Posted by Ron Goodman in News Releases Saturday, 12 September 2009 00:11 5 Comments
Ron Goodman, owner and managing broker of Denver Home Value Realty LLC, with 9 years of real estate sales experience as an agent and broker, and IT veteran with over 40 years of IT experience in military, corporate banking, computer service bureaus, software development firms, automotive finance, customer call centers, independent consulting and internet software development environments, today announces a new personal venture and its website, CMSRealEstateSites.com.
Ron will be offering consulting and website construction and integration services for open source real estate websites, similar to his own site, to other Denver metro area real estate brokers and agents, and also to real estate brokers nationwide. These websites are much more affordable than other similarly featured websites, in some cases less than 20% of the cost of comparable offerings from other sources. They will also be easier for site owners to customize and continue to grow over longer periods, extending the potential lifetime of the websites from the typical 3-5 years, to the lifetime of the site owner.
These advantages derive from the fact that the websites are based on the popular, readily available, constantly evolving and inexpensive Joomla and WordPress open source CMS platforms and plug-ins. This open source architecture base means a site can be re-hosted wherever and whenever the owner desires, or if and when their web hosting service goes out of business, thereby preserving the site owner’s investment. This also means the sites can be easily enhanced as more and more open source modules and plugins become available to meet the special needs of the real estate website market. With many thousands of free and inexpensive WordPress themes and Joomla templates to choose from, and more being developed and released every week, the design and functionality possibilities are endless.
Details on website features, consulting services and pricing
History of Ron’s Past and Present Real Estate Websites
Creation of search engine friendly website needs much attention. I found its difficult to build a SEO friendly site using open source, but there are lots of plug ins are available to make the site SEO friendly.
I agree with loan mod……..SEO is a pretty difficult concept for many real estate professionals to grasp. I wish something like this was available a while back, but I am happy that it is present now.
This is a great option not only for real estate websites, but for adjuncts like loan modification, mortgage loans, etc. This makes a good website affordable and easy to optimize for SEO.
Hey, Mike.
You haven’t seen me around because I can’t post on the REW forum any more since I am no longer a client, and they apparently consider my new IDX vendor and anyone using them a threat, at least in a few markets, so they don’t want any discussion of it on their forum, which I can understand an appreciate. Long story.
I am working with one website client and have two more in the queue for this year, plus still doing real estate, so I am just busy enough. This side venture, like my PPC consulting, is just fill-in, so I don’t really expect to make a living out of it. But who knows. Once the word gets out more that there really are viable integrated IDX alternatives for Joomla and WordPress based websites, there may be more demand.
How is going? I havent seen you around rew in a long time. How is this new venture coming along?