Just launched new my new real estate agent site www.classichomesnorthwest.com
In an effort to provide as much help as possible to other agents who are trying to create and maintain websites I going to start a series of posts that I hope will provide value to everyone that is working on their own websites.
Katerina Gasset is a huge fan of Point2Agent web hosting. Since I won the contest with Katerina for coaching she has been urging me to move my web sites to Point2Agent. Being a stubborn type of guy I resisted for about a month. Let me tell you Katerina can be very persuasive! I created a new domain and went ahead and created the standard Point2Agent account. This is free for six months so I thought I would be able to determine if wanted to pay $49.95 a month for hosting before actually committing to it. After a couple of weeks my standard template site was receiving more hits than my established site on a different hosting company and more hits than my brokerages site as well. Stubborn but not stupid I upgraded to the trial of the Professional account. After a couple of days of "tinkering" I am here to tell you that you need to move your real estate site to Point2Agent if you are not receiving the traffic that you expect.
The volume of behind the scenes assistance with a Professional account is impressive! When you accidentally delete your content on your home page you can call and they are so polite when they ask you "Do you see that blue trash can in the center of your monitor that says Restore Content?" Yes, I see that...."Click that and you can restore your page" No snickers not chuckles just friendly help!
With the Professional and the Premium they provide toll free tech support. With the standard you receive tech support via email. Just being able to call and ask how to get my content back was worth a months fees!
You can add up to 150 pages with a Professional account. 15 is the limit with the standard.
You can have your own POP3 email setup so you can have your emails sent directly to your email client. With the professional you can have up to 15 email accounts. With the standard you can just have your emails forwarded to another account you have elsewhere.
You can fully customize your website so that it does not look anything like any of the large number of templates that you can choose from.
I could go on but here is a link to show you the features for each of the three types of accounts. Take a look for yourself. I am getting nothing from this just the satisfaction of knowing that my website will be very visible shortly and when I finish putting the content in it will be a great looking site.
Your first step to a better website is a better hosting company. Take a look at Point2Agent for your hosting needs.
Next in the series will be how to customize your homepage to look how you want it to.
Contact Scott Cowan, Rainier Real Estate. Licensed real estate salesperson in Washington at 253-219-1194 to list your property for sale or purchase a home in Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup, and the rest of Pierce County Washington. Gladly accepting referrals.
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