Happy Customers = Pizza
Just a quick thank you to all our customers for being so awesome! In particular, Wayne Stratton, who is not only a customer but also a website developer that uses Showcase IDX on all the websites he builds! Wayne bought the Showcase IDX office lunch this week and we couldn’t be more thankful! To be […]
Showcase IDX Closes Private Equity Investment Round
Today, Showcase IDX, an Atlanta-based real estate technology company that provides IDX home search and consumer engagement tools for WordPress to real estate agents, teams, and brokers has successfully closed its first-ever round of investment from a private equity source. Specific terms of this investment will remain private.
For over 12 years, Showcase IDX has been self-funded and its growth bootstrapped through increases in its revenue. This investment represents a significant amount of capital that the company will use to continue to innovate and address the current and future needs of real estate agents, teams, and brokers.
Showcase IDX’s Google XML Sitemaps Updated
Showcase IDX has launched a fully updated (rebuilt from scratch) and significantly improved version of our automated IDX listing page XML Sitemaps for Google Search Console. This update is already live and there is nothing that you need to do to enable this new version.
Introducing Streamlined Search: Powerfully Simple IDX Search
People looking for homes want a simple search experience. One that gives them what they’re looking for fast and without having to think too much. Now with Streamlined Search, you can provide your website visitors with a home search experience that rivals the large portals like no other IDX solution can. With Streamlined Search, we […]
New Streamlined Sign-Up Form Design
We’ve been looking at it for a while… and we have made some key improvements and simplifications today to our sign-up (and sign-in) form today that should positively impact lead registrations. These changes were based on a lot of customer feedback and end-user behavioral data that we’ve been analyzing for a while now since launching […]
Recommended Search Email Handling Updates
We have made a change to how we handle the sending of recommended searches. previously, each and every agent-created recommended search had to be implicitly opted-into by the recipient. While this was following the letter of the law, this was causing a lot of hassles. We have relaxed these rules and now will send recommended […]
GDPR, Showcase IDX & Our Customers
Firstly, just like every other online service, as it seems in the last week, we have updated our Privacy Policy into a new behemoth 8,500-word document that outlines how we deal with online privacy. Europeans are very concerned about online privacy. It’s not like we’re not concerned about it in the United States, but the new General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) from the European Union is a new wide-reaching online privacy law. We talked about it in this recent blog post.
Settings Change: # of Results and Pricing Options Now On All Plans
Until now, the ability to set the number of results displayed in the search was restricted to the premium plan. This feature is now available our real estate idx product on all plans. We have also opened up the ability to choose the pricing dropdown option to all plans as well. In looking at it, […]
Rebeginnings… A Brand New Showcase IDX Blog
This an entirely new blog for Showcase IDX… and it’s not really been our choice. There was a catastrophic failure at our WordPress website host which caused us to lose our website… and all our off-site backups in another cruel twist of fate. This only affected our website, not the Showcase IDX product (our MLS […]