Ubertor Real Estate Blog

Get expert advice from an Ubertor specialist on how to use the basics of the system. This is a great start for all new Ubertor users eager to learn how to begin maximizing their website for the most return. This is a live guided tour of Ubertor’s control panel – so if you’re on the fences about Ubertor’s software, click in and join the tour. See how easy it is to get a website up and running.

Join in 2 easy steps (Live Tour is FREE):

1. Register for the Live Tour on June 23rd @ 2:00 PM PST.

Simply click on this LINK at the time of the LIVE TOUR and JOIN!

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended.

The live tour will go over the following topics:

1. Logging into your control panel (1 minute)

2. The Dashboard – Overview of cool tools to get your site running (9 minutes)

* Google Maps – Map your listings with 3 different views
* Google XML SiteMaps – Get found on Google faster than others
* Feedburner – Get your blog going with Feedburner
* Google Analytics – Start tracking the number of people coming to your site
* Favicon – Change your favorites icon

3. Crafting your own page (15 minutes)

* Adding content
* Adding photos
* Adding videos

4. Power marketing your listings (15 minutes)

* Display your photos
* Adding files, like floor plans and strata docs to your listings
* Mapping your listing on Google
* Giving your listing its own domain (URL)
* Adding music to your listing
* Have an open house? Advertise the listing as an open house
* Virtual Tours
* Get your listing on Craigslist – and looking good!
* Adding your own filmed video to the listing

5. Unveil the power of CSS and how it can help you mastercraft your website (5 minutes)

6. What is Twitter? How to use it with your website (5 minutes)

7. Q & A (10 minutes)

**1 LUCKY attendee will win $57.00, just for taking the tour!**

I was asked in December 2010 if I would be interested in rewriting a couple of the modules within the British Columbia Real Estate Associations’s Residential Trading Services Applied Practice Course Manual. I agreed and was tasked to take a few weeks to revise the content within the training manual to reflect today’s business environment. That means removing some of the content as well as injecting my thoughts on how todays real estate agent can operate using the Internet and the tools available to them.

I was notified just the other day that the material has been published and is in use at UBC Sauder School of Business. Thanks to Ania Balicki for sending a picture of the credits in the revised edition.

Interested in learning about outsourcing for your real estate business? Tonight is the next Real Estate Technology Meetup and the topic is “Outsourcing For Realtors”. At this meetup, I will deliver a talk about the benefits of outsourcing, how it works for some real estate agents and some of the tools to make it happen. If you are thinking about hiring an assistant, or want to learn more about using outside of your office labour then this meetup is for you. Complete details and RSVP information here.

Members from Reachd.com, Ubertor.com and OutsourcingThingsDone.com will be on hand to answer all of your real estate technology questions.

A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post about continually pursuing growth and learning – both professionally and personally through reading. This week I’d like to share Ubertor’s library. The topics of each book vary and range from business strategy, company culture, leadership, fitness and self-taught, do-it-yourself books.

Team members have access to the books to engage, read and learn from. We’ve followed the Zappos belief that “Study after study shows that engaging employees through learning and education is much more effective in motivating employees than money or recognition. Motivated employees require less supervision, have a better attitude, and are more productive; all these factors will improve your bottom line.” Our library is the first step in this direction.

To get the ball rolling, and our readers pumped about reading, Ubertor will be giving away the 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. The 4-Hour work week is the blueprint on escaping the 9-5 by understanding and focusing on determination, elimination, automation, and liberation (DEAL) in your life.

Here is how you enter to win:

1. Become a fan of Ubertor on Facebook (1 entry)
2. Post a comment below how you think this book can effect your business (1 entry)
3. Follow @Ubertor on Twitter and send out the following tweet: (1 entry)

I entered to win a copy of @tferriss 4-Hour Work Week from @Ubertor here http://bit.ly/kOmvmD

Contest ends Friday, June 24th at 12:00PM PST. Retweets are not eligible. Good luck!

Are you still on Internet Explorer? If so, it might be time for a change. Over the last few years Internet Explorer (IE) usage has dropped from over 80% to 24.9% in May 2011. A huge decline. Who are the big browsers these days? Firefox with 42.4% and Google’s Chrome with 25.9%.

What browser do you use? Why?

Here are the most recent browser usage stats:

Here is more info on Google Chrome or Firefox

If you’ve been on Ubertor.com and Ubertor’s blog today, you may have noticed a chat box pop up on the right side of your screen. You would have also noticed that a member of our CSR team was the one engaging you. And yes, the CSR you see in the chat box is who you are really chatting with.

This new chat feature courtesy of SnapEngage (these guys have one the best customer service teams, by the way) allows our team to help potential and current clients that are browsing our site and blog with any questions they may have regarding our service, product and events.

Taking the support cap off and putting the sales cap on, the tool also allows us to convert potential clients into new Ubertor sign ups. Our team will start online conversations with site visitors, potential clients, at critical times – for instance when someone is stuck with an order or product question and swiftly resolve the question, providing the guidance and information to convert them from visitors to customers. The tool is simply awesome.

I’ve heard many sides of the story, where a group of people find the proactive chat box annoying and even intrusive at times, and others who like it as it shows the company cares about the visitor. All in all, my 2 cents are that if you don’t like it, simply close it. We’re definitely not there to be intrusive or annoying, but instead the latter – we’re here to help and ensure your experience with Ubertor is a great one!

Uber Fonzy! proactively popping up on Ubertor.com (below)

Last week, the crew from Inman News came to Vancouver for the first Agent Reboot event outside of the United States. It was a solid event, that was well put together with some first class speakers. The night before Agent Reboot, Ubertor hosted the speakers and some of the out of town guest at my home for a cocktail party as a way to welcome them to Vancouver. It was a fun evening!!

Here are a few of the pictures:

(L – R) Debra Trappen from Seattle WA, Tod Lansing, Nicole Nicolay from Pleasanton CA

(L – R) Marty Pospischil, Kevin Jagger (the Long Track Long Shot)

(L – R) Glenn Sanford from Bellingham WA, Gabe Hoggarth from Seattle WA

(L – R) Tod Lansing, Nicole Nicolay from Pleasanton CA, Stephen Jagger

(L – R) Debra Trappen from Seattle WA, Kelley Skar from Calgary AB

(L – R) Sherry Chris from Morristown NJ, Dale Chumbley from Vancouver WA, Jerry Mcnamara, Bill Wassmer

Did you know you can have all of your listings show up on a Google Map. It is a simple way of showcasing to your clients where your listings are in respect to all of the other ones. It is a simple addition to your website that the Ubertor clients services team can do for you. Just click on live help and ask them to add the active listings map to your website.

Here is what it looks like on Andrew Hasman’s website:

Here is what it looks like on LoftsVancouver.com:

To get this feature, go to the “Enhancements” link of your Ubertor Control Panel and order it via “Google Map a Category”.

Get expert advice from an Ubertor specialist on how to use the basics of the system. This is a great start for all new Ubertor users eager to learn how to begin maximizing their website for the most return. This is a live guided tour of Ubertor’s control panel – so if you’re on the fences about Ubertor’s software, click in and join the tour. See how easy it is to get a website up and running.

Join in 2 easy steps (Live Tour is FREE):

1. Register for the Live Tour on June 14th @ 10:00 AM PST.

Simply click on this LINK at the time of the LIVE TOUR and JOIN!

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended.

The live tour will go over the following topics:

1. Logging into your control panel (1 minute)

2. The Dashboard – Overview of cool tools to get your site running (9 minutes)

* Google Maps – Map your listings with 3 different views
* Google XML SiteMaps – Get found on Google faster than others
* Feedburner – Get your blog going with Feedburner
* Google Analytics – Start tracking the number of people coming to your site
* Favicon – Change your favorites icon

3. Crafting your own page (15 minutes)

* Adding content
* Adding photos
* Adding videos

4. Power marketing your listings (15 minutes)

* Display your photos
* Adding files, like floor plans and strata docs to your listings
* Mapping your listing on Google
* Giving your listing its own domain (URL)
* Adding music to your listing
* Have an open house? Advertise the listing as an open house
* Virtual Tours
* Get your listing on Craigslist – and looking good!
* Adding your own filmed video to the listing

5. Unveil the power of CSS and how it can help you mastercraft your website (5 minutes)

6. What is Twitter? How to use it with your website (5 minutes)

7. Q & A (10 minutes)

**1 LUCKY attendee will win $57.00, just for taking the tour!**

Get expert advice from an Ubertor specialist on how to use the basics of the system. This is a great start for all new Ubertor users eager to learn how to begin maximizing their website for the most return. This is a live guided tour of Ubertor’s control panel – so if you’re on the fences about Ubertor’s software, click in and join the tour. See how easy it is to get a website up and running.

Join in 2 easy steps (Live Tour is FREE):

1. Register for the Live Tour on June 9th @ 2:00 PM PST.

Simply click on this LINK at the time of the LIVE TOUR and JOIN!

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) – a headset is recommended.

The live tour will go over the following topics:

1. Logging into your control panel (1 minute)

2. The Dashboard – Overview of cool tools to get your site running (9 minutes)

* Google Maps – Map your listings with 3 different views
* Google XML SiteMaps – Get found on Google faster than others
* Feedburner – Get your blog going with Feedburner
* Google Analytics – Start tracking the number of people coming to your site
* Favicon – Change your favorites icon

3. Crafting your own page (15 minutes)

* Adding content
* Adding photos
* Adding videos

4. Power marketing your listings (15 minutes)

* Display your photos
* Adding files, like floor plans and strata docs to your listings
* Mapping your listing on Google
* Giving your listing its own domain (URL)
* Adding music to your listing
* Have an open house? Advertise the listing as an open house
* Virtual Tours
* Get your listing on Craigslist – and looking good!
* Adding your own filmed video to the listing

5. Unveil the power of CSS and how it can help you mastercraft your website (5 minutes)

6. What is Twitter? How to use it with your website (5 minutes)

7. Q & A (10 minutes)

**1 LUCKY attendee will win $57.00, just for taking the tour!**