Tech Savvy Agent – Winner of 2010 Inman Most Innovative Blog Award

Tech Savvy Agent, a leader in hardware and software reviews, business related videos, tech advice, tips, and complete integration with social media platforms is thrilled to announce their most recent accomplishment of being awarded the “Most Innovative Blog” title, which was declared at the 2010 Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco on July 17, 2010.

For 15 years, Inman News has been recognizing the Nation’s best of the best real estate-based companies with, what has proven to be the industry’s top honor awards to those who have proven to be both technologically and innovatively sound in their applications and business dealings. This comes in the infancy of Tech Savvy Agent’s life, since they have yet to crest their one year anniversary of being founded. Past award winners have included Google Maps, Curbed.com, ActiveRain and Altos Research.

Tech Savvy Agent has certainly proven that the philosophies and strategies are not only highly effective, but now award-worthy too. Co-Founder, Chris Smith, explained his insight as to how they reached this milestone so swiftly, by saying it was “ultimately due to the entire team’s passion, drive and dedication to what they love to do.”

The team at Tech Savvy Agent comprises of Co-Founders, Chris Smith and Stephen Pacinelli, and Lead Contributor, Suzanne Roy. Smith and Pacinelli both have been speaking in front of thousands of Realtors across the nation over the past decade regarding tools, social media, online marketing and techniques that Realtors can take and use on a daily basis within their respective businesses. Roy has owned and operated her own real estate virtual assistant business,V.A. Work, over the last 8 years, providing up-to-the-minute online marketing, blog design and social networking services to Brokers and Realtors alike throughout North America.

Smith, Pacinelli and Roy created Tech Savvy Agent after it became apparent there was no true resource available for Realtors to go to, to gain relevant and reliable tech news, tools and tips of the trade. By utilizing these free tools, Realtors are now able to take their businesses to a whole new level and become a “Tech Savvy Agent”.

Tech Savvy Agent has been bringing the most cutting edge and sought after information to Realtors throughout North America both consistently and creatively.  Over the past few months alone, they have conducted exclusive interviews with individuals such as motivational speaker and author, Tom Ferry, Oodle’s CEO, Craig Donato, and Coldwell Banker’s VP of Marketing, Mike Fisher.  Most recently, Tech Savvy Agent hit the news with the interview conducted with Jonathan Rivera, owner of “The Official Real Estate Referral Group” Fan Page on Facebook, when this referral business to Realtors page was shut down – however, with almost 450 retweets and over 350 facebook “shares”, his Fan Page was reinstated (with a new NAR-compliant fan page name) the very next day.

Related posts:

1. Facebook and “Day Drinking”? How You Can Profit From This Too!
2. 5 Tips To Effective Time Management for Realtors
3. Top 10 Reasons You MUST Have A Real Estate Blog

Here’s a quick (real quick!) tutorial on how to add a new custom tab to your real estate fan page using the FBML app. This would be necessary if you wanted to create a new tab on your Fan Page for showing custom information not provided by the default Fan Pages (such as the Info Tab, Photos Tab, etc.,).

Remember, your Real Estate Facebook Fan Page is one of the MAJOR avenues for gaining new leads! Customize it so that it is something you are proud to display, just like your website and/or blog! Please let me know if you have any questions by leaving a comment in the form below the video tutorial.

Check back again for another Real Estate Virtual Assistant Quick Tutorial!

You can also enter your email address below to receive future posts automatically emailed to you:

Related posts:

1. Real Estate Facebook Fan Page vs. Profile – What’s The Big Deal?
2. Real Estate Virtual Assistant’s Tip of The Week – Bit.ly
3. How To Create Your Feedburner Account For Your Real Estate Leads

Real Estate Virtual Assistant’s Tip of The Week – Bit.ly

Here’s a quick tip (and video tutorial) on how to use www.Bit.ly within your online marketing and social networking efforts. Bit.ly is a great resource that allows you to kill two birds with one stone. Here’s an example: You’ve just created a smashing blog post and want to take it to the (web) streets. However, the url of the blog post is crazy long and you need to both shorten it (to post it on Twitter) and customize it with a recognizable one-liner. This can be done via Bit.ly, plus they provide analytics, showing you how many clicks your newly created URL has had, where they originated from and which country.

Check back next week for another Real Estate Virtual Assistant Tip of the Week!

Enter your email address below to receive future posts automatically emailed to you:

Related posts:

1. V.A. Work to Present At The First Ever Virtual Real Estate BarCamp!
2. Virtual Assistant Tip of The Week – Opening Multiple Browser Tabs Automatically
3. Real Estate Virtual Assistants and Social Networking

Top Producer Help – Market Snapshot in Detail – Bring on the Leads!

A few months back I decided to give the Facebook PPC ads a try with the Market Snapshot lead generation tool. I placed the html code within the ad and sat back and waited for the leads to roll in. It didn’t happen. I actually got barely any clicks (Facebook ad creator gives you stats including click-through rates).

So here’s what I came up with instead. A Market Snapshot in Detail landing page. The beautiful thing about this, is that you are spelling out to your prospective leads what exactly they are signing up for! In this tech age, no one truly wants to give away their email address unless they absolutely want to – this gives them that reason to do so. This Market Snapshot landing page can also be made as a blog post, a website page, a Craigslist ad, and, of course, a Facebook PPC ad.

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment in the Comment Box below.

Market Snapshot shows you market trends in the area of your choosing. It charts live market activity including such data as sold homes, properties for sale, inventory counts and even days-on-market. You can’t get that information anywhere else, unless, of course, you’re a Realtor!

Below is a sneak peak to just one Market Snapshot page:

Get All Data For Homes Just Listed And Sold!

The data displayed within the Snapshot is real-time Multiple Listing Service information. The map offers several viewing options:

• Road
• Aerial and
• Bird’s Eye views

where you will see listings identified by green (Active Listings) or red flags (Homes that have Sold).

By clicking the bird’s eye view of the map, you’ll see your backyard and even your neighbor’s back yard! Hover your mouse over any of the listings and a pop up box with a picture of the home will appear. Within the pop up is a link where you can click to view all the details on that particular home. The details will show the asking price, selling price, days on market, property features and comments!

Get answers to questions like,

“What Did My Neighbor’s House Sell For?”

Within your Market Snapshot report, you will also see the inventory based on the last three months (which is the default), the last thirty days or the last week! Below the d rop down list are several statistical g raphs showing asking and sold price s, asking vs. sol d prices, time on market, and inventory statistics. Some of these graphs that are included in each report are shown below.

The Snapshot shows homes that are similar in number of bedrooms and bathrooms to yours so not every home for sale or sold will appear.

What Else Is Included?

Additional information is also readily available, including community and school details. If knowing how close the nearest police stations, fire stations, department and grocery stores are to the area you are interested in purchasing is important to you, you will find all this here, and more.

Local school information, public and private, plus colleges and universities can also be reviewed within your Market Snapshot.

Each school is marked on the interactive map, and listed to the right you can click and gain detail for each school as shown below:

All this information is just a click away!

Please complete the form below to obtain your personalized report now.

Related posts:

1. Top Producer 8i Services
2. Top Producer Assistance – Market Snapshot Fan Page Add-On
3. Top Producer Market Snapshot On Facebook Fan Pages!

Live Website Optimization!  Join the Free Website Grader Webinar today!

Ever wonder how well your website is doing when it comes to your SEO efforts?   Join this webinar at 1:00 EST, today, March 25th, which is geared toward anyone wanting to learn the practical aspects of growing a successful business in an easy-to-understand format.   Best of all, there is no technical experience required!

Real Estate Virtual Assistant‘s Website Grade is:

Website Grader is a great tool that I would highly recommend visiting right now, plus bookmarking for future use. A free SEO tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website, Website Grader is a great resource for keeping track of how well your efforts are working for you and in turn how your website should be working for you. It provides a score that incorporates aspects such as website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some great tips on how your website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

Here’s some examples of the type of information Website Grader will provide you when grading your website:

So if you have 45 minutes free this afternoon, please attend the webinar they will be hosting – you’ll be glad you did! Website Grader Webinar – Sign Up Here