Technology Corner

<p> Recently I noticed that some of my emails have not been received by clients who have had no problem receiving them in the past. Also, I am not receiving some emails. I do not receive notification that the emails have not gone through. They are not in the clients spam folders. There seems to be no method to the madness. Sometimes the clients receive them and sometimes they do not. Network Solutions hosts my mail. I understand they recently updated their spam filtering with a company named Cloudmark and that other clients have has some of the same difficulties. Network Solutions has hosted my email for many years without any problems but this is a nightmare. Thus far, their tech support has been unable to help at all and they do not seem concerned in the least about losing business. Does anyone have any insight or can you recommend a new company? </p> <p> </p> <p> Melodye Lane-Laveglia </p> <p> Coldwell Banker Chicora Real Estate </p> <p> <a href="mailto:MelodyeLane@att.net">MelodyeLane@att.net</a> </p> <p> <a href="mailto:Melodye@Melodye.com">Melodye@Melodye.com</a> </p>

<p> I just got a call from Agent Advantage trying to sell me a web site that includes IDX, contact management and SEO. They claim that their site will bring lots more traffic. The cost is about $ 200 a month. </p> <p> Has anybody used their services? Suggestions? </p> <p> Thanks, </p> <p> Mike </p> <p> </p>

<div class="snap_preview"> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">Ah yes… a paperless world. What does it mean to be paperless? Is being paperless motivated by economics or the environment? I believe that if you can make your life more efficient and differentiate yourself from the competition, while saving the world, being paperless is worth it… right?</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">My company, GoPaperless Solutions has developed a software solution for the mobile professional (first release is specifically built for real estate agents but can be customized to work for any vertical industry) that allows them to avoid the common annoyances in everyday business life. Do you hate using fax machines and copiers? Do you hate having to go back to the office just to use these devices? Do you want to present contracts to clients and give them ability to sign with a pen (&quot;wet signature&quot;) right on your tablet laptop? Do you want to give clients and co-workers the ability to access these documents from the internet? How about integrated fax and emailing? </span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">Tablet computing has changed the game forever. When you can physically &quot;write&quot; on your laptop you have forever eliminated the need for paper. And given the E-Sign (the E-Sign Act created a universal standard for contracts, signatures and records created by electronic means), electronic signatures are legally enforceable. The question becomes are these applications available today? Yes they are! It doesn&#39;t matter if you are a real estate professional, lawyer, field tech, or anyone that needs mobility in their business…. paperless applications are available now!</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">I will be sharing my personal journey through the paper to paperless conversion in my everyday life. Being paperless is something that starts with each one of you! Just the other day I filled out and signed on my tablet employment docs using our E-Sign Dashboard® (one of 2 solutions including The Real Estate Dashboard®), and put them in my vault (within dashboard a place to store documents and give access for others to view online) where HR could access the signed documents and continue to facilitate the hiring process without ever having to fill-out paperwork! This application is useful for any function of business to facilitate reviewing, sharing and signing documents without paper. And being paperless will differentiate you from the competition which will directly correlate to winning more business! I promise if you show up to an appointment with a tablet you will immediately separate yourself from the person that is shows up shuffling paper.</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">For most, especially in the current economic environment, creating efficiencies is critical to survival. Staying in the field and in front of the client has never been more important. Unnecessary travel or rather the need to be tied to the office greatly reduces productivity! Being mobile allows you to control how you operate and manage your business (go the extra mile and integrate an effective unified voice and messaging platform to bring rich application driven fixed line and mobile phone capabilities). Fixed costs such as paper, gas, shipping, storage, device maintenance starts to move closer to zero. The ROI becomes even stronger when considering how going paperless creates better efficiencies, leading to better client relationships and MORE business opportunities. And the fact that it helps save trees! Case closed!</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">Did you know that paper costs for an office of 100 is close to 450k/year* (when you consider paper purchases, photocopying, printing, faxing, mailing, courier, and storage)??</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">I am very excited about this journey and hope to share with you how people are making their lives paperless and why that is helping the overall performance of their business.</span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">If you have any questions don&#39;t hesitate to email or check out our website <a href="http://www.gopaperless.com"><font color="#2970A6">www.gopaperless.com</font></a></span> </p> <p style="line-height: 14.25pt"> <span style="font-family: &quot;; font-size: 10pt&quot;">Enjoy the ride and see ya out there (without paper).</span> </p> </div> <p> </p>

<p> Does anyone have a free or inexpensive software they have used to convert a youtube video (url link) to a video file that can be uploaded to a fan page on facebook or a website? Is that something you can do as long as you credit the author? </p> <p> Thanks in advance! </p> <p> Cindy Cook, Keller Williams Realty-Oklahoma </p> <p> (405) 625-6951 </p> <p> <a href="mailto:cindycook@kw.com">cindycook@kw.com</a> </p>

<div class="excerpt"> <p> You really didn&#39;t want to mess with being a spammer anyway, did you? </p> <p> Please wake up and smell the coffee: it has always been about the content, and now nothing else will work: </p> <ul> <li>Create a perfectly optimized blog on your own domain </li> <li>Post high quality, unique in all the world, NEW (no regurgitated spam) content </li> <li>Pick a few social networks, maybe Facebook, this one, AR, Linked in, myblogLog to concentrate on </li> <li>Post partial of full copies after making sure you digg, stumble, and otherwise show google who the source is, with links back to you (the source) </li> <li>Do this religiously, at least once per week. </li> </ul> <p> Why, you may ask? </p> <p> http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/category/case-studies/ </p> <p> Because it works, has always worked, will always work. </p> <p> Dont&#39; want to post? You are in huge company.That is whay it works for my clients. </p> <p> Related: <a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/the-slow-death-of-seo-as-we-know-it/">The Slow Death of SEO</a> </p> <p> &quot;the battle ouside a raging, will soon bang on your windows and rattle your walls, for the times, they are a changin...&quot; </p> </div>

<p> There are a lot of people around here selling solutions that look an awful lot like what we sold three years ago and the pricing is about in that area, $2,600 - $3,600. </p> <p> Don&#39;t buy them. Wordpress blogs are free. With us, hosting is free. Our equivalent service is only $975, and it includes hosting for one year, because that is the correct price for this market. Hosting after that is $10 month, NOT $25 or $30! </p> <p> Submission is stupid, the important robots talk to each other and they will find you! Link-building is outdated! Publish properly syndicated, good, original content to get links that matter. </p>

<p> Dear, </p> <p> My name is Florian Mas, I am a young entrepreneur in internet estate market in France. </p> <p> I have created a blog call Immobilier 2.0 (real estate 2.0) in france, which is the main estate blog in web marketing and innovation in estate market in France. </p> <p> We wants to make this blog international, so we looking for partnership in order to help us translate our articles in english and communicate in english country. </p> <p> <br /> If you are interested don&#39;t hesitate to contact me </p> <p> Florian Mas </p> <p> fmas@moobz.fr </p> <p> <a href="http://www.immobilier2.0-le-blog.com/">http://www.immobilier2.0-le-blog.com/</a> </p>

<p> After trying numerous earpieces including Jawbone and Blue Ant, I finally found one that works for me - the Plantronics Voyager PRO. I recommend it every chance I get (and others that use it tell me they do the same). I&#39;ve used it in my convertible (with the top down) at highway speeds and people at the other end tell me they can hear me just fine. I can be in a noisy room and the other party cannot hear a thing. It&#39;s pretty comfortable to wear and I often forget I&#39;m wearing it. I&#39;ve been on the other end of conversations with Realtors that have poor earpieces and have had a difficult time understanding what they were saying. I always suggest they look into the PRO. </p> <p> Cheers, </p> <p> Marty </p>

<p> <!--StartFragment--><font face="Arial" size="2">I&#39;m a new e-PRO as of yesterday. I currently am with z57 for my website and have liked if for the most part. I asked about incorporating 3rd level domain names. They told me I would have to register them through someone like GoDaddy and point them to my appropriate web pages-- that&#39;s not the answer I wanted to hear. I was planning on doing sign riders like &quot;Home.LanceLindstrom.com&quot; or &quot;Lakefront.LanceLindstrom.com&quot; for each listing which goes to it&#39;s own web page. I have IDX with them and they have automatic email follow-up campaigns. I&#39;m paying $99 / month. Feel free to check out my site and throw in your 2 cents worth. I wouldn&#39;t mind trimming the cost either, but I want quality and the ability to incorporate the changes. Can you relate? Suggested solution? Thank you.</font> </p> <p> <!--StartFragment--><strong>Lance Lindstrom</strong><strong><font face="sans-serif">,</font></strong> <strong><font face="Euphemia" size="2">CDPE, CNHS, CRS, GRI, RCC, e-PRO</font></strong><strong><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Broker Associate / Real Estate Consultant</font></strong> </p> <p> <strong><font face="sans-serif" color="#FF0000" size="2">RE</font></strong><strong><font face="Arial" color="#0000FF" size="2">/</font></strong><strong><font face="sans-serif" color="#FF0000" size="2">MAX</font></strong> <strong><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Realty Source, Inc.</font></strong> </p> <div> <strong><font face="sans-serif" size="2">(320) 558-5678</font></strong> </div> <div> <strong><font face="sans-serif" size="2">(763) 234-7629</font></strong> </div> <div> <a href="mailto:Lance@LanceLindstrom.com"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">MailTo:Lance@LanceLindstrom.com</font></strong></a> </div> <div> <a href="http://lancelindstrom.com/"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">http://LanceLindstrom.com</font></strong></a> </div>

<p> Hi all. I&#39;m finally going to ditch the website my company gave me gratis and will invest in something a little more polished. I&#39;m leaning heavily towards superlative.com. It seems they have a great total solution for $29.95/mo (website, property search, lead capture &amp; management). Are any of you using or have used Superlative? I&#39;d appreciate any comments - good or bad. Thanks </p>

<p> I am contemplating on getting ACT!. I would like to hear some thoughts on it from those that use it or have used it. What I want to do is track or log all my clients information the amount of time I spend on each task and how much I spend and how many things I need to print or purchase for each client. If there is something else out there that will help me with that please let me know. </p>

<p> I am returning to a Real Estate career after a long hiatus to raise four children. Of course, when I left the online real estate marketing was in its infancy. I am in Section 3 of the e-Pro course. I am very excited about being an online Realtor. However, I am still not sure where I find domain hosts, email hosts and web hosts. Should I just use the company I am affiliating with or should I find others. Any recommendations? </p>

<p> Does anyone know of a program that would allow a class to be held online for members of an office that can&#39;t physically get into the office for class? Would love to hear what other offices are doing. Would like the ability to have chat online questions as the training goes on. (I am supposed to be head of the tech committee- important class today but I am snowed in) </p>

<p> I have had my Toshiba CTX100 Analog/Digital system for 10 years. Looking to upgrade phone system and considering Hosted VOIP. Would like any referrals/feedback that I can get. I understand the technology pretty well, however, have not found a vendor that I am comfortable with. Looking for answers. Thanks, </p>

<p> Hi Everyone - is anyone doing BPO&#39;s for Secured Lending Services? Website is <a href="http://www.irepvm.com/">http://www.irepvm.com/</a>. If you have been doing BPO&#39;s, have you gotten any REO&#39;s??? Thanks </p> <p> Noreen &amp; Wayne, Associate Brokers </p> <p> Better Homes &amp; Gardens Rand Realty </p> <p> Serving Northern Westchester &amp; Putnam Counties, NY </p>