Custom Real Estate Website?

Have you been considering spending your hard earned money on a custom real estate website to bring in new clients? Before you do that do you have the money to buy a custom website, do you realize that they can cost anywhere from $500 – $5,000 plus depending on the type of website, company doing the work and of course the features included in the design?

Listen, the truth is that taking your real estate business online is one of the best moves you can make, but if you can’t afford it you simply can’t afford it. Don’t be fooled by the look and functions of a website, there is almost always a free alternative that will suit you just fine, and if once you do have the funds you still feel the need to buy a custom design then go right ahead, but for now you should be realistic. We have worked with plenty of real estate agents that decided to empty their families savings account for a website and guess what, they never received a single client from it, until we taught them a little about real estate internet marketing of course.

Lets take this very website for example, Real Estate License Direct cost us nothing more than twenty dollars a month to setup and that is for web hosting, which you would have to pay for anyway. The design is free, the power plant of the operation(WordPress) was free, and this site was up and running in less than an hour. Maybe its not the best choice, maybe it is, what matters is that we were online and working towards our goals, which is the same thing each and every one of you should be doing.

There are numerous tutorials and information sources online for setting up your own blogs using this very same platform, you can also set up blogs on sites like ActiveRain and RealEstateWebmasters that will allow you to at least get started online for the time being. We wouldn’t recommend using a third party site as your primary homepage, but it works in the beginning and they already have an established presence which is an added benefit.