Monday, March 21, 2022
It has been awhile since I have done any work with WordPress. Q's Wire was a WordPress blog that went online in the spring of 2005, and was retired in 2020 or so.
Over the weekend I began researching options for establishing a web presence for my real estate interests. The first major hurdle involved my current domain registrations and could any of those domains be used.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
I attended the MCE
Women's Center 7th Annual Virtual Conference on Friday, March 11,
2022. It is very convenient to be able to attend events like this from
the comfort of your own (in my case, home office) space.
What I do to prepare for these Zoom virtual events?
Tuesday, March 08, 2022
I have been reading a great deal about careers in real estate sales. I Googled "passed my real estate exam, now what?".
Main factors in my November 2020 decision to take a real estate course include:
- Always wanted to know more about real estate (also want to be a lawyer).
- Want to do more with real estate in other areas of my business. For example, I have an affiliation with a great furniture retailer. When I purchased my first place, new furniture was important.
- Create a new source of income.
- The idea that I could be part of someone else's happiness as related to a home purchase seemed very attractive.
So that is what I have been doing (researching) for the past two weeks (since passing the exam).
Ideally, I would like to team with an organization that may see unique opportunities in elements I can bring to the table, including:
- My news service, WiredPages
- Conceptional idea of Hanover Magazine & hanovermaryland.org
- Well known in the area through social media and some of my business concepts. An active alumni group (local), I started in 2008 has about 5800 members. No, I cannot directly nor do I promote my business within the group. I am known.
While taking the course in the late winter of 2021, I began to revamp the WiredPages Real Estate page.
Significant changes were integrated, including more detailed information about mortgages, options, and current Federal stats as related to the U.S. Housing market.
Recently, the Freddie Mac interface I custom developed in 2006 (or so) for the real estate page became inoperable, so as an interim fix I installed the standard widget the service offers (shown in the illustration above top-left).
The new custom tool has already been created, as shown below running in local mode.
The new tool has the same style as the older interface, however the data source now- is the Federal Reserve as provided by their API. This means that now I have to make six separate calls to the API whereas in the past, I only made one request to the Freddie Mac page. Freddie Mac now blocks the page. This the reason I have not installed the new tool. With the existing requests already integrated on the real estate page, I might have an overload problem. Continuing to research this problem.
As with everything else, I tend to think I should save money if at all possible and do the work myself. I read just this morning, these days becoming a new real estate sales person can cost over $2000. No, I have not spent that much. One reason, I have been working to create my own head shots for real estate profiles.
The problem? I have noticed that most agents use half or whole body shots for profile photos. I have lost about 20 lbs over the last year, so a half or whole body shot is not a problem, I simply prefer the head shot. What do they know that I do not know?
