Listingbook

Listingbook is the first-ever Web-based community of qualified buyers and sellers, brokers and agents.

By admin • May 18th, 2009

As Listingbook gains more recognition across the country, the stories and unsolicited customer testimonials are growing as well. We think that they speak for themselves. Listingbook was again featured in The New York Times on Friday, May 15 in an article titled, My New House? I Met It Online.

Check out the fantastic article from Sunday’s NYT entitled “Brokers Enrich Their Web Tactics.”

With Listingbook you can do A LOT in 5 minutes! Using the features of Listingbook, you can come up with a number of ways market your services to clients.

Here are 5 ways you can use Listingbook’s tools to get the word out in 5 minutes.

When the social networking phenomena began to flourish, we were told to look over our kids’ shoulders to make sure they were surfing safely.

Now our kids are looking at our backs. We adults are becoming the force of networking on the Web.

Listingbook has its own social networking side. And it’s a smart marketing platform, too.

Some of the least likely people succeed in real estate.

As a manager and broker interviewing potential agents, it was always a challenge trying to figure out those that would be stars, those that would just make it and those that would fail. Experience tells me that an agent’s success or failure is not usually based on one strength or weakness.

The launch of Listingbook in the Westchester-Putnam, N.Y., area in January will add about 9,000 more agents to the ever-growing slate of Listingbook-powered online communities around the country.

This marks the second launch of an MLS online community in New York. The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island and its associations have been using Listingbook since January 2008.

Open House and Featured Listings promotions get a bold new look and more prominence on pages.

A typical reaction to Listingbook is: “There’s a great new application that will help transform your business. Yeah, Right!:

But once agents kick the tires a little, they begin to see how it can make a difference in their business.

I see this all the time as the Training Manager for Listingbook.

Listingbook is bringing its client-centered platform to the Chicago area just after the holidays. The launch is scheduled for early January, but enterprising agents can jump in early and begin working with the system.

Midwest Real Estate Data LLC is comprised of 13 associations representing about 50,000 agents.