4114Homes.com - Stephen M. Wigg

According to the The email experience council (eec) we're almost all spelling email incorrectly. They say it's without the hyphen.

If that's not bizarre enough, how's this? "...According to the Associated Press (AP) Stylebook, "Web site" is always two words..." as stated in Webopedia, which tells you a bit about the content. Wasn't this the same group that Stephen Colbert used to change the facts regarding elephants. This article doesn't quite get it right. The actual entries were that wild elephant populations had never been higher than they are today IN AMERICA. So, anyway, spell website and e-mail the proper way but just know we're being scrutinized.

Yahoo! keeps quietly dominating the field. What's going to happen if/when a national database of all real estate is available to these? Will REALTOR.com still be on top? Not bloody likely. Zillow's on the move, overtaking Trulia. Any idea why that would be? The money Google put behind them is like a bottomless pit. I mean come on, Google is running fiber optic cable across the Atlantic themselves to get faster European internet connections. They have money!

We want to be there someday right with the rest of them, but not due to some major push of marketing or strong-armed tactics like price comparisons. We want to be there because we're designing the best web site for buying houses.

My partner is reading a book on how we have to arrange stuff to be more feng shui. The center of this tri-level house (bagua or energy) is the stairs and the main floor bathroon off the family room. "It's not an exact science." I argued.

"But we have to do something with the bathroom." she insisted. "How about hanging some nice pictures up the stairs?"

I bought into that latter part, and have a lot of photos I've framed that would go great on the walls up the stairs but energy in the bathroom? "Good thing I changed the light/fan switch around to the right position, [i.e. light closest to the door] then, huh?"

"Oh yeah," she agreed. "That was great."

"We still talking about feng shui?" I laughed. "I just hated hitting the wrong switch!

We have an "Instant Agent Alert" we have implemented seamlessly into our program. It sends a text message saying they have e-mail, and to login to our site to get it.

I'll be more than half of the people we present this to shudder at the thought of text messaging, or don't WANT to learn it, or have tried and failed at using it.

Is text messaging so bad?

Come on, it's just text messaging and you don't have to respond, just go to our site, login and get that lead.

M.I.T. did a study last year that showed that you have a 100 X greater chance of a positive outcome if you get back to a person in 5 minutes vs. 30.

I was hit with this objection yesterday with a huge broker. "Yeah, Houston has a great system with 500,000+ leads but 93% of them don't pan out. What is missing from that statistic is, "How many of those leads were followed up in a timely fashion? My girlfriend sent out three requests for showings to a broker in town. Two Agents didn't reply and the one that did took a week. Are those part of the 93% of the leads that are worthless. I wonder why!

I think most people think of Obama's tax credit as the same as taking the tax deductions off their taxable income. Here's as good a response to that misnomer as I've read. It sounds too good to be true, but it's not.

For example, if a qualified home buyer has federal income tax liability of $5,000 qualified for the $8,000 home buyer tax credit. As a result, the taxpayer would receive a check for $3,000 ($8,000 minus the $5,000 owed). That's a stimulus!.

So, is this going to turn the market around? I've never heard about anything so good as that! It should! My partner just took advantage of it. That's a lot of money!

And how did she find her home? Our website!