A QR Code with out a MobileURL is like an email with no subject! Would you open it?

A QR Code with out a MobileURL is like an email with no subject! Would you open it?.

Dont forget to give your QR Code a Name, for Best SEO!

QR Code – YouTube Video Contest. Send us your favorite video, showing off your RealtyGo QR code/TAG being used in your real estate business..

Free QR Code_MobileURL_Micro-Mobile-Website for life from RealtyGo. We are giving away 100 free QR Codes and all the services to 100 lucky winners!

QR Code_YouTube Video contest from RealtyGo. Send us your favorite YouYube video/link URL showing how you or your company uses QR Codes for your real estate listings/business. Win a Free QR Code_MobileURL_Micro-Mobile-Website for LIfe. RealtyGo is giving away 100 Free QR Codes including all the services, SEO, technology, micro website, auto scheduler and more to each winner.  Send us your YouTube Video and we will post it on our RealtyGo YouTube page, asking others to vote for the top 100 videos. The top 100 videos with the most votes at the end of the contest will receive one free QR Code for life.

Please be creative and have fun with the videos. Your Videos will run on our YouTube Channel offering free advertising for your and your real estate business. Please have some type of real estate related business video in order to be considered for the contest. Please also use a RealtyGo QR Code / MobileURL in your video. There is no purchase necessary, visit at Twitter and choose ‘ follow’ us for your free 45 day trial using RealtyGo and the most unique and dynamic QR Code system available. Once you follow us on Twitter you will receive an Auto direct message thanking you for following, with a link and the free 45 day trial. Please remember there is no purchase necessary and you will not be charged. Good luck and we look forward to seeing your QR Real Estate Videos.

Please email your questions and/or Video link to info@realtygo.co

RealtyGo – Your Real Estate Listings Best Friend!

RealtyGo and Mobile Real Estate Listings on your Smartphone, Flip phone, iPad, Tablet, or any PDA device!

Mobile Listing TAG

RealtyGo‘s software services include all types of real estate listings; VRBO- Vacation Rentals, FSBO- For Sale by Owner, Broker/Agent, Business Listings, Apartments, Commercial and Residential listings.

Using PDA devices such as Smartphones, Flip phones, Tablets, iPads, etc.. , prospective home buyers, new customers and other business professionals can immediately access your real estate listings at point of contact – in front of the home/listing, from a magazine / newspaper / flyer or within other internet listings, from their mobile devices.

Mobile real estate listings enable potential buyers, new customers and other business professionals to access and review all your current real estate listing information! Buyers get immediate mobile listings by scanning the SmartCode, Sending a Text message or using our GPS technology when accessing the listing.

Some key features of RealtyGo’s mobile real estate listings are; dynamic lead generation, the ability for end users to leave notes about the listing, forward the listing to friends & family, and Auto Schedule an appointment to preview your real estate listing based on your available schedule. Never miss a call again, prevent consumer drop off / abandonment rate, and ensure that consumers trying to reach you have alternative choices in making contact with you and even auto scheduling an appointment to preview the listing. In the event a potential buyer can not reach you initially, Your mobile real estate listing, the consumer has on their Mobile phone or PDA will give them a point of reference with photos and listing information after they have departed from the physical real estate listing, website or print advertisement, where your Mobile listing TAG was provided to access  list price, photos, contact info and more.

RealtyGo, turns your real estate listings into mobile real estate listings, enabling end users to interact with all your listings, set appointments to meet with you automatically based on your availability, at a specific address you specify, either the listing address “by default” or your business office, if you so desire. RealtyGo’s easy to read analytic area, located within the log in area of your RealtyGo account offers valuable history and traffic statistics you may want to share with your clients and new customers to prove your marketing and sales success.

Scan or Text to see a DEMO now!

Try our DEMO on your Mobile device to see how your Mobile Real Estate Listings will look.

Any time you need to change your real estate listing(s); update property info, add new photos, edit the listing price, change your availability for previewing the listing,  you can! It’s easy, and rest assure the moment you change your real estate listing information,  potential buyers and new customers will always receive the latest and most current real estate listing information from any of your mobile real estate listings, which are all connected and professionally displayed to the end users via their mobile devices. No more costly reprinting fees and updating paper ads to match your current real estate listing criteria. When you advertise your Mobile real estate listings, they are always current and your mobile listing TAG will always deliver the newest listing info to everyone. Each Mobile real estate listing has its own Mobile URL for organization, advanced SEO and to identify it, so potential buyers and new customers can access your current listing information.

Rider Sign

Secure your unique Mobile URL today and start offering all your real estate listings on the Go!

Once you have selected your unique Mobile URL by visiting RealtyGo’s home page, our automated system will walk you through a few easy steps on how to select the proper signage  to advertise your new Mobile real estate listing(s) or you can choose to have a PDF file emailed to you – which you can then send to your local sign company to print your signs and advertising material any way you like.

“An example of a Mobile URL is the Word DEMO in the Rider Sign, hanging below the For Sale Sign in the image shown above”

Select your Mobile URL to represent your business branding and name, just like you would a website URL to promote your business information.

Craigslist and more!

Post your mobile listing(s) on Craigslist, Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia or any place you currently display and advertise your real estate listings. Before RealtyGo you would have to recreate an add with each real estate listing and photos when posting to places like Craigslist and Zillow, etc.. . Now you can simply write a clever one line sentence, and display your Mobile Listing TAG from RealtyGo in the image area, which a prospective buyer can then scan, text or use GPS at point of contact to see all your real estate listings, photos, business website, and your professional contact information.

Once Prospective buyers and new customers access your real estate listing(s) via their mobile phone, iPad, Tablet, or any PDA device, they will have all your real estate listing information with a point of reference (your real estate listing) in the palm of their hand, which they can take with them after leaving the home or listing to review, refresh, set appointment, contact you and even forward to family & friends with easy, all while giving you a lead capture; with time and date of listing inquiry, contact information, specific listing they were interested in and more – for follow up.

RealtyGo is designed to effortlessly allow you to display your Mobile URL and Mobile Listing TAG everywhere, which allows prospective buyers, new customers, and other business professionals to see all your real estate listings via their Mobile hand held devices and conveniently auto schedule an appointment to view or preview all your real estate listing.

RealtyGo Offers prospective buyers all your mobile real estate listings and professional business information via their mobile devices, Smartphones, iPad’s, Tablets, or any PDA device.

SEO (search engine optimization)

Consumers searching the World Wide Web will also have access to your Real Estate listings, which are properly TAGged within RealtyGo’s website- data base for best SEO (Search Engine Optimization) using google, yahoo, bing, etc.. . RealtyGo uses very specific information to promote your real estate listings to people searching in your listings- Zip Code, City, State, and even Neighborhood. Regardless of the “keywords” or order of the keywords used to search for real estate listings using major search engines like google, bing, yahoo, etc.., your real estate listings are properly TAGged to produce better search results and get your listings seen more often. We have designed our system for best SEO (search engine optimization) to make sure your listings are being seen every time consumers search for real estate in your listing area.

The convenience  of offering your real estate listings via the mobile channel is unmatched in todays tech savvy environment. All you have to do as the lister of the real estate property, is create your listing by – simply “fill in the blank” areas, add photos and let our advanced software do the rest, promoting your real estate listings on the World Wide Web and through any mobile device.

Never worry about Empty flyer boxes again, or the costs associated with printing expensive flyers, with RealtyGo all your current real estate information is always displayed to the end user requesting your listing information.

Environmentally Friendly

You can also promote your professional business practice as environmentally conscious, by offering your real estate listings, color photos and business contact information via the digital channel, Mobile phone, iPad’s, etc.. .

Forward to a Friend / Digital Business Card

Once you create your Mobile Listing(s), you can forward them to your mobile device, to have with you all the time, enabling you to forward your real estate listing to new customers,prospective buyers, with all your listing information, digital business card- business contact information and your business website on the world wide web. You can even be on the telephone with a new customer and forward your real estate listing(s) & digital business card right from your phone as your talking with them, confirm they have received the listing. In the event the prospective buyer sees a listing they like, they can very easily schedule an auto appointment to meet with you from within your mobile listing you sent them.

Now new customers have a reference when contacting you for future business; they will have your real estate listings as a point of reference on their mobile device and all your professional contact information in a nicely organized and professional mobile listing.

This first Blog Post does not change, it is always the first post you will see when accessing our blog, it is called a Sticky post, which always shows up first, as an introduction to new visitors, allowing them to become familiar with our business services and functionality.

RealtyGo – Your Real Estate Listings Best Friend!

Likes Are Not Loves – How To Waste Time “Marketing” In Facebook

Written by Carrie Hill

“This statistic, combined with the disturbing trends in today’s Facebook business strategies worries me – it really worries me. I’m disturbed by the complete lack of understanding within business America that a “Like” doesn’t equal “Love” and it certainly doesn’t equal revenue.”

So True, So True!

via Likes Are Not Loves – How To Waste Time “Marketing” In Facebook.

Google owned a 65% share of U.S. Web searches in April | Technology | Los Angeles Times | RealtyGo | Blog

Google owned a 65% share of U.S. Web searches in April | Technology | Los Angeles Times.

Google led search-engine traffic in April, with 65.4% of Web searches taking place on Google-owned search sites, according to the research firm ComScore.

The Mountain View, Calif.,-based company’s search traffic, while dominating, was down slightly from March when Google-owned sites took up a 65.7% share of the market, ComScore reported.

Coming in second place last month was Yahoo, which accounted for 15.9% share of online searches, up 0.2% from March, the research firm said.

In third came Microsoft search sites, which were also up 0.2%, taking up a 14.1% slice of the market, ComScore said.

In a distant fourth place slot was the Ask Network, which nabbed a 3.0% share of online search queries, followed by AOL which had a 1.5% take in April, ComScore reported. Ask and AOL’s April numbers were each down 0.1%, the report said.

Yahoo and Microsoft’s search sites are powered by the Microsoft Bing search engine. When Yahoo and Microsoft’s search sites are combined, Bing powered a 30% share of the online search market.

Like Microsoft, Goolge too powers searches for sites it doesn’t own, one of them being AOL.

When AOL and Google’s performance is counted together, Google’s numbers rise slightly, accounting for 67.3% of searches in March and 66.9% in April.

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SEO and QR Codes go hand and hand forever!!

SEO is all about getting the right people to your content and converting them. If you’re doing SEO well – then, yes, you are driving the right traffic. But unless you are synergizing your SEO with your company’s other efforts – you’re not getting the full benefit. QR Codes enable yout to deliver end users to an immediate promotion in which they are already participating in by scanning your QR TAG. Once you have the users attention and have satisfied their initial inquiry, you can then upsell, cross sell or even delier them to similar content.

The new generation of smart phones and the 2D barcode – quick response code (QR code) technology is bridging the gap between offline and online marketing. QR codes have emerged as a hot topic in mobile marketing as more and more marketers begin to embrace them in offline marketing and advertising initiatives. Let’s examine some of the advantages of QR codes, look at some great examples of their use in traditional media, as well as how to use them in your business.

Advantage of QR Codes

There are numerous advantages of QR codes. They can drive website traffic from traditional media such as print and direct marketing efforts. For example, instead of using traditional URLs in offline marketing efforts such as magazine ads, which require your audience to manually type in their phone or computer, scanning a QR code will automatically allow a person to access content as if he had clicked on the link. Or perhaps, you are sending out direct mail pieces about specific products or offerings. Including the QR code on the mailer allows the person to quickly and easily access additional information about your product, potentially leading to an immediate conversion or sale. In addition to the convenience, QR code tracking is available through services such as Bit.ly; these services allow you to monitor usage and the success of your campaigns.

QR Code Usage in Marketing Campaigns

I see them all over the place now, as today’s biggest brands, from Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton to the National Football League, RealtyGo, SocialscanQRTAG, Ford Motor Co., and Best Buy embrace 2D barcodes in direct marketing print campaigns. These codes are being used in magazine ads, editorial articles, television commercials, billboards, posters, and many other places. For additional information on the types of data that can be stored within QR codes, Angie Shottmuller compiled a list of the “Top 14 Things Marketers Need to Know about QR Codes.”

Geico using QR Codes

Geico, in particular, does an outstanding job of integrating traditional offline marketing channels with online media. It has created direct mailers that incorporate QR codes on the front of envelopes. Additionally, there are clear instructions on what the code is, how the recipient should use it, and what they will gain in return for doing so.

Ralph Lauren is another company leveraging QR codes via magazine print ads. In one example, QR codes link over to its online shopping site, allowing people to move immediately from print ad to conversion funnel. (Image, left, courtesy of Campaign Planning.)

Using QR Codes in Your Business

These are only a few examples that you can apply to your business today to drive customer acquisitions, generate more leads and improve conversion rates. The possibilities of how you bridge the gap from offline marketing to online conversions are limited only by your creativity.

Imagine the ability to add an easy call-to-action with a QR code that takes advantage of YouTube. Once scanned, you are automatically taken to a one-minute welcome video that has an annotation in it to other videos that leads the person into the sales funnel on your website. Or perhaps you embed a link to a Google map so potential customers can locate your closest office or nearest store based on their location or are presented with a special offer they can use by presenting their phone when checking out.

In summary, QR codes are quickly being adopted and gaining in popularity by many major companies and industries as an effective method for immediately capturing conversions from offline initiatives. To promote direct mail and create awareness of the benefits of QR codes, the United States Postal Service is offering a special postage discount during the months of July and August 2011, according to a TheDirectMail.com news report.

Direct mail marketers and mail houses can save three percent on first-class and standard presort mail postage simply by including a QR code that must be easily visible on the outside of the mail piece. Interesting right?

The question now is how can you leverage QR codes while standing out from the crowd? How can you use SEO, MobileURL’s and its principals to drive the right traffic and get in front of the right people and convert them in multiple new ways? Or, if you are already using them, what tactics did you use and what were the results?

I Love Planet Earth; A Billion Acts of Green,The start of Earthday!

This year so far we have had Earth Hour (WWF), World Water Day and now it appears its time for Earth Day! Today, 22nd April 2011, is the 41st Earth Day event which according to its organisers has inspired and mobilised individuals and organisations worldwide to demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection and sustainability.

Earth Day is intended to raise awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment which is what I am trying to achieve with this blog.

The Earth Day Network works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilise the environmental movements. It was founded in the United States by Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 with the aim of teaching people about issues affecting the environment. Since it began, it has seen several environmental laws including the Clean Air Act, the Water Act and the Endangered Species Act come into force which is a huge achievement and has obviously fulfilled its aim of informing people on environmental issues. As with most things each Earth Day has a theme and this year’s theme is “A Billion Acts of Green: Our People Powered”. They are asking people to demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection and sustainability with the hope that with all of these small pledges acting together will go a long way to conserving the planet.

Earthday history;

An oil spill in California was behind the creation of the first Earth Day in 1970. Now, 41 years later, the worst oil disaster in the nation’s history, along with rising greenhouse gas emissions and budget battles, dominates America’s debate over the environment.

Environmental catastrophes inspired official Earth Day ;
On Jan. 28, 1969, an oil well blowout near Santa Barbara, Calif. leaked more than 200,000 gallons of oil into the ocean for 11 days. The damage done to California’s coastline and the massive scope of the cleanup effort led to reforms in the energy industry, such as the National Environmental Policy Act which requires the federal government to do a detailed assessment before approving potentially hazardous projects like offshore oil drilling.

Later that same year, industrial chemicals along Ohio’s Cuyahoga river caught fire on the surface of the water, making it look like the river was on fire.

Images of blackened coastlines and flaming rivers led to a heightened awareness among the American public about the fragility of the environment.

In early 1970, Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, took note of these shifting attitudes toward the environment and hired 25-year-old Denis Hayes to organize a national “teach in” on the subject. Hayes teamed with other young people to organize the first national environmental movement.

On April 22, 1970, 20 million people responded to Hayes’ and Gaylord’s movement and rallied for environmental awareness. It remains the largest demonstration in American history and was the first-ever Earth Day.

Energy production tops today’s environmental concerns;
In the years since the first Earth Day demonstration, the activities have changed, but the source of the main environmental issues facing the country remains very much the same. Energy production and consumption continues to cause the most pollution and pose the greatest dangers to the American ecosystem.
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which took place a year ago off the Gulf coast, is the most disastrous oil spill in the nation’s history – about 200 million gallons of oil spewed from the damaged well before it could be capped.

Similar to the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, images of oil-covered animals and damaged coastline prompted strong reactions and debates over offshore oil drilling. However, today’s businesses and policymakers remain largely divided over how to meet America’s energy needs.

“The oil will be drilled,” Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute told the NewsHour during the Gulf oil leak. “We need to find ways to keep it from our shore. We need to improve our technology and ability to prevent oil from moving to the shores and learn how to use this material safely, because we are going to use it.”

Daniel Weiss, director of climate strategy for the Center for American Progress, disagreed. He said, “We have put off for too long addressing our long-term dependence on oil, both foreign and domestic. The tragedy in the Gulf isn’t a wakeup call. It’s a sonic boom. And what we need to do is to dramatically reduce our oil use.”

Debates rage over greenhouse gas regulation and EPA funding;
Congress has the authority to create and change laws having to do with the environment, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the government agency responsible for overseeing and implementing those laws. Recently, lawmakers have disagreed sharply over whether to create legislation to combat greenhouse gas emissions and how much money to give to the EPA.
In 2010, a bill that would have created a cap-and-trade system, which would involve companies buying credits to emit carbon pollution, failed in the Senate when Democrats and Republicans couldn’t agree on how many restrictions should be placed on businesses.

The Obama administration then turned to the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, which contribute to the warming of the planet. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to strip the EPA of that authority.

In budget negotiations that almost led to a government shutdown, Congress cut funding to the EPA by $1.6 billion, a significant sum according to most analysts.

“These cuts give us the opportunity to take a close look at how the agency is spending its dramatic increases in funding and look at whether the regulations it is putting out are appropriate.” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), who supports the cuts.

The advocacy group Environment America sharply criticized the funding cuts, calling them an “assault on protections of our air and water” that will “compromise public health.”

A Billion Acts of Green;

The theme of Earth Day 2011 is “a billion acts of green,” and organizers are calling on every individual to do one small thing in their lives, such as switching to energy efficient light bulbs or walking instead of driving, to improve the planet.

Earth Day participants around the world are planting 1 million trees, drawing up plans for green schools, and celebrating sports through Athletes for the Earth.

Grow Life – Please tell us what you did today to contribute to a great cause.

RealtyGo – Your Real Estate Listings Best Friend!

Think Green! Can better packaging save the Planet? RealtyGo_blog

RealtyGo enables real estate professionals, ‘Lookie loos‘ and anyone searching for real estate , an alternative to traditional paper flyer real estate information. Reduce your Real Estate business Carbon Foot Print. Use RealtyGo’s Mobile TAG and promote digital real estate listings via the mobile web. No more excessive printing- flyers, brochures,listing sheets, etc.. Easily offer end users an alternative via a digital channel using Smartphones, iPads, Tablets and other enabled PDA devices. Now when a potential home buyer is in front of your real estate listing they can use their mobile device to quickly get all your real estate listing information, photos, video, auto schedule an appointment and more. No need for excessive and usually expensive full color flyers for every ‘lookie loo’ in the neighborhood. Help promote Green real estate communication with RealtyGo and your Mobile real estate TAG using QR Codes, Text Messaging, Call for more info and GPS application.

Manufacturers are starting to take notice and provide better packaging with less left over waste.

Remember unboxing your last big gadget purchase? How many unnecessary layers of plastic, paper and cardboard did you have to wade through before getting to the actual hardware?

More to the point: Would you rather have more efficient packaging, less trash and a healthier environment?

The origami-like swaddling of hardware could be a much greener undertaking, and the companies focusing on better packaging solutions say their efforts could be a big part of making the gadget industry more sustainable. Supply chain firm ModusLink is one such company, and it’s done a bit of research on how much CO2 its environmentally friendly packaging is saving the planet.

ModusLink SVP Lorcan Sheehan wrote on the company’s blog that its sustainable packaging changes have so far “eliminate[d] a combined 4,085 metric tons of GHG through package changes — the equivalent of 672 passenger vehicles not driven, 8,254 barrels of oil not used and 404,421 gallons of gasoline not used.”

He says the new packaging is not surprisingly also good for the company’s bottom line; ModusLink saved its customers $6.2 million annually.

Take a look at the infographic below. Do you think more companies should be focusing on streamlined, greener packaging?

Special thanks to Jolie O’Dell for writing such a great article.

See the original at Mashable/Jolie O’Dell

Where do a majority of buyers and real estate leads come from? Online Search, Real Estate Agent, Real Estate yard signage,etc…

Where do a majority of Real Estate buyers and leads come from?

According to NAR – National Association of Realtors, in 2007 International home buying activity;  How are consumers accessing your real estate listings today. According to the chart and marketing online, the internet is the most widely used tool in accessing real estate listings today. RealtyGo includes all your listing in a well structured and organized manner, specifically categorized and properly tagged for indexing by major search engines such as google, yahoo, youtube and bing.

Though the internet is the most popular source today for real estate search, buyers also cited information from real-estate agents (85%), yard signs (62%), open houses (48%) and print or newspaper ads (47%). Fewer buyers relied on home books or magazines, home builders, television, billboards and relocation companies.

Yard sign statistics is what we are most interested in for the purpose of this article. Even though the internet is the most popular tool when starting your home search; what happens when you find that perfect home, your desired  area or even the most charming neighborhood with all the right amenities that makes you want to jump in the car and start your search right away.

Most buyers start exploring right away, they may not even have an agent. So what’s the chances that when buyers look in an unfamiliar neighborhood for a new home or real estate investment, they also want to know about other homes, listings, and professionals specializing in real estate in the area. We would say its a very good chance. The more information a buyer can get in a shorter amount of time, helps confirm their emotions and good emotions lead to buying. So be proactive and provide buyers what they need to feel satisfied in their real estate search.

Flyer box Mobile TAG Sticker.

To help buyers along you should add a Mobile TAG to your real estate listing(s), enabling buyers immediate listing information, including photos, video tour, pricing, details and other important information they may want in order to make a valid decision. Mobile TAG’s encourage buyer interaction, which increase lead generation and additional sales. The image above shows a mobile TAG on a flyer box. This is also a great way to cut back on excessive paper and ink waste, giving end users the option of getting all your real estate listing information through a digital channel, such as their Smartphone, iPad, Tablet or any other enabled PDA device.

The internet has changed every aspect of how consumers make decisions nowadays, and that includes how people acquire and/or put their properties up for sale. So how will you use technology to practice successful real estate marketing in 2011?

RealtyGo – Your Real Estate listings Best Friend!