As many of you know to celebrate the launch of the REW 2.0 CMS and lead manager, I am running a special that waives the setup fee (Normally $740 USD setup) on REW templates. As with all good things, the special is coming to an end.

For anyone who has been sitting on the sidelines now is the time ot act, this special ends Friday, May 23rd at 4 PM Pacific standard time. All orders must be submitted prior to this time in order to qualify for this very special pricing.

If you still don't have your REW website, and you want to take advantage of this special offer, please ensure you submit your order here.

To celebrate the launch of the new REW 2.0 platform we are offering our REW template websites with no setup fee.

Many of you missed out on the 12 days of Christmas special for REW templates well here is your chance to finally upgrade your old clunky website to a brand spanking new REW template.

So what's the deal?

Normally REW templates with the 2.0 platform are $740 setup and $480 per year combined hosting / platform fee.

For a limited time I am waiving the $740 setup fee - so act now if you would like to place your order and save yourself $740 but more importantly get a website that you can actually work with, looks good, ranks great and better yet generates leads.

What's the big deal with 2.0?

• How about a new CMS The brand new content…

For those of you who are MRIS members and were following the thread regarding prohibitive pricing from MRIS - we have some good news. MRIS has decided to adjust their pricing model for data so that agents can now enjoy more choice when it comes to their IDX Vendors - most importantly, you will now be able to take advantage of REW's built in search engine friendly IDX.

Here is how the new pricing breaks down:

For agents: (Brokers please see broker pricing tba)

$1000 per year annual developer fee (regardless of how many agents use the IDX)
Yearly data fees (These are based on the number of subscribers and is a fee charged by MRIS)

• 1-25 Agents $5000 USD per year
• 26-100 Agents $10,000 USD per year
• 101-199 Agents $15,000 USD per…
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Step 1: Pick your template

To pick your REW template, go to http://www.rewtemplates.com and click on one of the ten choices for your template, there are both 800 x 600 templates and new 1024 templates to choose from. Once you click a template button you will be brought to a live version of that template.

Within the side navigation of the template you will find a heading labelled "Color Selector" with a dropdown below it. Click on the various colors available to see what your template choice will look like in that color in real time.

Once you have decided on a template write down which template you have selected: example "Template #3 Wide" and the color combination you would like: example "Blue-white".

Step 2: Fill out the order form

The order form…

Every month we convert current users of the Advanced Access website platform to the Real Estate Webmasters platform and I find myself confronted with the same questions each time - so I figured I would write this blog post to provide a convenient way for those converting or thinking of converting to get the answers they need before making the switch.

I am going to adopt the FAQ format for this post so that as more questions come in, I can update this post with those answers as well for the benefit of future readers - So let's begin.

Leaving Advanced Access frequently asked questions

Q: My Advanced Access website ranks well in search engines, if I switch to Real Estate Webmasters will I loose my rankings?

A: This is probably the biggest concern / most…

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…

I usually don't do this but I thought it might be fun to give the members a glimpse into what I do on a daily basis when working with client's websites.

Domain and history
The website I am working on tonight is http://www.jakemarsh.com - Jake and Greg have been clients of mine for over 2 years now and through a lot of hard work, we first page rankings in Google for their coveted search term "Denver Real Estate" and tons of other terms.

The traffic, leads and conversions have been great however the site design and content is quite dated. On top of that, Jake and Greg are still using their old iframed wolfnet IDX solution, which is ok for a third party solution but has some serious holes in it's game and we have had a lot of success increasing… Read Full Post

One of my favorite new designs of late is http://www.previewnaples.com. I am not sure exactly why I like it so much compared to the hundreds of other websites we have launched this quarter, I just like it.

The color scheme really says Naples Florida to me, and the way the IDX quick search, listings and details pages are laid out really appeal to me. The communities map is pretty cool, but I think we should stylize those circles a little bit for the communities.

For those interested this project is a full REW custom, with custom search engine frienly IDX and property mapping. (ticket price typically between $7,500-$15,000) depending on complexity and technical requirements. Read Full Post