Cyberhomes
I have heard several times that getting your listing to appear as many places as possible is a top priority. Because of a recent request, I have recently added the ability to feed your listings to Cyberhomes. They in turn feed listings to Yahoo Real Estate, AOL Real Estate and Google Base. You can read the Cyberhomes promotional page about this here. If you would like to have your listings added to this feed, please have your office owner or designated broker email me.
Uservoice
Starting sometime on Monday you will notice a “Feedback” tab to the right of the menu when you log in. I have always said that my best ideas come from you. I recently found a service that allows you to post suggestions and comment and vote on others suggestions. I have posted a couple of recent suggestions to start things off.
RMLS IDX and Broker Specific Feeds
I received an email from RMLS Distribution Services on Thursday (Feb 19th) notifying me that their access fees for IDX service providers were going to double beginning in March. If you have IDX with us you will be receiving an email once we figure out how we are going to handle this.
Fortunately, there is also an up side to this. For years, RMLS has had what they called a Broker Specific feed. This is a feed of all your offices active listings. It was not too exciting because they charged a $250 setup fee for the feed. But still, several offices do take advantage of it. With the recent fee changes they have eliminated the setup charge. So, if you are entering all of your listings into RMLS, and would like to save having to reenter them into RealWorld, let me know. No cost, all that is required is a form. If we are going to spend $300 per month to access data from RMLS, I want to get as much bang for the buck as possible.