I just read Maureen Henry' blog on How does your website rate? Don't guess - find out here (used without permission, but I'm going to email her for approval when posted!!!) and the use of the Wedexl Website Analyzer . This tool is free, and GREAT. Another good place for a collection of tools is
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07/16/2007
I'm looking for info. How may Realtors compete with their broker for sales? I'm from the frame of mind that a Broker provides services for the Realtors that work for him. I recently used Broker Metrics and checked large and small offices. I found a case where a firm had Realtors 20 - 30% off
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07/15/2007
Alphabet soup? Not really, RETS stands for "Real Estate Transaction Standard" (see www.rets.org), I hope you know what MLS stands for, and DOJ is the "Department of Justice". First let's understand a little more about RETS.In 1999, NAR looked around the US landscape and concluded that MLS data
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07/08/2007
Not long ago I wrote that Greensburg Kansas had real troubles due to tornado, I also wrote that the coming problem would be floods. Never would I have expected what has happened in Coffeyville.A flood swamped a refinery. In a town where floods are rare, but the midwest has recieved record level
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07/07/2007
I feel for all of you around the country in poor markets. I welcome all of you who are moving to Wichita Kansas, welcome to Midwest stability.Our 12 month rolling average shows the market to be down almost 3%, but home values are up almost 5%. For the last 2 years our home values have risen 9%!
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07/02/2007
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