Morgan Carey's Blog: REW Forums

Most of our members know, that creating a custom website takes a lot of time, creativity, and tallent. But oftentimes they are surprised, shocked, amazed etc when I tell them that a truly high end custom website wtih all the other custom goodies (custom IDX, custom blog, quick searches, featured listings modules and the like ) can take a project into the 200-300 hour range in combined design / programming time. Are you serious! Indeed I am :)

So I came up with an idea to take the members on a behind the scenes look at exactly what it takes to go truly custom - you ready?

My idea:

To create a brand new custom design with all the bells and whistles from scratch and do it all publically - Right here in this blog post.

I am the customer (So I am in your…

To our valued REW customers.

By now many have already noticed and commented on an increase in both response times and efficiency during business hours at our REW customer support forums. This is no accident - Recently we have increased our team of daytime CSR reps responsible for non billable support of our technologies.

The most significant addition to our CSR program this year - is the addition of 3 full time programmers for providing tier 2 and tier 3 support for REW technology (CMS, Lead manager, IDX, Listings Manager, Hosted Blogs, Email & Server) Support.

The tiered concept (Sometimes referred to as escalation) is one that is new to REW, but one that has proven very effective in similar corporate envirements - Hosting companies being the best…

Imagine you finally take the plunge and purchase that amazing REW custom designed website you have always been wanting and through the amazing new limited edition custom program you end up with with a custom site, built in (Extremely custom) REW IDX and custom REW Blog for less than half of what it would have cost on the normal custom development program...

Now imagine you got it for free :)

To celebrate the launch of our very first limited edition custom design, that will be the reality for 20% of purchasers.

That's right folks, you have a 1 in 5 shot of winning your purchase of the new REW limited edition custom site.

Here's how it works.

• You purchase the REW Limited Edition Custom site (Exclusive to your market)
• Once 5 are sold we draw…

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.

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 expressed written permission and pasting it to your revenue generating site you are infringing on said copywrite and in violation of US and Canadian copyright law.

Andrew Hillman Content Theif - Our latest offender was actually trying to self promote on our forums, his name…

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…

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…

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 with your site to try to rank it - please be sure you are familiar and adhere to Google's Guidelines For Webmasters.

Anyways - what this is, is a good old fashioned SEO contest - We pick a phrase that is not very competitive (So everyone can compete on a reletively…