lifestyle search engine

New IDX and Lifestyle Search Engine gives brokers and agents an edge in their marketplace

(The following is an excerpt of an article about SpatialMatch written for a major online real estate magazine.)

The real estate industry recently took a giant leap forward into the 21^st century.

Real estate brokers and agents can now embed into their web sites a lifestyle search engine that... Read More

Generating high-quality real estate leads requires a "give"

On the Internet, if you want to get something, you’ve got to give something.

It is old fashioned Internet behavior to expect me to fill out a contact form before I can even see what you have to offer.

Real estate marketing is no different.

It’s ironic that more than 80% of home buyers start their search for a home on the web, yet, most real estate sites offer users very little or at times nothing in return for their contact information.

SpatialMatch gives agents and brokers a very effective tool to capture leads. Using our... Read More

Generating high-quality real estate leads requires a “give”

On the Internet, if you want to get something, you’ve got to give something.

It is old fashioned Internet behavior to expect me to fill out a contact form before I can even see what you have to offer.

Real estate marketing is no different.

It’s ironic that more than 80% of home buyers start their search for a home on the web, yet, most real estate sites offer users very little or at times nothing in return for their contact information.

SpatialMatch gives agents and brokers a very effective tool to capture leads. Using our... Read More

Online Dominance real estate program features SpatialMatch in hour-long video

Michael J. Russer, aka Mr. Internet, is a very popular guy in the real estate business.

His Online Dominance Mentoring Program is unlike traditional coaching and training programs – he takes a unique, and we might add, very effective and high-powered approach to turning real estate agents into online real estate superstars.

So, we were very impressed and grateful when Mike presented an hour-long forum on our SpatialMatch neighborhood and lifestyle search engine to about 100 of his colleagues.

“I’ve always been on the lookout for those things that can help you... Read More

SpatialMatch featured in major US newspaper

You know the feeling you get when your name is mentioned (for positive reasons) in the newspaper?

Maybe the local paper wrote a story on you. Or printed your letter to the editor. Or took a photo of you.

Come on, admit it.  That recognition is sort of... Read More

SpatialMatch IDX feature results in dozens of new clients

Comey and Shepherd Realtors

Now that we added our IDX real estate listing technology, dozens of brokers and agents are embedding the SpatialMatch neighborhood and search engine tool into their web sites to offer consumers... Read More

Put some muscle in those real estate links

There are links…and then there are links.

Imagine you are talking to a seller. He or she wants to know how you are going to promote their property.

Sure, you can send a prospect a link from your listings showing the usual beds, baths, blah, blah, blah.

Or you can tell the seller, that when you interview a prospect, you are also going to find out their neighborhood preferences and coordinate all this listing and neighborhood data together on your neighborhood and lifestyle search engine.

Then when you send that prospect a link, that... Read More

How Realtors can provide their own customized search engine

Few people know this story.

In the mid-1990s, two bright young men from Stanford University approached the founders of Yahoo and offered to sell them this cool new Internet search program they had created working late at... Read More

Successful Realtor who built his reputation as a hyperlocal expert adds SpatialMatch to site

David Dion of Solutions Real Estate knows all about hyperlocal. He built his real estate career on it.

Dion is one of the latest Realtor clients to incorporate SpatialMatch’s lifestyle search engine into his web site – appropriately named – Read More

How to generate new ideas for your hyperlocal real estate blog

They call it “Death by blogging.”

It’s the unfortunate time when a blogger drops their head on their keyboard in frustration because they have just run dry of ideas. In fact, studies show only 4% of people who start a blog are still... Read More

SpatialMatch adds IDX real estate listings to lifestyle search engine

Today is another huge milestone for SpatialMatch in particular and the real estate industry overall.

SpatialMatch now features IDX real estate listings along with our 104 consumer information layers of lifestyle search engine data.

How does this appeal to home buyers?

Follow these... Read More

How to create "buzz" about your real estate business

People who take the time to research products online are not only a great segment of the market because they tend to buy big-ticket items at a higher rate than other adults.

They also like to talk about it.

According to BIGresearch, about half (47%) will give advice to others on what they found, compared to 29.4% of all adults who might tell others.

“Consumers who research products online appear to be more knowledgeable and eager to share information,” said Gary Drenik, of BIGresearch. “Because they are likely to tell a... Read More

How to create “buzz” about your real estate business

People who take the time to research products online are not only a great segment of the market because they tend to buy big-ticket items at a higher rate than other adults.

They also like to talk about it.

According to BIGresearch,... Read More

How Realtors can use a neighborhood lifestyle search tool to enhance their SEO rankings

Eric Hempler is a smart guy.

Whenever anybody searches in Robbinsdale, Golden Valley, Crystal or New Hope and surrounding towns in Minneapolis for a school, Eric wants them to find him.

He’s not a teacher, administrator or school... Read More

Location, location, location is being redefined by today’s lifestyle search driven buyers

What do short distance, safety, and time savings, all have in common?  Answer:  they are rewards of selecting the right location that meets my lifestyle for my next home search, and my last one.  Let me explain:

This is going to sound strange. But the best thing I liked about my old house was not the architecture, or the swimming pool, or the atrium in the kitchen.

It was the fact that the house was located 1/2 mile from a movie theater.

Hey, I love the... Read More

Location, location, location is being redefined by today’s lifestyle search driven buyers

What do short distance, safety, and time savings, all have in common?  Answer:  they are rewards of selecting the right location that meets my lifestyle for my next home search, and my last one.  Let me explain:

This is going to sound strange. But the best thing I liked about my old house was not the architecture, or the swimming pool, or the atrium in the kitchen.

It was the fact that the house was located 1/2 mile from a movie theater.

Hey, I love the... Read More