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MLS Listing Syndication War Rages On

UltimateIDX share their views on the MLS listing syndication war developing between MLS Boards and aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com in several major markets including Denver’s MetroList and their recent dropping of Diverse Solutions: If you check almost any major market in Google you will find sites such as Realtor.com, Zillow and Trulia …

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It’s Vegas Baby

While our UltimateIDX Clients are aware of our recent move to Las Vegas, Nevada this is the first public announcement of our corporate move. While Missouri will always be home, Columbia simply did not offer the advantages necessary for our coming expansion efforts. Las Vegas offers a much larger labor pool of individuals with the …

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WordPress Real Estate Plugin Myth

I receive calls and emails daily for a WordPress Real Estate plugin that will magically import data from a MLS database into a WordPress real estate website. That plugin does not exist and never will. Mission Impossible There are hundreds of local MLS Boards nationally. Each Board owns and maintains their own data and therefore …

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WordPress Menu Creator CSS Examples

Below are some examples of CSS styles that can be copied to your style.css file to complete the styling of your WordPress menus. Be sure to edit the Menu #s. Colors and images can also be edited to match your website theme. CSS Example #1 Our first example can be seen at www.RELV.com. Both the …

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Real Estate Webmasters Lies

I heard from a client that Morgan Carey was up to his old tricks again slamming anyone that competes with him. So I went a looked and sure enough, he has an imaginary Member (melissayost – 2 Posts) slamming the UltimateIDX. The truth of the matter is that we have never served Casa Grande, AZ …

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DoFollow Real Estate Blogs

Background: A couple of years ago Google devaluated (and in some instances penalized for) reciprocal link exchanges by Real Estate sites and God Bless them for doing so. If we are all going to be honest the whole idea of exchanging a link with a REALTOR in another city or state was nothing less than …

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Real Estate Leads

While industry experts may vary on the percentages of real estate transactions that begin on the Internet from 70-84% none of them will disagree with the importance of capturing and managing real estate leads. This was the driving force that moved the founders of UltimateIDX™ to create our system. Our founders are REALTORS® and we …

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Outlook Email Accounts Settings

This is a step-by-step specific guide for how to set up an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2003 for cPanel on an Apache server. Although the screen shots and steps are specifically for MS Outlook 2003, this process may work for other Outlook versions. Step 1 Open Outlook On Menu Click “Tools”> then “Email Accounts” …

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Tough Times Ahead For Real Estate Agents

I am constantly hit with questions about when I think the real estate market will rebound from Real Estate Agents all across our Nation. The short answer is “No Time Soon!” Before the real estate industry can begin a recovery we must first hit bottom and unfortunately I feel we are far from that yet. …

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Home Foreclosure Bailout

I have spent a lot of time in other forums and blogs writing about the foreclosure crisis that everyone in the real estate industry is currently suffering from. I am beginning to truly believe that most American’s simply do not fully understand how severe the foreclosure crisis really is. Even long time colleagues of mine …

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A New Real Estate Community

The Brokers Edge was intended to be a completely a different type of Real Estate Community and portal. Unfortunately, owners of UltimateIDX™ and The Brokers Edge formally split the Company into two distinct entities and completion of the real estate portal at TBE was halted. This has not deterred UltimateIDX, Inc. CEO Rhonda McMillan from …

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