Realtor Blogs Themes - The Brokers Edge

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Free Resources Every Realtor Can Use

The Brokers Edge has finally wrapped up the development of several pending services that had been in the works for nearly two years. Free Realtor Blogs, Free Real Estate blog themes, free real estate tools and code snippets along with unlimited and unrestrained access to their forums, The Brokers Edge is just days from bringing years of work to the real estate market. Included in their array of services and tools, The Brokers Edge will be providing all members to their forums with flash video tutorials on many facets and subjects related to Real Estate websites, email, marketing, SEO, software, blogs and much more, FREE! Why pay a company $100 an hour to tell you how to properly format a blog post or how to update some particular aspect of your site. With The Brokers Edge you not only get these tutorials 100% FREE you get them without without any advertising, sales pitches or gimmicks.

Earlier this week I had noticed that the WordPress MU and vBulletin installation dates had been initially done nearly 2 years ago and now that they are updated to the latest and greatest versions wrapping up the design features is ensue. TBE has be painfully busy with MLS IDX installations in dozens of markets with their signature product called UltimateIDX. Only until recently have they set aside the time and resources necessary to make some very important features a reality.

The Brokers Edge has always planned to have Realtor blogs from its very beginning as well as a Realtor forum using vBulletin. No nation on earth has as many Realtors as the United States yet there are only seven (7) major active forums at the last count that are actually based in the US and of those seven, only three are owned and operated by Realtors. The Brokers Edge is owned, managed and operated by many Realtors who have years of experience building their own enterprises. The Brokers Edge solves the kinds of issues Realtors face every single day and are reluctant or afraid to pursue in part because of mis information or simply false information. With their new forums information and techniques are shared in a way that does not step on toes, does not seek to dictate and does not seek to retaliate against those who express an honest opinion. The forums are quite literally a public forum for Real Estate professionals.

Realtors Taking Control - No Hassles.

Since The Brokers Edge is Realtor owned and operated, each of the services they have been providing are based entirely upon experience in using or having used proprietary solutions only to discover better ways of doing things. Having tracked and actively paid avid attention to the mounting frustrations of Realtors in selecting types of services for web site building, The Brokers Edge is certainly versed and in position to counsel on what is generally available. The forums at The Brokers Edge will actively seek reviews of services for comparison so members get all the facts to make an accurate decision. No forum on the web that I’ve encountered would allow the discussion of competitors products in their forums. TBE may be the first of its kind among those in its genera.

Touching again on proprietary solutions, these products are certainly not an evil thing as many qualified and responsible companies do deliver great products and services to Realtors that are exclusive products of those firms. But Realtors as well as other Real Estate related professionals are discovering that the Open Source solutions not only provide similar features but many provide features in website technologies that far surpasses proprietary solutions. All though the reasons for higher quality in open source applications is well beyond the subject of this post; it is worth mention that many open source solutions like CMS, Blog, and Listing manager software are actively maintained by a huge community of users and developers that share in the development and advancement of such products. The Brokers Edge not only recognizes this, it embraces it by providing FREE Real Estate Blog Themes and other templates for many open source applications including Joomla, OpenRealty, and WordPress and possibly EZ Pro Realty once live.

Therefore, The Brokers Edge is both proprietary and open source in its mind set which has a unique duality in perspective that has proven most beneficial to Realtors in every market they have entered. Granted, there are literally dozens and dozens of solution providers out there that use tools like Joomla or WordPress as their primary development platform but The Brokers Edge does not limit its resources to these tools alone. The Brokers Edge first embraces the Realtors decision and then provides solutions of its own to either enhance or work in concert with the sites platform. The UltimateIDX is an ideal example as it works with literally any website solution hosted on a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) system, even on shared hosting.

Free themes for WordPress do not require you to host with The Brokers Edge as FREE literally means FREE and after porting some of my own FREE Open Source plug-ins for WordPress, OpenRealty and Joomla to TBE, many of their themes will be pre-formatted with features Realtors are sure to use.

I’ll be posting more on The Brokers Edge later in the week as I’m given more information.


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