Federal Courts Rule in Favour of Anti Trust Legislators Back in 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld an April, 2016 decision made by Canada’s Competition Tribunal. It ordered the Toronto Real Estate Board to allow its members to share the sales histories of listed properties online. This ruling relates as well to the…
11 Better Ways to Generate Real Estate Leads I know, you get all your leads from word of mouth and all the rest “don’t do nothin” for me. What you may not be recognizing is that all channels power up your personal referral network and build word of mouth referrals from anywhere. Staying old school…
Rental Income Property Investment Is there any investment opportunity that could beat income generating real estate in 2022 or for the next 5 years? Is the stock market correction making you look for other options? Check out the best cities to invest in real estate and read this post below on rental income. With your…
Startup Success: The Sky Guys Aerial Drones I wrote a post several years back about aerial drones and their potential in real estate sales and marketing and of course how prevalent they are in Youtube Xtreme Sports videos. It was easy to see the potential for aerial photography and just plain exciting to see a whole…
Foreign Buyers Not Driving Up Prices in Toronto A Toronto Real Estate Board investigation concluded that foreign buyers play a minimal role in Toronto house prices and availability. 3 key findings counter the Wynne government’s insistence that Foreign buyers and house flippers are ruining the housing market. The report may indicate how government officials haven’t been honest to the…
SEO Services in SD and LA Hundreds of SEO companies and digital marketing firms in Boston, Los Angeles and in Silicon Valley offer services something akin to SEO. Yet, keyword loaded copy and buying blog guest posts doesn’t work now. . In my new book just published, I explain that content engagement is the key…
Smart Content Strategy for Insurance and Real Estate Startups Do you know why your insurance or real estate website sucks compared to the top sites in your industry? Why do so few people visit or return, talk about you and your amazing products and services or share your stuff on social media? Great websites are engaging,…
How to Increase Your Real Estate Lead Conversion Rates If you were to double or triple your online real estate lead conversion rate, how would that factor into your commissions? You’ve asked “how do I convert more of my Website leads” so here’s a number of things you need to do. One is to Wow them…
Finding the Right Restaurant Fast If you’re a vacationer in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Las Vegas or San Francisco, you’re likely on a highway right searching with your smartphone for a great place to eat with just the right atmosphere. Where to eat right now? The right food at the right location. It’s…
Local Search Optimization What if I told you I doubled the traffic of a major hotel? Well, it happened. From 1.2 Million visits per year to 2.5 Million per year. A lot of people travel and search for hotels online and they often book with the first few they see. Being ranked at the top…
Digital Marketing Services Aurora Skilled digital marketing experts aren’t all living and working in downtown Toronto, Boston, or Los Angeles. And some digital marketing strategists have a broad skillset that provides the results you need at a fraction of the price of a Toronto agency, or a local one here in the Aurora, Richmond Hill, Markham…
Personal Branding for Real Estate Agents Competition in real estate sales is intense. There’s one sale for every agent. So how do you separate yourself from the hoards and avoid anything that pushes you back into the pool of unknown agents – the realty clones? If you think it’s sexy to be one of the…
Successful Real Estate Sales To serve my realtor clients as best I can, I needed to know what successful agents do and what unsuccessful agents don’t do. What I’ve learned about agents, I can apply to my own real estate marketing service. You can never be too good. As the realtor in the video below…
Fresh Content and Design Old School branding gurus will tell you to keep your brand consistent and of course, that may mean limiting or not changing your website content frequently. Well, what if instead, change was a powerful way of encouraging customers to return to your website and then converting them once they got there?…
When Will Toronto’s Real Estate Market Crash? The experts have been calling for a Toronto Housing Crash for several years now, but it never happened. But is time finally running out? Surely the oil price crisis and the Corona Virus pandemic will deliver the final blow to Toronto’s pressured housing sector. But no, die it…
Successful Websites Why are some websites so successful? Is it luck or did they pour a mountain of cash into it? Is a successful website just the front for successful entrepreneurs and talented digital marketing consultants? I think you’ll discover that in most cases, the business owner knows his business and market. It’s not the…
10 Ways to Get Homeowners to Sell After you’ve grown tired of waiting for people to call you to sell their home, you may want to try something new, something that’ll create increasing, consistent touch points with home sellers. Sellers, those ghostly inhabitants of your dream world. This is about creating a fat pipeline to your…
The Biggest Gamble of Your Life Home sales are rising and prices are still high. From Toronto to Los Angeles to Boston, buyers are about to jump on the opportunity to own their own home. Yet a home or condo priced $300,000 to $1 million is a major personal commitment. If you make a mistake…
Toronto Condos – Still a Smart Investment? The Toronto Condo Market couldn’t be more difficult to comprehend right now after the Liberal’s pushed their unwise Foreign buyers tax and rent controls. With availability of condos squeezed, prices in Toronto rose to record levels. What will happen this year and 2018 in Toronto’s condo market? Toronto…
Toronto House Prices Toronto house and condo prices continue their relentless rise. We can forecast with certainty that home prices will not decline over the long haul. Investment in Toronto real estate remains the most secure and profitable vehicle, and add on rental property and you have even more impressive returns. Condos in…