Edmond/NW OKC Real Estate

Looking for a cutting-edge home that will stand out from the rest?  Tired of seeing the same houses over & over as you drive around your neighborhood?  This beauty may be the one for you.

• 2174 square feet MOL
• 3 beds
• 2 baths
• Open floorplan
• Large Upstairs bonus room
• Cul-de-sac location
• Family-friendly neighborhood
• Edmond Public Schools
• Modern styling
• New carpet & paint
• Lots of ceramic tile
• Much, much more!

Call Ryan @ 405.802.4663 for more information, or to schedule your private showing.

Whether you're a tire-kicker or a family looking for your dream home, you owe it to yourself to see this beauty.  We'll be holding it open to the public this Sunday, July 13th, from 2-5pm, so come by and say hello, but be careful... you just might fall in love.

It's been a while since I've posted the monthly sales statistics for the Edmond and OKC Metro area, mostly due to our still strong market keeping me more than busy.

So, I figured now would be a good time to get back in the groove.  If you're curious what the real numbers indicate in our market, check out the latest statistics and see for yourself.  I think both buyers and sellers will be pleasantly surprised, as we're beginning to see the slow shift back to a sellers market, yet the buyers can still take advantage of higher inventory levels and some sellers needing to get their homes sold.

I started a new project this week, and each day I learn a few new things and find ways to improve on it.  I'm a firm believer that if we're not moving foward, we're moving backward, so I strive to inch forward each and every day.

My new Edmond Video Hotsheet started simply as an idea in my head, and once I found time to actually put the first one together, it was rough.  The next one was better, and hopefully this one is the best yet:

Thoughts?  Advice?  Comments?

Yesterday, I posted my first try at the Edmond Video Hotsheet and got some great advice on things I might do to improve on it.  I also learned a few other things I could do to give it some 'flair.'  So, I took another shot at it today, and here's what I came up with:

My end goal here is to have it be both entertaining and informative, with details on the overall area around each features home, such as schools, landmarks, shopping, community amenities, etc.  Obviously, this type of information should be more valuable to home buyers, especially those who are relocating from outside the area.

As time goes by, I'm sure I'll get more comfortable in front of the camera and you'll see more of my personality.  Hopefully, I'll also figure out more tips & tricks along the way to make it more appealing.  Any of you know of a good video screen capture program that I could integrate into it?

Well, I've been toying with some ideas (for a while now) of how to use video in my efforts to keep the public informed, and I've finally implemented one... Central Oklahoma's first daily hotsheet video.  Here's day 1:

What do you think?

Those of us in the real estate business get a lot of laughs from the things we see each day, and sometimes from the photos we see on the MLS.  I thought I'd have a little fun this morning and see what captions the braintrust here at AR can come up with for this photo I took earlier in the week:

LEAVE YOUR CAPTION HERE

So, I posted last week about the possible benefits of getting your RSS feed on RSSHugger, and since then have seen a more dramatic flow of traffic from this source.

It seems that the higher I climb up their Top 100 list, the more direct traffic I'm getting from it.  After the last post here on AR about RSSHugger, I moved from the top 25 to the top 10, which basically doubled the number of traffic flow.  But at the start of each month, they wipe out the Top 100 and start all over.  I ended last month in the top 5, and now I'm on top of the entire list.  Guess what that means.  Yep, you guessed it, more traffic again.  Now I'm seeing about 4 times as much traffic from here as I was when I was in the top 25.

Guess being #1 benefits you in places other than Google too, right?

Get your feed hooked up on RSSHugger now!

I posted last month about RSS Hugger and thought I'd post an update now.

When I originally posted, I had just created my feed to RSS Hugger and wasn't sure if I'd see any benefit from it at all, and really most of my traffic from it at that time was from those of you here on AR who read my post.  That's partly why I haven't posted about it since.  I wanted to see if I continued to get traffic as a result of having my feed on RSSHugger.

Each month, their Top 100 list is wiped clean and started over, and I pleasantly find myself in the top 10 this month with no promotion of my own, which tells me that people are click on my feed from RSS Hugger, which is also verified by the statistics on the back end of my blog.

So, even if you only gain a small influx of traffic, why not go ahead and get your feed set up on RSS Hugger?  Every little bit helps, right?

Dustin was touching on the real, tangible benefits of social networking, as in what it can do for your business. I can personally attest to a 'smarter not harder' result over the past year and a half since I really discovered what social networking is all about. In 2006 I gained absolutely no (zero) new clients as a result of my online presence, but 2007 was much different. Almost 20% of my new clients in 2007 found me directly through my social networking sites, such as ActiveRain, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and my own Edmond real estate website (Yes, I built new client relationships as a direct result of each one of these sites in the last year). This year is on track to produce an even higher percentage.

The real benefit, though, has been the added exposure that my clients' homes get as a result of my diverse approach to the internet. When I list a client's home, I promote it on about 35 different websites. Many of those 35 websites then feed that information out to other partner sites, so in essence my listings end up on an untold number of places on the vast WWW. This equates to more eyeballs seeing my listings, which then equates to more showings, quicker sales, and ultimately higher sales prices.

Think of it this way; If you were searching online for information about homes for sale in Long Beach, CA, where would you start? Would you search Google, Yahoo, Realtor.com, Remax.com, Ask.com, Trulia, Zillow, or one of the other thousands of real estate websites out there? Good question right? YOU might start with Realtor.com, but your neighbor might start with Zillow. Which one's better? Who knows... doesn't really matter. Fact is, over 80% of home buyers start their search online, and each of them start in different places.

So, the question then is, do you want an agent who puts your home on the MLS and on one or two websites... or do you want an agent who gets your home into every possible corner of the internet. Do you want to attract only buyers who start their search on Zillow, or do you want to attract buyers from everywhere?

I would think you'd want the agent who covers it all, so that no matter where a buyer begins searching for Edmond homes, they'll see yours!

So anyway, back to this social networking thing; it's nice to be recognized and all, but what this really does is drives even more traffic to my websites, which translates into more relationship building (with both peers and consumers), which then turns into better results for my clients.

By the way, I've also noticed a new flow of traffic from RSShugger.com lately, where my Edmond Real Estate blog is currently listed in the top 50.