Several months ago, the Tech Team — OK: Robbie — rolled out the new Help-U-Sell mobile phone website. It’s a nifty tool that enables consumers to access a smart-phone friendly Help-U-Sell website so they can retrieve property information anywhere. For example, a buyer driving neighborhoods who sees a Help-U-Sell listing can now get information about it on the spot through his or her cell phone. They don’t even have to remember to type in .mobi. The system recognizes the mobile phone and directs www.helpusell.com inquiries to the appropriate pages, too.
Consumer use of the mobi site was clicking along for a couple of months when Tami Patzer created a press release about the new tool. Inman News picked it up and there was a huge spike in usage. That settled a bit, but then continued to rise as more and more outlets picked up the story. Right now, we’re getting remarkable traffic on helpusell.mobi.
We have to remember: when our parents think of a ‘computer,’ they picture a box that sits on the floor connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse by wires. When we think of ‘computer,’ we picture a notebook. When the up and coming consumer thinks ‘computer,’ he or she may well picture a smart phone or other mobile device. That’s why helpusell.mobi is so important. You owe it to yourself to get your mobile phone out and play around on the site so that you can talk intelligently to your customers about it.
To add to your blog…the really cool thing about the Help-U-Sell mobi site is that people use it and love it. Most users visit 6.57 pages per visit and spend nearly 4 minutes using the site. It has a low bounce rate of 26 percent and in the past month the usage has increased more than 100 percent.
This is the wave of the future and Help-U-Sell is leading the way!
How does the public find our .mobi. address/site???…
What is our .mobi. address???…
I have been using a .mobi. text message.system on most of my listings since January 2010…
I make a sign rider with the text message number…send to number…that is placed on the For Sale sign…
When someone sends a text message on the property…I capture their cell phone number in my email box…
I then call back the sender to see if they are buyers or wannabe buyers…
I average one text per property per week…higher visible properties get more text hits a week…
Visit one of my .mobi. sites…
text 43754 to 79564…
To find the Help-U-Sell Mobi site, you can just type in the helpusell.com address in your phone and it automatically takes you to the corporate site where you can search for listings. In the very near future, people with smart phones will be able to point their phone at a Help-U-Sell home for sale and all of the information will pop up about that listing on their phone. The Help-U-Sell mobi site is helpusell.mobi