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.

Gist Pitches to Real Estate Agents

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“Know more about who you know” is the tagline of Gist, an online contact management service that has real estate agents in its sights.

iPad Apps for Real Estate on the Rise

It’s been only a few short weeks since the release of Apple’s iPad, but real estate agents have already been hard at work creating their own offerings.

Twitter for Real Estate: New Tool Tracks Questions

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In our Top 10 Tips for Real Estate Agents Using Twitter, we touched on the importance of those extra Twitter-related applications that keep popping up. Replyz is one such offering, and it looks like it could take the hassle out of finding and connecting with potential clients.

realbird.com Toolbar Keeps Agents on Top

Once property seekers leave your website and start looking on places like realtor.com and zillow.com, it becomes more difficult to ensure you stay top-of-mind.

New Options for UK, Aussie Agents

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There’s a lot you can do on your own for your website, but for UK agents still looking for an out-of-the-box solution, UltraIT could be worth checking out.

SureDocs Expands Service for Agents

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a la mode, the US-based company behind the TourNarrator iPhone app for home tours, is expanding its “SureDocs” e-signature system to offer a version designed specifically for real estate agents.

New Social Tool for Aussie Agents

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With the importance of social media for real estate agents becoming clearer by the day, the team at Classified Ad Ventures (owner of propertyadguru.com) have come up with a new social tool to help Australian agents: SOBOX.

SOBOX aims to provide agents with “social media in a box”, taking any hassle associated with setting up and maintaining their social media presence out of the equation.

ClickTale Wants to Track Your Audience

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You might not have heard of ClickTale yet, but the web analytics service, which has been around since way back in 2006, is gradually cementing its place as the darling of analytics scene.

What’s so amazing about ClickTale? Put simply, creates videos that show what your website visitors are doing by capturing each mouse move, click, and keystroke.

Google’s Tools: Will You Use Them?

As you’ve probably read by now, Google Maps has just launched a big marketing push in Australia and New Zealand, along with a new website targeting real estate agents: maps.google.com.au/realestateagents. While this is an Australia and New Zealand-based push, the tools Google promotes here could be used by agents anywhere. What we want to know is, will agents get on board?