By Steve Smith Mobile, like politics, is local. According to the latest mobile consumer study from BIA/Kelsey, searching for local services on a cell phone far outstrips out-of-market searches. Only 11.1% of mobile users are searching for products and services outside of their local area, while 18.5% are searching for local sources. It may not…
READBy Chris Harnick Smarter Agent, a provider of GPS and multiple-listing-search-service applications to consumers and real estate agents, is now on every tier-one U.S. carrier after signing a deal with Verizon Wireless. Smarter Agent has already been on Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile for some time. The application is also now available on Google’s Android platform,…
READBy Greg Sterling As a kind of response to the AdWeek piece below, I would argue that real estate is a vertical that has really taken off in mobile; consumers are using smartphones to find listings and agents are increasingly getting mobile distribution through partners such as Trulia and Zillow. Smarter Agent, which has been…
READBy Dean Takahashi Smarter Agent has given real estate agents a lot of help in the difficult housing market in the past year. The company provides real estate listings via mobile phones with navigation data so that potential home buyers can easily find homes for sale while driving. Now the Camden, N.J.-based company is expanding…
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READTECHNOLOGY By Eric Blumberg There is enough information out there about mobile technology to make your head spin. I’m going to debunk a few of the most common myths to help you realize how easy it is to use the right mobile technology as a successful marketing tool. Myth 1: Just hop on the iPhone…
READFetch files, scan pictures, process credit-card transactions, manage expense reports, track packages, and more, cheap and on the fly By Bill Snyder Small Biz When Scott Schaefer, restaurateur and owner of the Milwaukee Brat House, meets with a supplier, he doesn’t need to boot up his computer or launch Excel to see which beers are…
READCompanies find mobile apps provide a potential gold mine By João-Pierre Ruth As smartphones pack ever more computing power, the menu of mobile applications designed for this market continues to grow, leading entrepreneurs with novel ideas and technical skills to create software designed for such devices. Apple Inc.’s iPhone opened the floodgates for mobile software…
READBLOODHOUNDBLOG.COM By: Greg Swann, Phoenix Real Estate, Post Archive, RSS Feed Posted: Wednesday, July 29th, 2009, 7:51 pm MST Category: Marketing, Real Estate, Technology We signed up for our own version of the SmarterAgent smart-phone MLS client. We’ve been live since Monday, but it proved its value and then some yesterday afternoon. Cathy was out…
READBy Benn Rosales Finally, you can offer more than just service Give’em a shopping cart! You’ve seen them popping up all over the place, those sweet iPhone and Palm Pre applications, and your head spins because the only way you’ve been able to offer it to your consumer is by pimping someone else’s brand. Your…
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