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Website Box | MLS Real Estate Website | Review - YouTube
Channel: Inbound Real Estate Marketing
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Okay, so my name is Robert Newman I am
the founder of inbound real estate
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marketing or inboundREM. If you look at
my website and I'm a ten-year veteran of
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the real estate marketing industry.
I have run some of the sales teams for
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some of the largest and best-known real
estate website providers in the world
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and what we're looking at right now is
what I would refer to as a Realtor IDX
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site. Now my language here is there are a
lot of sites out there that are either
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free or extremely inexpensive and all they
really do is they provide a pretty
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picture that connects your client to the
MLS of the internet. These kinds of
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websites have very little chance of
generating you any leads, they've got
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very little chance of generating you any
business. You'd have to be a very
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dedicated blogger and be a little
lucky and work really hard to make
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any of these websites make you money and
then you quickly realize that
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probably the best choice for you would
be a WordPress web site of
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some kind. One because you own it in two
because there's plug-ins that are really
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good because the best developers in the
world are building additions to
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WordPress that make it easier and better
to use in every single category from
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speed, to SEO, to real estate lead
conversion but Website Box $99. They have
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hundreds of glowing reviews online
everywhere makes this a really,
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really super simple. This is a Website
Box site. Okay, to me it looks like a $99
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site I'll let you the audience be the
judge but I don't find it to be all that
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impressive but I will say this if you
need a website and you've got 99 bucks
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Website Box is a good place. If you're
brand new realtor and you've got
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some kind of sales team pressuring you
to get a website.
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I've actually reviewed a couple of
different companies on here that are
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great choices Placester also has a
five-dollar website that you can get
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and all those solutions will satisfy
your bosses, but these websites every
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single one of them is really only going
to. None of them are really gonna do that
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much for you except give you a
placeholder on the internet and then the
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question becomes what kind of
placeholder do you want. Like what do you
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want your site to look like Placester
for $5.00 a month will do better than
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this.
So I do believe that in terms of, there
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is one thing that these guys beat out
though no monthly fees, that's pretty
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cool. So they have their own place,
they absolutely do. Like if you want
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something that's gonna hold your spot
access the MLS and you're not gonna pay
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anything recurring. I think these guys
are the only shop in town.
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For brand new agents looking for that
one specific thing these guys are it. I'm
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not gonna bother to look up the owners
of this particular company to be honest.
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I mean I'm not knocking them, but
it's a throwaway website. You're gonna
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spend the $99 you're gonna keep it up
until you discover that you need
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something else and you don't necessarily
own it. It's not gonna do anything for
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you it's just a placeholder on the
internet that looks like this, so that's
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it. All right,
so thanks that was website Box it's $99
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and again the reviews are amazing I mean
for what they do in activerain and
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everywhere that I've ever read or looked
at everybody says that website box is a
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good way to go in terms of what you
can do. so here's a fit small business by
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the way that's doing Zillow
website builder versus Placester versus
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Website Box. One of the things that
I don't really like about fit small
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business though and I'm sorry
totally not part of this review but you
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know what their affiliate deal is with
Zillow and they push Zillow of the
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dark and Zillow is not a real Realtors
friend. They never will be, it's not like
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they're this big evil monster in the
room they're just a real sharp group of
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technology people that
has figured out a good way to utilize
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all the data that real-estate agents
work so hard to collect and it's not
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their fault that they came up with the idea
and they've capitalized on that idea and
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they literally own the market. Now all
the information they own. However I do
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hold them accountable for the fact that
30% of the listings on their website is
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now wrong and they are such a
behemoth that they've got no incentive
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whatsoever to clean up their data. It's
better for them if they have inaccurate
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data up online and that's what they do.
So for me personally as a technology
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provider I just hold Zillow accountable
for the fact that so much of their
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information is inaccurate. For you as a
real estate professional, we're all kind
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of lucky that they drop the ball because
your potential customers get real sick
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of everybody's always talking about
Oh Zillow, Zillow, Zillow, Trulia or whatever. I
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mean yes people make good money off
leads off these sites. So I know that
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they convert and close. But, high-end
clients, smart clients always are doing
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other kinds of research because they
know definitively that twenty to thirty
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percent of what they're looking at in
terms of information it's outdated. So
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real great salespeople quickly take them
out of the Zillow ecosphere and then
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give them real information. So Zillow is
good to get that little point of
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connection but a lot of people don't
make it that far, they automatically look
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at the stuff on Zillow. They make one
phone call find out if a listing is expired
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or not there or the price is different
and they're sick of it and then they start
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looking for local providers or articles
on how to get better deals and homes in
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the areas that they're looking in and
guess what very few people are providing
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that these days. So they can't find them
which is why I'm such a big proponent of
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SEO. Write great content people come but
anyway that's it Website Box, hope you
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enjoyed it.
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