{"id":554,"date":"2007-05-16T19:44:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T03:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/2007\/05\/16\/joel-says-realtors-flunk-web-marketing-101\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T22:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:06:45","slug":"joel-says-realtors-flunk-web-marketing-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/joel-says-realtors-flunk-web-marketing-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel says: Realtors Flunk Web Marketing 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our pal Joel Burslem of the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com\/\">futureofrealestatemarketing.com blog<\/a> and more recently INMAN News and of course fellow Vancouverite writes about the NAR&#8217;s Center for Realtor Technology recently released 2007 REALTOR Technology Survey. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/files\/crt\/2007tech_survey.pdf\">**Click to read the full 2007 REALTOR\u00c2\u00ae Technology Survey (PDF)**<\/a>  Here is what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One highlight from the survey jumps out at me at being shockingly low however.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>        * 65 percent of respondents have their own business Web site.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>65 percent! Wasn&#8217;t that like a C- in college? That&#8217;s barely above passing!<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em><\/em><em>We&#8217;ve passed Web 1.0, we&#8217;re halfway through Web 2.0 and well on our way to Web 3.0 and only 65 percent of Realtors have a web site? What gives?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with Joel.  More agents should have websites.  Obviously I have a very biased opinion, but I just don&#8217;t see how an agent does business without a website.  A website is the cheapest form of advertising available to a real estate agent.  It should be the center of the agents marketing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a thought&#8230;<\/strong> if you are interested in trying an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubertor.com\">Ubertor<\/a> website give me a call and I will setup a website for you plus give you the first 90 days FREE.  This offer is only available for new websites on our system and we will require a credit card for payments to begin at 90 days.  If you want to take me up on this offer, please call me directly at 604-537-4548.  This offer is open to the first 50 agents that call. <strong>(UPDATE: Sorry, all gone)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/joel-says-realtors-flunk-web-marketing-101\/' data-title='Joel says: Realtors Flunk Web Marketing 101' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/joel-says-realtors-flunk-web-marketing-101\/' data-title='Joel says: Realtors Flunk Web Marketing 101' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pal Joel Burslem of the famous futureofrealestatemarketing.com blog and more recently INMAN News and of course fellow Vancouverite writes about the NAR&#8217;s Center for Realtor Technology recently released 2007 REALTOR Technology Survey. **Click to read the full 2007 REALTOR\u00c2\u00ae Technology Survey (PDF)** Here is what he had to say: One highlight from the survey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/14924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ubertor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}