1. What’s Fizber?
Founded in June 2007 in Miami Beach, Fizber.com is a for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) website dedicated to providing efficient, cutting-edge web 2.0 tools and services to homeowners who prefer to sell and buy homes without the assistance of a real estate agent.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizber_%28internet_company%29
The word “fizber” was coined by our team and it means a FSBO (pronounced as “fizbo”) seller or buyer. The word quickly spread among homeowners and real estate professionals; Google currently provides about 1,500,000 results for “fizber” and the term has appeared in major online dictionaries:
• Urban Dictionary - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fizber
• Wiktionary, a Wiki-based dictionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WT:LOP#F
Today, Fizber.com has become a real estate search engine that helps buyers find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level (local schools, neighborhood facts, trends, job scores, and more). Fizber is also a tool for real estate professionals to market their listings, view real estate data and promote their services.
Types of listings: Over 2 million properties including for sale by owner (FSBO), new homes, real estate listings, pre-foreclosure and bank foreclosures.
Our partners: Adicio.com. ForSaleByOwner.com, SecondSpace.com, Geebo.com, Oodle.com, PropSmart.com and dozens of real estate brokers and agencies.
2. Fizber.com Snapshot
• Unique visitors per month: 750K
• Page views per month: 3 M
• Homes for sale on site: more than 2 000 000
The data was collected and provided by Quantcast.com: http://www.quantcast.com/fizber.com/traffic
We are number 2 for sale by owner site online. Forsalebyowner.com is number one - we became number 2 recently:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=fizber.com%2C+owners.com%2C+fsbo.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
3. Fizber in Press
Press Releases:
• Sell Your Home Online for Free (Forbes.com): http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2008/05/15/prnewswire200805151314PR_NEWS_USPR_____CLTH114.html
• Real Estate Website Fizber.com to Expand Partner Network (Reuters.com): http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS140776+14-May-2008+PRN20080514
• Fizber.com Introduces New Real Estate Mapplet for Google Maps (mmdnewswire.com): http://www.mmdnewswire.com/fizber.com-introduces-new-rel-estte-mpplet-for-google-mps-2934-2.html
References:
• PC Magazine article, May 23, 2008
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2308079,00.asp
• "Top 50 Web 2.0 Real Estate Sites", International Listings, March 4, 2008
http://www.intlistings.com/articles/2008/top-50-web-20-real-estate-sites/
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