Technology Corner

<p> <a href="http://partners.egrabber.com/ap/main.php?id=23855_4_tlid_8_RealTown&amp;jxURL=http://www.egrabber.com/listgrabberstandard/index.html" target="_blank">ListGrabber</a> is the Real Estate lead Generation Tool. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> ListGrabber is used by Real Estate agents of Century21, RE/MAX, ColdwellBanker, Colliers, Prudential and many more. ListGrabber is a list-building tool for Real Estate Agents who prospect for Fresh Leads over the Internet. ListGrabber extracts leads from 100&#39;s of websites including FSBO listings, MLS lists, Online Directories (Yellow Pages, WhitePages), Membership &amp; Association Directories, or any other Real Estate Listing website, and automatically transfers them into an Excel spreadsheet or other CRM applications. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> For More Info: <a href="http://partners.egrabber.com/ap/main.php?id=23855_4_tlid_8_RealTown&amp;jxURL=http://www.egrabber.com/listgrabberstandard/index.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://partners.egrabber.com/ap/main.php?id=23855_4_tlid_8_RealTown&amp;jxURL=http://www.egrabber.com/listgrabberstandard/trial1.html" target="_blank">Free Download</a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>

<p> Recently my IE7 keeps crashing when a click a link and a new window is opened. I have run a scan and defrag and it didn&#39;t help. Can&#39;t run IE8 since some of the real estate software I use isn&#39;t able to run on it. Help! </p>

<p> We are getting insane amounts of spam on our email addresses. </p> <p> I am always not wanted to have a spam blocker because I do not want to miss a lead from a new client, so until now, we just deleted the spam and moved on. But there is so much of it now, it has become a problem. </p> <p> Does anyone have any recommendations for a safe spam blocker that will get the emails that are clearly spam but leave any that possibly could not be alone? </p> <p> Thanks </p> <p> <br /> Chris </p>

<p> Hello group. I&#39;m a realtor on Hilton Head Island, SC and am ready to purchase a video camera to add property videos to my website, youtube, and in order to email. My main goal is to find a vid cam with the highest quality (not grainy) but at the best price. Can anyone advise? </p>

<p> Looking for recommendations of a full featured two line or four line phone system that has an integrated answering system, is head set compatible and possibly is compatible with a lifter. </p> <p> On the voice message system I&#39;d like to be able to record as the primary message a message that says something like &quot;To leave a message for Rick press 1, to hear detailed information on my upcoming first time buyer&#39;s seminar press 2, to hear about my upcoming open houses press 2&quot;, etc. </p> <p> Any other suggestions on features of a phone system I might want to consider would be appreciated! </p> <p> Thanks! </p> <p> Rick </p>

<p> <strong>SEO - Does Your Site Have Validity?</strong> </p> <p> Whether you have designed your own website or contracted that task out, you should check to see if your code has validity. </p> <p> Validity or Validation for your site refers to the language in which it is written and if it is written correctly. Your site&#39;s code can be written in a variety of formats. Each of these formats is like a different language. When a portion of your site is written incorrectly, it is labeled as invalid. </p> <p> <strong>How does this effect you and your website?</strong> </p> <p> It will surely have a negative impact on your site in search engine rankings. Each piece of code that is not valid will be skipped over by the search engine bots that rank, judge, and sort websites. If the bots are skipping over your content every optimization statistic and effort will be less accurate and effective. A simple quotation mark in the wrong place or a property name being mislabeled can destroy lines of code and undo a lot of hard work. </p> <p> Additionally, your site may not appear correctly in all browsers if not valid. By validating your site&#39;s code you are complying with the uniform rules of the language that your site has been written in. </p> <p> <strong>How can you check to see if your site&#39;s code has validity?</strong> </p> <p> This is the easy part! Go to the W3C Markup Validation Service Website: <a target="_blank" href="http://validator.w3.org/" title="W3C Markup Validator">http://validator.w3.org/</a> </p> <p> Once here, type in your URL address. Your site&#39;s code will be analyzed by W3C&#39;s Validation Service, which will process a report for you. The report will point out each error in your code and give helpful suggestions to fix these issues. </p> <p> Do not stop at your home page. Do each page of your website. Make sure to check your CSS as well. It is a mistake to submit your site to the search engines without taking this very important step. </p> <p> I would also suggest using the &quot;Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy&quot; tool provided by the service while analyzing your site. This tool will clean up your code, which will make your site load faster and help the search engines crawl your site more efficiently. </p> <p> Everything about this service is free! You will not even have to give an email address or subscribe to any special offers. </p> <p> Once your site has been validated W3C&#39;s service will supply you with a graphic and link to their site, which if you choose to display it, shows everyone that your site has been validated. </p> <p> <a target="_blank" href="http://validator.w3.org/" title="W3C Markup Validator"><img height="31" width="88" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401-blue" alt="W3C Validation" title="W3C Validation" /></a> </p> <p> <strong>I have one at the bottom of my site</strong> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.haseltine-photo.com/" title="Haseltine-Photo Home Page"><strong>http://www.haseltine-photo.com</strong></a><strong>!</strong> </p> <p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.haseltine-photo.com/" title="Haseltine-Photo Home Page"><img height="120" width="300" src="http://www.haseltine-photo.com/images/isignature.jpg" alt="Ian Haseltine - www.haseltine-photo.com" title="Ian Haseltine - www.haseltine-photo.com" /></a> </p>

<p> I began using Videomail in October 2007 with the desire to increase exposure to and with my clients and prospects. In every month to date, I have received an average of 70% to 80% response to all videomail messages. With videomail, I am face to face with clients and prospects from the very first time i contact them. </p> <p> Email still produces less than 10% response rate. Without question, I am delighted with the increased response and increased business. </p> <p> As a Realtor in Northwest Florida, this technology has produced revenues for me even when the real estate industry did not. The extra stream of income from this streaming video technology has paid off with great dividends. </p> <p> I invite you to check out this technology at one of my websites at <a href="http://www.mydigitalenterprise.com/benmessing">www.mydigitalenterprise.com/benmessing</a>. If you desire further informaiton, I am available to you by email. When I receive your message, I will respond with a sample videomail message. </p> <p> This is inexpensive and allows you to stay face to face with clients, customers, prospects, and family and friends. </p>

<p> Anyone out there familiar or using the MOZY.COM site and if so, do you have any input? I am concerned about our members using it as off-site back up specifically with regard to identiy security. </p> <p> Thanks! </p>

<p> Do you know of a website that allows you to make long distance calls for free. I could buy a voip account but if there is a free service I&#39;d like to know. I use my cell phone for my home phone and I would rather use my laptop to make calls that are going to be long in duration. </p>

<p> I just came across ooVoo.com. They offer software for video conferencing for up to 6 participants and it&#39;s free. Free is good. It looks like a great way to video conference for small groups. </p> <p> As usual, I&#39;m having a hard time finding someone to play with. If anyone on this group has an account, please send me your email. Conversely, if anyone wants to experiment with ooVoo, my account email there is <a href="mailto:oovoo@trustedagent.net">oovoo@trustedagent.net</a>. </p> <p> Regards </p>

<p> I&#39;m a new to the group so I apologize if this topic has come and gone. I&#39;m wondering if anyone has added a &quot;Live Chat&quot; feature to their website. My broker is considering this option. It would be the floor agent&#39;s responsibility to log on and reply to live inquiries. There are lots of logistical issues with it so we would love to learn from someone who&#39;s already been there. </p> <p> Thanks, Kris Biessener </p> <p> RE/MAX North Country, Hackensack MN </p>

<p> We just got a great member benefit from our local association and our MLS (MRMLS) ListingBook.com. I have been in training to teach the agents how to use this program and make more money. So far I find it wonderful and for once I can see how the internet might save me time and make me money. We as agents are finally taking our content and gaining control. </p>

<p> Update Lane is the easy, affordable way for real estate agents and their clients to stay in touch and share information throughout the home-selling process. Update Lane is an online listing and transaction management system for real estate. </p> <p> </p> <p> The Update Lane staff is absolutely ecstatic to let you know the beta is open! Everything that we&#39;re launching with the initial beta is done, laboriously tested, and ready for you. Simply visit <a href="http://www.updatelane.com/">www.updatelane.com</a> and create your <u>free</u> account to get started. </p> <p> </p> <p> We&#39;ve gone to great lengths to keep this simple, intuitive, and fast. A help file is available for you to reference or you can follow the &quot;Contact Us&quot; button to ask any questions. </p> <p> </p> <p> With the beta, you&#39;ll be able to do the following: </p> <p> · Educate your client on the market and what you&#39;re doing to sell the property </p> <p> · Customize your account colors </p> <p> · Build your custom marketing plan for each property </p> <p> · Schedule showings </p> <p> · Collect, edit, and post feedback for your clients </p> <p> · Track competing properties </p> <p> · Post and organize all your documents online </p> <p> · Collaborate with the co-operating agent, lender, title company, and anyone else that&#39;s a part of the transaction. </p> <p> · Send transactions to other agents </p> <p> · Refer agents to Update Lane (which we greatly appreciate) </p> <p> </p> <p> Check it out! We&#39;re looking forward to hearing your feedback on the new site. </p> <p> </p> <p> Happy selling! </p>

<p> Jott Yourself Jott is a free service that transcribes voice messages you send it into text, then e-mails a transcription of the message to you. The idea is to make it easy to record memos and reminders for yourself. </p> <div> <p> I learned it from <i>PC World&#39;</i>s <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143111/article.html">Steve Bass</a>, (no relation!) and I&#39;ve been using it regularly. Jott is a new free tool I highly recommend. </p> <p> After registering online for the service, you can easily create reminders or dictate memos for yourself--or others--using your cell phone. </p> <p> Let&#39;s say you&#39;ve had a &quot;Eureka!&quot; moment while in the car. Dial Jott&#39;s toll-free number (866/568-8123) or, even better, push the speed-dial button you&#39;ve assigned to it. I use &quot;J.&quot; </p> <p> Almost immediately, a female voice responds: &quot;Who do you want to Jott?&quot; If the message is for yourself, just say, &quot;Myself.&quot; After the beep, start talking. Messages can be up to 30 seconds long. When you&#39;re finished, simply stop talking. A few seconds later, the voice will say, &quot;Got it.&quot; Within a few minutes, the message you dictated is transcribed and delivered to you via e-mail, text message, or both. </p>Other Uses <p> That&#39;s just one way to use Jott. Here are some others I&#39;ve tried: </p> <p> <b>Create a reminder.</b> You can tell Jott to create a reminder for a specific time. Jott will send you an e-mail and text message reminder 15 minutes before the event. </p> <p> <b>Send e-mail or text messages to your contacts.</b> Need to send an e-mail or text while you&#39;re driving? Easy! If you&#39;ve uploaded your Outlook or other contact database entries into Jott, you can just press the Jott speed-dial button on your phone and tell Jott to whom you want to send a message. The service will verify the name or ask for clarification. Dictate your message, hang up, and your contact will receive your message as a transcribed e-mail and/or SMS text message. You can send one message to multiple people, too, as long as you&#39;ve set up a Jott Group. </p> <p> Jott isn&#39;t perfect; it can have difficulty identifying the requested contacts if you&#39;re in the car or a noisy place. And make sure to clearly enunciate your words, as if you were dictating to your secretary. </p> <p> Jott&#39;s transcriptions of my voice messages have been nearly always 100 percent accurate. If you&#39;re using a more complicated word, like a name, just spell it after you say it. Don&#39;t tell anybody, but the voice file you create goes to India, where human beings do the transcribing! That&#39;s why it is so much more accurate than the Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software I use at the office. </p> <p> In short, Jott just allows you to bypass the need to tap out e-mail or text messages on phones with tiny, awkward keyboards. </p> <p> Best of all, this service is FREE for now. They&#39;ll probably find a way to charge for it in the future or create some kind of &quot;premium version.&quot; </p> <p> So grab it while it&#39;s free! Go to <a href="http://www.Jott.com">www.Jott.com</a> and join up already! </p> </div>

<p> Is anyone using Grand Central by Google in it&#39;s beta? </p> <p> I had a meeting with a REALTOR from FL who is in a beta test of this product and it seems like a very useful product. </p> <p> One number (local or toll free) that rings several phones AT THE SAME TIME, ie. it will ring your cell, home and office phone and you choose which to pick up. If you&#39;re on your cell at home or office you can &quot;transfer&quot; it to the desk (or home) phone with the push of a key. There is a record feature that allows recording. Voice mail and recordings are MP3 files and emailed to your email address. </p> <p> I&#39;ve signed up for a number and am waiting for a reply but I&#39;d like comments from any current users. </p> <p> Pual </p>