Contents

Cover Story

SEO is a tricky strategy to master and a big time investment, whether you choose to buy pay-per-click ads or do the work yourself. And no matter how hard agents work at SEO, they will always have a hard time coming up higher than competitors and bigger brokerages in a search. Is working your way up to SEO expertise really worth it? Click here to read our cover story, and find out.

Also…

• Quick SEO Tips For Agents
• 3 Reasons Facebook’s Graph Search Rocks for Realtors
• Which Site Gets the Most Traffic?
• What Syndication Sites Do Consumers Visit Most?
• What Tech Tools Do Brokerages Provide?
• How Crowdfunding is Coming to Real Estate

Editor’s Note

• The Changing Technological Landscape

National News

• 6 Ways to Take Smartphone Photography to the Next Level
• 6 Android Apps That  Are Now Free

Agent Snapshot

• Scott Newman, Broker, Newman Realty, Chicago

Improving Your Business

• 4 Tech Tools Agents Should Know

Ask A Lender 

• Dan Gjeldum, Guaranteed Rate

The Scene

• WCR “Let’s Make a Deal – Mastering Negotiation” Event
• Related Midwest Harbor View Grand Opening
• TRIO Brokers Open

My Style

• Kim Vales, Agent, Baird & Warner, Orland Park