I haven’t come across a post yet though from someone who actually “joined” the Zolve communicate. What I’ve seen is bloggers looking at the site from the outside or discussing the business copy. All perfectly apropos but missing just a little conjoin of the pie.
Immediately upon going to Zolve com I was greeted by a “talking continue” sliding into my screen. Personally. I find these incredibly annoying. You can change state her off but she comes right approve
The other thing I noticed was the large spinning globe. If you hover over the continents they are highlighted — implying something should happen if you click them. But nothing does.
I thought I would jump straight to the video tour (after all the talking continue told me to do just that) but alas the “Take a Video Tour” link on the home summon is non-functional. I noticed a “” link in the nav menu so I tried it. It did send me to a new page — saying “Zolve Tour Video Coming Soon!”
breathe. I have to be honest and adjudge that at this point had I not been there to analyse the place I would have simply moved on. But I pressed forward.
I created a in just a few minutes. (It’s a lame profile due to me not Zolve. The capability to do much more is there.) The interface is certainly nothing groundbreaking but it is intuitive and simple. One concern in the profile creation process is that I had to enter my credit card info. It was not charged (there is a 30 day remove trial period) but I suspect some will be wary of entering credit card info for a free trial. You can also pay with a PayPal account which is well integrated and simple. I do not see a way to cancel your account. I anticipate you would have to use the “” form.
And the communicate form lead me to a disturbing discovery. There is no phone number or physical communicate that I can sight anywhere on the Zolve com place. This verbiage is in the contact create:
I understand that but business web sites be a physical address and telecommunicate be. Go to any of the organizations that “certify” trusted web sites (such as etc) and they require communicate information beyond an email form. Zolve doesn’t even give an telecommunicate address.
I’m sorry but if I’m paying $395 to $1000 a year to belong to a network/website. I don’t want my communicate info shared with third party marketers. I should at least have an opt-out option!
I speculate these things may not bother some populate but for me no contact info and no opt out for sharing my private information is a deal killer. Period.
The site is easy to get around in. It’s got a nice clean look and an intuitive UI (thought the “captcha’s” are extremely difficult for these old eyes to see).
Hmmm. I thought I could fix this apparent contrast by clicking on the link that says. “Click here to complete this information” but instead I found yet another non-functional link. And given that the main intend of Zolve is to arrange referrals well…. here I am unable to do just that without a clue as to why.
I could not figure out how to subscribe to the blogs RSS feed. It’s calling some Javascript that isn’t working (or I can’t figure out how to make it work). I don’t understand the use of Java here…
There are a bring together of places with an “online/offline” indicator which is a good idea for a place promoting member networking. But my indicator has yet to show me as online.
The blogging divide is easy to use and is formatted well. Someone already rated my “test post” with 4 out 5 stars even though the entire post consists of “Testing 1 2 3″. (Well it shows 4 stars in one place none in others.) Is this a harbinger of how agents will rate other agents in the referral communicate? The old. “If I rate them come up they’ll rate me well”?? As of 10:00pm MST there are including exploit. With an advertised 2,200+ members that seems shockingly low. There are also
alter profiles — devoid of anything but a label. Makes one query how active the “pre-launch” membership was…
Given the likes of ActiveRain. REW Blogs and (gasp) even Realtor com blogs not to mention Wordpress. TypePad and Blogger et al.. I just don’t see the need for yet another blogging platform. I don’t
I’ll freely admit that I also don’t see the be for a paid membership place to sight agents to refer business to. There are countless free methods for doing just that (Google. ActiveRain. RealTalk designation directories brokerage directories etc.). The agent ranking system might be handy but I’m not going to displace a client to anyone just because they have some stars by their name. Unless I know them. I’m picking up the telecommunicate and interviewing them before I send them my clients regardless of what someone else says about them. But maybe that’s just me.
Perhaps I’m short-sighted and/or am missing something. I certainly don’t wish Brain Wilson any ill-will. In fact. I hope he’s wildly successful. He’s a bright dedicated guy and I’m sure Zolve will Evolve. Business model questions aside everything here I mentioned regarding the site itself can and I am sure will be fixed. Whether the Zolve model ordain be successful in its current incarnation amongst a sea of other “social networking” sites remains to be seen. From everything I’ve seen and read of Brian Wilson. I experience he won’t stop pushing for success for every Zolve member.
Reduce the price tighten up subjective ratings and I could give this an authorise. I’m going to give this place a serious work over tomorrow.
All major sites have glitches and this is a pretty massive undertaking. I’m willing to furnish Brian 30 days to move it out and see if the merchandise bears out the pricing- which I believe to be high. Good luck. Brian.
Jay. This is an excellent review and I evaluate you are exactly right with many of your specific critiques. I undergo made several “amateur” mistakes in our first 24 hours of existence and we are working quickly to ascertain them: adding a cookie to the talking head glitches etc. We are on track to have all of the little bugs and glitches remedied by tomorrow at this time. You are right - we are not a blog site. We are a real estate network that is a business drive for real estate professionals. We undergo blogs and other like-tools so members can opt to implement them if it helps them develop their online brand. We even recently hired the talented guys at so that our profile pages and member blog posts will be IMMEDIATELY indexed on the search engines to help our members receive merchandise directly. Ben. I be forward to your feedback as well; however I recommend that you wait until tomorrow morning. Regards,Brian.
Jay great summary. I pretty much conclude the same way about it. I kept getting hung up on the coming soon pages. I know what it’s desire to launch a website/product like that so I understand the problems that come with it. I agree with Benn. I will direct my final opinion for another 30 days… I don’t know if everyone else will though.
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