More New Blogs and Whatnot

NAR announces new member-based email distribution service

“MARION, Iowa USA — The NAR is responding to member’s requests for better communication between the operations of the organization and the member body.  The NAR has started its response by establishing an electronic newsletter distribution service.

In an online statement today, NAR president Mark Bundick invites members to…”

Mark Bundick? Wait a second…

Oh! This is the National Association of Rocketry, not the National Association of Realtors. My bad! ;)

Silliness aside, I found another new “organizational” blog. This one from Realtor.com — Realtor.com Report.

Looks like it spooled up on March 24. Five posts in the first two days, but only two since March 25. A posting frequency rivaled only by this very blog (I’ll try to do better, I promise).

Speaking of Realtor.com, I just got off the phone with them after receiving a courtesy call. Seems when I left Century 21 and started my own brokerage, I somehow forgot about having listings on Realtor.com (perhaps because nothing has ever come from having listings there. But I digress).

After spending countless minutes trying to convince them I did not want to pay for: 1) enhanced listings; 2) banner ads on their site; 3) Featured Homes; 4) Company Showcase; 5) Featured Company status; or 6) a “print solution”, I managed to get the paperwork required to get our brokerages listings for “free”.

Fortunately the agreement is only 7 pages of single-spaced text.

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