1,196,798
Nope and YIKES
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
3,345,091
Outrageous ... I would not pay that kind of $$$ for a third party website.
Build your own WP site and integrate IDX. If you build it ... they will come.
Then you own it, control it and you are not bleeding out every month for your website.
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
953,617
Depends on your business model and if that model includes online prospecting. I've had a Real Geeks IDX website and it was worth every penny. It would take a blog post (which I don't have the time to do) to point out the overall detailed "why" as well as address some of what I see posted in the responses.
I'm in a different industry now and I happen to use FB ad impressions managed by a third party. I didn't listen to the many naysayers that tried to dissuade me from using FB, some are trapped in their own mindset of myths, nor did I let the pricing (MUCH higher than what Real Geeks charge) dissuade me, for me it's an investment and a useful "tool" that pays well. It's not automatic, one would need to put in the collaborative effort to complete the process, the same with Real Geeks.
O.K., maybe I do spend a "foolish" amount of coin, but the outcome is that I help many more grateful clients, I eat my competitor's lunch (all the time) and end up with plenty of that "foolish" coin to do as I please. BTW, 2020 is on track to be my best year ever professionally.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Dario Ferreira
Attleboro, MA
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Endre Barath, Jr.
Beverly Hills, CA
42,815
I want to thank everyone that responded to my question. I truly appreciate all of you.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
660,906
I agree with Dario Ferreira and Pete Xavier - check if all the features the web-site offers will be necessary for your business model. There are other web-site providers which are more expensive, and they still stay in business. And there are free websites, the brokerages offer to which an IDX can be attached for a fee to the provider.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
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Dario Ferreira
Attleboro, MA
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
5,216,409
The number alone has me questioning why!
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
4,457,314
Sorry call me a cheapskate:) There is another website name to be kept secret I told them no I am unwilling to pay $1200 upfront... if they think it is such a great sure thing let them take it out of my first closing:))) now keep in mind three different managers late I am finally off their emails...Endre
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
6,393,609
Pretty extreme, I get my site for free w KW.
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,543,823
Nope! The rent is too expensive. I'd own for $3k per year!
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Thomas J. Nelson, REAL...
La Jolla, CA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
5,772,575
Vinicio,
Wow and they own the website? I would not recommend it to our clients. A
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
1,598,452
No, we don't
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
855,369
Free website with IDX at my brokerage. IDX is fine, but most people do their searching on other portals, not an agent website.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
1,311,397
Seems quite pricey to me. I admit I am not knowledgeable about an alternative with the same functionality.
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Evelina Tsigelnitskaya
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
289,719
Pros:
- Fast websites
- Easy to SEO
- Converts well
- Good set of tools to follow up with leads
Cons:
- Limited designs
- Price
Although they are "easy" to SEO, you still need to put it the work, or pay someone to do it.
SEO-wise, you just need 3 main things: Backlinks, area pages, and pertinent blog posts to prop up the area pages - that's it.
For those saying you do not own the website, this is not quite accurate.
You own the domain name and you own all content you create.
You do not own the template and "software" used to create the website, and you do not own the IDX data, which no one does, no matter the platform they use.
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Pete Xavier
Pacific Palisades, CA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
2,071,025
No, never.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Valeria Mola
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
378,517
It's not what my broker went with after talking to them, but we (our office) all have self branded sub sites from what she did go with and it's fabulous.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
355,039
I'm with everyone else. I'm using iHomefinder as my IDX feed and created my own website HavenRealtyFL.com. Total costs are around $150/month all in, not including any ad spend (none currently). And it's my site forever.
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Kris Collis, Associate...
East Stroudsburg, PA
7,836,169
I am not familiar with this service.
You may be better to invest in a website that you own or control.
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
2,182,552
Seems HIGH !!!
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
1,844,301
Too pricey for my blood. If you investigate a little, you will find some posts with others ideas or what they pay.
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Steffy Hristova
Tempe, AZ
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Doug Dawes
Topsfield, MA
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John Juarez
Fremont, CA
911,338
No. I looked at it, but passed. For $3000.00 a year, you can hire someone to build you a nice and effective website. But you have to weigh how much business would be generated from Real Geeks vs a custom built website. Only way to know is to build a custom website and get a Realgeeks site, and compare results at end of 1 year trial. Remember, just because you have a custom built site doesn't mean people are going to find it. Plus you are responsible for backup, security, domain renewals, updates, hosting, industry changes, plug-ins, photography, site speed, all google related items, etc, etc, etc.
1,746,501