Please remove any reference to our company from the internet. You are no longer affiliated with our franchise (actually my company at that time had dropped the franchise) and we don't want any connection of your name with ours on the internet.
This was over 10 years ago and they even threatened legal action if ALL references weren't removed.
I just read Norma Toering's blog about "Please remove my home from the internet". Similar issues arise from sites you don't control.
Even 10+ years ago that was an impossibility. The biggest problem is sites that you don't control. Some of those sites had been abandoned. Others were vendors we'd used years before who had our name and then affiliated company on a list of their clients. Some were news articles. Some were archive sites.
Mission: Impossible.
Future Implications ????
Excellent point Sharon. There are just some things that are beyond our control. Have a great day!
I would not know how to remove all listings from the internet. Do not even know if it is possible. Why dont THEY do it!? Keep providing great service to clients and you will be fine. We are direct lenders and would love to build a relationship with your firm. Thanks for sharing.
Sharon when I've changed brokerages I do lots of searching online to see that my name shows up with the current brokerage. Sometimes, though, we can't fix it because it's not ours to change, such as when we're quoted in a news article and are identified as being with a certain brokerage. Can't change history and if you or I were with "X Brokerage" in 1985, then it's going to stay online that way and it would be false to change it anyway. (Reminds me of adoptions: when babies are adopted, their birth parents' names are removed from the birth certificate. Doesn't seem quite right to re-write history that way, but that's how it's done.)
I guess it all comes down to expectations and whether or not they're reasonable.
Sharon, absolutely a tough issue to address. Good post topic. Should generate some responses!
Hi Sharon~
One bank I know of is insisting that all references to outdated listings be deleted as they take over properties. I am not sure if the banks knows what it is asking. .....
When I get a stupid request like this from a vendor I picture Dwight from "The Office". Something tells me this is pretty accurate!
Sounds like a spiteful request. Was this notice sent to every agent who was no longer affiliated with the franchise? Just monitoring something like this from the company's perspective would require a fully staffed Internet Compliance department. It's totally silly.
that is really amazing that they would send something like that out when you are no longer affiliated!
Excellent post as usual and great point! This thing happens to me! It took forever to remove it!
Thanks for sharing,
Adam
I can not imagine the trouble that it would be to try to remove all of our references to Keller Williams on our sites and those that have syndicated our content and material. WOW.