Internet Solutions 2006

How Info Webs Generate Leads
7-10-2006

The Link Between 
Help and Sales

 

In last week’s newsletter I used a Website designed to teach people how to refinish a table as an example of an Information Type Website.  Sticking with that example, let’s see how this approach actually sells products and how the same approach can be used effectively to generate Hot Leads and Paying Customers for real estate agents and brokers.

 

THE INFO WEB PLAN

In order to be helpful to someone who plans to refinish a table, the Web designer must think about the steps to refinishing furniture.  If the purpose of the site is to provide useful information but also to sell products, the Web designer must arrange the Website with this dual purpose.  Each step is broken into what I call a Mini-Marketing Strategy, which might include:

 

  1. Preparing the furniture
  2. Staining or painting the wood
  3. Preserving the finish
  4. Getting Professional Help

 

HOW MINI-MARKETING LEADS TO SALES

Preparing the furniture will outline the steps for preparing the table and can be a natural lead in to sell products such as sandpaper and/or stain remover.  Staining or painting the wood should demonstrate how that process is done and make it easy for viewers to purchase staining products and tools online.  Preserving the finish will be about varnishing and will offer several varnishing products for sale.  Getting Professional Help will make it easy to contact the local Refinishing Service.  To see an example of a Website that has lots of Information for real estate professionals who want to know more about Online Marketing, visit http://www.sellrealestate.net.

STEPS TO OPTIMIZATION

In order to design a Web page for the search engines you must:

  1. Complete a Keyword Relevancy Search
  2. Write text to support the selected keyword phrase
  3. Include appropriate Meta Tags
  4. Avoid graphics that annoy search engines

These steps must be included in addition to creating each page to generate maximum leads from people.  Our company specializes in creating Optimized Real Estate Websites, please call toll free 888-814-5347 for information or visit us online at http://www.sellrealestate.net.

The Real Estate Model

 

Let’s do the same thing now only with a real estate Website with providing real estate information and generating real estate leads and sales as the goal.

 

THE REAL ESTATE INFO WEB PLAN

In order to be helpful to someone who plans to buy or sell real estate, the Web designer must think about the steps involved in each transaction.  Right off the bat you can see that a real estate Website is more complex than a site designed to help those who want to refinish furniture.  If you would like FREE help with a plan specific to your needs call me toll free at 888-814-5347 or visit http://www.sellrealestate.net/
FreeWebPlan.asp
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KISS

In order to simplify the explanation, I will only deal with a Website designed for folks who want to sell their real estate. The same steps would be needed for buyers if the Website is a dual purpose site.  So, if the purpose of the site is to provide useful information but also to generate listings, the Web designer must arrange the Website with this dual purpose.  Each step is broken into what I call a Mini-Marketing Strategy, which might include:

 

  1. Sellers in a Geographic Farm Area
  2. Owners Trying to Sell on Their Own
  3. Sellers Whose Listing Has Expired
  4. Getting Professional Help

 

 

HOW MINI-MARKETING 
LEADS TO LISTINGS

Sellers living in a geographic farm area will be interested in knowing what homes in the area have sold for in recent months.  A Mini-Marketing strategy for these folks might be a Web section that shows recent sales data.  Owners who think they will try selling on their own might respond to a Mini-Marketing strategy that offers them Free Advertising on your Website.  Sellers that have listed their home with no results may respond to a Mini-Marketing Strategy that informs them why some homes do not sell and what they can do about it.  Getting professional help is a section on the Website that makes it easy for folks to contact you when they are ready for professional help. 

Beyond Mini-Marketing

Ok, there is a relationship between what you have on your Web pages and the results you can expect to achieve from your Website.  In other words, some Web designs are made for generating leads and some are not.  But so far we have focused all our efforts on giving PEOPLE what they want in order to generate leads.  Of course you must do that but what if people never find your Website?  If people cannot find your Website all your helpful information, cleverly developed to maximize the Website’s lead generating capabilities will be for nothing!  Did we leave something out?  Yes, we left out the step of Web promotion. So let’s take care of that right now.

 

WEBSITES AND WEB SYSTEMS

A Website is a collection of Web pages usually relating to a particular topic that is publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. A Web System is a package that includes a Website but takes it a step further to include ways of promoting the Website as well as highly targeted methods for generating leads.   The highly targeted methods for generating leads are what I call Mini-Marketing Systems.  The ways of promoting the Website also need to be built in. 

 

THE OTHER TARGET MARKET

In addition to designed Web pages that are helpful and useful to people, you must design those same pages so that they are meaningful and relevant to Search Engines.  If you leave out the step of designing pages that are relevant and meaningful to Search Engines, you will not get the chance to be useful and helpful to people. 

 

HOW PAGE DESIGN 
LEADS TO TOP PLACEMENT

When we create custom Websites that are Optimized for Search Engines we not only design each page for people but we also design the page to please Search Engines.  It is possible to do both at the same time.  For more information Search Engine placement and how to get it, visit http://www.sellrealestate.net/
SearchEnginePlacement.htm
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REAL ESTATE WEB DESIGN & MARKETING

FORMULA FOR SUCCESS

If you want to Get Customers to Come to You, Always Put Your Customers First. Choose or create a real estate Website that is User Friendly, Focuses on Customer Needs, Makes Offers and Never Keeps Customers Waiting. For Ideas click on Web Design at http://www.sellrealestate.net

INTERNET SOLUTIONS 2006
How to Get Customers to Come to You

Written by Noel Markham, M.A.
Web Designer & Marketing  Consultant
Contact Noel toll free at 888-814-5347
E-mail: noel@revalues.com