Most real estate agencies are not that proactive when it comes to the Internet. One of the advantages of belonging to…
Glenn Batten
Contributing Editor
Glenn Batten is the General Manager at First National Real Estate Nerang and Principal at the First National Real Estate Upper Coomera office and has over 20 years real estate experience and a passion for technology.
Glenn has been writing from an agents perspective on industry issues and covering a range of topics on Business2 since 2007.
Recent blog posts written by Glenn Batten
Real Estate Online Statistics & Demographics – Portals
The Google Adplanner service allows advertisers more information on popular websites including demographic and traffic information. Now whilst I don’t want…
Posted In Portals
PropertyScope – Real Estate Agents & Salespeople Get Rated!
Over the past few years there has been a huge increase in the number of social websites allowing visitors to publicly…
Posted In Software
Client and Customer Feedback – Are You Really Satisfied?
I think every real estate agent finds out in their first week in the industry that client testimonials are gold. Client…
Posted In Software, Technology
New Realestate.com.au Statistics on the way
The new web design from Realestate.com.au was built from the ground up. Of course when you do such a major rewrite…
Posted In Australia
They are at it Again! – Realestate.com.au Price Rises 01/08/2010
The new realestate.com.au website rolled out in April this year. Reception by the industry was pretty mixed and there was certainly…
CBA Combine Realestate.com.au Data into iPhone Augmented Reality Solution
Augmented Reality is when you combine a live view with a computer generated view in real time. The concept itself will…
Realestate.com.au V2 – Are Some Cracks Starting to Show?
Pretty much everyone hated the realestate.com.au House Hunter videos when they were released but it seems that the launch of their…
The Empire Strikes Back: The Print vs Internet Battle Heats Up!
Just as RealEstate.com.au complete the launch of a new web design News Limited are putting the final strokes on a strategy…
The New Realestate.com.au Website Goes Live
We recently had a look at the realestate.com.au BETA but when that was turned off at 5:00pm last Friday it sent…
So can Simon Baker’s Nestoria.com.au out-Google Google?
Simon Baker, the ex-CEO of REA has invested in bringing the Nestoria property portal to Australia. Nestoria.co.uk is the 4th most…
Is 2010 the Year for Women in Real Estate? The REIA Awards Say So!
I have just got back up from Adelaide where we attended the REIA 2010 National Awards for Excellence. I am very…
Posted In Events, What's New
News Limited Now Using Google Real Estate Instead of Realestate.com.au?
Although the Gold Coast is not a capital city it is still the 6th largest city in Australia. The Gold Coast…
Realestate.com.au Slip in the Google Rankings
Back in August last year Google allowed the public to take a peak at the upcoming changes to their search engine…
First Impressions of the New Realestate.com.au Website Currently in BETA
RealEstate.com.au have a new website in the works about to be released to the public. They have been been running a…
Can The Apple iPad Save Real Estate Newspaper Advertising
Newspapers are on the decline! A very fast decline. Readership and revenues are down and profits seem very hard to find…
Real Estate Portals Costs – It Could Always Be Worse!
In the past month I have purchased a new Subaru Liberty 3.6R MY10 model and I took some time out during…
Video Tutorial: How to Create a Free Real Estate Blog in 25 minutes
The word Blog is short for the word “web log”. Blogs first started in the late 1990’s but really became popular…
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