IMPORTANT UPDATE:  We’re adjusting pricing – Effective June 3, 2019. Agent Evolution, an IDX Broker company, will adjust subscription pricing (on June 3, 2019) to match our current retail rates and to more accurately reflect the value our clients receive from our products and services. We have proudly served the real estate industry for the [...]

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Envious of another real estate agent’s social presence? Do their posts seem more polished and professional than yours? Feel like you could never get your posts to that level? Truth is, you can step up your lackluster social game. All you need are the right tools. Graphic Design Made Easy Let me introduce you to [...]

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Ever read product reviews before ordering on Amazon? Checked a movie’s score on Rotten Tomato before buying a ticket? If so, you aren’t alone. Nearly 70% of online shoppers read reviews before purchasing. Looking to the opinions of others is the phenomenon known as “social proof”. When you get a recommendation from family, friends, or [...]

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In our first article on website image optimization, we looked at tools to identify large images that could slow website load times. Now it is time to discuss tools that can fix image problems by shrinking file sizes. Requirements There are 3 main ways to reduce the file size of an image. A good solution [...]

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Images are an integral part of the modern real estate website. They account for the majority of elements on an average page; and whether those images are optimized, plays a big part in the performance of a website. Why Is Website Image Optimization Important? Bad User Experience Large, bulky photos take a considerable time to [...]

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MLS home search is one of the most important pieces of a real estate website. It provides value (i.e. listing details) that can be exchanged for contact information (example: homes by email). Those conversion points account for a large chunk of the leads generated on many REALTOR® websites. When adding MLS home search to a [...]

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The popularity of podcasts is at an all-time high. Nearly one in four Americans listen to podcasts on a monthly basis. With those numbers, it makes a lot of sense for real estate agents to have their own podcasts. Using Amazon Polly for WordPress, building that podcast from a REALTOR® website happens automatically. Harness the [...]

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Surely you’ve received loads of emails over the past several weeks from companies saying they’ve updated their privacy policy or need to re-confirm your email address. This is all due to GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, established into law by the European Union. Without getting in to the legalese of the law (spoiler alert [...]

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Maps are an essential part of any real estate website. They’re used to show the location of listings and the boundaries of communities. The visual and interactive nature of online maps adds a lot to the user experience of an agent’s site. When it comes to online maps, Google is king. Nearly 14% of the [...]

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Thanks to the social media trend of #ThrowbackThursday (or #tbt), what’s old is cool again! With that in mind, when we came across some photos from the 2009 REBarCamp in San Francisco, we just had to share. If you’re not familiar, REBarCamp provided a forum for those in the real estate industry to connect and [...]

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