WannaNetwork.com is a national online real estate networking and blogging community created to help home buyers and sellers connect with local housing professionals.
Built on a powerful WordPress community platform, WannaNetwork.com has the flexibility to evolve at the speed of innovation as Web 2.0 becomes the number one method of communication and education.
Whether your purpose is to promote your current web site, or to leverage our high traffic online presence to reach your target audience online, WannaNetwork.com is a simple way to integrate a little “Web’ into your daily business routines.
Our authors write articles about basic homeownership eduction, mortgage rate trends, the short sale process, credit score questions, social media marketing and anything else consumer or industry focused that revolves round the real estate industry.
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Our Mission:
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History:
Tony Sena, a Las Vegas Real Estate Broker and Property Manager, created WannaNetwork.com in 2006 simply to serve as an industry specific place where real estate and mortgage related professionals could gather and communicate online.
With web development history as early as 2001, Tony had a vision to develop a real estate niche networking platform that centralized member activity for the purpose of running more effective Search Engine Marketing campaigns.
Since MySpace was the dominating social network at the time, and with only a few emerging real estate focused social networks available to join, Tony decided to launch WannaNetwork.com in May 2006.
His original expectations were to find about 500 participating real estate professionals that shared similar networking and Internet marketing goals. However, after an article published in Realtor® Magaizine by Brian Hilliard of Agito Consulting in early 2007, WannaNetwork.com’s membership grew to over 19,000 real estate professionals and 3,500 network blogs.
In December 2006, Mark Madsen, Tony’s Las Vegas Mortgage partner, joined WannaNetork.com ‘s business development side to help build awareness about the power of social networking and Web 2.0.
John Colascione, President of Searchen.com, was instrumental in the development and search engine marketing of WannaNetwork.com since the beginning. It was nothing short of a miracle that WannaNetwork.com has been able to survive some significant changes, and John’s experience has been our secret weapon.
Dustin Dempsey of Playforward Designs, joined the WannaNetork.com development team in December 2008 as our WordPress master. In a little less than two months, Dustin was able to revamp our community using a Beta version of the popular WordPress / BuddyPress social networking platform.
With the help of a few personal investments from close friends and family, WannaNetwork.com continued to test the boundaries of real estate social networking by launching a forum, listing services, groups, and anything else that might help real estate professionals realize the power of having a web presence.
Updated – Oct 2009:
Unfortunately for the social networking component of WN, we found that offering free WordPress blogs to the industry created an overwhelming amount of spam and maintenance. Due to a lack of time and financial resources, WN was regretfully forced to simplify the online model by converting everything to an easy multi-contributor blog.
While we have done our absolute best over the past three years to provide our members with a powerful online presence for free, we have ultimately failed at integrating a viable revenue model that will support the evolving demands industry professionals need with online technology.
After weighing the options of either charging for blogs, selling more advertising, or exploring affiliate marketing relationships, we’ve decided to simplify things by moving our few active members to one multi-contributor blogging platform.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zillow, Trulia and hundreds more have literally dominated the social networking space in the past two years.
And, good for them. They’ve got hundreds of millions in venture capital to continue pushing forward in this online social networking innovation race. We are sincerely looking forward to their success because our personal real estate and mortgage businesses are depending on it.
However, for this humble WannaNetwork.com crew, we’ve found our individual places and passions with social media through the process of this project.
We love blogging, social media, networking and building equity in our own local online presence.
Going Forward:
WannaNetwork.com’s original vision remains the same – To give real estate professionals a powerful presence online.
We feel that there is a greater need for valuable and timely information about the real estate and mortgage industry now more than ever.
By combining our articles on one high traffic and well optimized site, the contributors to the WN blog will significantly increase their opportunities of reaching their target audience online.
While there may be some B2B related articles written, our main goal is to produce great content that will benefit clients and referral partners.
“Real Estate Networking – with the client in mind”
The past few years have certainly been challenging with the real estate markets in a state of chaos. We’ve found that regardless of technology, platform models, or new social media widgets, a community’s strength comes from the members.
We’d like to sincerely thank the active WannaNetwork.com community for your continued support and participation in our success.
Friends keep friends in the business.
We are not the FHA, VA, USDA, HUD or any other government organization. The content on this blog is intended for information purposes only. 
