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Real estate websites Portland, Oregon

Are you in the real estate sector? Have you been struggling with online lead capture and generation? We have Oregon Regional MLS IDX websites and IDX plugins. These are the solution to your struggle. The UltimateIDX is the trusted IDX RETS and CRM Services in Oregon. Helping Real Estate Agents get leads that have led …

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Why Write a Real Estate Blog

Writing blog articles can take time and effort, so it’s definitely important that you are clear about why you want to write a blog! Here are 5 good reasons for writing a Real Estate blog: Write Articles That People Can Find Via Google and Other Search Engines A good blog article needs to be focused …

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Are REcolorado and IRES Moving Towards a Merger? New Information Suggests….Possibly?

A recent blog indicates REcolorado and IRES are working toward an agreement to merge. At Blue Fire Group, we don’t anticipate any agreement made will be implemented quickly. Until this situation can be sorted out, we will make our best effort to work with Agents to provide access to both MLS IDX feeds at a reasonable cost. For the next few months, we will waive the “additional MLS fee” for new Ultimate IDX CRM accounts, when both IRES and REcolorado IDX feeds are included.

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MRIS IDX and CRM Now Available from UltimateIDX

UltimateIDX IDX / CRM suite has integrated with MRIS (Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc) to provide Agents and Teams with an advanced IDX /RETS lead capture solution in combination with a CRM lead management platform. UltimateIDX is powered by the Buying Buddy IDX CRM suite and provides real estate lead capture and customer relationship management (CRM) …

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Tasty New IDX and CRM Updates from UltimateIDX

2016 is proving to be a busy year for new IDX and CRM features! Most of the enhancements we have been making are based on your feedback. Here is a summary of some of the recent updates: Property Alerts Emails to Leads all Mobile Friendly Just Listed property Alerts and all other system emails to …

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Are you using a wireless keyboard? Watch out!

Yikes! It’s just been reported that some wireless keyboards are open to a hacker viewing what you type. This problem does not affect Bluetooth connected devices – but can affect ‘wireless’ devices that connect using a plugin USB radio based nano-receiver. There are currently 8 manufacturers affected – Anker EagleTec General Electric Hewlett-Packard Insignia Kensington Radio …

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New Version of UltimateIDX Now Available

I am pleased to announce that the latest version of Ultimate IDX is now available. Here are the highlights: Single integrated IDX and CRM solution – great for Agent websites and teams Advanced IDX using nearly ALL the MLS data fields from your your MLS Mobile responsive IDX WordPress plugin – OR – JavaScript plugin for …

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Open Realty 3.3 Menu Management & Addon

Open Realty 3.3 and compatible versions of add-ons are available now. The FREE upgrades are many. Extensive code modernization, bug fixes, and third party library updates are new.  Site owners will enjoy upgraded versions of add-ons  TransparentMAPS and TransparentRETS. Adding and managing links is now easier for site owners. New features include customizable search templates …

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The Number One Problem with WordPress Menus in 2018

Better Menu Management for WordPress For the most part, menu management in WordPress is handled by the theme’s coded features. The theme’s coded features display links as a result of posts, pages or other types of navigable elements within your blog. As WordPress increases in popularity as a CMS solution, menu and navigation methods have …

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Zillow and MLS Listing Syndicators, Realtors Push Back

Geoffrey Schiering weighs in on the MLS listing syndication war between aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com and MLS Boards in multiple markets including the recent dropping of Diverse Solutions from Denver’s MetroList approved 3rd Party IDX Vendor List: Realtors have finally started to push back against the questionable practices of the real estate …

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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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Menu Creator 1.1.9 Mega Update

After going over all the new features in WordPress 3.0 and the inclusion / integration with WordPress Multi User, we decided to take a good long look at the Menu Creator to see what would and would not be a worthy update. So, as we looked at all the support forum and blog comments in …

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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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