We have been working with the folks at RealTown.com (They also teach the e-Pro course to REALTORS thru NAR and are highly repected in the industry) to put this together for 8 or 9 months. Read their news release.

Real Estate Industry’s Leading Internet Portal Partners with Neighborhood Social Networking Company 

SANFORD, Fla — RealTown.com, the real estate industry’s premier internet portal, and MyOnlineNeighborhood.com, the leading provider of Neighborhood Social Networking tools for real estate professionals recently announced a marketing partnership. “We’re excited about working with MyOnlineNeighborhood.com, because we think that the services that they provide can be extremely valuable to Real Estate Professionals,” says Rich Hudson, Director of PR/Marketing at Internet Crusade.

 The services of a real estate professional are more important now than any time in the last 10 years. Yet, with home prices in record decline, withdrawn buyers and expanding inventories of short sales, foreclosures and owner held homes, many real estate professionals can no longer compete. By leading their neighborhood social network with promotional tools from MyOnlineNeighborhood.com, real estate professionals can establish themselves as the neighborhood real estate professional. However, this opportunity is not available for everyone, as each neighborhood social network will have only one real estate professional. 

Don and Diane Eagle founded MyOnlineNeighborhood.com in 2000 as a result of their frustration with the rising costs and diminishing returns of magazine and newspaper advertising. “Why spend thousands of dollars to advertise to people all over the state, when the buyers and sellers are in your neighborhood,” says Diane. “With MyOnlineNeighborhood.com, we give the community a way to connect and to build a relationship so that when the buyers and sellers need the services of a real estate professional, you will have already established a relationship with them.” Nine years after finishing their first neighborhood site in College Park, Florida, MyOnlineNeighborhood.com has expanded to become a Neighborhood Social Network with more than 1800 neighborhood sites across the country. 

“We’ve been doing ‘Social Networking’ before there was a word for it,” says Don Eagle, co-founder of MyOnlineNeighborhood.com. “We put the Neighborhood online with Video Channels, Events Calendars, Discussion Boards, Job Listings, Merchant Listings and lots more. And each site has only one Real Estate Professional in the Real Estate Channel.” 

MyOnlineNeighborhood.com’s service allows real to position themselves as Neighborhood Real Estate Professionals, by providing Social Networking tools to each neighborhood. “We offer all of the tools that we can think of to the neighborhood. And then we tie those tools in with Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube,” says Diane. 

MyOnlineNeighborhood is different from other SEO-related marketing strategies. “Especially for smaller communities, if you need a barber or a florist, you aren’t going to type that information into google. But that same person would go to their Neighborhood’s website. And once the community starts to use the site, it takes on a life of its own. Its your community!” says Diane. “And with MyOnlineNeighborhood.com, real estate professionals promote their communities and themselves at the same time.” 

RealTown.com is now promoting MyOnlineNeighborhood’s Neighborhood Social Networks on its website. If you are a real estate professional and are interested in learning more, visit MyOnlineNeighborhood.com to fill out an online application or contact Don and Diane Eagle at (800) 470-8730.