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New free WordPress real estate theme for IDX Broker

Posted on by jamescall

We made a page called real estate themes for free last week to share all of the great features about our new Sweet Home foundation theme.  If you are looking for a second website or to update your existing website, look no further! Quick & Easy Setup We have Realtors and brokers call and email us looking for a real estate theme for WordPress that is simple to use and simple to setup.  When we built Sweet Home, our goal was to make it very easy and fast to setup. Things like changing the logo, changing the color scheme, loading big images, […]

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Text alerts for returning visitors for IDX Broker

Posted on by jamescall

We get phone calls from real estate agents who want a website that has all the benefits of a WordPress site with IDX Broker, but also has the great features of some of our competitors like BoomTown, Kunversion, and RealGeeks.  One of the features that we get asked about most is a text alert for when a returning IDX client comes back to the site. Introducing text alerts for returning IDX Broker leads I had an interesting experience last year when I was working with a local Realtor to purchase a property.  I would get sent an email update of […]

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IDX searches on Facebook

Facebook Search for IDX Broker

Posted on by jamescall

It is staggering to see the number of hours people spend each week on Facebook.  Television networks are getting concerned about falling ratings, but here is a great way you can capitalize on this trend to build your real estate business into a high-performance real estate business. Show your listings on Facebook You may have already connected your Facebook page to your IDX Broker “Featured Listings” page.  If you haven’t take a look at this quick video to get that setup in just a few minutes: You will just need to be logged in to your IDX Broker dashboard and […]

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Why we chose Flywheel over WPEngine

Posted on by developers2

We are upgrading servers for our managed WordPress websites. We are moving all our real estate hosting clients to FlyWheel from WPEngine. We have been very happy with WPEngine for years, and while we appreciate the opportunity we have had to work with them and enjoy their great support, we feel it is time to move. FlyWheel provides a bump in speed, and their server interface is simpler to work with. We also are getting PHP 7, which is the newest version of PHP. This will provide great security and speed for our clients. Why Flywheel? I thought WPEngine was […]

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