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Project Rebellion: REA’s Problems Continue with ACCC Investigation Underway

By on July 2, 2011 in Australia, Portals

In a followup article to the Front Page Project Rebellion article, Ben Hurley from the Australian Financial Review has published a new story on an ongoing investigation by the ACCC into the activities of RealEstate.com.au and to a lesser extent Domain.com.au. Questions directed at some of Australia’s leading real estate groups have seemed to focus on [...]

ACCC, Console, Domain.com.au, Onthehouse, oth, Portplus, REA, Realestate.com.au, rei, reia, Simon Baker

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Lucky you’re with AAMI

By on June 4, 2011 in Portals, Soapbox

Unless you have been hiding under a rock of late you will no doubt have heard that AAMI are closing all of its offices across the country. Some may be disappointed that they lack the customer service and will move on to other insurance agencies others will just grin and bear it. What will be [...]

AAMI, Domain, Facebook API, Google Webmaster Tools, hubonline, Microsoft Bing Webmaster, Portplus, REA, Realestate.com.au, Twitter Developer Tools, WordPress, Yahoo Web Services

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Good Friday RE Industry Wrap-Up

By on April 22, 2011 in Australia, Media, Portals, Research, Software, Technology

It’s been an action packed two weeks which started with REA’s sale of Realholidays and has built up since then. There is certainly some major restructuring taking place in Australia’s online real estate space: As a follow up to BuyMyPlace.com.au being kicked off REA other agent assisted and private selling sites including Forsaleforlease, Myhomeisforsale and [...]

Console, CoreLogic, Homeguru.com.au, Ozhomevalue.com.au, Portplus, REA, Realestate.com.au, realestate1, RP Data, rpdata, Thehomepage

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The Great CRM White Elephant

By on October 18, 2010 in Software, Technology
The Great CRM White Elephant

Legend has it there were once great white elephants, much sought after by the Southeast Asian monarch and European hunter. Their very existence entered the realm of folklore, and people spoke in hushed tones of lost safaris seeking fame and fortune. The white elephant symbolized great power, and its possession meant the kingdom had peace [...]

Boomcrm, Completedata, Console, hubonline, multiarray, MyDesktop, Portplus

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How to Improve Your Results on Google Real Estate

By on October 14, 2009 in Australia, Portals

One of the big complaints by real estate agents when the Google Real Estate service started up was that the 2nd and 3rd tier real estate portals were actively pushing the agents properties to Google as well. Agents where uploading property portals like Homehound, Myhome and Onthehouse who were then turning around and re-uploading the [...]

Google, Google Real Estate, Homehound, MyHome, Portplus

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Google Analytics API Launched!

By on April 23, 2009 in Agent Websites, Technology, What's New

Google Analytics is used by just about every major website in Australia, it is easily the most popular analytics programs out there. Now it is pretty much game over for all of the paid ones as Google have announced an API for this product. Yes, companies pay a fortune to have Nielsen NetRatings code inserted and [...]

Google Analytics, Google Analytics API, hubonline, MyDesktop, Nielsen NetRatings, Portplus

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Revamped HubOnline launched

By on April 3, 2009 in Agent Websites, Software, What's New

HubOnline launched their revamped system aiming to clean up the interface to make it easier for their clients to manage their online listings and contact management system (CRM). HubOnline is a wholly owned subsidiary of realestate.com.au and therefore have the unenviable task of trying to combine all of their offerings into one system. For the [...]

hubonline, MyDesktop, Portplus, REA Australia

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Some changes at HubOnline from realestate.com.au

By on December 9, 2008 in Agent Websites, Marketing, Portals, Software, Technology

My apologies for not posting in some time. Today, I do have some news to share. Rather than make business2 readers wait until this seeps out publicly, I’m going to give you a heads up on two things that are happening at realestate.com.au today. I’m sorry that I probably won’t be able to participate in [...]

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