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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 you... Read Full Post

You know I really hate doing this, but I am just so freaking tired of these low life scumbags who call themselves webmasters that think they can just go online and steal whatever they want from other people's sites, paste it on their own website and think they can get away with it. News flash dumb asses - YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW! - Unique content on the internet is automatically granted copyright to the author and is thus their intellectual property - by copying said content without expresse... Read Full Post

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... Read Full Post

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 f... Read Full Post

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 w... Read Full Post

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 be... Read Full Post

Ok I know lots of you are still on the list for the new v 2.0 REW platform, and we are working through it (Josh Keen I think is the most recent upgrade) - please be patient, we have a very long list, and as we roll out this beta to customers, they are giving us feedback which helps us ensure each subsequent rollout has the most secure and stable version. Now - one thing you might not have known -although I said we are not accepting or making any changes during this beta rollout - I have been ... Read Full Post

Wanted to annouce a new features that we just added to the "search" function of the beta lead manager - Previously the search could be used to query first name, last name, email and phone. In this newest patch you can now "refine" your search (Somewhat like your REW IDX) and select "just" users from particular groups and also further refine it by "lead heat" and "lead status (For admins and super admins) As soon as this puppy is skinned, we will be releasing it to the beta and updating those ... Read Full Post

Or maybe just a little bit of fun :) My buddy Eric Bramlett who has been really firing it up doing his own SEO lately (He is first and foremost a Realtor - or at least he used to be heh) came up with an idea for a fun contest - the "Greatest Real Estate Agent In The World Contest" (He gets a link because it was his idea - this is NOT my idea and I take no responsibility for the great relationships you may build or the learning you may experience. Also as with any attempts at experimenting wit... Read Full Post

One of the first things you will want to do when starting to use version 2.0 REW lead management is create groups. What are groups? Groups are ways to organize your leads into specific types of leads such as "registered IDX users" or "relocating next year". Groups are tied directly to the drip email system, so creating and organizing your groups is the first step in creating a successful drip email campaign, which is the key to success in processing online leads. The new REW Leads system allo... Read Full Post