Boxabl is a Las Vegas-based housing construction technology company that provides prefabricated houses called Boxabl Casita. These tiny homes have walls, a floor, and a roof that fold into each other to form a self-contained transportable unit. The most impressive thing about these is their unpacking and mounting time:
Trends in the Canadian Private Apartment Rental Market The Canadian private apartment rental market has witnessed notable trends and changes over the past few years, with data available up to October 2022. This report provides an analysis of key statistics, including the number of private apartment units, vacancy rates,
Introduction The decision to rent or buy a property is a crucial financial choice that can significantly impact one's long-term financial well-being. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors to consider when deciding between renting and buying a property in the Canadian market. Aimed at an educated
The world of real estate is constantly evolving, and technology has played a major role in this transformation. One of the most important innovations to emerge in recent years is the virtual office website, or VOW. But what exactly is a VOW, and how can it benefit you as
1. Leverage social media - Promote your website on various social media platforms and create engaging content that will attract your target audience. 2. Optimize for search engines - Use SEO techniques to ensure that your website is properly indexed and ranked well in search engine results. 3. Create
The online marketing toolkit for sales representatives hasn't changed that much in the past 10 years. We have seen some improvements to reliability and automation. Online advertising seems to be sorting itself out, slowly. Websites are becoming more standardized, and continue to be centralized under major brands. Things will
Squarespace allows real estate agents to build attractive, functional sites with a minimal investment of time and money. It features an assortment of beautiful themes that are designed to work with mobile and desktop browsers. Unfortunately, it's fun and easy personality lacks one thing: a catelogue of plug-ins, especially
Do first-time buyers contact you with requests to show them 'fixer-uppers'? Savvy buyers know this segment of the market has good values for anyone interested in investing some sweat equity. This group can also be high maintenance because they are looking for the right house to fix up, not
Simple, targeted marketing for niche groups A landing page, or lead capture page, is a single page in your site that is designed to appeal to a single audience segment. It's usually created for search engine marketing and pay-per-click advertising. You've probably seen an ad that goes to a
Real estate marketing budgets are inverse to ROI. Why? Pullig et al published a real estate research paper titled, “Lead Generation – What Really Works?” (2008). The basic data is still valid today even though methods of seeking and attracting potential clients have changed somewhat. Maybe you'll recognize some
Agent iFrame® Map Search has launched Canada-wide as of July 2, 2020. Designed to be highly engaging for the visitor, Agent iFrame® has friendly user controls and a powerful search form. The advanced search fields make it fun and easy to treasure hunt. Clients will return again and again
Organic and PPC advertising Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click advertising (PPC) are the two main drivers of traffic to e-commerce websites. A well-optimized site with pages that feature unique, relevant content will gain search engine ranking for free, which is known as organic traffic. It comes from a
The Internet has brought on many changes to our society in the past 25 years. One of the most elegant changes has been the appreciation of a self-serve culture, both in terms of how wonderfully efficient it is and the wildly exponential growth of the idea. The website as a
Some people find website technology to be a labyrinth of mystery and contradiction. The idea seems easy enough. You might start by asking a few colleagues what they recommend, talk to their tech guys, and see what fits your budget. The research is going well until someone mentions something
If you have a Wordpress site, there are plug-ins that allow you to optimize the content for search engine ranking. The most popular one is called Yoast SEO, which is produced by a company in the Netherlands. It has over 5 million installations with a rating of 5/5 from
Artificial intelligence is probably the number one news story since the smart phone. The name of the technology certainly captures the imagination. But mainstream AI is really just statistics and semantic relationships that materialize nuances in data patterns. It seems spooky when a search engine knows what we're looking
Shared needs, common interests, and similar lifestyles tend to create lucrative niche markets which allow Realtors to show off their marketing skills. Identifying an unserved niche is exciting because it means you've found a virgin market that may be especially profitable or have an attractive growth trajectory. Finding
Marshall McLuhan was a famous Canadian researcher who developed critical theories on “hot” and “cool” media technologies in the early 60's. He coined the phrase, “the medium is the message”, which is a theory that states a medium embeds itself in a message and subsequently influences how the message is
A recent study by the National Association of Realtors highlighted the issue of keeping up with technology. It was cited as one of the most challenging problems the membership was facing. Perhaps the greatest challenge for non-techies is sorting the fads from the trends so resources are allocated wisely to
Most salespeople are willing to budget for a sensible marketing plan but some worry to the point of inaction. A common response is, “Who knows what new technology will come out next year and make everything obsolete?” Sometimes a personal endorsement persuades coworkers to buy into a hot, new
How is a Realtor® supposed to stand out from her competition online? It's a question that webmasters and marketing assistants hear often and struggle to answer. They do their best to write cheerful website copy but the problem is that everyone says the same thing, and the result is noise.
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