I’ve spent much of the last month getting ready to launch a new custom designed site on a hosting platform that, while new to me, has been a well-kept secret for too long. I’m so in love with this company that I’ve ended my approved vendor status with Point2Agent so that I can “brag on” [...]

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Point2Agent Blogs vs. Wordpress Blogs

by Suzanne Stephens on 04/03/2010

What are the main differences between Wordpress blogs and the blogs built into Point2Agent Premium and Professional sites?
For real estate agents, the most important difference is that a self-hosted Wordpress blog can be used with thousands of Wordpress plug-ins and widgets.
That functionality is especially important if you want to take advantage of new plug-ins such [...]

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Girl Scout Cookies

03.30.2010

I knew that Mike May had bought cookies to give to his clients as a promotion. Today I was shocked to receive a large box in the mail from Mike. Not just a box of Girl Scout Thin Mints. 12 boxes — a carton!!! I feel like Sally Field. Thin? Not for long. Appreciated? [...]

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First dsIDXpress Results Are In: 143 Visitors and 1 Lead in First 3 Weeks

Joe's stats 03.22.2010

I’ve recently begun creating Wordpress blogs for some of my clients, using the dsIDXpress plug-in from Diverse Solutions This plug-in feeds MLS listings to the blog that the search engine can read, unlike listings shown in an iframed IDX MLS search page.
The first of my new projects to be indexed by Google and begin showing [...]

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How to Create Short Codes for dsIDXpress

03.16.2010

Some of my clients have had trouble figuring out how to write short codes to use in their Wordpress sites to set up dsIDXpress listings pages. With a little help from Joe Janus (blog.joejanus.com), here’s how to do it.
Go to your Diverse Solutions control panel, log-in, then go to dsSearchAgent>Links.

Next, create custom links just as [...]

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Custom Text Content: the Google Magnet

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Last night I had a call from a pair of REALTORs® in Brooklyn NY. Our conversation impressed upon me once  how poorly many REALTORs® understand the important role text content plays in attracting search visitors to a site.
Point2Agent sites come with a lot of “boilerplate” text pages, pages which can deceive site owners into believing [...]

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I_Luv_My_Web_Design_Clients

02.28.2010

One of the best things about what I do (besides working at home in my p.j.’s with my 3 Shetland Sheepdogs for company and keeping really strange hours) is the fun feedback that I get from my clients.
This morning I got a strange email with the subject header, “I_Luv_My_Web_Designer,” with from “mw_romeo@yahoo.com”  in the header [...]

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Blogs Featured in Thesis Gallery

02.28.2010

I’m happy to brag that my new custom-designed blogs for my Pint2Agent real estate site design clients Joe Janus and Mike May are featured in the Thesis Gallery. The gallery showcases blogs created using the premium Thesis theme by DIY Themes for Wordpress as a starting point for customization. Joe’s blog will make extensive use [...]

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Can Point2Agent Do Wordpress?

02.18.2010

The short answer is “no”. The long answer is, “well, sort of.”
Point2Agent site subscriptions come with a built-in blog based on the Community Server blog platform, which isn’t Wordpress. Not by a long shot.
The good news about Point2Agent blogs is that they are on your own domain name, so posts to and visits to your [...]

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Point2Agent Syndication Brings Home the Traffic

Sexauer site 02.08.2010

I was surprised this morning to see traffic to my client Stephen Sexauer’s Tampa FL homes for sale site had suddenly doubled. With a little Sherlock Holmes work, I determined that over half of the traffic to the site is coming directly from Point2 syndicated listings from Google Maps. Apparently Point2Agent began a new syndication [...]

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