Just looking at the blogs statistics and April was a really great month for traffic! Over 3500 unique visitors. Some people type in blog.firstweber.com to reach us and some find us when they are conducting a web search on say, google.
A few people found our blog when they searched for "how up to date are realty listings?" Well, we can't speak for every sitebut I can tell you about firstweber.com.
Our listings and participating co-broke listings are downloaded from 5 Multiple Listing Services at least once daily. Our offices work throughout the day to update our own considerable amount of listings and First Weber listings are updated in real time. We rely on the Multiple Listing Services for the data that populates our site for cooperating broker listings. The MLS has rules that agents need to follow and fines if they don't. So, the answer is a nutshell is listings at firstweber.com are updated daily, based on MLS information.
Information on other sites, especially ones based on print advertising, can become outdated very quickly. In these situations, information is entered into an ad publishing system which creates the magazine/ad and the same information is put on a website for 30 days or so. That means the info is 30 days old. When possible, go to a local real estate source for the most accurate information.
Are you on Facebook? We are! First Weber Group has recognized the exploding growth of social networkng and has started a group for our agents to interact with each other. We are also encouraging agents to set up their own profiles and interact with their circle of friends. It really has been a lot of fun, for me at least, and is an eye opening whole new world of communication.
AND, we have also set up a corporate page here. This is for customers and clients to tell us how we are doing. Write a review and become a fan! We do have numerous clients and customers who have "fanned" us and our Frist Weber Group page is quite new. (Please note you do have to sign up for a facebook account and become a fan before you can write a review. One other note, you can select your own privacy settings. This is important, in my opinion)
If First Weber did right by you, if you love your agent and you are a fan, make it offiical on facebook. Hope to see you there!
Friday, May 16. 2008
If you are in the process of buying a Wisconsin property, share your thoughts on how that is going for you.
If you are in the process of selling, share that with us too.
Dialog is good and maybe First Weber can help.
