Yep, it was such a smashing success that during the next 2 years a company emerged that built one of the first CMS styled network of sites that anyone could manage with no website experience at all.
REALTORS across the country signed up to sponsor their own community web sites. But sadly, most lost the intention of the whole thing. They forgot that it was supposed to be a way to HELP their community - not just make money. They promoted themselves, their homes for sale and forgot about the most important thing- The Community, The Neighborhood or Small Town and the residents that called each place home.
Now today most of those REALTORS are gone- washed out with the flood of bad decisions that created the current economic environment. Most- but not all. Those that got involved way back then are still the driving force behind their community web center. They do not use it to promote themselves, but instead to help the community.
Does it help them in their business? Of course it does. But only because they are recognized as what they are- people that care about their community and the people that live there. They just happen to be REALTORS too.
During the last year we have rediscovered our mission - To help Communities, Neighborhoods and Small Towns. Sure we need to pay for the infrastructure, support, technology and service that makes the whole thing work. But if we are doing the right thing that will happen anyway.
So we ask you to follow an adventure that we have dedicated this last year towards- one where we forget all about customers and take a Small town website and approach a strong United Methodist Church and ask them to be the Neighborhood Ambassador for their town of Winter Park, Florida. No cost involved for them, but a way for them to reach out to the community and help those in need.
So follow us as we bring together a community, a church, sponsoring merchants and residents to form a strong and healing community during this year and starting in 2011.
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