A Fort Laterdale, FL website claims to be first of it’s kind. The website is a men-edited web directory of websites featuring vacation rentals. Press release announcing the launch of the website promises better search engine rankings and a quality referrals.

Unfortunately part of the claim is unsubstantiated and cannot be verified since the website itself has no solid rankings in the search engines as of yet. It is also questionable how some of the search engines may react to “sponsored” listings and whether or not those will have any effect on the search result rankings. Google has been cracking down on the websites that sell and buy links for quiet some time.

The website currently offers three different listings:

• Sponsored Listing at $80 per year- with this listing you can list your website in additional categories for additional $40 per category.

• Premium Listing will set you back $60- additional categories $30 per year

• Basic Listing is FREE but only allows to list a website in one single category.

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New Vacation Rentals Directory Web Site Launches, Providing a Single Gateway for Everyone Involved in Vacation Rentals

If you are a real estate agent and you still think that blogging is only for the teenage generation that spends way to much time on websites like MySpace- think again! Or even better, follow the example of Realtor.com!

Realtor.com has introduced an addition to their website just over one month ago. Any guesses what that addition is? A WordPress powered blog- The Official Blog of the Realtor.com Blog Community! Coincidently there is a small video tutorial Realtor Talk today that will teach you how to write a blog post.

Congratulations Realtor.com- a little too late (blogging has been around for some time now), but nonetheless congratulations!!!

Florida based eNeighborhoods announced free monthly newsletter for real estate professionals. According to the press release, the newsletter will feature how-to articles, best practices and success stories from top real estate industry professionals and will help agents to:

• Take control of prospecting and lead generation to develop an effective slaes pipeline
• Learn best practices for effective prospecting and lead conversion
• Organize lead generation into a system to prioritize and handle high volumes of leads
• Recognize prospects with greater potential
• Identify effective business strategies for local markets

If you are a Real Estate agent you know that a ringing phone in your office is a welcomed sign. You also know that “crushing” your competition is a day to day business. Even if you do not view it this way, the fact is that in real estate place #2 brings you a whooping 0% commissions.

Phones will ring if you know how to market your business, your listings and even yourself well. You may also learn how to deal with your competition. Unfortunately these things are no being taught in the school preparing you for the real estate examination.

Here is where the Real Estate Growth comes in! The website is dedicated to teach real estate agents about real estate marketing by offering a free course called “The Real Estate Insider”- a $197 value absolutely for free. The website also maintains a real estate marketing blog where you can find extra tips on real estate marketing.

Searching for a property in Hawaii? Than you should consider take a closer look at Hawaii Life- a real estate search engine that maps properties in Hawaii MLS with the help of Google Maps. Any visitors can search for Hawaii Real Estate property, but there are benefits to register an account so you can save the properties you are interested in for the future review.

At the moment Hawaii Life offers your an opportunity to search for Kauai Real Estate and Big Island real estate. Hawaii Life is promising to also include Maui and Oahu real estate listings some time this months.

Hawaii Life provides a unique way for a potential buyer to find their home in Hawaii Real Estate Market. In the snapshot below you can see that after performing your search for the properties, hovering with the cursor over the property picture will match the location of the property on integrated Google map an vice versa, if you point your cursor to a property on the map it will match with the picture of the property on the right of your screen:

With just one click you can save the properties you are interested in for a later review or even if you need to find out more information about properties, send a request to Hawaii Life: