Here is a reprinted post over at The BusyAgentPro.com Community from my friend and business partner, Rich Shaw who is arguably one of the most successful SEO experts in the real estate industry:
Go figure, but websites are a sensitive subject for me
Let me start by saying I am absolutely 100% biased because I’m intimately familiar with the website features at the disposal of our Platinum members. Whether or not users of other systems convert to BAP isn’t the point… It just urks me seeing overblown hype by company after company that take advantage of Realtors… This will come as no surprise to long time Agentsonline.net members
I’ve been seeing posts all over the net about AA and long time users that are waiting for this, so called, state of the art new AA 4.0 website offering while new users get to sign up for it right away…
4.0 ?? Sounds serious…I decided to take a closer look at this AA “Revolutionary System” and see how we measure up
First thing I did was go to their 4.0 page and look for their live client sites they offer as examples .. Surely they make sure these are good working 4.0 demos with a 60 person support team, right?
1st. example I clicked was this one: http://www.statecollegerealestate.com
(completely disfigured homepage)…. hmmm.. must be a mistake but the rest of the site is probably amazing….
Let me look at the state of that art listings module they claim to have in the new 4.0 system …
http://www.statecollegerealestate.com/Nav.aspx/Page=/ListNow/Default.aspx
WHAT??? _frame_S ??? this is freaking 2008…are you kidding me??? Notice the url… everything is still pulled out in _frame_s from a central data_base_ with horrible url strings that you can’t change???
But this is new and State of the art .. surely I must be missing something??? … maybe it’s just the listings pages and everything else is top notch ??? NOT…
The setup charge…all the add ons they try to sell you and their “marketing” packages are in my opinion, a very minor makeover of the old system….
The good news is that if you pay extra, you can get ecards, and for a little more, you can get drip emails … and you can have 1 whole site for many hundreds of dollars setup and more than the cost of BAP Platinum Monthly…
That explains it…Why would users want an unlimited number of 3 different types of websites with more features, actual hosted dns with cpanel & mail, more ability to be customized and optimized… all the other features, plus the community of BAP members ??? Beats me…
Now we’re not a quote/unquote, Website Company… Admittedly we are much more than that…websites are just a small part of what BAP Platinum is, but the differences are so clear they boggle my mind… The same goes for just about every other site system out there and most custom sites as well… Depending on the number of listings, an existing site from most of the majors can be transformed into a BAP site that smokes it in less than 4-8 hours including custom graphics.
Those of you that know me know that I’ve never been shy to call suppliers out publicly regarding their claims so I would never make claims I don’t believe to be true…
Make 2008 the year you take back control of your business and give BAP Platinum a try… We have NO CONTRACT!
We’re here to help our users turn BAP into closed transactions..Staff and Community alike….
There are no versions of BAP to wait for either.. we are a fluid system that develops and implements features and upgrades in real time to all users in the system… We don’t up sell and we don’t nickel and dime… we listen to our community,develop and implement… that’s how it works.
We don’t aspire to ever be the biggest… just the best will be good enough
