Check out this video as it explains Google Documents and how to use it.
- Ubertor uses it to control documents
- I use it for planning my wedding
- Realtors use it to easily keep track of documents
How can you use it?
Check out this video:
Gmail is amazing!. No spam! (at least, very little) If you are tired of getting spam in your inbox every day you need to move to Gmail.com.
The best part is that you can hide your Gmail address and mask it with your domain name.
Here is a video Google put out with some stories of Gmail users:
Here are 5 things that drive me crazy when checking email:
1. Don’t write in ALL CAPS. It does not make it stand out, it makes it hard to read and people will skip it.
2. Don’t respond to an old email message with a new topic. Click on “compose” and start a fresh email.
3. Ensure that you have an email signature that has your phone number, email address and web address on it.
4. HTML Emails do not get through many email programs. (As I write this, I just got an HTML email into my Gmail and none of the images loaded.)
5. Subject lines are important. Make sure you take the time to write an accurate subject line.
What bothers you?
I was emailed this morning by a potential client who has been following our Realtor Website Software. He saw the post giving some examples of Non Realtor websites but wanted to see some examples of Realtor Websites running on our system. Here are a few examples from around North America:
United States:
San Diego Real Estate
Augusta Real Estate
San Francisco Real Estate
Charlottesville Virginia Real Estate
Seattle Real Estate
San Francisco Real Estate
New York Real Estate
Waxhaw, NC Real Estate
Virginia Beach Real Estate
Phoenix Real Estate
Scottsdale Real Estate
Fort Walton Beach Real Estate
Canada:
Vancouver Real Estate
Calgary Real Estate
Victoria Real Estate
Toronto Real Estate
Montreal Real Estate
Edmonton Real Estate
Halifax Real Estate
Hatchet Lake Real Estate
Interested in your own website? Click on Ubertor.com to signup for a website. It takes about 5 minutes to have a fully functional website.
John Lowe from GetCConsulting, an Ubertor Approved Vendor emailed me with a mirror of his companies website. John runs his main website here - http://www.getcconsulting.com but has replicated its look and feel on the Ubertor platform here - http://www.getc.myubertor.com
Check out both sites to see how he ported over the look and feel to the Ubertor system.
This is another example of how a CSS designer can manipulate the Ubertor system to have almost any look and feel. So, if your looking to move from a templated website to a custom design, the Ubertor software is the perfect answer.
As an advanced feature of the Ubertor system and another part of the SEO Enhancement you can control your Robots.txt file. “The robots exclusion standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web spiders and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is, otherwise, publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to categorize and archive web sites, or by webmasters to proofread source code.” (from Wikipedia.org) Click on the marketing tab within your control panel for more details. The is a feature that your search engine optimization person would take advantage of.
The SEO Enhancement feature not only gives you control of your title tags, meta tags and robots.txt file but it also gives you the ability to create landing pages. Click on the live help button for more information.
Darren Barefoot points out a video about the construction of the new Canada Line rapid transit system that is going on right now under the streets of Vancouver, BC. The video is an interesting look at the underground construction project as well as our city in general. He has some great shots and it is worth the 3 minutes to watch it.
Eric, a worker on the Canada Line project writes:
“My co-worker Colin is a film maker, and a good one at that. He has two movies that have been accepted into the Sundance film festival coming up in January. As a Christmas gift, he put together a couple of shots of our work-site for the Costa Ricans to show their families the project and the city.”
Check it out:
As part of the SEO Enhancement available in the Ubertor website system there is a new feature under the marketing tab called “Landing Page”. Within this feature you can quickly and easily create landing pages for your website.
What is a Landing Page? - “In online marketing a landing page, sometimes known as a lead capture page, is the page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search-engine result link. The page will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link, and that is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines.” (from wikipedia.org)
So if your using Google Adwords to promote your business you should not have the ad going to your home page. You should have it going to a landing page within your website that is specific and targeted.
Now within the Ubertor system you can create landing pages quickly and easily. The great thing is that you can test your landing pages effectively. As I have mentioned many times in the past, Google does NOT like duplicate content. And if your testing different landing pages that happen to have some of the same content as other pages, Google can punish you. Well, not if your using the Ubertor landing page system. It is built with special code so that the search engines do NOT index them. That way you can test the same text but different titles or different text but the same titles. Or everything is the same except the lead generation form has different fields. The idea is to test, test, test.
The idea is that your ad is generating some sort of conversion. Instead of just having your ad pointing to your home page, put it to work. Ensure that your advertising money is getting you leads.
Start by creating some landing pages that are specific and targeted to whoever is clicking on your ad. Here is an example of a landing page that Rob Macpherson created for landlords.
You will also notice that there is no banner photo and no navigation on this page. The idea is to ensure that the visitor follows the steps that you want them to follow.
Start now! Start creating landing pages for your ads!
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
The team over at KuniDesigns.com is at it again, this time customizing a website that is on the Ubertor software but is not real estate related. Patricia Houlihan, a Realtor setup another website for her “living green” initiative. The goal of this website is to provide information aimed at assisting people in “living green”.
KuniDesigns took an Ubertor website that is on the $9.99/month plan and customized its look and feel. Check it out here.
Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo run Capulet Communicationstogether. They do web marketing and social media relations, mostly for technology companies. They are based in Vancouver, but they spent most of 2007 working and living in Malta. Their plan for 2008 is to live in Morocco.
If Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Linkedin mean nothing to you or if your looking to understand more about social media marketing then Darren and Julie’s new ebook is for you. It is an easy read with examples tips.
You can buy their ebook here for $29
Here is a little video they put together explaining more about their book.
