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Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task. Foregoing an agent, however, is easier these days thanks to Web sites that help homeowners advertise their properties on the hottest real estate portals and even walk them through figuring out how to price their home to sell. Sites such as ForSaleByOwner.com, Owners.com and Fizber.com don’t claim to supplant every service a real estate agent provides.

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Handy Web Sites for Home Sellers Who Go It Alone

The global economic crisis affects markets all over the world coming in all shapes and sizes, from national crises that impact all types of organizations to industry-specific crises; many employees are steadily losing their jobs. When a crisis occurs, the first step is to admit to yourself you’ve got a problem. And If you are to survive and prosper, you must understand what is happening and act now, find a way out of this problem.

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Global Economic Crisis Fuels Online Business

In few other industries is the need for a good CRM system as great as in real estate — a business that employs large sales forces with a need to build lasting client relationships and processes lots of documents. Add to that the need to track property listings, sales leads and referrals, and it becomes clear that CRM is the name of the game in real estate. Yet for a variety of factors — the franchise nature of the business along with the traditional autonomy of agents and agencies’ traditional hiring and compensation models prominent among them — real estate agencies typically haven’t been big users of centralized CRM systems.

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Real Estate Discovers CRM, Part 1: Embracing the Idea