I don't know how many parts this will be. It might only be 1.
Our website was designed about 4 years ago and, since then, our business has changed a little. For example, we didn't have our own brokerage when we started. Long Story.
We have been working on a custom design internally for a LONG time. Everyone we hire seems to get caught up on something else?? We have gone through 2 firms who specialize in the auction business, one of our internal designers broke both wrists waterskiing and our hired gun writer hasn't been able to fit us in.
I have a basic set up of our desired homepage completed and am working, when I have time, on the back data. I have found that custom building all of the real estate back end features is going to cost a ton of money. Instead, I am going to continue working on my custom site for the liquidation and consulting side and move to a template solution for our real estate brokerage. I really don't need anything complicated, just our listings, a mortgage calculator, some basic info on the company and a list of our agents. It would be great if we could put our listings in MLS and have them import to our website and other websites without re-load. I think many providers do this.
Anywho...
I have contacted Homes.com, Z57 and Point2Agent. We'll see what they all offer.
Wish me luck.
R
Do you have questions about distressed assets, receivership or bankruptcy sales, auctions? Email me at rfk@gryphonusa.com and I'll try to answer it in an upcoming post.
Richard F. Kruse is the President of Columbus, Ohio based Gryphon USA, Ltd. (www.gryphonusa.com). The Gryphon Organization includes Gryphon Asset Management providing receivership and consulting services in the distressed marketplace, United Country Gryphon Realty & Auction Group (www.ucohiorealty.com & www.ucohioauctions.com) providing real estate brokerage and auction services throughout Ohio and OnlineAuctionUSA.com (www.onlineauctionusa.com) providing commercial asset liquidations from the Midwest to East Coast.
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You have done a great Job. I really like the design
Rich,
Beautiful home page by the way. You can add custom content with some of the tempalte sites (i.e. Point2, XSites, etc.), but I do not think to the level you have produced thus far. In the meantime, Point2 is pretty good. Easy to work with, can add a load of content even with the free sites, and the template content (calculators, etc.) is pretty good.
I am not sure why you would use any of these - I have a point2 agent site but only because our mls is so restrictive and I want the additional exposure - Advanced Access, z51 and many of the others are all starting to look the same.... let us know what you end up with
Paula - Thanks for the kudos. It still needs more work though. In time....
Roy - I have a call into them too. Thanks.
Kathy - I am trying to get something that will at least sort of look like the things I am designing. Point2 doesn't, unfortunately.
Rich - That and ease of use for the operator.
Thesa - This is an ease of use and an SEO issue. I don't work with buyers, but I ahve others in the office that do so I want the tracking too. One of my biggest issues (after look) is that there is an IDX function so I do not need to load, load, load onto all the different sites, including mine.
Rich,
I wouldn't consider using advanced access. I have alot of experience with them.
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3 of the employees used to work for Z57, but have moved on to greater things.
I am a big fan of the alamose websites
the back of the house tracking features are great
capture Ip's and look them up on a website, and mail them a post card after they have been to your site