Ubertor Real Estate Blog

Saw an interesting promotion being run by M&M’s today and thought it could be applied quite nicely to the real estate industry. It seems that most real estate professionals do similar marketing to their clients and potential clients - why not try something different?
- give a little bag of custom M&M’s to every person that walks into your open house
- send them to everyone who has bought or sold though you in the last year

Check them out - it might work for you. - http://www.mymms.com/shopnow3

Are you looking to get a new domain name? Not sure where to start or how to find available domain names that pertain to your business?

Check out BustAName.com
Bust a Name is a tool to help you find domains. They have combined linguistic data with a unique interface to let you quickly search through thousands of domains and see which are available. If your looking for a domain name, take a moment to play with their system to see what is available.
Here is a quick video that explains their service:

If you find a domain name that you want, register it here ( http://domains.ubertor.com ) as using this website to register your domain name will automatically set it up to point to our nameservers which saves you from having to configure it.

A few months ago I wrote about Google’s new feature in their Google Maps product that allows you to create your own custom map. A few of our clients have taken this opportunity to create a map for their website that breaks down their niche market area. Here are 2 examples of what can be done with this Google feature.

Interesting piece on CBC showcasing the Real Estate Channel as well as featuring Ubertor agent Ian Watt. Check out the piece here:

On Monday July 9th 2007 we will combine the Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup with the Vancouver Young Professionals Meetup for a truly unique evening. In keeping with the feedback that we get from the Meetups, we have changed the lineup a little bit for this next Meetup.

We will have 2 speakers and 2 groups all in the same social networking environment.

Here is the lineup for July 9th 2007:
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM - Social Mixer
6:15 PM - 6:35 PM - Presentation: Michael Jagger, President and Founder of Provident Security (Topic: low/no cost marketing)
6:35 PM - 7:00 PM - Social Mixer
7:00 PM - 7:35 PM - Presentation: Rodney Bartlett and Derek de Jong of Ubertor (Topic: Using Free Google Applications to enhance your real estate business)
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Social Mixer

Keep in mind, we hold this event at Ceili’s Irish Pub so there is great food available. So far there are 118 people RSVP’d for the event. Please be sure to RSVP if you plan on attending.

Photos from past events can be seen here - http://realestateagent.meetup.com/109/photos/