Consistent Clients – Real Estate Marketing

It’s that time of year again – time for Top Ten lists and yearly wrap ups. So I’ll share what I consider the Top 10 Web 2.0 Real Estate Sites of 2008. Will they be the same in 2009? Possibly, since I feel these sites have established themselves well as valuable tools. But I’m sure they will be joined by other innovative sites as well, as the popularity and effectiveness of interactive, social web sites grows.

Without further ado, here are my Top Ten, in no particular order:

1. Facebook - at this point, probably the most popular social networking site online for adults and business professionals. Allows you to make valuable connections with all sorts of people you may otherwise never be able to reach

2. Twitter - a microblogging platform that asks you to answer “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. A great way to find and connect with colleagues, potential clients and new friends

3. YouTube – an extremely popular video sharing site, which allows you to tag your videos to help you and your listings get found in the search engines

4. Trulia - A well-ranked real estate listings site that lets you post your listings, create a profile to get you found by buyers, interact through Trulia Voices, and provides lots of website tools

5. Zillow - Aother real estate listings site that lets you post your properties, interact with and get found by buyers, and offers lots of website tools

6. Flickr – A popular photo sharing site that let’s you publish your photo’s, tag them with keywords, and help your properties get foundin the search engine’s even more

7. Postlets – Lets you create a classified ad, and syndicate it to more than ten popular classified sites

8. vFlyer - Let’s you create and publish marketing flyers to many different sites

9. Widgetbox – Creating widgets is a great way to share lots of different kinds of information, such as your blog’s feed, different calculators and more

10. ActiveRain – a networking site specifically designed for real estate professionals. Not only can you add posts that help you get found in the search engine for your area of real estate, you can also connect with other real estate professionals nationwide and beyond, cultivating relationships that may eventually result in referrals as well

Are there any other sites you consider essential to real estate professionals online? Please share!

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