Thursday, June 23, 2011

RealBird does not accept listing feeds!

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a company representative at RealBird. We discussed the possibility of adding listings into their system from McDougal Design. I was very disappointed to hear that they do not accept listing feeds! Actually, I find it baffling that they do not. Listings are the life blood of our business. Without them we do not exist. The McDougal Design Website system, for both Brokers Office and Agents creates listings from MLS data then automatically adds "Call To Action" text to the listings "Remarks" for display on the listing page and in their syndication feed. We create a web page for every listing in the customers MLS inventory and update them from the settings at the MLS three times per day. We syndicate a feed of these listings using our customers branded domain name as the landing page.

 As we continue to develop our product we seek partners to provide a level of service faster, more efficient and better than we can on our own. We use this business plan as it is in our clients best interest to diversify their web assets. If any one component fails the remaining assets stay in tact. I could develop a suite of products to provide the services similar to RealBird to my customers. But why should I? RealBird already has them. Is it not better to cooperate than compete? Once RealBird accepts listings, via XML feed, our customer could seamlessly integrate RealBird into their current marketing strategy by subscribing to their system. I cannot recommend RealBird to my customers. They do not want to create their listings more than one time on the Internet, nor should they. We make it possible for them to maintain a single record for each listing at the MLS and insure that it will be kept up to date everywhere in the cloud seamlessly. Accepting our feed is the key missing component. I urge RealBird to do so. http://ping.fm/f2ktV

1 comment:

  1. I received this reply from RealBird:

    "Hi Terry

    Thank you for your note, it was good to talk with you yesterday. We have added this to our requested features list. Thank you for your interest to work with us."


    At least we are in the stack

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