Technology For Agents

Choosing the right monitor can be a bit daunting. Should you go the affordable route and purchase a CRT (the huge and heavy monitors), or should you invest in a space saving LCD? The prices for LCD monitors has been plummeting in recent years, so if you’re in the market for a new monitor; I have just the one for you.

The Acer AL1916WABD is a 19″ widescreen monitor with resolutions capable of up to 1440×900, has a 5ms refresh rate, and includes DVI ports for high quality video. This technical jargon in lamens terms simply says that the monitor has a lot of on screen desktop space, can keep up with playing a computer game here and there because of the high performance refresh rate, and the cord that goes from the computer to the monitor is one of the the best you can use at the moment.

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One of my favorite contact managers just introduced a new feature that goes hand-in-hand with their market snapshot product. Market builder is an automated prospecting solution designed to streamline the direct mail process and help drive traffic to your market snapshot feature of Top Producer.

Learning About Market Builder

Choosing how your lead generation will be handled is undoubtedly a very important part of your real estate business. It’s important to keep your overhead low, conversion ratios high, and the level of complexity manageable.

We know that Market Builder aims to satisfy at least two of these requirements (conversion ratios and level of complexity), but is it still affordable?

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Once your very first site is on the world wide web, you’ll most likely begin to ponder how your visitors are making it to your site. A proactive online lead generator will be sure to track keywords that they rank well for in the search engines; that’s how they get visitors. Hittail is a free online tool that I use for all my sites for this very purpose.

HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site. It’s that simple. - Hittail.com

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It’s only a matter of time before that wonderful day comes that you get your first comment on your very own blog. I’ll coach for you to have a blog about your local real estate market, but how do you help it gain in popularity?

Good “search engine optimizers” will check your source code of your blog to ensure that a special tag is removed from all links. The “nofollow” attribute of a link will tell a search engine to NOT follow that link, therefore not helping the person who created the link to build those precious backlinks to improve their rankings in the search engine of their preference.

You need to make sure that these link attributes aren’t automatically applied to the links created on your site to encourage others to comment on your blog.

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