A specific beef: Off-site “virtual resources” should open in their own browser windows
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Wednesday, August 20th, 2008, 12:00 pm MST
Category: Conversion
Since we are no longer permitted to point buyers to our single-property web sites in the Remarks section of the listing, we have been building “unbranded” versions of the sites to link to as virtual resources in ARMLS.
This is not as time-consuming as it could be, but, of course, we are obliged to keep secrets [...]
My blossoming love affair with flexMLS, the new MLS system adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, August 15th, 2008, 9:45 pm MST
Category: ARMLS, Conversion, flexmls Web
This
is the F.Q. Story Historic District in Downtown Phoenix as rendered by the flexMLS MLS system recently adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service. ARMLS is 30,000 Realtors working in the fifth largest city in the U.S. — and the 14th largest market area — so this is a big MLS system by any [...]
New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, August 5th, 2008, 1:52 pm MST
Category: ARMLS, Conversion
This is my column for last week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link).
New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service
Metropolitan Phoenix got a brand new MLS system this week. MLS is the Multiple Listings Service, the system by which Realtors share their listings with one another. Until [...]
FlexMLS wish lists: You’re running into problems, so let’s share them and see about getting them corrected
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, July 29th, 2008, 6:47 pm MST
Category: Conversion, Wish List, flexmls Web
I’ll have a positive column about FlexMLS in West Valley sections of the Republic later this week, but I’m sure you all know that not everything is sweetness and light in the MLS world of Phoenix just now.
Here are three issues we’ve run into, so far. I encourage you to document anything you’ve found, as [...]
Check your ZipForms templates: They’re probably obsolete
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Monday, May 26th, 2008, 8:08 am MST
Category: General Information
Here’s a cute bug I just discovered last week:
When AAR updates a form, as it does with wanton abandon, you are obliged to download that revised form into ZipForms.
Hurray! Everything is always up to date!
With one exception….
Any standing templates you have prepared in ZipForms are not updated with the new forms.
You read that right. If [...]
Now that ARMLS has its own weblog for the flexmls transition, how should The Phoenix Real Estate Technology Exchange refocus its efforts?
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, 7:36 am MST
Category: ARMLS, Conversion, General Information, flexmls Web
When we started this weblog last October, my own objective was to have a place where tech-savvy Phoenix-area Realtors could discuss technology issues, sharing that information with our less tech-obsessed brethren. The expedient impetus was the ARMLS transition to flexmls, but at the time we also discussed the deplorable state of ZipForms and the advent [...]
No more web sites in the remarks section? ARMLS drops the hammer on the one little bit of the 21st century it was getting right
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 12:41 pm MST
Category: General Information
I read about the outlawing of web site URLs in listings on the “Welcome to Tempo” page of the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Services (ARMLS), but I wasn’t certain it meant what it seemed to mean. Since I have been a Realtor, we have promoted our single-property websites in the remarks section of the listing, [...]
May the gods rain down their every blessing upon the head of Bob Bemis: ARMLS goes proactive instead of being endlessly reactive
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 8:42 am MST
Category: General Information
I saw this on the announcements page on ARMLS, but having the reality of the idea in my email inbox is much more powerful. Instead of dealing with the inevitable follow-up calls about listings that didn’t really close or expire, ARMLS is reminding Realtors to clean up their messes before they make them:
Wednesday, January 23, [...]
Introducing Craig Frooninckx
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008, 9:43 am MST
Category: General Information
We’re adding another new contributor today, Craig Frooninckx:
Craig FrooninckxRealtor, TechnologistCraigsArizona.com
In his own words:
For the past 15 years I’ve been involved with the design and development of very large database systems. I was struck with the Real Estate bug at an early age helping my father with his real estate investments. After moving to Phoenix, I [...]
Bob Bemis at ARMLS is looking for a few good geeks
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:19 am MST
Category: General Information
This is email from Bob Bemis at ARMLS:
We’re going to do some focus groups in January as part of a long range strategic planning exercise. The groups are people with a specific focus (luxury housing, or technology oriented agents) or in a similar sales demographic (large broker, small broker, top producers). I’d like one group [...]
Introducing a new contributor: Dru Bloomfield
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:12 am MST
Category: General Information
We’re adding a new voice today, Dru Bloomfield, a Scottsdale Realtor and life-long technologist:
Dru BloomfieldRealtor, TechnologistAtHomeInScottsdale.com
Speaking in her own behalf:
Having been involved in technology for more than 30 years (yes, I built 8-bit computers in college for fun), and armed with graduate degrees in business and computer science, I find myself in the midst of one of the [...]
The mother of invention: Greg’s IDX
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, November 16th, 2007, 8:52 pm MST
Category: General Information
Our IDX bill came due today. A boatload of money for the next twelve months, even though the system is going to break itself in eight months, when the new sheriff comes to town.
So: I said kill it. The leads we get from it have stunk, and the free ARMLS solution is adequate for now.
I [...]
Wish list: Make Net Sheet savable…
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th, 2007, 11:50 am MST
Category: Wish List
This is more blue sky stuff, and I may be talking about a feature that’s already baked in the cake.
But: I was just there, and I want for Seller’s Net Sheets to be Savable.
Normally I have Cathleen do them in Excel, because it does a much better job. She’s sick, and I’m re-entering the whole [...]
“The revolution of the web involves us all individually and gives us an opportunity to participate in the revolution”
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007, 8:39 am MST
Category: General Information
Michael Wurzer at the FBS Blog:
The other day, I was cooking dinner and my kids were watching Hannah Montana or Suite Life or some other Disney show on the computer in our kitchen. I asked them why they were watching on the computer with a relatively small screen when they could watch it on the [...]
Two new contributors: Bob Bemis and Robert Nield
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, October 18th, 2007, 3:28 pm MST
Category: General Information
We’ve added a couple of new contributors.
Bob Bemis is the incoming CEO of ARMLS, the man with the target on his back.
Bob BemisARMLS CEOARMLS.com
Robert Nield is a polyglot systems programmer who made the transition to Realtor without losing the desire to reengineer the universe into rationality.
Robert NieldRealtor, ProgrammerHomeSearchByMap.com
