Posts by Christopher Walkey
Things to avoid on Social Media.
It may be very important to know the kind of things you should be doing on social media to give you the best returns on your effort, but knowing what not to do will also stand you in good stead as sometimes, social media can be very unforgiving. Social media is very much a part…
Read MoreOnTheMarket Property Portal – Blog for Estate Agent Networking:
We launched OnTheMarket.com on Monday, January 26 2015 with the clear goal of introducing much needed competition into the propertyportal marketplace. In the short time since then, we have created a genuine sea-change within the portals market. We currently have more than 5,000 contracted offices and this is only the beginning. Our next goal is to…
Read MoreSuccess from Online Marketing requires time, effort and investment.
“There are big changes in the UK property industry and I can really see innovation and tech playing a big part of the future success and directional road things take in the next few years.” Christopher Walkey. Whenever I deliver a talk on social media, I am usually asked how to get quick results from…
Read MoreINDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Alex Evans from Estate Apps.
What brought you to the Property Industry? I’ve always been an advocate for new technology, both in my field and outside. As someone with a background in website design and development, I know how fast things can change. Something that might be the height of design one year can quickly become outdated. I noticed that…
Read MoreUsing Instagram for business.
Pictures are important aren’t they? Let’s be truthful, when we were younger we may have chosen that book from the library from the pictures it had within the centres pages… Maybe it was the cover that attracted you? Throughout the many years of marketing, images have been a powerful tool to attract people’s interest and…
Read MoreSocial Media is making the world a much smaller place… Good or Bad?
The introduction of social media to not only the world of business, but to our own personal lives has really opened many new doors and allowed us to explore new areas and people that would never have presented themselves without it. Yes, we can keep in contact with our close friends and family with Facebook,…
Read MoreProfile Pages and Grow your Group on Estate Agent Networking now available.
At Estate Agent Networking and the team we have on board, we are not used to standing still so the new developments to our fast growing web portal community keep on coming. We are now pleased to release two new key features which we hope will help the industry network even more closely allowing Estate…
Read MoreSocial Media is nothing new in Marketing.
Everybody says that social media is the newest form of marketing and must be adopted by businesses in order to be successful, especially as everyone is spending more and more time online these days. But is social media in fact such a new form / style of marketing? For years, the idea of successful marketing…
Read MoreSocial Media vs Email Marketing.
I may be a strong fan of social media, but I am not daft enough to think with blinkers and throw out other forms of marketing and certainly not looking to drop email marketing any time soon, but there is a debate regarding Social Media vs Email Marketing so let’s take a quick look at…
Read MoreThe growing power of Estate Agent Networking explained:
We are now some eight months in to the life of the Estate Agent Networking concept and already we’ve gone from a platform with zero content (all online concepts have to start from zero!) to a web platform that has daily content from across the industry shared with an increasing amount of views average on…
Read MoreEstate Agency leaflets through doors – Ideas to make them work better.
Living in Colchester, one where there are quite a few chimney pots and many thirsty estate agencies, old and new, we do get to see our fair share of leaflets come through the door seeing if we are at all tempted to sell our property… So, do leaflets really work these days? I would say…
Read MoreIndustry Interview: Nick Marr The House Shop.
Nick Marr describes himself as an internet entrepreneur with a passion for driving big audiences and a love for real estate. He is also behind one o the longest running property websites The Little House Company, online since 2000 it was one of the first sites to list on Rightmove in 2004. The FSBO website…
Read More£10,000 up front to rent a bathroom-sized London apartment.
Without even seeing it first, a tenant paid £10,000 up front to secure a bathroom-sized London apartment which had only been on the market for just over half an hour. Located in eastern Soho border by Regent Street, the tiny flat was secured within minutes and was moved in to just two hours later with…
Read MoreIs social media now too crowded?
Last week I was in Exeter training a room full of Estate Agents on using social media for their agencies and one of the subjects we covered was on how to build your following and get your brand seen on the likes of the popular channels such as Twitter and Facebook. Whereas when social media…
Read MoreINDUSTRY INTERVIEW: Robin Rathore of Bamboo Auctions.
Where did the idea spring from? The idea for Bamboo Auctions (www.bambooauctions.com) came about after trying to buy a house. We put an offer in and had to wait 6 months to exchange because of various delays in the interim. To top it all, just before exchange, the price had to be renegotiated. There had…
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