Ubertor Real Estate Blog

Attention all Ubertor users and anyone thinking about signing up for an Ubertor website…

Sign up for an Ubertor Webinar, held every Tuesday at 10:00 AM, and learn how an Ubertor website can work for you.

The webinar will go over the basics of the system and teach you how to utilize and maximize your Ubertor website for the most return!

Learn …

• The power of blogging, and how to use your blog to capture more attention to your website.
• How to use the E Flyer tool to market your listings on Craigslist!
• How the Ubertor listing module is, second to none, when displaying your listings.
• How you can build any web page to show your visitors what YOU want them to see.
• How to start ranking in Google for your chosen “search term”

What are you waiting for?

Don’t be left behind - Sign up for the webinar today: www.ubertor.com/webinar

Reachd.com is holding a 3 Hour Video Training on Thursday October 23rd 2pm - 5pm at Ceili’s Irish Pub (670 Smithe) in downtown Vancouver. The cost of the workshop is $200.00 and gets you 3 hours of training as well as a free Flip Video Camera (value $150). This workshop has sold out every month that we have run it. If your interested sign up now as seats won’t last.

What Realtors have already taken the video workshop?

Here are a few: David Malkin, Dave Burch, Mike Alford, Marco Reichgeld, Damali Adomi, Maria Mak, Damon Krepski, Christina Simpson, Jessi Johnson, Tom Everitt, Anita Schmitt, Ian Watt, Claire LeLacheur, Mike Rampf, Sylvain Cyr, plus many many more. Sign up now.

Tom Everitt was also asked to make a video about his upcoming appearance at the Real Estate Technology Meetup. Take a moment to check it out below:

The Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup is doing something different in October. We have created a panel of 3 tech savy Realtors to come to the front of the room and answer questions about their use of technology, their problems, successes, challenges and ideas. It will be a great session. Who is on the panel?

Our Moderator: Stephen Jagger, co-founder of Ubertor.com and Reachd.com

Our Tech Savy Agents:

Ian Watt - IanWatt.ca
“Marketing Your Luxury Vancouver Condominium
100% Digitally, 100% Internationally, and 100% Effectively”

Matthew Collinge - 604homes.com
“Vancouver’s Family Real Estate Specialist
serving families from 1 to 100″

Tom Everitt - ThinkTom.com
“ThinkTom.com has been providing world class
real estate services since 2000.”

Be sure to RSVP. Details and RSVP information here - http://realestateagent.meetup.com/109/calendar/8675921/

I asked each of the panel guests to make a video about the upcoming meetup. Ian Watt’s arrived quite quickly… here is what he has to say about the meetup:

Mike Lefebvre starts his latest video Ian Watt style but takes it for a twist and ends up shooting the video while getting a hair cut. Nice.

The award for Site of the Week (SOW) for this week goes to Betsythomas.com. The website has Google PageRank of 0/10 and an Alexa Rank of 9,540,000 (What is an Alexa Rank?).

Betsy is Founder and President of Betsy Thomas Emboldened Living, Inc. Embolden grew over the years from a life coaching company into a lifestyle and empowerment company that is dedicated to helping men and women transform their lives and in turn facilitate change. They have customized and designed their website with the expert help of Kuni from kunidesign.com. You’ll see a colorful site that looks fresh and clean making good usage of Fonts, Graphic Design, Photography and Copywriting. She is using YouTube videos and google apps to make the site a bit more interactive and she’s effectively syndicating content to reach more ground.

Keep up the good work, Betsy!

Do you think your website has what it takes, to bring home the SOW Award next week?

Contact Ubertor and let us know why your website is the next SOW.

Tom Everitt is doing a daily video show on his website and today’s video is about 5 tips to help sell your home. Take a moment to check out the video below:

A few questions:

- Are you doing something different in this challenging real estate market?
- Are you interested in learning more about online video? (check out Reachd for help; Tom did)

It is with great honor that I announce that Ubertor has become local in Whistler, BC and as a result will now offer service from Squamish to Pemberton. With this announcement comes a special Ubertor addition made just for Realtor’s working within these areas. We have added a complimentary Introduction Video to our Premium and Plus plans until the end of October.

In addition, we have also formed a new chapter of the “Real Estate Technology Meetup” for Whistler with our first meetup occurring on October 8th, 2008 at Citta’ Bistro. Citta’s is in the heart of the Whistler Village, located at 4271 Village Stroll or at cittabistro.com Be sure to keep an eye on the Meetup site and let us know you will be coming, and to find out the itinerary for Whistler’s first Real Estate Tech meetup.

If you are interested in seeing me to learn more about Ubertor or just to say hi and welcome me to the community, please send me an email and let me know when I can see you and tell you more. You can reach me a at mitch (at) ubertor.com or follow me on Twitter to see where I am.

Last month I posted a picture of a condo developer in Vancouver’s marketing. I walked by that same window yesterday and the sign has been changed. We have lots of discussion about last months, even the developer got involved in the conversation - what do you think of this months?

Reachd.com has put together a special deal for October 2008 and it is something that you should take advantage of. Every Thursday in October you can learn about a new tool on the internet to promote your real estate business. Each workshop is 3 hours long and runs in downtown Vancouver.

Market Like a Sniper with Google Adwords (Oct 2nd $99)
Explode Your Growth with a Blog (Oct 9th $99)
Build a Site Google Loves; SEO (Oct 16th $99)
Broadcast Your Message with Online Video (Oct 23rd $200)
Social Media Guided Tour (Oct 30th $200)

If you signup for all of them you can get it for $499.00 which is a savings of $198.00. For complete details go to http://www.reachd.com/october