Ubertor Real Estate Blog

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

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

My business partner Michael Stephenson and our lead programmer are down in San Francisco this week attending Google I/O. Google says it is “Two days of in-depth, technical sessions on how to build the next generation of web applications with Google and open technologies”. Mike was invited to attend the event and will be chatting at the fireside with the Google Engineers on integrating Google’s exciting new applications and technologies to once again redfine the Real Estate Website Space.

Also, tomorrow night is WordPress’s 5th birthday party and Mike will be there. It is being held at 111 Minna Gallery (111 Minna Street, San Francisco, California) and it looks like it is going to be a lot of fun. If your in the area and want to pop by and say hi to Mike, drop him an email (mike /@/ ubertor.com) and I’m sure he would be happy to buy a round of drinks. Click here to get complete details for WordPress’s birthday party.

Google has added video and pictures to the Google Maps results. It is a very interesting addition to the Google Maps functionality. How do you add your video to your listing within Google Maps?

“simply upload your videos to YouTube and ensure that the ‘embed’ option is turned on. Then, associate your video to your business listing through the Local Business Center.

Whether you own a bakery, bed-and-breakfast, or accounting service, enhancing your listing on Google Maps with descriptions, photos - and now videos - is a piece of cake.”

h/t: Reachd
More details here

I received an interesting email today from a company that sells websites to real estate agents. I find the use of our logo in their marketing material interesting, but even more interesting is how they choose to compare their system to ours. Strictly price based, and for the most part incorrect. The below image is what they have sent out:

MyRealPage is choosing to use pricing as their tool of comparison but what I find interesting is that they claim that their service is the exact same as ours and that their websites include these services at no extra charge. I would suggest that anyone interested in looking at our services take our system for a test drive. You can signup on our website and have your website ready in 90 seconds, plus you get the first 30 days free.

Try it.

The above image is incorrect in a few ways. First, some of those items are just plain wrong. The ability to change the masthead and banners is included in every website for NO extra charge. Secondly, are they really saying that the SEO enhancement that we offer for $495 is free on their system? Really? I don’t think so. Thirdly, adding pages to your website is included in your site, it just depends on which plan your on. One of our plans gives you the ability to add 20 additional pages to your website as no charge. That 20 is over and above the 10 pages that the site comes with and does NOT include listings or blog posts as pages.

I’m very confident in our system. It is head and shoulders above our competitor(s) and has excellent search engine optimization features that are second to none. We lead, our competitors follow.

Are you interested in what makes us unique and ahead of the pack?

- our system has the CSS unlocked so that any designer can manipulate the look and feel of your website
- even without our SEO enhancement our websites do extremely well within the search engines
- we do not lock clients into a contract
- we do not charge a setup fee
- we offer you the ability to try our system for free so that you know exactly what your getting
- we are on the pulse of real estate marketing across North America
- instant live help
- constant improvement to the Ubertor system
- in page SEO features that automatically update (title tags, sitemaps, etc) [w/o the enhancement enabled - it gets even better with the enhancement enabled]
- video support built into ever listing
- blog built into every website
- plus much more

There are tons of features that our system offers. The big question is, what do you need?

I will end this post with this… Ubertor’s realtor website software system follows Google’s Webmaster Guidelines to ensure your success within the search engines. Does your current supplier?

If you have any questions about your website, Ubertor’s services or anything at all, feel free to contact us. You can add your comments to this post, connect to our live help, or phone us.

Interesting take on Search… Greg might be right. I hate clicking a result and then going back to Google. Watch this video below, if you like what you see, click here.

Google your name.

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:

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.