Social Networking for Real Estate: Interview with Dan Eason of EnergizedSeller.com
Jul 22, 2008 Uncategorized
Recently I was contacted by Dan Eason of Energized Seller, a refreshing new social networking site for real estate professionals and consumers to meet.
The site is geared at helping sellers get real answers to their questions on selling their homes. For real estate agents, home stagers, and others involved in the real estate industry, Energized Seller is a new outlet to let your expertise shine - and even attract new clients.
Dan was nice enough to agree to an interview, so here are some of my questions for him and his answers.
- When did you first start in the real estate industry and doing what?
I’ve had my real estate license for about 5 years. I just recently got my broker’s license to further my education. I have never practiced real estate full-time. I dabble with my own investments and use it to broker water permits.
What made you think of Energized Seller?
I’m a big fan of web 2.0 and online social networking. I also used to do marketing consulting for small businesses and preached time and time again that if a business owner doesn’t want to compete on price alone, they have to differentiate themselves from the competition. I believe home sellers have to do the same. My desire in starting Energized Seller was to utilize the latest web tools to help home sellers learn what they can do to make their home more appealing than all the other homes on the market. There are A LOT of things home owners can do to help improve the marketability of their home; I hope Energized Seller becomes the practical resource for helping them do it.
What are the top things agents will love about Energized Seller?
It’s actually easy, free, and less time consuming than keeping up with their own blog every week. If they have specific home seller information then this is the place to put it. Otherwise, they can just answer questions periodically. They’ll see that they’re fun and easy to answer. This isn’t a site to take the place of their current blog - it’s a place to compliment their current blog/web presence.
How will agents benefit?
When over 80% of the people looking for homes to buy or sell look to the Internet as a resource, they can’t be too many places. This is one more place to be found and seen as an expert. Additionally, they can choose to get e-mail questions from home sellers in their area, be highlighted on the home page, and be listed on the directory.
Anything else you’d like us to know?
The about us page and video explains in more detail what we are all about. You can learn more about it here.
Thank you so much Dan for the interview and introducing us to this new site. I know I personally look forward to trying it out. To sign up and get started, visit EnergizedSeller.com.
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DAILYPRESS by
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
I am always looking for more ideas on social networking web 2.0 and how it relates to real estate agents.
Thanks