September 3, 2010

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roost.com Swaps Listings for Social Strategies

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Until recently, roost.com had been steadily expanding its presence as a US-based real estate search engine. But over the past few months, the people behind this website have been watching Facebook’s exponential growth, and changing their strategy accordingly.

Downturn Drives Sellers Back to Agents

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New research by Nielsen suggests that the economic downturn may be causing sellers to doubt the FSBO approach, driving them back to real estate agents’ offices.

SOBOX Goes Hyper-Local

SOBOX, the social media tool created by propertyadguru.com publisher Classified Ad Ventures, has announced a move to introduce hyper-local content for its customers.

Woopra Reveals Top Referral Sources

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Web analytics company Woopra has been hard at work answering the question all website owners ask repeatedly: Where can I get more traffic?

Ad Spending Up in US, Down in UK

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Small businesses in the US are spending more on paid advertising and getting more online conversions than they were a year ago, according to a new report from online advertising company WebVisible.

How to Work Social Listing Options

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US real estate marketplace zillow.com has just plunged its listings into the social web with the addition of a “share” button on its home details pages. The question is, how should agents make use of this feature?

Google: We’re Not in Real Estate

“We are no more in the real estate business than we are in the cafe or the museum business.” That’s the contention of Carter Maslan, Google’s director of product management, who attended the Inman News Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco last week.

Location-based Marketing from homefinder.com

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Agents aren’t the only people in the real estate industry getting in on the growing location trend. Now, US-based listings website homefinder.com is starting up its own location-based marketing campaign.

Move Inc. Makes Real Estate Marketing More Social

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realtor.com owner Move Inc. is catching on to the importance of social media for real estate agents, integrating new social features into the latest release of Top Producer 8i.

Google Challenging rightmove.co.uk?

The Internet is currently abuzz with the news that Google Maps has launched its property search in the UK – a similar service to that already offered to property hunters in Australia and New Zealand.