Hello my name is Matías Bulox, I was born in Argentina but migrated to The Woodlands Texas in 2002 and been living here ever since. My wife’s name is Giovanna and my kids Alessandro and Mia. We own Tamborrel Real Estate Group currently brokered by KW Woodlands. We love to travel, crazy soccer fans and we really enjoy Real Estate!!
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Leo Clark owner of Gold Coast Realty - Goldcoastrealty-chicago.com. We have been a REW customer for over 10 years! Very excited to roll out our new Renaissance site in April. Love the new forum Morgan!
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Kerri Demski here - long long time REW client and fan. Always seem to have something in dev lol 
Been trying to figure out this forum thing forever… not my super-jam, so thanks for the nudge!
Vision site https://www.northshorerealty.ca/
Cheers, KD
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Glad to see you on the forum Kerri. Don’t worry, I am pretty new to it as well and always need a gentle nudge.
You and I can figure it out together. 
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Hey @Smvaughan - you are the winner!
@Elianna can you please embed the draw video? Was a lot of fun 
https://www.realestatewebmasters.com/blog/introduce-yourself-contest-winner/
Sue, you said you’re just getting your business up and running and I don’t think you’re an REW customer “yet”
But that’s ok!
You have $1,000 credit with us to use for any services we offer (SEO, Writing, Graphic Design, Branding, Human Assisted AI Generating) you name it!
Or… if you need a better website, even though the price only got to the $1,000 level “this time” - I’d be willing to bump you to a free Renaissance website / CRM and IDX platform for 6 months ($3,000 value) if you need an awesome site.
Happy to answer any questions you have about accessing your prize (and again you don’t have to become an REW customer to claim your prize, you can just ask us to “do stuff” - and we’ll do it
Congrats again, and thank you everyone for participating in such a fun contest.
We’ll take the remaining budget of the $5k max (we didn’t get this this time) and “let it ride” for our birthday promo. So look for that update via email and on this thread as well. I have some ideas of how we can expand it (by including anyone who welcomes someone else) to keep the momentum going
Congratulations @Smvaughan!! 
Here is the announcement video 
We’ve also posted a blog post about your win - check it out here.
Thanks to everyone for participating!
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Congrats @Smvaughan! That was a fun contest. I’m glad we’re going to do it again.
Also, if you want a laugh, check out our blooper reel. 
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Hello, Ben Maize here…I serve the Canmore, Alberta market and surrounding areas. Super proud of my rew site.
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Feel free to share it!
I serve a pretty small market and haven’t done ads in a while and still have 67 leads who have visited the site over 250 times. 329 leads visited between 50-250 times. That speaks volumes to me
Hi everyone, My name is Rafael Velasco. My partner Ryan and I are real estate agents in the Chicago suburbs. We provide the best damn videos on the internet about living in the Chicagoland area! No cap!
Our YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@ralphieandryan/featured
Our Website- www.theralphieandryanshow.com
We have recently been building up steam on our YouTube Channel and wanted to pair our channel with the best real estate website = REW. We did a lot of homework to find the right platform.
We have only been on the new platform for about two months, our website currently receives about 9,500 organic monthly page views, and our YouTube Channel is just shy of 500,000 lifetime views.
I wish I could say that we are crushing it, but honestly, this year has been tough. Ryan and I quit our full-time jobs being Auto mechanics last July. We are committed and believe in the power of content marketing and are in it for the long haul.
We are on extremely tight budgets, but I hope to learn how to grow our website sales page ranking from this forum and share our successes and failures.
Thank you!
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Hi everyone!
My name is Stephanie Lloyd and I am the Systems Trainer for Smith & Associates Real Estate in the Tampa Bay area. I have been in the real estate industry for over 7 years in different admin and training roles. I love systems/strategy and educating our agents.
Love REW and the updates yall keep making! Would love to connect with other trainers. Hope to virtually meet and talk to everyone!
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Rafael, Welcome!
Thank you for your honest intro.
Let me tell you my new friend. You’re not alone!
The market has been tough for a lot of agents (especially newer agents) these past 6-12 months.
It’s a weird time of uncertainty, low inventory and high rates.
The good news is, you’re in good company (and downturns are temporary)! Many of our members have been through several cycles and are here to support you through it.
On the content side - you have a MASSIVE advantage (your video content is great btw)
You’re leaning in, while others are shrinking. I know it can feel like throwing massive effort against a wall sometimes, but eventually, you break through and will benefit from all your hard work.
I’m excited to have more video creators on here. It’s something more agents need to do. You should really connect with @Pozek of www.theorlandoreal.com he’s also big into video and he’s a great collaborator.
I’m actually working on a new video module for REW sites (Netflix style) and I think you’d really like it. Will be out in a few months for Renaissance.
In the meanwhile. Welcome, enjoy the forums, and learn lots (and feel free to share what you’re doing with others, we’d love to hear about it).
cheers
Welcome to the REW community Stephanie!
There is a ton of information posted here that you will find helpful in training your agents.
We also have our REW Academy and You Tube videos and webinars. Here is a link to a few of our recent webinars:
Of course your Smith & Associates Account Manager @StephanieP and CSM @sammiho
are always available to help with any training questions as well.
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Welcome, Stephanie!
Great to have you!
I actually just met @TylerMarrin in person for the first time last week at LeadingRE Las Vegas.
You all are doing great work at https://www.smithandassociates.com and we’re proud to have you.
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Hey all, my name is Daven Vieau I service Boise, Idaho, and the surrounding cities.
my website: Executive Real Estate
I honestly just get thrilled about helping out clients, going through the whole process, and simply informing everyone as much as I can about real estate.
We are “The DeBerry Team” of Keller Williams Realty and we serve the far north Dallas and Collin County areas. Our website is www.roxannedeberry.com. We have been serving this area since 1975. My wife, Roxanne started her career in 1975 and loves helping people and I am her husband, Larry and I joined her in 2000 after about 28 years in the corporate world selling, managing and helping electronic component distributing companies get started in Texas. I am not an agent but handle operation items and marketing areas. We presently have two buyers agents and my wife, who works only with sellers. We have an internal staff to handle our transactions for both closing and listings. Over the many years we grew our business to over a hundred transactions per year and much of our business is repeat and referral business. Our team feels it is an honor to help people who need to purchase or sell homes. However, it doesn’t stop there. We continually work with our clients long after the closings to help them protest increased property taxes, finding vendors for their home needs and answering many questions regarding their home. We get to know them, their families and build wonderful relationships. We are honored to be of service.
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Hey, all! My name is Jesse Brossa and I am a residential real estate agent that works primarily in South & Coastal Orange County in California (Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, San Clemente, Irvine, San Juan Capistrano, Coto de Caza, etc).
My real estate website is www.ocexclusives.com and I’ve been a customer of REW for about a year now, but a fan for a long time… still just barely beginning to build it out to where I want it… (does that ever end?)
I’ve been selling residential real estate for almost 17 years now; currently with Compass… I’m a Director on the Laguna Board of REALTORS (4+ years now), their Gov’t Affairs Committee Co-Chair (5+ years) and a member of the Board of Directors for California Association of REALTORS now, too (just found out that’s what my title is… just started that this year)…
The Gov’t Affairs position keeps me engaged in a wide range of real estate-oriented legislative issues from state to local levels… things like property tax changes, landlord/tenant bills, coastal land use policy issues (sea level rise planning & adaptation, blufftop/coastline development, etc), historic ordinances, and on and on…
Pro-tip for any coastal agents interested in sea level rise (SLR) planning – check out Smart Coast California – they are an awesome group founded a few years ago by a small group of Boards that grew to include all the coastal Boards in CA in an effort to aggregate coastal land use policy for the betterment of municipalities, agents, our clients, city planners, etc. I think they’ll be setting the bar for the conversation at the national level for years to come…
Prior to real estate, I was a co-founder of a couple of small tech + marketing start-ups… which has definitely helped (and probably also hurt me) over the years… was great experience to leverage when I got into the business… once upon I time, I ruled the real estate internet down here, but long gone are the halcyon days of phones ringing endlessly with new leads… the downside to knowing a bit about design + programming is that I always wanted to produce the product myself, which led me to build and re-build my real estate business websites forever… finally threw in the towel and signed up for the undisputed best-in-class service + platform at REW and haven’t been disappointed… SO worth it!
Fun Stuff
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Almost all of the photos on www.ocexclusives.com are mine… studied photography in college and have spent 20+ years photographing the local area… the challenge at this point is really deploying the content meaningfully… Feel like I’m in photo + video content overload mode lately…
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For all my non-RE photos, I post them here:
- I’ve got a huge list of OC neighborhood domain names that I don’t do anything with anymore… haven’t had the time or energy to deploy them but don’t feel good about getting rid of them, so paying ~$1,000/year just to own them… Community call – ditch ‘em or keep ‘em?
Nice to meet you all here… hope to up my engagement on the forums!
Jesse Brossa, Realtor®
Compass
33522 Niguel Rd, Dana Point, CA 92629
jesse.brossa@compass.com
m: (949) 292-9786
DRE# 01753432
Great to have you Daven! Thanks for the intro!