My How Marketing Your Home Has Changed! Use The Internet To Sell Your Issaquah Home.
Today there is no national MLS, there may likely never be. The reasons are complicated, political and technical. So this addresses why sellers, you need your listing all across the internet? Things are different now for listing agents, even buyers agents.
Why? Answer: Because that is where the buyers for your Issaquah home for sale are, all over the internet. They want information from sources you may not know about yet. The logic that you just list in the local MLS is out of date. Buyers are hitting these other sites for various reasons. Some just do a Google search, some have RSS feeds tied to Craigs lists. Some buyers are foreigners that have heard of Trulia. Another internet friendly we do is a single website for your listings. This provides even more search power with the focus on the search engines finding the listing.
Larry Cragun
PS: A common misconception is that Realtor.com has all of the listings. This is wrong, and in fact this MLS does not automatically send listings to Realtor .com
February 6th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Hi Lar!
Hope your doing well.
I think the saying is - don’t put all your eggs in one basket. As you mentioned, consumers look in a variety of places for listings and real estate information. Proactive agents and brokerages take advantage of the many sources available to them.
One tidbit to underscore your point…in some cities - like Manhattan, for example - roughly 7% of Trulia’s traffic comes from international home searchers. It’s just another way for agents to bring more visibility to their listings…
Stay well Lar.
Rudy
Social Media Guru at Trulia
February 7th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hi Rudy,
I know your doing well. How is Joe? Thanks for the comment. I send all my listings to Trulia.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Hi Lar!
Maybe you should give him a shout. I think he’s like that.
“I send all my listings to Trulia.” Hey, that’s great Lar.
Rudy