Tham khảo tài liệu 'part 8_101 internet businesses you can start from home', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 210 101 Internet Businesses You Can Start From Home 72. Real Estate Site Overview of Business The Internet has revolutionized the way real estate agents are doing business. Traditionally real estate agents would publish their listings in home buyer publications on television and in monthly newsletters that they may distribute throughout the area that they represent. Now real estate agents can easily post their listings online to attract a more global audience. Having an online real estate Web site can benefit you in two ways 1 increased exposure for your real estate listing and 2 increased exposure for your services. There are two ways that you can approach this type of business. If you are a real estate agent you can launch your site to target potential clients in a specific geographic location. This is the most common approach taken by many real estate agents. Your second option is to offer your services to a larger geographic location such as the United States or North America. As a real estate agent you cannot possibly represent the interests of homebuyers on a national level but you can provide other real estate agents with the opportunity to publish their real estate listings on your site. You can then earn a commission from each sale that resulted from a referral from your site. This is an easy way to earn additional income from your real estate business. Skills Needed Similar to an offline real estate agent in order to sell real estate online you will have to be licensed to do so by the area that you represent. Knowledge of various online advertising techniques would also be an asset. Cost to Start This Business Initially you will have to pay for the development design and hosting of your Web site computer hardware computer software a printer a scanner and a digital camera. If you currently have some of these items your initial start-up costs will be considerably lower. A major cost that you will incur is associated with the development of the database that
