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Realtor Websites With Bite: Part One: 05/31/2011
Realtor Websites With Bite: Part One
Do Your Homework Before You Committ
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A real estate agent (let’s call him John for privacy purposes) started a website after much research, only to dump it just one day later – and for good reason. Your website is your mainstay on the Internet. It’s your image, your lead generation and lead management system. Investing your precious time and money choosing and setting up the right website for your business is of paramount importance. It is not something you want to switch in and out of frequently, if at all.
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Point2, who authored this post, offers template websites that focus on leveraging their listing syndication engine to drive traffic - different philosophy - but the point that service is an important criteria in selecting a web vendor rings true.
For the novice blogger I would recommend GoDaddy. They will walk you through most issues. If someone has a little bit of experience in setting up WordPress etc, then there are a lot of choices. Here is a comparison site to check out. hosting-review.com/?gclid=CLC4wcfWkqkCFZJe7Aod6H8iog.
Most of the companies listed there do not offer the same type of support as GoDaddy does but they are cheaper, so it is a trade off. But in all reality WordPress is really simple to set up, maintain and use in my opinion.
I will be leaving my hosting company after two years next week after I complete the building of my own server. Then my two custom designed WordPress sites will be completely self hosted with static IP addresses and reside right beside me in my office.
With that said, I believe the agent gave up way too easily on the hosting company. I would have definitely hung up and called back to try and get another person to assist me, which I have done on several occasions. I have even resorted to demanding to speak to a supervisor on more then a few occasions. I hope this agent in question fights for his clients a lot harder then he did the hosting company. The sad thing is that if he registered a domain name with that company it is locked for 60 days to that particular company. That is some kind of ICANN rule or something for new domain registrations. So he is better served by trying to work out the problem instead of giving up.
I guess overall I railed against this article because it was not written to inform in my opinion, it was done to promote Point2. This is an age old internet trick, post articles everywhere you can with your web site included to promote yourself as an expert on the subject. Sorry but I can see through that guise. I wasted my time following the link really. No offense. I just felt there was very little effort put into the writing of the article, it was just written to get it published, not to assist people.
Now if I were to write that same article, I would first divulge exactly what the issue (s) was, the one that caused the agent to contact the company in the first place and then advise the agent how to fix the problem. I would have presented the problem as a scenario to several other web hosting companies just to see how they would handle the situation and then report on it. Simple compare and contrast article. I would bet the threat of bad press for the original company would have gotten some satisfying results for the agent.
Victor it has been a pleasure corresponding with you, much success to you in your future.
Brad