Real Estate Technology Blog

A single property web site in itself isn't going to bring you much traffic or do much good but a single property website that is properly advertised in search engines will make all the difference in the world. Good property website providers will optimize your property site and even submit it to ...

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Okay - I just spent some time creating my 1st sprout and I must admit I am pretty amazed. Sprout is a widget creation tool like no other. It allows you to custom create your own custom widget. You can add feeds, create slideshows, add videos, buttons and tons more. You have full control of the si...

Google recently launched a street view on Google Maps. This allows you to zoom in on the actual street and see what the street and surrounding houses look like. How cool is that? I know most buyers look at the street, surrounding houses and condition of the neighborhood when deciding if a house i...

This was a topic of conversation at a recent office lunch.  What do you perceive as free?  Does free mean no money out of your pocket?  What are the other un-foreseen costs of using a service that requires you to pay no solid money?  What I mean by that is...Are you agreeing to have ads display o...

Hello ActiveRain Real Estate pro's.  Do any of you submit your listings to the Yahoo Real Estate classifieds at http://realestate.yahoo.com/?  If so, have you paid the $49.95 fee to submit residential listings and did you receive a good return on your investment? what have your results been from ...

It's a great feeling when someone comments on a blog post you made.  It's exciting and confirming.  It shows that they are interested in what you are saying and want to engage with you.  Many times I see posts that people make comments on but the original poster never comes back to engage with th...

I recently stumbled upon a web-based document converter that I think may be useful to many of you.  See http://convert.neevia.com/ This tool allows you to convert a bunch of different file formats to PDF or an image such as BMP, JPG.  I can see this being especially useful for those of you who wa...

I was looking at our web stats again and to my surprise noticed a fair amount of traffic coming from a few AR blog posts that were posted to Localism.http://activerain.com/blogsview/381235/2-78-E-Appaloosa according to our web stats has received over 1500 hits within the past 2 weekshttp://active...

I recently participated in another blog commenting platform and was surprised by an attack I received on a comment I made.  The original poster of the question was simply asking about video in RE.  The question he posed was "Is it even worth it? What sort of strategies are working in your market?...