Last week on Agent Genius, I joined a thorough discussion on why NAR ruled to shut down an IDX solution because a web server could not tell the difference between Google and a scraper site. This happened when Paula Henry’s “website was reported for allowing the MLS data on my website to be indexed, which led the Indianapolis Metropolitan Board of REALTORS®, (MIBOR), to issue a cease and desist letter to my broker for both our sites, or they would cut our feed”
Archive | May, 2009
To Draft a Contract or not Draft a Contract: That is the Question (guest post by Justin Daniels, Atlanta Real Estate Attorney)
After multiple negotiation sessions the deal has been struck and all that is left is to draft a contract. Who should draft the contract, isn’t it easier and cheaper to let the other party’s lawyer draft the contract and just have your attorney review the draft. Answer: No.
Employee Computer Fraud and The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (guest post by Justin Daniels, Atlanta Real Estate Attorney)
Does this situation sound familiar? Your employee leaves your real estate company and turns in his laptop. Your IT experts check the computer and determine the former employee made a copy of sensitive company information.
Dear Facebook Realtor:
Please be careful when considering Facebook Pages as a marekting tool. I know it’s tempting to tap Facebook’s immense community to grow your bsuiness, but be careful in how you approach it.
Social networks should be for ‘network’ing and not your marketing plan. People don’t join associations, clubs, or real world groups and then go to the weekly or monthly meeting meetings with market updates. They go as themselves to develop relationships. Why do anything different just because it’s on the internet and not face to face? Of course, your career is part of what makes you ‘you’ and part of some of your conversations will be about your job/business, but to have a marketing plan in a social network just seems counter-productive to the real value of building relationships.