| April Fool! |
 Today is "April Fool's" day, the first of April, the day you must decide whether you are a lion or a mouse.
The brave amongst us would've leapt out of bed this morning in gleeful anticipation of the side splitting fun to be had at other people's expense while the timorous will still be looking over their shoulder while reading this.
"April Fools" are said to have originated sometime after 1582, when New Year's Day was changed from April 1st (the beginning of spring) to January 1st on the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar.
Of course the message took years to spread in those days. Those who knew of the change ridiculed those who still celebrated New Year on April 1st. Considered even more foolish were those obstinate fools who persisted with the April 1st celebratory date not believing in the message of the official change!
Maybe Mark Twain best summed up a fool, "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us would not succeed." Present company excepted, of course. |
| aussiehome.com Traffic Marches on |
 193,889 visitors to aussiehome.com in March
7.55 million page views
(15 million "hits" - which is a meaningless stat, as it refers to the images and other stuff downloaded from a site)
Top Day, with 8,306 visitors was last Weds (30th March)
We had over 10,000 visitors from google (where we are optimised very well)
96% of visitors use a Microsoft operating system
35% are from overseas
Average time on the site is 7 minutes
Average monthly Visitors per property almost 40 (which beats all other portals)
STOP PRESS! aussiehome.com makes 37th in the BRW's Best Australian Start-Up Companies (2000-2004) - see pages 32-37 of current edition (Mar 31st - Apr 6th)
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| HomeHunt improvement |
 Our HomeHunt technology is the most popular web application we have developed: internet users can subscribe (for free) off your own web site to be sent matching properties from your agency every week. Automatically.
You do nothing - it just happens. You can also tip in as many buyers and clients as you like to this system, and adjust a weekly message that is sent along with your matching properties.
This week, we have improved the price ranges, giving the users greater flexibility in the system. If your web site does not have HomeHunt, and you want a demonstration, please email us today! |
| Site Scraping |
 To protect you from the practice of "Site Scraping" (other web sites taking properties from an aussiehome.com hosted real estate web site and putting it on another web site) we have had a 'terms of use' added to every hosted web site (and aussiehome.com) since mid 2003.
To read these terms click here
This has not prevented the practice, however, so we notified all Principals last month that we have changed the terms and conditions of our contract so we are now authorised to take legal action against any person or organisation engaging in this practice of site scraping. We will foot the legal bills involved. We received 100% support on this from Principals - thank you.
If you would like to know more please ring Charlie on 9389 5833. |
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