Conversion

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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Wow, people still don’t know FlexMLS is coming to ARMLS

By: Craig Frooninckx,
Posted: Wednesday, February 13th, 2008, 12:07 pm MST
Category: Conversion

At the end of last week, I found myself in conversation with some members of the ARMLS user community and as I usually do, I talk about the things that are happening in my world, which includes real estate, new status as a father, politics and my role on the ARMLS committee.  I mentioned that [...]

What’s different about Phoenix real estate?

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Monday, October 8th, 2007, 11:55 am MST
Category: Conversion

I know there are lots of questions about the flexmls Web system, but we have a few questions, too. We have a rule of thumb called the 90-10 rule at FBS, which says that focusing on 10% of the data fields or functions in a conversion will solve 90% of the problems or [...]