Morgan Carey's Blog: REW Clients

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…

FIrst of all, I want to thank all of the agents who attended training last week at the Bellingham office, it was great to meet with you all, and we really enjoyed our time there.

After we left, I have had many inquiries about REW templates, custom sites and built in VS iframed IDX's. Ryland and I got together and came up with some very special pricing for those of you wanting to up your game with regards to having a better looking more search engine friendly website and full IDX integration - so without further ado here is your pricing:

REW Templates: (With iframed IDX)
$499 USD setup, $360 USD per year hosting - This is a $241 savings vs our standard $740 setup fee, and a $480 savings on yearly hosting.

Built in NWhomes.net IDX (Not iframed)
This has…

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.

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…

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 fee (regardless of how many agents use the IDX)
Yearly data fees (These are based on the number of subscribers and is a fee charged by MRIS)

• 1-25 Agents $5000 USD per year
• 26-100 Agents $10,000 USD per year
• 101-199 Agents $15,000 USD per…
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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 will look like in that color in real time.

Once you have decided on a template write down which template you have selected: example "Template #3 Wide" and the color combination you would like: example "Blue-white".

Step 2: Fill out the order form

The order form…