Hello World!
…the Agent Genius Brand is born
The Theme Concept
From the clip and taking in the clean space of the page you can see the large robust fonts, brilliant spacing and padding that allows your eye to travel comfortably across the page. We’ve also put together a fresh take on the traditional news flavor of blues and grays that give the content a serious but still comfortable palette in which to read from.
What’s Going on at Agent Genius?
Over the past 5 months agentgenius.com has grown, not only in the talent of the writers and contribution of our readers, but also in traffic to the point that I received a call from our service providers last week informing us that we were on borrowed time.
After some serious review of the cpu usage, and traffic at peak ours it was decided that moving to our own servers was more than necessary- and will happen in the coming days.
With this in mind, as well as the need to provide our writers with the boldest platform possible in which to promote their talents I decided to move ahead the completion of the custom digs you’re reading from now. Our theme we used previously (although beautiful in concept in the early days) was great, it simply didn’t allow us the ability to grow- we were busting out of the seams.
So here we are…
This agentgenius theme created by elite by design allows us to grow and expand. Using the ‘box’ CMS functionality we’re able to add and remove features, promote people, events, and other hot items as we see fit without the tubular approach most blogs take on. We’re also are elated with our new brand. The new logo keeps in tact the now famous running man that has become synonymous with our ever changing real estate environment and continues to challenge our colleagues and peers to continue to always expand their box.
The new theme, brand, and servers are my gift to our writers and our commentators here at agentgenius.com- Our many thanks to all of you for the explosive success of Agent Genius – it doesn’t happen by luck, it happens because of you…
Benn Rosales
agentgenius.com
Where Agent Genius Goes From Here
Besides the fantastic writing that already takes place here at agentgenius.com, the sheer volume of events taking place over the next 4-6 months gives us a fantastic opportunity to break in the new brand and theme as well as the opportunity of testing out and exploring the potential of many new social tools in order to bring you coverage of mega-events ‘real time.’
Live Coverage…
- SxSW Austin
- Austin barcamp
- Inman Connect SF
- REbarcamp08
- Using Video, Utterz, Twitter, and more…
Also, Continued Expansion of…
- Micro-Blogging – exposing you and your blog to our readers
- 2.0 Real Estate Practice
- Innovative Marketing Strategies
- National Real Estate News
- More Technology and Start-up News
- Technology Product Review
- Continued Hands-on Demonstration of Social Media in Real Estate
- and continued great writing from our contributors (obviously)
We’ve already broken the multi-author mold, and now we’re on our way to resetting the bar entirely.
[Stay tuned, keep reading, and we'll keep growing... ]
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This article published on Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 9:55 pm | Contact the editor
Topics: Real Estate
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AGBeat Founder, Director: I’ve dedicated the past two decades to consumerism in and out of the real estate space. I help focus corporations on consumerism, consumer needs and trends, and what consumers find valuable. I hope you enjoy AG, and that you will reach out if I can help your company or association communicate it’s value.
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[...] be that I am biased because I am a contributor there (and I married the host), but I doubt it. The launch of the new theme is so much more than a sexy outfit the blog put on- it is a brand. Bloggers often see themselves as [...]
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I love it and thanks. I am looking forward to where we are all going in 2008.
Holy Cow! I thought I was at the wrong blog! You guys have to warn us! I must have refreshed the page a couple of times because I could not believe my eyes!
Thanks so much for letting me work with you on this Benn. This has by far been one of my best projects. I never knew I could transform my theme into something this beautiful and unique. Congrats on the new theme, I know it will serve you well!
Thanks for the beautiful new home Benn! Really looking forward to pushing the boundaries in 08.
Wicked! I love the new look. You guys have done a great job on this one. Way to go Elite By Design.
Ciao!
So, it was really nice not knowing what you were working on this month, because this crapstorm of helping you get this live tonight was not preferrable. The site looks GREAT!!! What a lead up too… I am really truly impressed!
Can’t wait to see where the AG brand is going!
Oh! I forgot to add…..NICE!!
Looks fabulous!
Brilliant Design. I guess, I have to step out of the comfort zone of Google Reader more often now, to read AG “in the flesh”. Thank you for the hard work, and congrats on the design re-launch of AG.
This was worth getting out of the feed reader to see.
I’ve been stopping by here from time to time and I have to say the new design really looks great!!!
It looks great Benn! Much impressed and thrilled to be a part of this whole thing
Now you need a new cup to matches the site’s design.
Very nice – kudos to all involved.
My next question is…when are the shirts and other apparel going to be available?
Brilliant. Beautiful, clean, simple yet chock-full of everything.
I’m not worthy. I bow to Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Outstanding…. This made my fav place to read even better!
Hey… I like Robert’s question – when can AG-wear?!?!?
This is awesome. Now we all need Tshirts.
Nice job . . now could someone be so kind as to send me a link to the log in screen? This genius can’t find it.
Benn, it is just beautiful, congratulations, Howard
Killer.
This explains the, “check back in 60 minutes” message I kept receiving last night. Very nice.
@Teresa – to log in: http://agentgenius.com/wp-admin.php
Whoops, check that. It’s http://agentgenius.com/wp-login.php
@ Jay thompson – you writing over here, too?
I think Jay is only second to Benn when working with wordpress.
I like the t-shirt idea. Set up a cafepress account. I’ll buy one.
@Everyone thanks sincerely for all of your kind words and emails. There is a lot behind the scenes that goes into agentgenius.com, it is almost a full time job in and of itself. Your words make it worth it.
As for gear, it’s already in print.
@Tboard bookmark agentgenius.com/wp-admin as was previously mentioned
@Brian the pleasure was mine
@Larry your article means more to me than all the comments in the world, I thank you, sincerely http://www.yattermatters.com/real-estate/the-agent-genius/
@Mathew and everyone else
I am truly humbled by all of your responses and those that have thought enough of our hard work to track back to this – my many many humble and sincere thank yous. Those that havent gotten to it yet, I thank you in advance.
Benn/ag
The new layout is very nice and clean. Great job!