Holiday at the Beach

I don't know about everyone else, but it's hard for me to get in the spirit when I stay home in Myrtle Beach for Christmas. Trouble is, it's so darned cold back home that I can't make myself drive up to be with family. This year I'm also in the middle of trying out the new "stop smoking" drug called Chantix. So far it's giving me gas, some diarreah, and I'm sleeping 12 hours a day. Pretty good odds to make you quit smoking, isn't it? Hah.

This month has been the worst I've ever seen as far as real estate leads go. All of our sites have gotten the same amount of traffic as ever, but almost no leads at all in the last two weeks. Really irksome! I have picked up a couple of SEO tricks from a really great SEO company called Stomper Net. These guys are really really on the money. They make some hilarious and interesting videos, and if their tips work, it's well worth the couple of hours it takes to watch them and learn. Lest my competition learn from me, I'll leave it up to you to visit their website and spend the time to learn it too.

New on the website front, we finally got a really good IDX solution just about installed on the condos.net site. There's still some bugs, and the company we went with is about as slow as molasses, but it's looking great, and I'm excited about the finished product.

You can search the Myrtle Beach MLS from it, of course. But we decided to go an extra step which most of the local websites haven't done. You can register for free, put in your parameters of what kind of Myrtle Beach real estate you are interested in, and have the new listings sent to you by email as new properties fitting your description come up for sale. It's a cool option, and one I think our customers will appreciate and use often. You can visit and sign up for your Personal Condo Locator right here.

Hopefully when January 1 comes around, these buyers that keep hoping prices will go even lower will see that the bottom is already here, and decide to get their beach homes before the prices start escalating again during the spring and summer tourist seasons.

Learn more about our Myrtle Beach condos for sale and enjoy some beach pictures on our Condostore website. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!