Morgan Carey's Blog: REW Leads

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.

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 making some sneaky upgrades on the QT and if they are completed during a patch, we are launching them in the patches (Along with Bug fixes)

One of the cooler ones we just finished today that I think many of you long time REW users will appreciate is lead form auto…

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 users that are currently working with V 2.0 platform (There is no charge for these kinds of system wide upgrades in case you were wondering)

A sneak peak (Needs some designer love) can be seen below

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 allows you to create and manage unlimited amounts of groups, and assign any particular lead to as many groups as you like or you feel they fit into.

Creating a group

Ironically as important as groups are to laying the groundwork for your lead management, they are…