For those of you following the Sarasota Association of Realtors fiasco (SAR) and lending your support, I have just created a great new way for you to showcase your disapproval for what SAR has done to our member Marc Rasmussen.

The "No SARjacking" Badge.

 To place this badge on your website, simply paste this html code to the left of the badge into your webpage, or blog, and save the page:

 

<a href="http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blogs/morgan-carey/6350/show/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.realestatewebmasters.com/SARjacking-badge.jpg" border="0" width="200"></a>

 Some additional sizes now available:

 

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Note: 50% discount time period on CMS 2.0 has now expired - Please do not use this post as a pricing guide for CMS 2.0 upgrades - instead visit the work orders forum to request an estimate.

On Wednesday, February 6th 2008 we will be launching our new backend for customer use as a beta.

We are very excited about the new funtionality that this system provides to our customers and with this upgrade this should make 2008 the best year ever for client closings from their REW websites.

This very affordable upgrade represents a complete overhaul of our backend including new CMS (With new wysiwyg editor) new featured listings management, and most importantly new lead management. Some of the more significant changes I will list below:

REW CMS: (Content…

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Just checking out the features and creating a profile on a new social networking site Gooruze.com

For the most part it's focus seems to be online marketing, but as Real Estate "Webmasters" online marketing is huge part of what we are looking to improve upon, so might be cool.

I will update this post as I find out more however for now, I need to post this RealEstateWebmasters.gooruze.com to my blog in order to verify my RSS feed. We know one thing right away, they do have verification measures in place for their RSS feeds - but one has to wonder, what harm could someone possibly do by placing an RSS feed that was not theirs in a profile on a social networking website? Hmmmm

Incidentally, it is a little bare right now, but you can check out my profile at…

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I just wanted to send a great big thanks to Joe Lane for buying the entire Real Estate Webmasters staff lunch last week. We had a great time, and I am sure Delicados really appreciated the order.

Thanks Joe! Here are some pics for ya:


A bunch of hungry web developers - wheres my wrap!


I might be good at figuring out search engine algorithms but damned if I can figure out which one of these is a chicken and shrimp medium minus and which is a southwest chicken - Anyone???












I will be posting a bunch more pictures for you soon Joe, thanks again from all the REW staff, that was a wicked cool gesture and it was really appreciated (And enjoyed) by all. Read Full Post

Just wanted to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday for this impending end of 2006. Read Full Post

Nanaimo is now experiencing a great deal of growth, especially in the old city area and on the waterfront. There is some fear of overdevelopment as building sizes begin to increase, blocking water views from further back along the city.

The current council is also working hard to solve the drug and biker issues often associated with Nanaimo. Nanaimo is also experiencing a significant increase in tech related work, especially with regards to the internet. High education levels and a low cost of living make Nanaimo a great candidate for expansion in an ever increasing tech / web field with rising costs.
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Well it's Saturday and it came down to Bowling or minigolf for my son and I and he chose minigolfing so we are off to paradise golf course in parksville - always a good time. Read Full Post

I need to remember to give Auliya the user and pass of the admin for the REW directory so that she can audit the links - anyone not in complience with the terms of submission will be removed.

I really should remember to update that thing with a link check script and some unique content - oh yeah and RSS listings. Read Full Post