A few years ago I wrote a post on the 10 things professionals could do on Zillow and it still gets a lot of traffic. So I thought it was time to update the list! It is amazing how much better and more dynamic the tools for agent have gotten on the site. With more than 19 million people visitin
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04/15/2011
Brad has lined up some great training content for the month of April. I hope you can find the time to join one of his webinars! Here's some classes, trainings, and special guests I've scheduled for April. There are still a few more to add but hopefully this will be a good start to get some of yo
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04/06/2011
When I talk to agents about Zillow's mobile apps- it is inevitable that the question comes up... "What about an app for the Blackberry?". I know a lot of agents use a Blackbery, I myself only recently switchedover to Droid. Now with the launch of the Zillow Blackberry App, we have 90% smartphon
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03/31/2011
Stefan gets paid to keynote all over the country and help people 'discover their Serengeti' - and tomorrow you can listen to him for free! Brad Andersohn is hosting a call with Stefan tomorrow about business practices and achieving a quality life. The webinar is entitled"7 Skills To Master Your
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03/23/2011
I am finishing up a very long month of being on the road at conventions. I've talked to hundreds of agents and sat through many education sessions this month. As I listened to agents, other vendors and presenters, one thing was very clear to me... whew, there is A LOT to think about when it com
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03/22/2011
I love this chart that the Zillow research team put together which illustrates how it could actually cost money to wait for another small decrease in home prices, based on the projected interest rate increases. You can read the full article here, entitled, To Wait or Not to Wait: Financing versus
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02/25/2011
Valentines Day is over. But if your sweet tooth is still aching, check out this real estate eye candy! There are some beautiful design and staging ideas here (along with some hefty real estate price tags to go with it!). But hey, a girl can dream! Enjoy! I picked my favorite from each categor
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02/16/2011
This week Google announced that as of Feb 10, 2011, it will no longer display real estate listings on its Google Map pages. In case you weren't familiar with what this looks like today, here is a screen shot: In the blog post making this annoucement Google said, "In part due to low usage, the pr
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01/27/2011
Zillow Agent Reviews and Endorsements. The ultimate goal in adding this social media aspect to Zillow, was to aide consumers in the agent selection process based on past client endorsements and reviews. The system was launched in late December, and agents could ask their clients to review them
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01/25/2011
This first step in launching this product was to build the functionality and allow agents to invite their past clients to reveiw them. Now that we have thousands of reviews in the system, it gets more interesting and the cream will really rise to the top. Now we can surface agents who have hig
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01/20/2011
