Announcing Listing Syndication

by Administrator on July 14, 2009

It’s been a while between drinks but I am hopefully back with more regular posts about what we are up to here at Homethinking.

To date, Homethinking has been a place for Realtors to showcase their skills and experience to more than a quarter of a million home owners searching for an agent to work with each month.

Tens of thousands of Realtors have claimed and edited their profile. But after that there wasn’t much else to do. Now we want to help agents manage their listings in one central place and have it syndicated out to places like Trulia, Zillow and most of all from what we are finding, Craigslist. All completely free.

Users land on clean, uncluttered landing pages that have one goal in mind: increasing the conversion rate of browsers to interested buyers. You can see an example of a listing page here.

We are not delusional in that there are already a lot of great services like Postlets and VFlyer out there that help Realtors syndicate their listings to many different sites. What I believe we can help improve is the analytics and measurement of your marketing efforts. And we intend to be completely transparent as to the conversion rates of various designs and employ designers and landing page experts to constantly help optimize and improve this metric for you.

If you don’t already have an account (it’s free) why not create one now or for existing users login here. Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts. If you are an existing user and want us to improve the service in any way, I’d love to hear from you. You’re comments will be handed directly to our development team and make a difference.

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During a downturn, new business can be tough to find – if you don’t try new things. It’s an excellent time to tap into new markets and Homethinking’s Neighborhood site can help you out by giving you a platform to reach out to relocators. Here are a few reasons why it’s a no-brainer to give it a try:

  1. Recession or Not, Relocators Need to, well, Relocate

    The relocation market is more immune to downturns because many of those relocating are doing so out of necessity whether it be a job, school, or family related. These potential clients mean serious business and often have aggressive timelines.

  2. Credibility is as Important as Ever

    Online sales pitches don’t work. Neither does trolling social network sites for business. What does work is gaining a potential client’s trust by showing off intimate local knowledge. Homethinking gives you the platform to show off just how knowledgeable you are by writing neighborhood reviews. A person faced with the daunting task of relocating needs help any way they can get it. Showing off your local knowledge is a great way to earn their business.

  3. We Get the Ball Rolling for You

    By giving relocators a guide to the city their soon call home, we are equipping them with more information than ever before. Informed clients is good for you, isn’t it? You can spend your time finding them the perfect home rather than explaining the lay of the land.

  4. It’s Free!

    I saved the best for last: adding reviews is completely free so you’ve got nothing to lose! Get Started right now!

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Our New RealEstateVoices Webring

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The aim of RealEstateVocies, an often neglected side-project of ours, is to help new real estate bloggers achieve a voice and get traffic to their blog. In a corollary to that aim, today, we launched our very own Webring! You can join the RealestateVoices.com webring at http://www.realestatevoices.com/webring/ and drive additional readers to your blog and [...]

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Introducing Homethinking Neighborhoods

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Today, we at Homethinking are proud to announce the launch of neighborhoods.homethinking.com. Here’s the full press release. I’d also like to take a second and introduce myself. My name is Alex Mather and I am joining Niki Scevak and his Homethinking.com team as the new Product Manager. What Makes it Different (and Useful) While other [...]

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CoRE 99

July 15, 2008

Step right up to CoRE 99. On the the eve of the 100th birthday of the carnival of real estate, things are looking grim in most major metropolitan real estate markets with great pressure being exerted by the collapsing mortgage market and the dire straits Fannie and Freddie now find themselves in. The always sage [...]

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May 6, 2008

Today we drew the curtain back on mortgage.homethinking.com. Mortgage.homethinking.com allows you to see top local lenders by market share and to assess the risk of the subprime mortgage crisis in your county. For Realtors and Mortgage Brokers who blog, they can also embed the charts in their own posts to support opinion or analysis. Why [...]

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Introducing Prediction Markets

August 2, 2007

We think all the time about how we can notice and build real estate reputation and knowledge on a wide scale. One thing that had grabbed our attention was a concept called prediction markets: where individuals would buy or sell units of an outcome. Collectively, the markets would be able to predict the future, or [...]

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Project Blogger

July 9, 2007

This week we had the pleasure of being a host judge for the excellent Project Blogger initiative the folks at Active Rain and Inman have been running over the past few months. And so how to judge? Naturally I am subjective toward a few things in real estate and blogging: compelling, short, sharp writing, the [...]

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Step Right Up

May 21, 2007

Welcome – dear readers – to the 43rd edition of the carnival of real estate. This week thirty nine entries flowed into our inbox and of which, five made it through our highly biased opinion filter of excellence. The mostly-poisonous reaction to a highly-favorable 60-minutes piece on online real estate brokerage startup Redfin permeated throughout [...]

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Property Pages

May 8, 2007

A lot of the improvements we have been working on Homethinking in recent months had to do with the Realtor side of things. So we’re pleased to announce today the introduction of property pages on Homethinking. Property pages aren’t listing pages but instead answer two simple questions: is the listing price high or low (as [...]

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