Many of our users simply list their property, upload an image or two and expect that the property will somehow find a buyer. Others, such as the owner of this listing devise a marketing plan that takes greater advantage of RE-List4Free. We keep and display statistics showing how often a listing is viewed. You can see that listing #1097 is being marked much more effectively than average. Here's the math: the average listing has been on the site a bit longer than 40 days, has been viewed 21 times by 4 distinct viewers. As of the time of this writing, listing#1097 has been viewed 6772 times by 904 distinct viewers. It went under agreement 23 days after it was first listed.
What's the difference? First, the listing includes the a lot of clear, attractive images. The initial image, which is automatically resized to make the thumbnail, is not cluttered with detail. When it is scaled to thumbnail size, it still looks quite good. The listing's headline is descriptive and interesting: five miles to the beach! The selling points of the property are highlighted in a bulleted 'features' list. However, the care that the lister of this property took with his listing is not sufficient to explain its runaway popularity. Fortuantely, the listing owner contacted us with a question. When we asked him to share his marketing secrets with us, he was kind enough to write this. We strongly recommend that anyone who wants to sell a property using this website take a few minutes to have a look at it.
