New Home Feed Goes Live – Easily List Your Homes Online
Just finished up the demo for New Home Feed. It takes about 25 minutes for the presentation. It’s worth a look.
Demo Now Available: CLICK HERE
What’s the secret to selling homes? You can’t point to any one thing of course but instead would want to be sure you are using all the tools available. Included in your home-selling plan of course is the Internet. Pretty much everybody (90%) starts their home search online so it makes sense to have your listings online. But especially given how many builders, in this challenging market, are having to do more with less, it can be a challenge to get homes on to listing websites, and keep the information updated. Now there is a new marketing tool that does just that: newhomefeed.com.
This is NOT a listing website, New Home Feed instead partners with a variety of listing sites to get your listings on a wide network of both free and paid sites like NewHomeSource.com and NewHomesDirectory.com. Plus it tracks what sites are sending you traffic and the conversion rates from those sources so you can make improved marketing decisions about where to spend your money. You can update listings from newhomefeed.com or update from your site and plug it into to New Home Feed. What I like about New Home Feed is that it lets you be cost smart, and do more without spending big bucks.
Press Release:
A beta version of newhomefeed.com is now live. New Home Feed allows home builders, marketing agencies who work with home builders, and builder CRMs (Customer Relationship Management companies) to easily disseminate home listings to a wide variety of real estate listing websites and get robust reports that show where web traffic originates from within the New Home Feed network. The website also features a lively blog as well as a series of white papers and case studies of interest to home builder and real estate sales and marketing professionals.
Read the full press release here
The “cool kids” club
I had the great pleasure of presenting to the Builder 20 Group #33 “The Survivors” in Cleveland this week. By the way, Cleveland has a really clean downtown. Moving right along…I love presenting to 20 groups! You can be much more open, honest and transparent.
This was really a cool group of builders ready to kick this economy’s (you know what). If you are a builder looking for a powerful way to connect – you need to talk with the NAHB about their 20 Clubs. Here is a quick description:
The 20 Clubs are comprised of similar type builders or remodelers from non-competing markets who meet several times a year to share their wisdom and learn from each other ways to improve their operations and increase their bottom lines. Members share and compare financial information, look for trouble spots, and offer each other advice on how to increase their profit ratios and improve their performance
I also shot a quick “So what are you going to do when you get back” video. Thank you for the opportunity guys!
Big News for 2009 – Consulting for Homebuilders
It’s official like a referees whistle! I am jumping in heads first and will now be providing consulting services full time. I am excited to do this with the support and encouragement of my friends, family and many of my respected peers in the home building industry.
I look forward to applying my passion and experience to help builders polish their online presence, drive more traffic and convert more browsers into buyers. Plus, now I will also be able to spend more time creating content to share with you to help improve your business.
My services will be focusing on Internet Sales, Marketing, Lead Generation and Leads Management. Here’s a quick list of how I can help you:
- Strategic Consulting Services
- Executive Coaching (to help you avoid costly mistakes and deliver killer ideas)
- Speaking, Seminars and Workshops
- New Media Implementation
- Leads Management Optimization
- Follow-Up Process Improvement
I would love the opportunity to discuss your needs and help you increase sales in 2009. Please feel free to Contact Me at any time.
Stay tuned for some great changes on the site!
Weekly Hotlinks
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I hope to see many of you at IBS this year and you need to mark your calendar for our seminar: Attracting Today’s Buyers Online: Building Success With Connected Customers
Be sure to let me know you are coming – it is a great topic.
Here are some of great reads from this past week:
- The Brand You is Dead. Long Live The Brand You Build. Talks about the importance of creating value in your personal brand – not just having one for self promotion. Good stuff!
- Wondering about Twitter – check out this prediction – Why Twitter Will Go Mainstream In 2009 with 10 reasons to support it.
- This article is from 2002: As the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Online Yes, that is from 2002 – message translates to today…gotta love business cycles.
- On the predictions train: Seven Predictions for 2009 Internet is still the victor.
Here’s to a successful and prosperous new year. Look forward to your comments on these articles. What do you think about Twitter?
