Samantha’s Weekly Tip – Fact-check Your Single Property Website Before Publishing

You’ve uploaded great photos, crafted descriptive text and added documents to make your single property Website enticing. Your PowerSite looks great, but is it accurate? Whether it’s a typo or an error in one of the publicly available databases we use to automatically fill out information about your property, incorrect information can sink an otherwise stellar site. Here is a list of links and Website content worth reviewing before you publish or start marketing your site.

Mapping Link – Make sure your “Property Map” link is mapping the property correctly. Google Maps generates a map based on the property’s address, but if it gets it wrong, you can easily switch to another map provider. Select “Mapping and Email Settings” under the ‘Edit PowerSite’ tab.

Area School Information – Make sure the right schools are listed. The IES (National Center for Education Statistics) Website generates information about local schools based on the zip code you enter for the property. Make sure it gets it right. If not, turn off the link and create custom link leading back to area school Website. View this earlier post to learn more about custom links (click here).

Contact Information – Review your contact field to make sure your email address and contact numbers are correct. If you have not created a site in a while, give a quick look to see if this information needs updating.

Price – Is your price correct? Does it have enough zeros? Too many?

MLS Number – Again, it’s worth a quick look to make sure you entered the correct number.

Spell Check – So important! There is nothing worse than seeing a great site full of spell errors. Use this feature! It can be found under the ‘Edit PowerSite’ tab. It only takes a few seconds. Of course, you’ll want to be careful that proper names aren’t “corrected.”

And last…

Photos – it never hurts to preview your slideshow to make sure all of your photos are crisp and clear. View this earlier blog post for single property Website photo quality tips (click here).

If you need help correcting any of these features send us an email to support@agencylogic.com or call our technical support team (888) 201-5160. We are always happy to help.

AgencyLogic Selects HomeGain’s Instant Home Values Tool to Provide to Its Single Property Website Customers

HomeGain’s instant home value tool is now available to clients of AgencyLogic and their extensive single property website vendor network.

Emeryville, CA April 23, 2009 — HomeGain®, the first website to provide free instant home values, today announced that it has been selected by AgencyLogic to provide an instant home valuation solution for their single property website customers.

The HomeGain instant home values tool provides home price estimates, prices of recent home sales and valuations of comparable homes for sale.

“We are delighted to have been selected by AgencyLogic to provide an additional rich source of information to their single property website customers,” said Louis Cammarosano, General Manager of HomeGain.

“We are committed to providing our single property website customers with best of breed solutions and HomeGain’s instant home values tool fits that bill,” said Stephen Fells, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of AgencyLogic. “This feature continues our policy of continued product improvement and adds significantly to our product’s value proposition, not only to our clients, but also to home buyers and sellers.”

Download HomeGain’s instant home values tool to display on your website.

About HomeGain: HomeGain® is a leading provider of online marketing solutions that connect real estate agents and brokers with home buyers and sellers. For nearly a decade HomeGain has offered free services to find and compare real estate agents, research home values, and view homes for sale. Realtors® use HomeGain’s real estate marketing programs, products and tools to connect to consumers, promote their services and grow their business. HomeGain.com receives an average of over five million unique visits per month, ranking it in the top 10 real estate websites worldwide.

About AgencyLogic: AgencyLogic is a division of Network Earth, Inc., a technology company founded in 1995 that specializes in Web-based software development for businesses. Network Earth’s expertise includes application and Website development with the company recently moving into the social networking world with the formation of Social Gears, LLC. Today, PowerSites™ are the company’s main product, and are revolutionizing the way Realtors are marketing properties online by allowing them to affordably create a single Website for every listing. To learn more about single property websites from AgencyLogic visit: www.agencylogic.com.

Allen Hainge Blog – A Review of AgencyLogic PowerSites

Allen Hainge

National technology speaker and trainer Allen Hainge is known for showing sales associates and companies how to make money using today’s technology. Allen began his real estate career in 1973, and, after 16 months of frustration, he finally learned how to list and soon became one of his area’s top listers. Today, he passes on what he learned as a sales associate and sales manager to others in the industry, concentrating on showing them how to use today’s technology to increase market share.

Allen teaches courses for 5 REALTOR® Institute programs around the country and has been a featured technology speaker at the past five NAR annual conventions, for three CRS Sell-A-Brations, and for Howard Brinton’s StarPower conference.

He is the past Chairman of the Residential Sales Council’s Computer Committee, and has been a featured technology and marketing speaker for state and local REALTOR® Associations, conventions, RS Chapters, Women’s Councils, companies and franchises in 42 states….always to rave reviews!

He is the author of real estate’s leading online email technology newsletter, “Allen F. Hainge’s CYBERSTAR® News & Views” and of the best selling book, “Dominate! Capturing Your Market With Today’s Technology”.

In short, Allen is real estate’s leading authority on using today’s technology, including the Internet, as a communications and marketing tool. Ask anyone who’s attended his seminars: he presents the material in a fun, easy-to-understand manner and always gives his clients more than they paid for!

On those rare days when Allen isn’t presenting a seminar around the country, he seeks solitude in tent camping, fly fishing for the wily trout, and fishing for lunker bass. He swears he’s going to get back to his bluegrass banjo lessons “some day soon”!

Check out a recent blog posting Allen made about our own AgencyLogic PowerSites. It includes a review by CyberStar Peggy West who uses single property Websites to “to razzle-dazzle my sellers”.

Allen’s Website can be found at www.cyberstars.net and his blog is at blog.cyberstars.net.