The Great Real Estate Plugin is an amazing plugin connecting a number of existing plugins but that brings along a level of complexity and confusion for the client.
We put this video together showing how to add properties NOT how to setup and configure the plugin.
Click here to view the embedded video.
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http://BurgerHomesDevelopment.com
Burger Homes Development is a residential and commercial builder. They build stunning homes and commercial properties with every attention to detail.
Bob Burger has been building for over 33 years and his wife Deb is a Realtor with Skogman Realty in Marion.
Burger Homes is thoroughly committed to building Energy Efficient homes in order to sustain low-cost and low-maintenance houses. Our experience and understanding allows us to use methods and materials economically with less of an impact on the environment.
Burger Homes and Development wanted a website that was easy to update, with integrated real estate features and of course connections to their social networks, email and the ability to host photo galleries online.
Website Development Overview
We started the WordPress development with the iRealEstate Theme from iThemes as it was developed with real estate in mind.
Next was features and plugins. We wanted to find a way for the Burgers to display the homes and properties currently under construction. When we build website for Realtors we primarily use IDX integration. This allows the Realtors listings and other listings in the area to be displayed on their website without the need to manually enter each listing.
Author: Roger Theriault
Great Real Estate was developed to enable real estate agents, brokers, and REALTORS to display and manage information about their listings in WordPress pages. The plugin creates custom pages for your listings AND pulls together additional existing plugins.
What we liked was the fact that the Great Real Estate Plugin also used NextGen Gallery plugin so the client only had to learn one way to upload photos! They are able to create a gallery in NextGen, then create a photo page in their website AND use these photos in the Great Real Estate Plugin.
The Great Real Estate Plugin also integrated Google Maps, WordTub for videos, FPP-Pano for Panoramas, WP-Downloadmanager for easy file upload/download management (property fyers, blue-prints, etc.) and finally Feed Wrangler for managing the RSS Feeds.
Although this solution requires the client manually create a page for each property, upload photos, pano, videos etc. It does a very nice job pulling the information together!
Featured Listings allows the client to show the current featured properties they are building on the home page. They can also change the listings to “under contract” and “sold.”
For a Realtor I’d still suggest using IDX integration for WordPress but for a small Realtor, builder, property manager the Great Real Estate Plugin cannot be beat!
Other plugins:
To connect to social networking sites we enabled FindMeOn, WPFollowME and other social networking plugins.
We added SEO and Google Sitemaps for search engine optimization
We also added database optimizer, caching engine and of course BackupBuddy to consistently get backups of the database AND content in case something would happen!
Closing
If your group or organization is looking for an affordable website solution we can help. We create the site to fit your needs then you can maintain page updates and changes. Contact us as needed to add more functionality and features!
We can host your WordPress website and we offer plugin, database and SEO maintenance for WordPress.
Contact us today for more information on how we can help with your web development, design integrated with social networking and web hosting!
Of course to learn more about http://BurgerHomesDevelopment.com just visit their website!
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IDXForRealtors.com
Most brokers have websites full of the local MLS listings but now agents can get the same thing! You can purchase full sites through IDXForRealtors.com or just purchase the IDX component and integrate into a WordPress.org site that you can build or we can build for you.
Check to make sure your MLS is included in the list and if not we can work with you to get them added. Realty Soft was featured in Realtor.org magazine!
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]]>When I sold my technology company in 2002 I started looking at business and real estate investments. By 2006 I had acquired enough properties I decided to get licensed as a Realtor in Iowa and sell real estate. My love is Commercial Investment Real Estate primarily apartments, mini-storage and NNN investments.
Although I was now immersed in real estate I never left technology behind and to this day manage a number of sites for my real estate business. My personal real estate site is www.BobRandklev.com. In 2007 I established a partnership with Mike Shaffer and Bob Wilkes to specialize in multifamily apartment investments and we started www.MultiFamilyAssociates.com.
As I’ve worked and watched the real estate industry and technology come together we are at a very exciting time! Realtors are primarily self employed business people. Their broker or company has a big generally very expensive website where each Realtor is listed with their contact information and their property listings. This is great exposure for agents but those who get to the top of the search engines, have their own websites!
There are numerous solutions out there for Realtors, some are free, some are inexpensive and some can be very expensive. You have to first ask yourself as a Realtor what’s more important,
- Being found on the Internet search engines by people you’ve never met before.
- Or promoting your website to people you know and meet.
- Or both?
To get found on the Internet search engines you need an extensive website with content being updated on a regular basis. The best way to do that today is via Blogging with connections to Social Networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
We can talk to you one on one and explain the entire road map to being successful as a Realtor on the Internet.
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Self-managed dynamic websites connected to social networking sites which together bring you top search engine rankings!
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We teach and train people and organizations how to build and manage a “hosted” WordPress.org blog with additional custom pages to create a complete website.
We also build these solutions for people and organizations then “hand over the keys” and train the client on best practices and we follow up to make sure they are posting and updating their site. We offer copyright services for those who want a “total outsource” solution.
All sites are created with custom themes, custom pages, plugins and widgets for contact forms, search engine optimization (SEO), Google Sitemaps and more!
One of our specialties is Realtor websites and we optimize the sites for real estate sales. We connect these sites with IDX providers approved by their local board so agents sites now display all listings in their area not just their listings. This is great for new agents who don’t have any listings!
Whether you have a product/service or cause to promote we can help you connect your blog/website strategies together which will drive visitors to your site and convert to clients!
If you are looking for a simple brochure website, an advanced blog integrated website or a website strategy connected to social networking we can help you!
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