For years, we tried logic....we tried national statistics...and alas...(who says that...guess it's the same antiquated anti-IDX line folks) . We could never convince the major players in the greater Milwaukee area MLS ....the brokers, the board members that having an IDX line was a good thing. The excuses were many...the reality, we believe, is it would make it difficult...maybe impossible....for the major brokers to sell leads from the same MLS we all pay to belong to....from the same brokerage we gave (past tense should be noted) a healthy share of commission to...to sell the leads back to agents. They couldn't call or e-mail you with a "hot lead" and take yet another 25% of your commission....aw shucks !
NOW....Ta Dah....Keller Williams believe that your business should be agent driven....and you should prosper...not your broker first...and by the way...you are an agent...it is the ONLY broker that has a model that cares about you and your business first.
If you can't spell IDX...don't know what it is or what you are missing...you will...when your sales reflect the numbers that you are likely to have without it. You probably don't read or write blogs either...pity...you don't know what you're missing.
Come on southeastern Wisconsin...give us a call...find out what you're missing...it might just be income !
Sally K. & David L. Hanson, ABR, CDPE, CSS, e-Pro,ILHM, REDS
Your board does not allow you to have an IDX? Or requires you to use the brokers IDX? Confused. Are you able to have an IDX now because you are with KW?
The board does not have IDX "across the board"...you may have it only if your broker has it/allows it....none of the other "major players" have it because they sell their own agents leads back to other agents as well as "leads" from other brokers...if we all kept our own, that would be one less revenue source for them..aw shucks !
good luck with KW
Sometimes you don't realize how good you have it til you hear about someone who is working with a system that WON'T LET YOU HAVE AN IDX??
That's crazy.
Crazy....non-technical...stone age...greedy...call it what you will...it's all true...agents here don't know what they are missing cuz they don't know what there is...imagine never tasting chocolate....
Hi Sally & David:
Way to go!!!
That will make a huge difference, for sure.
Sally, I don't know what I am missing since I don't have it....but, I could not imagine never tasting chocolate!!!
Toula ...It's hard for agents who deal in technological reality to understand....and harder for those who never had it to know what they are missing...
Stay tuned Kristin....KW is the nectar that will make your practice sweeter .....!
Hi Sally and David, we are going to a RE/MAX event in Toronto on Oct. 1st. and they had a little survey on the sign up sheet asking are you in favour of IDX? Guess everyone is heading in that direction.
If you want to see the very best technology...inmclusive of IDX...take a little detour and we'll introduce you to KW...thanks for stopping by !
We have an MLS rule that we have to use the brokerages IDX and Real Living HER is very, very, very good on passing our leads through to us.
I think... of course you can never be 100% sure.
I was in a class this week and we were discussing IDX having an individual IDX to call your own and I was told that if we have our brokers approval we can have our own. It seemed like from our conversation though what we were talking about was our manager needed to approve it, rather than our broker.
It is very confusing.
It is an area I am thinking of looking into...
The man who was teaching the class was not into the idea... not a fan of IDX.
Is that the IDX from your MLS or is it a private one, i.e. did you design it. We are allowed to have one but it is pretty bland.
MRIS permits IDX... we just have to have a form signed by our broker. 'Never heard of anyone failing to get that approval.
The big brokers here couldn't sell leads easily and would never agree to sign anything...been there tried that...just one of the many reasons we moved....people here have no idea what they are missing !
Sally and David,
Sounds like you are moving ahead. Good luck with the new association with KW.
IDX is part of a foreign language here....and just wait till the natives learn it..we will explode !