In an attempt to practice designing web-sites, and to get rid of all that commercial stuff on the home pages offered by the likes of Google, MSN, Yahoo! etc., I've designed a home page and am in the process of getting the domain name for 4114Stephen.com. We have more than 400 domain names that begin with 4114 and our ultimate goal is to brand that so here's a free notice to all who have $10 to gamble. If you want to be in on the ground floor, buy those domain names now! Buy the domain and we'll talk about me designing something like this for you. It really makes daily chores so much easier! How about $100?
If you can't type, is Vlogging the answer? Back me up on this. I'm trying to pull an associate into this century but his inability to see the keyboard, let alone the screen is keeping him from being very adept at online marketing. Is this the answer? I hate voicemail. I mean, I really hate it. I was put on probation a couple times for not replying and my message now just says, "Don't bother, I won't listen. Send me a text." But I'd listen to these. Are they professional? Are they appreciated? Are they used?
It's fun being the web designer. I get to see cool stuff out there like TalkBox.com and decide if we're going to include it in our web-site seamlessly.
So I read Jeff Turner's Blog and lose sleep over the possiblities of what it would be like to spend more time and insert this into a seamless version of a whole new way to correspond with consumers.
I hate voicemail. I hope it dies a miserable death like carbon paper. But e-mail isn't far behind. So, what if we make a screen like this where the consumer, more of which are computer savvy, received a personal note from you in this version:
Would Agents use it?
Would Consumers like it?
Beta Version of TokBox linked seamlessly to 4114OpenHouses.com
We're test-marketing a web-site and in working with the public, some things that seemed obvious just aren't!
"Schedule a Showing" is what other broker sites show. "What does that really mean to you, the consumer?" I have asked different friends and relatives.
"I don't know." They reluctantly admit. "Why do you ask?" they ask.
"Would 'Schedule a PRIVATE Showing' make more sense?" I prod them with my leading question.
"Well yeah," they say. "I can call up and see it on my own?" the ask like it's a whole new message.
Are we missing out on that portion of the populace that we design these web-sites for, i.e. the CONSUMER that's not in the industry?
"What's All MLS Listings mean to you?" I ask.
"Nothing." they reply. "What's MLS stand for?" That's another blog.
Who reads terms of service? So, I'm helping an assiciate and try to put up a big JPG but it is shrunk to fit in their window. Is it NOT free to have a great photo collage? Other's are putting up what is similar to their online brochure for their postings.
Inquiring minds want to know!
Webmaster for an Advertising medium that shows All MLS IDX listings, Open Houses, tracks leads and distributes them quicker than anybody FOR NO EXTRA CHARGE!
We're launching an Omaha Real Estate web-site in our hometown that we hope to have national exposure to shortly. We display all MLS listings, updated daily, and will sell subscriptions for as little as $10/month to share in those leads. Our web-site prides itself on the ease of use, anonymity and follow-up tracking of leads generated.
4114Homes.com in Omaha is where we're starting. What we have been able to do is benchmark existing sites and have what we feel is the best site for consumers. Sure, we're not so complex the Type-A's can do a search by the number of steps to the lower level, but from the typical consumer that want's to see the 411 4Homes. Less than 5% of buyers use print-media in their home-buying experience, yet brokers spend more on that than anything else? We want to change that.
We have real estate agents and brokers with decades of experience in the industry involved in every facet of development. When we launch, it will be with the idea of going to many markets across the country.
50% of the MLS organizations have a Consumer-Facing Web-site. Our ultimate goal is to be the main conduit for that with our Instant Agent Alerts, Google Street View and Microsoft Bird's Eye View, along with the ease of use and daily downloads from the Local IDX.
When we have somebody view our Real Estate website they love it or we make the changes they ask for that makes it better IF THE SUGGESTION is for easier to navigate, understand, etc. We have "push-pins" on a Google map for example. Who would have thought consumers wouldn't think to click on those to see the house? Well, the first few times we said that person didn't know the first thing about browsing. But then we started to listen and realize we had to make it obvious! We are redesigning our site daily!
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