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I'm trying to find information on good websites built for real estate teams. Find a lot of brokerage and single agent site developers, but not many for teams. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Mike Schmidt

Keller Williams Realty Indy Metro West

Mike,

What capabilities are you looking for in a team website?

Point2 Agent provides you with multiple logins to one website. All team members can enter their own listings and get their leads directly. There is also the ability to disseminate leads that are generated from the site without being associated with a specific listing.

Besides lead/listing management, what other things would you like a team website to do?

Kathleen
www.BuildRealEstateResults.com

You could probably make an ImagePro website work well for you. Very easy for
both the public to use, and for the realtor to set up and use. It includes
room for several profiles and separate web pages. Very affordable. Here is
the site: http://www.imageprowebsite.com/

Cheryl Haggerty E-Pro Certified
Designated Broker/Owner
Haggerty Realty
353 Lisbon Street #1
Lisbon, ME 04250
207-353-9500 office
207-841-7894 cell
207-353-2332 fax
e-mail MailTo:HaggertyRealty@HaggertyRealty.com
website http://www.HaggertyRealty.com

My idea of a good team website is one that generates enough leads so it results in income to any team member who does proper follow-up. Every team member having their own site dilutes the effort unless they are all individually optimtized and generate enough leads to justify the additional site expense, maintenance, updates, etc.

As Kathleen stated, what other things would you want a team site to do?

Drew said: My idea of a good team website is one that generates enough leads so it results in income to any team member who does proper follow-up.

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If that's your goal, Drew, then you need a website that can control listings and leads like Point2. And, you need to make sure you structure the site to speak to your target market, to contain the type of information your target market is looking for, and to have good calls to action and compelling propositions. Then, you have to make sure you're at the top of the search engines for effective keywords.

From my perspective, given a website that is flexible and can be optimized for search engines, whether the site generates enough leads to keep a team happy is a matter of what you do with it.

The only disadvantage of having one site for a team is that it's difficult to really target the site because usually, different team members go after different target markets. And, getting to the top of the search engines can be difficult if the team covers a wide geographic area. If your team does decide to have individual sites, keep in mind that with the Point2 Handshake, you can easily display all your team's listings on all of the websites, even if the listings are being entered by each team member.

Those types of capabilities are the reason why we picked Point2 as our recommendation for real estate websties. They provide a wide range of features at a reasonable price. And, the sites can start small and grow, or handle a team or a brokerage effectively.

Kathleen
www.BuildRealEstateResults.com

I created a Point2Agent custom site recently for the Colorado Springs
team of Nancy Murray and Ann Knoll. They did a great job targeting
families interested in northern Colorado Springs' Academy School
District 20, which combines the Air Force Academy schools and public
schools. Though the site and domain are both fairly new, Nancy and Ann's
great content combines with a little pay per click to generate nice
traffic, and the site brought them a new contract within a couple of
weeks of launch. Their school district info as well as great subdivision
text content are great for attracting search traffic. Nancy and Ann
wanted the site to be focused more on the school district than on
themselves, so it may not be obvious at first glance that it is a team site.

Few agents understand the importance of original, informative text
content to attracting search visitors and enticing people to come back
time and again for more information; this site is a great example of a
pair of agents who've put in the time and effort to get it right.

http://www.ourdistrict20homes.com/

Suzanne

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Suzanne Hathcock Stephens
Point2Agent Qualified Web Site Designer
http://www.SuzStephens.com
360-666-0881

A team should become their own lead generator: a good website for a team is a comunity blog where each team member is in charge of moderating, seeding a discussion: fior instance:

<city><state>comunity.info

Israel Rothman, see http://chesapeakebaycommunity.info/ for an example, more if this kind of thinking at our group here:

http://www.realtown.com/Israel/groups/socialmediamarketing

Here is a cash-flowing profitable example:

http://cityscoop.us/

Case study here:

http://socialmediasystems.com/business-opportunity/

Israel Rothman

In a word RealKISS is the answer for teams! RealKISS is the keep it simple web based software that comes with your own website...It is amazing! I developed this software to take my business to the next level. I currently have a team of 8 and last year we closed over 56 million in sales. If you would like an online demo of how it works I would be happy to let you see the tools. With a direct feed into your multiple listing service this drives all of the functionality. You won't need anything else and will be thrilled to have all of the tools that you need in the same location. Please let me know if I can help you. CindyC@theCarnahanGroup.com