Selling Real Estate In Austin, Texas
Real Estate in the Austin area is diverse and I can offer you the knowledge and skills necessary in today’s market to list and sell your home or other real estate. Let me show you how.
By using my offices expertly designed websites and the Austin MLS you home will receive maximum exposure on the internet. I can assure you when selling your home, it is important to have this exposure on the web. Considering that at least 87% of buyers now look to the internet first. I can offer this exposure through a variety of web-based marketing tools such as syndication to not only our agent’s websites but hundreds of other Real Estate websites, also. Other marketing aspects include videos, podcast and virtual tours.
I would like the opportunity to present how I can implement these marketing tools through my website and the Austin MLS. If you would like to learn more contact me
John Pickens at 512-750-3668.
Our office maintains a positive and forward thinking attitude. “Staying Ahead of the Game”
The products and services you will find below are not automatic to REALTORS. Many of the following are company –wide products, others are specific to individual agent websites. All of the services are used to increase exposure of our client’s listings.
Our Company Website
Our official company site is open to the public. We offer information about the communities and consumers have the ability to search for homes in Austin and surrounding areas with Google Map integration. Our company website is optimized for Austin and most areas in Central Texas. This optimization helps to ensure the exposure of our clients’ listings to be the finest available. Consumers will find our listings in the natural and/or sponsored search of the major search engines. Search Engine Optimization is a priority…..because we know it works and it works consistently.
Featured Austin Listings
Listing with me, your listing will be posted on the featured listings section of many other highly optimized, Official Company websites. Our individual websites are specifically optimized to garner maximum exposure to our listing inventory for anyone looking at buying or selling real estate or relocating to Austin and other areas of Central Texas.
Do you Tweet?
Your listing will be posted on Twitter for anyone who wants to follow our Twitter Feed for -to the minute real estate updates. 
Visual Marketing
Virtual tours offer a different visual aspect to a property. They can capture the “feel” of home.
Podcast
Podcast are another visual marketing tool I use and is a very effective tool. Podcast will often show up in the natural search of a specific area. My podcast are submitted to the following sites below.
• Yahoo
• Google
• YouTube
• and many others
We have posted videos to each service, click below to view.
Text Messaging for Real Estate
Instant information about a listing is available to any potential buyer via a text message to their smart phones. By simply texting a code displayed on our signs potential buyers have the information, including pictures and links to our websites right at hand at hand. All of our residential listings are displayed on our mobile website for maximum exposure.
For a sample of our website text “sky” to the number 88000. We do not charge, but your standard rates will apply.
Mobile website maintained by drivebuytech.com
Real Estate Blogs
All of my listings are automatically receive an individual blog that will highlights and post the listing to many Real Estate communities such as Active Rain. Many of these blogs will be visible through a natural search of a specific neighborhood or community, just as our podcast often do. We are local REALTORS who live here, work and play here. Our blogs are personal and give a personal touch to the sights and sounds of the neighborhoods and communities around us.
See a sample of an optimized blog for a home in Villas at Treemont with Austin Real Estate Blog
E-Flyers
We offer e-flyers which are distributed to agents in and around the area bringing attention to your property to hundreds of other agents. This is done because approximately 80% of the time, another agent will bring the buyer.
All of our marketing is not just for the technical savvy consumer. I still offer the tried and true methods of marketing.
“Just Listed” cards will let neighbors know that a new property has come on the market. Family and friends are always on the lookout for property for someone they know.
“Open Houses” are another avenue to show off your home. We have various programs available to promote our open houses.
Exposure to as many potential buyers is what is important when selling your home or other property. We use every tool available to us to us, whether on-line, by mail or in person; we will gain maximum exposure for your listing. The days of putting a sign in the yard and a few flyers are gone. It will take every tool in the arsenal to compete in today’s market and I have all of these tools at my disposal. Simply fill out the form below or give me a call and I would be happy to show you what the possibilities are.