Comments on: AgentRank and May Days Past

By: Jonathan Dalton

Jonathan Dalton — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:31:13 +0000

I think the one way AgentRank can prove its value to agents is by agents getting business from the site. But the flip side is whether it’s worth the time investment to keep everything updated when there is no certain ROI.

Older sales don’t appear to be damaging agent scores … top agent that shows up for Phoenix has a 2005 sale among the “recent” sales.

By: ines

ines — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:28:01 +0000

Wow – I’ve never liked “ranking sites” for the mere reason that those rankings can be manipulated. I recently joined one of the social networks and deleted my profile as soon as I saw the ranking. I don’t take away the fact that some, maybe even AgentRank may be trying to be more thorough, but the reality is that I’m way too busy selling real estate and keeping up my own blog to now have to worry about keeping some ranking site current and providing documentation.

By: Faina Sechzer

Faina Sechzer — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:32:29 +0000

Jonathan, I am not sure if sales is the most important way to measure agents’ success. More important to me is their clients’ success, which includes a lot of intangibles. Having come from Soviet Russia, I know all to well about their way of measuring success. Their elections always resulted in 100% and only one candidate running:)

By: Jonathan Dalton

Jonathan Dalton — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:28:31 +0000

> AgentRank includes weblogs as a component because weblogs are clearly a powerful medium where agents demonstrate their expertise. And presumably, performance goes hand-in-hand with expertise.

I don’t question the value of blogs, Marc. But I don’t believe Technorati rank is the end-all be-all statistic for blogs.

By: marc

marc — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:31:06 +0000

Hi, Jonathan. First, thanks for reviewing the new AgentRank site. Here are a few notes in response to your points:

Re: “recent sales”: Some agents have not been diligent in reporting sales. Therefore, their “recent” sales may become stale. But notice their ranking may begin to stink as a result because older sales don’t carry as much weight. I’m confident this will improve with time if AgentRank can prove its value to agents.

Re: “sale documentation”: Granted, documentation isn’t *always* available but it is very likely to be documented in some form. The website copy does say MLS, but other forms of documentation are acceptable.

Re: “Technorati rank for blogs”: AgentRank includes weblogs as a component because weblogs are clearly a powerful medium where agents demonstrate their expertise. And presumably, performance goes hand-in-hand with expertise.