This is an excellent 'business' article. I have not sold a tour in over a year and am not even trying. I believe that many TB photographers are charging about $100 - even some very good ones. As a previous business-owner I have long-since…
I agree completely with Alan.
Most MLS systems are syndicating to the major RE portals as part of their normal offering to Agents for using their service. One of the companies that MLS's use is called "Listhub."
Most of…
You'd have to ask the local MLS.
Syndication used to be a much bigger deal, but most MLS's and even most large brokerages (especially major national brands) are already syndicating and their feeds "win" over anything tour…
I would like more information on this as well. Not many people here ask about it, and it seems that simply getting the tour submitted to our local MLS' makes the tours show up all over the internet. Is there a place to find out…
If hotpads emails are coming to you it's likely b/c you have it set up wrong. Can you send me the links to both the hotpads and neybor listing that this is occurring on and I will look into it?
Admittedly until this week it was very tricky to…
Shelby and Alan,
I agree with all of this - I was just wondering if somehow what TourBuzz offers has any more value to it than what competitors are offering. I am also aware that Realtors are perfectly capable of syndicating to those sites…
Hamish,
Where I am, if I cannot not syndicate the listing like all of my competitors are doing I would not be able to generate business. Why should an agent use my services when the national competitors, whose names they all know, will put the…
For a long time TourBuzz customers begged us for syndication, claiming that customers in your market were asking about it. Maybe it's a market-by-market thing?
The funny thing with Syndication is that everyone wants it, but truth-be-told it…