Consumers Can Now Make an Offer on IDX Listings – Prudential California Realty

Three steps is all it takes to make an offer on a local home for sale on Prudential California Realty’s website.

I received an email Ginny Cain this morning informing me that Prudential California Realty in Norther California is unveiling the ability for a consumer to make an online offer on local IDX listings on their website.  I am not aware of any other brokerage that is doing this yet.

Gretchen Pearson, president of the broker operations, came up with the idea and believes that in the future all brokerages will have this technology.

The big question is what do you think??? Here is the press release that was sent to me.

Home buyers can “Make an Offer” on thousands of listings in the Bay Area and Sacramento

Prudential California debuts new feature that lets consumers click one button to make…

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How to See Who is Visiting Your Website – SocialBios

We have talked about SocialBios a few times on Tech Savvy before, even back when it was called Peep.ly.  There are a lot of reasons to sign up for this free service (yes it’s 100% free with no premium/freemium packages) and here is just one more.

Watch the video below to see how you can connect with people on your website, even if they didn’t fill out a lead generation form.  A simple press of a button to satisfy your consumers curiosity is all it takes to capture some info from them.

Now that you watched the video…go get it!  SocialBios

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Cursing at Your Cell Phone???

According to Google and their new website, How to Go Mo, 23% of you do!

Why and when does the profanity ensue?  When someone hits your website and it’s not optimized for a smooth mobile experience.

How to Go Mo Graphic

While at Agent Reboot this week (thanks Chris!), I learned about a new site that will not only help you define what makes a good mobile website, but will also allow you to test yours for free.  If your site is not optimized properly for a mobile device, Google may not be pushing it out on their search engine results page when someone is searching on their mobile.  Why does it matter you ask?  Check out this graphic from their site.

Since your site…

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