Ubertor Real Estate Blog

KitsCondos.ca - Site of the Week from Cristian Marine on Vimeo.

Jacky Levi and Jeff Fitzpatrick are the proud owners of Kitscondos.ca, a niche market site that specializes in the sale of properties in the Kitsilano area. Kitscondos.ca has an Alexa Rank of 4,546,130. What is Alexa Rank?

The website offers a great design by Kuni using flash in both video and animation formats. Jacky and Jeff use three unique lead capture contact forms: BOOK A SHOWING, PROPERTY ALERTS and KITSTRACKER. Kitscondos.ca has also integrated Google Maps in many of their pages adding interactivity to it. Their listings are intelligently categorized making it a lot easier for visitors to look through their online listing availability.

Fresh, up to date and easy are the three words that describe this week’s Site of the Week.

Gary Vaynerchuk, famous online wine expert who is changing the wine world, met up with the Reachd team in Seattle for an interview about social media.

Big few weeks coming up. Lots of great learning events for you to take advantage of. Here are the upcoming events in the Vancouver and Seattle areas:

3 Hour Video Training
Special Guest: Gary Vaynerchuk
Saturday June 28th 9am - 12pm
Zillow’s Office (999 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA)
$200.00 (includes FREE Flip Video Camera and FREE copy of Gary’s book)
REGISTER NOW

The Vancouver Real Estate Tech July Meetup
Special Guest: Scott Humphrey, Peak Performance Specialist
Monday July 7th 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver, BC)
FREE (feel free to bring a friend)
RSVP NOW

3 Hour Video Training
Tuesday July 15th 2pm - 5pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver, BC)
$200.00 (includes FREE Flip Video Camera)
REGISTER NOW

3 hours of Blog Training
Tuesday July 8th 2pm - 5pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver BC)
Cost - $99.00
REGISTER NOW

3 Hour SEO Training
Thursday July 10th 2pm - 5pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver BC)
Cost - $99.00
REGISTER NOW

Learn to Market Like a Snipper
3 hour Adwords Training
Tuesday July 3rd 2pm - 5pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver BC)
Cost - $99.00
REGISTER NOW

Social Media Guided Tour (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin)
Tuesday July 29th 2pm - 5pm
Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe, Vancouver BC)
Cost $200.00 + Bring a Friend for FREE
REGISTER NOW

Calling all agents and real estate developers.. Inman News wants your stories and asks that you submit your videos with your response. From their website:

“We’re looking for interesting stories and you want to tell us in person. So shoot a video and share it with us.

What do we want?
Developers - tell us what you’ve been working on and why it’s important. Tell us the genesis of the idea and how you’re responding to a real need in the marketplace.

Agents - tell us how your integrating technology into your business. How you’ve changed up your marketing to react to Web 2.0.”

They ask you to use a Flip Video Camera…. so go out and get one or if you want one and some training you can do that through Reachd in Seattle or Vancouver.

Get shooting and good luck!

Video Realtor Ian Watt posted this video about his experience with Ubertor, check it out:

Only 25 Cents - Ubertor the best Realtor Website Company from Ian Watt Vancouver Penthouse on Vimeo.

Reid Dewson and Ed Gramauskas, owners of loftsvancouver.com, are Realtors that specialize in the sale of lofts in Vancouver. Loftsvancouver.com currently has an Alexa rank of 1,584,831. What is Alexa Rank?

They are currently listing the last ten home in the Pure building at 1252 hornby street.

Reid and Ed have created a site with a unique design that helps set them apart from other Realtors. If we look in the site we find great info on loft lifestyle, what is a loft and the different kinds of lofts. This extra content helps them achieve high rankings on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They have a great introductory video that helps the visitor get to know the team at Lofts Vancouver. Hopefully, we will see more of Reid and Ed now that Ubertor has Youtube and Vimeo integration.Their interesting map search takes you to all the listings in a specific neighborhood adding to the ease of use and customer experence.

“Any site requiring a log in is death for lead generation. A few visitors may docilely give you their personal information, most will not. You should not employ this technique. (Now that DOJ and NAR have settled, perhaps the MLS in certain areas will drop this kind of requirement to view properties—a good thing for clients and a good thing for agents and brokers!) If your site does use this mandatory sign in, my advice is to contact your webmaster right now and have it changed.” (from: http://brokeragentpro.com)

Interesting. I have been saying this for quite some time. With websites like BugMeNot.com, requiring people to log into your website to see results it not a lead generator. It is a good way to get garbage contact information and or email address that are provided by websites like BugMeNot.com. Definitely not “leads”.

When you email Gary Vaynerchuk you get an autoresponse email that sends you a link to this video. It is an interesting use of video to solve a common problem. Take a moment to check it out.

Vancouver Penthouse Realtor Ian Watt posts an opinionted video about his thoughts on giving out the keys to your house. Agree? Disagree? - either way I’m sure he gets clients that pick him cause they agree.

Handing out keys to strangers, why would I do that? from Ian Watt Vancouver Penthouse on Vimeo.

Our pal Andy Beal creates a new product that helps you track your online reputation. (the team at Reachd caught up with Andy in Las Vegas last Christmas)

A great Google feature for getting driving directions to open houses this weekend.