Home Exchange - Web Site Upgrades Part One
As ExchangeHomes.com moves toward the unveiling of a MAJOR home exchange web site upgrade, I think the time has arrived to begin revealing exactly what both members and visitors to the site can expect to find after the launch. To achieve this, today begins a series of posts covering most of the upgrade’s features.
In Part One today, I’m going to cover the two levels of Memberships we will be introducing:
- Full (paid) Memberships—exactly as now. No change.
- Associate Members—New! Visitors will now have an option to join as Associate Members and make contact with our Full Members.
Only Full Members will have the ability to display their homes for exchange, but the advantage of allowing the two tier memberships means that all our Full Members will suddenly receive significantly more inquiries about their listing(s).
This feature has been asked for by members for some considerable time but I’ve always resisted the change because of genuine concerns about member security. However, we’ve thought it through carefully and all Associate Members will still have to “join” and provide us with their contact information, plus programming will be recording their IP addresses, so they certainly won’t be strangers to us. (Every device connected to the public Internet is assigned a unique number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address).
We will also establish total control over the email address Associate Members register with their memberships, because programming will insert this email address into all the contact emails they send out from the web site. Anyone hoping to register with a bogus email address will be thwarted immediately.
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I sincerely hope that eventually a good number of our Associate Members will appreciate the value of adding their properties to the database themselves. This will then allow them to begin receiving home exchange inquiries in their own right from many other Associate Members located all around the world.
