News & Technology

By The Smith Group • February 14th, 2010

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www.Charter1Commercial.com
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Charter I Commercial is a locally owned commercial real estate company specializing in Sales and Leasing Brokerage, Asset and Property Management and Investment Opportunities in Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, Beaufort and Jasper Counties.  Our mission is to serve the people and businesses in the Lowcountry.  Our success is based on agents who have the skills, [...]

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By ROGER CHENG / Wall Street Journal: Wednesday, December 2 2009

WSJ Article
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project on its online forum for customers. A spouse “might not care about it, but our [...]

The Smith Group client websites run beautifully on Mac’s Safari browsers, especially with their larger property photos, which make them the perfect sites to browse on IPODs and IPhones. The Smith Group has developed specialized applications that allow website visitors to download property search icons directly to their IPODs and IPhones. These applications allow potential real estate customers [...]

“This was a vision of how I would love to live. I wasn’t just creating a sheet—I was creating a complete home, which could reflect the kind of world people wanted to live in.”
~Ralph Lauren, Polo, 1983~
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Think about the viewers who are contemplating spending substantial money to buy a new home.  Don’t they deserve a [...]

The Smith Group has begun to assist Bum Equipment, LLC on issues related to Internet technology.  We’ll keep you posted on these endeavors…
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BUM NEWS
Billboard and New Ads released in time for the Election and League Championships  Bum Equipment LLC and Culture Apparel, the newest Licensee  for Mens and Ladies Apparel are proud to announce that [...]

The Smith Group™ System
Real estate agents and brokers who are clients of  The Smith Group™ sell well over $1 billion in real estate per year.  TSG designs some of the best looking, most easy-to-navigate websites in the entire real estate industry.  What’s more, the applications that run behind the scenes are among the most robust and most [...]

By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers….96% of them have joined a social network
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Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web

1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met via social media

Years to Reach 50 millions Users:  Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod [...]

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WHO’S ON YOUR SITE — THESE ARE YOUR VIRTUAL “WALK-INS”!!!!!
The great thing about the web is its instantaneous “I want information, and I want it right now! ” capability. The Smith Group puts that power into your hands. As a Real Estate Agent and a Smith Client, every minute of the day you have virtual walk-ins looking [...]

The first pages of every major search engine has Smith clients moving up.  Why is this?  Why will this not go away?  1. Smith Clients are the leading agents and brokers in every market we go into, and we are the leading web technolgy company in every market we go into…  2. Smith technology applications [...]

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BING.COM – KEYWORDS:  HILTON HEAD REAL ESTATE
Smith Group clients dominate 30% of first page organic results on Bing.com for keyword phrase “Hilton Head Real Estate”…
Google.com & Yahoo.com in Decline as Bing.com Searches Increase
Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 6:00:44 AM
Microsoft (MSFT) Bing.com appears to have increased its share of the market further which is great news for Microsoft [...]

Smith was awarded an undisclosed settlement amount from Adrienne Greenup on August 25, 2009, stemming from a Google blog she posted on June 27, 2008.  Adrienne Greenup was an employee of  VDN, Inc. [a company holding of Smith] for a short time during 2001.  This blog was grossly negligent, untrue, and intended to defame VDN, Inc., Dale Cooper, [...]

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one [...]

A major coastal Realtor® Association executive asked today, “What do you attribute to The Smith Group’s overwhelming success in every market you’ve gone into?”   The answer was almost too simple.  “It’s because we keep it simple…”
“First, Smith sites have very low bounce rates because they’re better looking [Averaging across our client population in the mid-high 20s].  Many sites [...]

Probably the earliest and simplest signs of a possible housing recovery is watching website customer inquiries.  On Sunday, August 2, 2009, Smith clients received nearly 50 customer inquiries on specific properties.  This is up dramatically from any single day throughout the previous year.  This is an excellent indicator that buyers are feeling better about exploring [...]

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Hilton Head Real Estate: Some things are just really pretty.  And this is where The Smith Group likes to spend our time and effort…  Most of our staff, in fact, are actually real estate agents and/or brokers.  Imagine that!  If you’re a successful real estate agent, you are probably too busy trying to sell property to spend much time on Internet technology. [...]

Hilton Head, Beaufort, Myrtle Beach, Savannah Real Estate:  We’re known by the “Company we keep.”  And there are advantages that come from working with the leading agents, teams, brokers — both residential and commercial — in multiple and very competitive markets.  One of them is “proof of concept.”  What does this mean?  It means our websites actually [...]

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Smith has introduced a system that automatically creates unbranded emails of featured Smith client properties and sends them to other agents/brokers in your area.  This allow the agent/broker recipient to easily forward the email to their clients without having to re-configure the email to strip out the listing agents logos and branding.  After all, the [...]

In 2005, with help of faculty at MIT’s Department of Economics and the Engineering Division of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Smith began research built around his invented construction software application and its impact on Minority Firm participation in awarded heavy highway contracts in North Carolina.  Much of what was learned during this research and product development has been integrated into [...]

Title:
Construction contract bidding

United States Patent Application 20060149658

Abstract:
In certain embodiments, a web based centralized electronic bidding system for construction bidding includes a database manager that stores contractor and subcontractor and supplier company identification information in a database. A bid processor is provided along with a mechanism for permitting any of the contractor, subcontractor and [...]

Nationally, so much attention has been spent programming residential real estate sites, there has been little attention paid to the commercial side of the market.  Until now.  Smith is about to launch a new commercial real estate product for those companies that not only deal exclusively in commercial real estate sales, but as a module that can be [...]

Savannah Real Estate: Copy From Existing Site:  Welcome to Prudential Southeast Coastal Properties website; your Savannah Area Real Estate online source of information for Buyers, Sellers and Investors.
Savannah Georgia is a wonderful place to live, our sub-tropical climate gives us mild winters and hot summers which  are perfect for enjoying outdoor activities of all kinds year-round. In the winter months, when [...]