be highly targeted. This will increase your chances for better conversion, depending on what type of listing you place.

Before you will able to start posting you should create an account on each of the free classified sites below. Creating your account will allow you to receive stats about your listing, as well as making it easier to stop/renew your classified listing. I recommend setting up a new email account for all of your online marketing ventures. This will keep your main email account inbox from being flooded with unimportant emails.

Real Life Scenario

I placed a help wanted ad on craigslist.org & backpage.com and within 3 hours I had to remove them. The client had already received an overwhelming number of phone calls/emails about the position. The best part was is the online classified listing was the only type of classified we could place in such short notice.

Free Classified Sites

adlandpro.com
adpost.com
backpage.com
bestadforum.com
caklassifieds.com
chooseyouritem.com
ClassifiedAds.com
classifieds.myspace.com
ClassifiedsForFree.com
craigslist.org
domesticsale.com
epage.com
ezilon.com
freeadpost.freeforums4u.com
freeads.biztop.com
FreeAdvertisingForum.com
freeadvertisingzone.com
google.com/base
hoobly.com
inetgiant.com
isell.com
itsmymarket.com
kijiji.com
livedeal.com
loot.com
morefreeadsforum.freeforums4u.com
olx.com
oodle.com
thefreeadforum.com
uscity.net
usfreeads.com

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