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Free forum for your website or blog

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Have you ever thought about how great it might be to have a forum tied into your website or blog?

If you’ve thought about it, but perhaps haven’t taken the steps to create a forum because some forums require installation and a steep learning curve, you might want to check out the GoBoardz – Free Forums where you can create your own free forum in minutes.

Just sign up and create your forum in a few simple steps. It’s that easy.

At GoBoardz you can use images from your Photobucket account, and embed Revver videos. There’s also support for RSS feeds. Plus, a new version of the GoBoardz system will be coming out soon. Version II will have even more features and web 2.0 type of updates.

If you do create a forum don’t forget to promote it on your website!






Realtors use House4Cell to instantly get info to interested buyers

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I’ve been asked to discuss an exciting new service that’s been made available to those who work in the real estate market. The name of the service, a nice play on words, is House4Cell. This service allows realtor’s to use mobile technology in order to market properties.

Those interested in a property will only have to text in a code that can easily be found on the “for sale” sign in front of a property and they’ll instantly get a message containing photos and information about the property.

As a homeowner, I think I would have liked having this technology available to me when I was searching for a home to purchase. As it was, when I did see a house that looked interesting I’d stop and write down the name of the realtor, as well as the website if it was listed and then go home and try to do some research on the internet. Now, however, if a realtor were using the House4Cell service I could get the information I wanted within a moment of texting the code into my cellphone.

There is a free demo of the service on the House4Cell website if you are interested in seeing how this new program works.

I’m sure this program will enable realtors to connect with interested buyers much more quickly and it might in fact increase their sales. As I said, when I was looking for a home to purchase I would have been happy to use such a service and I’m sure many of those who are reading this writeup would also find such a service to be helpful.

When a potential new client uses the text system to get information for a particular property, not only will they get information about the property and up to three photos, but they will also get fax numbers and email addresses so that they can request more information or perhaps even set up an appointment to view the property.

Realtors offering this service might actually get more leads to follow up on than their competitors who choose not to sign up with House4cell.

Plus, through this service you’ll be able to send “blast alerts” to homebuyers who have opted-in. Through these blast alerts you can let interested parties know of price-drops or other homes with similar features in the same area.

Inquiries can also be tracked online.

If you are a realtor think about checking out this new service. Rate plans start at $29.99 for three listings, which is only about $8 per property.

House4Cell is a sister company of Cellit Mobile Marketing. They make it easy for their clients to manage their mobile market campaigns.

How do you like the new look?

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Well … what do you think of the new theme?

I stayed up late the other night and finally made the changes that I’ve been warning you for weeks that I was going to make.

For some reason the Flooble expandable script that I was using to roll up some of the menu items in the sidebar of the last theme doesn’t want to work on this theme. So, until I figure out how to get it working or find something else that works the sidebars probably look a little bit full. Hopefully not bad … just full.

If you have any problems navigating the site using this new theme I’d really appreciate it if you’d let me know. I added some features that weren’t built into the theme and they seem to be working fine on my end.

I tested this theme in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera and it seems to work just fine in all of them. Hopefully if you are using a browser that I didn’t list it works well in that too.

One person wrote to tell me that the text looked funny and sent me a screen shot of the site. The screen shot made the text look like a photo that’s quality was really bad, the text was frayed and blurred at the edges like poor quality print I suppose. I hope that no one else is seeing the text that way. As I said, all appears to work well and look good on my three computers and the text looks fine on my end.

I’ll probably tinker with the theme a bit more, and I’ll likely change the header as that’s the one that came with the theme. I like to personalized/ customize my sites by at least adding in my own headers.

Let me know what you think?

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