Soft Launch of AgentXL

There's a big difference between a link farm, and a place where you can share relevant profiles and information.

Ensuring that there is lots of other information (forums, articles etc..) will ensure that it's not looked at as a link farm.

I know Marabeth, thanks for being one of the first.

I'm still working out some of the bugs with the "flow" of things, we'll go into full marketing push soon

once our framework is a little tighter.

I really appreciate the early adoption :)

Can you try putting in your RSS feed from your blog here on active rain (or your site if you like).  We're trying to work some kinks out there, would appreciate your help.

Riel     

Honestley Dennis,

It will remain free, although there will likely be a paid level once we have enough critical mass.

While there are similarities, AgentXL will not be a blogging platform, rather a place that you can REPUBLISH your activerain blog (or other RSS feeds).

The idea is to NOT have a "buy this, this this, or get out" store front for our website management platform.

AgentXL is running on our back end framework that ties into the local MLS here in BC.  Agents like www.rickstonehouse.com are using on his site and sites like www.liveincommercialdrive.com and www.liveinstrathcona.com it to manage thier website and listings.

The idea of the free "show off your self, your listings..." is to give you a chance to start to use our platform without having to take your credit card etc...  Once you've used it for a while, we can then introduce you to some of the more advanced features, and since you'll already have some content in the system, it's easy to migrate that into the start of your own website.

Of course, that's the THEORY, let's see how well it works in practice (that's why we do these things).

The real challenge is not going broke developing this stuff :)

Riel

Thanks Byron, I love that you set up your listings in a feed too, that's cool.

We're trying to work out a map so that they'll show up on a map.

I'm guessing that a fair chunk of those are A/R types, although we were also handing out cards at a couple of tradeshows lately so you may be getting traffic from them too.

Since you're one of the few profiles (and most complete) up there right now, it's bound to get some good traffic.

Thanks so much for playing along, we'll be in touch I'm sure :) 

Riel