Steve Church, a Realtor in Bellingham, Washington launched a new website a few weeks ago to help him and his colleagues promote their open houses in the area. Newspaper advertising is not working as well as it used to and real estate agents are looking for other ways to promote their listings and open houses. Steve’s website, www.whatcomopenhouses.com is a website dedicated to upcoming open houses and has listings from any agent in any company within the Whatcom County area. Steve then promotes the website with a single ad in the Bellingham Herald Newspaper, Craigslist.org and a few others.
Whatcom County Open Houses Website
10/26/2006 at 9:37 am
There was an new article published by NorthwestLiving.net about this new
Bellingham, WA – Whatcom County open house site.
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9/30/2007 at 5:54 pm
Well it was a good idea at least…but for what ever reason, the site was not being maintained at all during 2007 and then steve let the domain expire. Now a competitor in our marketplace picked up the domain and has the domain pointing at his own web sites open house section.
Great idea, but you have to work it in order for it to work and do the SEO work as well. After I saw what happened, I went in and changed that entire post on my blog. There was no way I was going to have that article sit there and have my visitors goto a competitor like that.
Some day someone will actually provide a service like that in our market place and other areas as well for a quality site to advertise open houses and homes for sale as well. I think there is a definetly niche ther for someone to go after. I have a page on my Point2 site that is just for open houses and I’m page one with google for the search term “Bellingham Open Houses”.
Take it easy Steven J.