Trying something new on Home Page - Open Houses

[jessiesc]

Typically, we get few visitors to our open houses so we're trying something new to our site.

I've placed a calendar for open houses on our front page hoping to attract more visitors to the open houses.

Thoughts, comments?

[cgmckeever]

You should take it one step further, and let people subscribe to open houses in thier calendar (iCal format) or even RSS

[SteveTheSultan]

This may be a leap, but if the open house has an internet connection, you could always put up a live feed. So if someone goes to your site while the open house is on, they could see it live.

[jessiesc]

Thanks for both of these good ideas.

We'll just take it one step at a time.

We're not in a very hi-tech area.

You're input is greatly appreciated

[svrpaul]

Your sellers and potential sellers sure would like it.

[susa]

Recently I noticed a custom IDX map search that included the option of viewing open houses on the Google map.

[NealRM]

The open house page is a popular feature on our site.

[webmaster]

Some IDX's actually publish the open houses to their data feed, which is really cool, because it allows us to build a search around it - http://www.jerryclifford.com/idx/search_open.html for example - Any chance in trying to get it into your feed Jessie? Then we could really do some creative things with it

[jessiesc]

Any chance in trying to get it into your feed Jessie? Then we could really do some creative things with it

UPDATE: This information is supposed to already be in our feed. Morg, can you have someone check it out for me and get back to me?

[webmaster]

It is? Sweet! I will have one of the guys check in the data this morning