Client Services - Internet Marketing
85% of all home and property buyers are now starting their property research and searches online. For a destination resort community like Crested Butte, this percentage is most likely higher. Most of our investors live in other states and countries of the world. The Internet is their PRIMARY tool for shopping our real estate.
Internet home searchers are starting their home search much earlier than traditional home buyers. Different studies have shown different numbers, however realistically the average is greater than 3 months. In other words, a greater lag can be expected between the time that an agent and their clients actually starts looking for a home and the time that their clients actually purchase.
The average time it takes for an Internet home seeker to reply to contact attempts by a broker is days versus months for a traditional buyer.
Once working with a broker, the typical Internet home seeker takes 2 weeks to choose their property versus 7 weeks for traditional buyers.
One of the biggest mistakes a real estate agent or seller can make is not understanding the nature and magnitude of the Internet.
I consider my Internet presence and promotional campaigns unparalleled in our marketplace. My No. 1 page rank on Google, Bing and Yahoo drives thousands of visitors to this web site on a monthly basis. They use my MLS tools, review my featured listings, take virtual tours, learn about the market and reach out to me via email and phone. My Internet property marketing services are state-of-the-art and designed for bottom-line results.
For real estate sellers, my Internet marketing services includes strategic placement of your virtual tour, professional photography, listing information and supporting documents into multiple online marketing channels.
Each one of my listings receives a 360 Virtual Tour. I produce, promote and strategically place your virtual tour, property sales collateral and listing information into a variety of Internet-based sales and marketing channels.
For example, your real estate for sale electronic advertisements and virtual tours:
-Featured on SothebysRealty.com and promoted throughout the worldwide Sotheby's International Realty network
-Fed and listed to REALTOR.com
-Syndicated globally via the Point2 Agent network
-Compliant for IDX-MLS compatibility on all Internet-based MLS systems like Paragon and CREN.
-Advertised on this top ranked website and exposed to targeted search traffic from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, ALTA VISTA and many other search engines and real estate portals.
-Featured in my monthly Crested Butte Real Estate Advisor to a international real estate buyer database.
- Channing Boucher
