After several bouts of "Click here for Live support" from many websites lately, I thought this could be a very good, well marketed idea for Realtors. Seemed simple, a Non-confrontational way to let consumers chat with a realtor, try to point them in the right direction, earn consumer trust, then
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06/24/2007
I'm a techy. My wife thinks a Laptop is permanently attached (she's threatened to by the computer a "Nighty". Most of my time has been spent working tho, so it's a good thing.Z57 has been my template site of choice. It's been a long road to get here. I tried 3 different Template sites, and ha
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06/24/2007
This is COOL: I wish I could show it here, but AR doesn't let me paste in Java I guess.Real Etate Calendar links you to Google Gadgets for your website. I found lots of fun things there, like Asteroids and Pacman, but I found this useful link to. It brings up daily Real Estate trivia, yesterda
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06/17/2007
Once upon a time, if you made your site high in Google rankings, you had it made. Times change. Google now has an estimated 35 to 40% of the search engine market, and Yahoo & MSN Search have about 50% market share. Getting high in search engines takes a little more study.First, the good new is
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06/14/2007
Ok, here in Ethics, a real ethics problem. A competitor resides in my office building. Nice enough guy, don't know him very well. He has more agents than I do, but not very productive.My dilema? The building management made a mistake about who has what suite. Sent a demand letter, said he ha
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06/11/2007
I'm looking for VERY serious input. I've been a broker for about 10 years. The first 8 years of my being BROKEr was easy. New homes only, very little office space needed. 2 years ago, decided we needed to expand to resale. Helps to train agents before I put them in subdivisions. Looked at t
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06/08/2007
I'm going to plug a company here. Tell you that up front. And it's not my company...I've been designing websites for 7 years, I can use PHP, HTML, Flash, CSS, and more. I'm not great, but I get the job done. My wife is a writer (morning radio). I've read tons, watch the search engines, and m
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06/04/2007
We've thrown around terms like broker-centric, agent-centric, consumer-centric, self cetered-centric? Small joke. I guess I'm headed towards being a Broker-centric, but not by choice.I'm providing all kinds of tools for my agents. Contact management, Website, drip email, leads, new home subdi
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06/04/2007
4 months ago, I decided to quit designing my site myself, and use a template. On my 4th provider now (think I'm really happy, finally), but I've created LOTS of pages that aren't any long associated with my site. I own the domain, and re-assigned it on every move. Naturally, each provider had
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06/04/2007
I've discovered a new toy (I love finding them really). I've looked at Blackberry, Treo, MS Mobile, and I keep getting gun shy, and wondering how long before I'll need PC tablet, and of course keep it running in the car until an email comes in. BECAUSE - - we have 1 hour (the Golden Hour) to
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06/01/2007