Staging Your Website

Take a moment to think of your real estate agent website and envision it as a home that you are about to list. Go through each page on your website as you would each room of a home. Identify the selling points, as well as, the low points.

There are many similarities between a home for sale and a real estate agent website. I think the most important commonality is that of the effective use of negative space, known as whitespace in the web design world.

If you, as a real estate agent, go to list a home, do you not make suggestions to the homeowner on how to make the home look more appealing? If a room is full of clutter, knick-knacks and too much furniture, do you suggest that items be placed in storage while the home is listed? The goal is to make the space to appear larger and more inviting. [Read more]

Does Your Real Estate Agent Website Portray Your Business Properly?

What type of real estate business do you specialize in? Do you sell high-end homes? Are you the king of first-time home buyers? Do you focus on a specific geographic area, like a neighborhood?

Now that you have answered that question, does your real estate website represent your business niche? Could a new visitor to your website identify that niche easily?

Try this little test. Ask people in your life that know you are a real estate agent, but aren’t familiar with your business niche, to visit your site. Ask them to identify what you type of real estate transactions you specialize in. If they can’t, you have some work to do. [Read more]