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Education & Training with Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp Non-Licensed

May 30, 2012 11:04 PM

Let’s face it. As a real estate agent, your time is valuable. Your job requires you to have expertise in sales, marketing, the financial and legal fields, and sometimes a fair amount of handholding with excited/nervous and even needy buyers and sellers. What you don’t have time for is to be a Web developer or spend months working on a website only to be disappointed with the end result (often at an extraordinary cost with outrageous set-up fees and no control).

Finally . . . A Better Choice

New from Zillow: The Premier Agent Website for real estate agents is now available.
This is designed for agents who:

do not have their own website
wish to improve on their current website
want to start an additional no-hassle site for a specific niche market, audience, or hyper-local neighborhood/community.

Best of all, it’s included with our Premier Agent program

or is just $10 a month (with no set-up fees) for anyone else.*

Unmatched Benefits

Imagine having a site created and set up to do everything you dreamed and expected a website could and should do? Cultivate traffic, provide value to clients, capture prospects and contacts, convert Internet-generated leads into clients, track and manage your relationships, and so much more. No programming skills or tech-savvy expertise required! The Premier Agent Website comes with easy-to-modify designs, simple customization, plus complimentary online training and support.

Features That Can’t Be Beat

MLS property search through IDX
City/community/school pages
Personalized blog
Ability to display video
Ability to add custom pages
A variety of widgets available at no additional cost, including
mortgage calculator, reviews, search by affordability and more
Home page slideshow for branding and/or featured listings
Optimized for SEO
Integrated with the Zillow CRM

The Video You’ll Laugh Along With

So…can you have it all? Keep your clients happy, and have peace of mind? I think this short video says it all…

Learn More With These Free Webinars

We have four Premier Agent Website webinars available to best fit into your busy schedule.
Register and join us for one below:

Read the press release here.

*Additional IDX/MLS fees may apply

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Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Good morning Ellie - thank you for the suggested feature.

We are all really excited about this. It's awesome to have these now available for anyone that wants a combo IDX, Wordpress powered, Website/Blog that has everything built into it. It's all the stuff I've been trying to teach folks the last 6 years... Plus free training, support, webinars etc. Today really is a GREAT day!!

Thanks for reading and commenting.

May 30, 2012 11:23 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Karen - I agree, and I hope so too.

I've been working on these for a few weeks now and I have to tell you, the team who designed and developed these did a phenominal job!! Once you see them, use them, and start hearing from others how easy and effective they are, I'm sure you'll agree.

May 30, 2012 11:27 PM

Rene Fabre

ARFCO Media - Renton, WA

Practicing Philosophical Eclectic of the Arts

Hi Brad... I can think of a lot of real estate brokers who could use this solution. Good luck with the launch.

May 31, 2012 12:28 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Rene - thanks. us too. That's why we did this. :-)

May 31, 2012 01:10 AM

David Grbich

Realty One Group - www.FindCARealEstate.com - San Juan Capistrano, CA

Orange County Real Estate - 949-500-0484

Certainly looks like an incredible deal for agents starting out. I run Diverse IDX which would be a good IDX component to this solution. Thanks

May 31, 2012 01:16 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

David - thanks for commenting.

DS IDX IS an optional component of these sites. They're really a suite of bundled (optional) combinations that make these website/blogs easy, yet powerful and effective. Take a second to check em out, you may find a need to try one out for a specific niche market, community, or neighborhood.

Honestly... I've been working with Wordpress and blogging sites/platforms for many years now and have never seen anything quite like what we launched today.

Look what these agents have already done:

HomesByCoco.com EastsideBuyerAgent.com JulieReynoldsHomes.com

May 31, 2012 02:05 AM

Hannah Williams

HomeStarr Realty - Philadelphia, PA

Expertise NE Philadelphia & Bucks 215-820-3376

Brad ..I don't have time to watch it all now but it looks amazing and so does the price !

i am going to reblog

HelpfulHannah

May 31, 2012 02:57 AM

Craig Rutman

Helping people in transition - Cary, NC

Raleigh, Cary, Apex area Realtor

Hey Brad,

I just called Zillow to sign up for this.

It appears that my MLS is not available yet though.

So, I called my MLS and told them to get on the ball and partner up with Zillow on this.

If you hear anything else or if the Triangle MLS becomes available for this program, please let me know.

Hope all is well with you.

Craig

May 31, 2012 03:31 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi Hannah - the video is only 1:43 minutes and says it all! Watch it when you can...it's cute, funny, and realistic.

Thanks for the ReBlog~ :-)

May 31, 2012 04:42 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Craig - I shared and forwarded your comment to a couple folks at Zillow, if I hear anything about that area or get any new intel, I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks my friend, I'm doing well and hope the same for you.

May 31, 2012 05:35 AM

DeeDee Riley

Lyon Real Estate - El Dorado Hills CA - El Dorado Hills, CA

Realtor - El Dorado Hills & the Surrounding Areas

Hi Brad,

I like my website now but this sounds pretty fun and I'm wondering if it will get us some of the Zillow juices. I've signed up for the webinar on Monday to give it a look over.

Thanks for letting us know! Hope all else is good for you and your famiily!

DeeDee

Jun 01, 2012 05:26 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi DeeDee, I like your website too!! :-)

These sites have a rich SEO set up with really solid page tagging, IDX listings are index friendly, and even the non-SEO savvy can customize all their SEO pages and tagging. (See screen shot below)

Looking forward to seeing you on monday . :-)

BTW - Here's 10 Things You Probably Don't Know about our New Websites...

Jun 02, 2012 01:56 AM

Randy Ostrander

Lake and Lodge Realty LLC - Big Rapids, MI

Real Estate Broker, Serving Big Rapids and West Central MI

Good evening Brad. I hope they are better at website design than giving accurate info on their site. I get beat down at least a couple times a week for Zillow listings that are outdated or sold. Agents really need a strong web presence these days. Any idea how Goggle likes these new pages?

Jun 02, 2012 11:02 AM

Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate

John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR

"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

Ok, Brad, it's a Saturday nite after a busy real estate day and I'm a little bit burned out. So, I've hit
"bookmarked" so that I can really concentrate on what you're suggesting!

Jun 02, 2012 01:05 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Randy - just explain to your "beat-downers" that there are 106,000,000 plus homes on Zillow and not all of them are for sale. I think once you dive down deeper with those prospects, you can convert them to clients. Remember that the syndicated listings on Zillow only represent a very small percentage of the homes consumers access on our site everyday. Even your home is on the site Randy, but that doesn't mean it's outdated just because it's sold. This is a common misunderstanding and exactly why I run Zillow Academy. :-))

Jun 04, 2012 12:38 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hi Gayle - Come to the webinars I'll be teaching today, they're free and we'll explain and show you in detail how easy and fast these sites are to create. More importantly, how powerful and effective they can and will be if you put your IDX and some great content on the pages.

Jun 04, 2012 12:40 AM

Mark Delgado

houses for rent, Solano County & Glen Cove - Benicia, CA

Benicia and Vallejo, Property Management, rental h

If the message wasn't coming from you, I'd say that this is too good to be true. But, I trust you so I'll check it out for myself.

Jun 05, 2012 02:37 PM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Mark - it's too good and it's true! :-)

Jun 06, 2012 07:29 AM

Carol Faaland-Kronmaier

Weichert, Realtors; Hillsborough - Hillsborough, NJ

PhD, e-PRO, Manville, Hillsborough, Somerset NJ

Brad, Thank you for the information. I know several Realtors in my office that will benefit from these webinars.

Jun 17, 2012 04:50 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

Hey Tristan - these sites really do rock.

A wordpress platform that has SEO built in, no programming or technical skills needed, IDX and already setup for mobile... the ultimate tool and service agents have been wanting and looking for since the inception of the web.

The IDX provider is Diverse Solutions on the Premier Agent sites, what does ClickSold bring to the table? I'd love to hear more about your product and services.

Aug 31, 2012 01:33 AM