Why The Twinkie Went Bankrupt
The Twinkie is said to last on store shelves for 100 years. I never truly believed this, but it’s what all my friends told me when I first heard about the tasty cake treat from Hostess. Then it begs the question, if it lasts for 100 years on the shelf of a store, how long does it last inside your stomach. I don’t think this answer has ever been scientifically examined, but it should have been. The answer may never come as Hostess has filed for bankruptcy this morning and the future of the Twinkie is uncertain. The mystery may never be solved or has it been? Either way, Hostess will no longer exist, at least not in it’s current form. The reason the company is giving for filing for bankruptcy is that it’s workers, who are on strike, Read more [...]
Compliance: Photos And Your CT Real Estate Listings
We’ve discussed on this site many times the importance of having great photos for your Internet Marketing efforts, but did you know that we actually have some requirements surrounding photos and how they are displayed on the MLS? Each day our compliance assistant Michele goes through hundreds of listings making sure they are living up to our Rules and Regulations and if they are not she will send you a quick note to help you get it fixed right away. In an effort to keep you informed of the protocols for adding photos to the MLS, Michele has put together a list of key points to keep in mind. We now allow up to 25 Photos First photo must be the required front exterior, without branding or signs such as Condo complex signs or subdivision Read more [...]
How’s The Weather For Your Showings This Weekend?
Here at the CTMLS we are very lucky to have some incredibly talented people. We have skilled membership people, a great compliance department, technology gurus and even billing experts, but the talents of our staff go well beyond MLS duties. Sometimes these talents come in very handy. Take for instance our Billing Assistant, Kathryn Kane, not only is she tremendous at her day to day job, but she keeps the office informed of impending weather on a regular basis. On a daily basis she gets bombarded with questions like, how much snow are we going to get, is it going to rain, how hot is it going to be this weekend. She dutifully answers all of these questions with a smile and an accuracy that I’ve never seen before. With her forecasts Read more [...]
Twelve Days of Tips and Tricks
It’s that time of the year. The holidays are here and with holiday music streaming through the speakers of virtually every shop, office and home you walk past, you’ll be engulfed in the spirit of the season before you know it. Here are the CT Statewide MLS, we didn’t want anything less for you, so we’re starting our Twelve Days of Tips and Tricks for you to use this holiday season. While the first day of this festive series of blog posts doesn’t quite match the excitement of “a partridge in a pear tree” I think while you’re out showing CT homes for sale you’ll find it very useful. On the first day of tips and tricks my MLS gave to me, a mobile search in Kurio. If you haven’t started using Kurio by now, I would highly recommend doing Read more [...]
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CTReal.com Tours W Hartford, CT
Have you been to our new public facing website CTReal.com? We’re really proud of it and would love for you to take a look at this new consumer CT real estate search site where your clients can go to find homes for sale in Connecticut that they are interested in looking at and then speak with you, their area expert, to go on a showing of the property. With CTReal.com we are demonstrating our pride in the state we live and work in and that is why we’ve started to shoot a series of videos highlighting individual towns in the state. Eventually we will make it to all 169 towns and reach every corner of our wonderful state, and to date, even through hurricanes and autumn snow storms we have made it to almost 25 towns in just a few short months. Read more [...]
We Need One MLS Website
Forward The purpose of this white paper is to raise awareness that the MLS industry needs one national MLS public website to be competitive online. While there has been some debate over the years, the evidence supporting the benefits of MLS public websites has become overwhelming for even the most hardened skeptics. Still, there are flaws in both the idea and the execution by MLSs (including mine) that limit the potential of MLS public websites to truly compete – and win – in the search engines of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. However, when considering this issue one question kept coming up: “Why would banks continue to invest millions into Zillow when Zillow has yet to turn a profit?” According to Zillow, by August of 2007 they had Read more [...]
Your Opinion Matters
The CT Statewide MLS is participating in an independent survey conducted by the WAV Group on MLS Technology and we would love for you to participate. The survey will take about 5-10 minutes and will greatly help us to improve your service and the technology that we provide you. Your participation in this survey will help to create a clear picture for the real estate industry at large about the landscape of technology in various MLSs throughout the country. Click here to take this brief survey. Read more [...]
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