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Pitney Bowes

Save time and money with Pitney Bowes small business postage meters and scales. It’s like having your own Post Office™ open whenever you need it! Avoid the hassle of going to the Post Office. Small businesses that use a postage meter can save up to 20% a year in postage. With several postage meter and scale options, you have the solution that's right for your business based on the amount of mail you send. And, you will be notified of rate changes and new postal regulations. Your meter can download the new rates in minutes.

realPING

realPING is a "Click To Talk Now" button professionals can add to all their e-marketing venues such as web sites, e-mails, virtual tours and blogs. The service instantly connects web visitors and agents by bridging a regular telephone call. Once connected, the agent can push any web content right to the caller's desktop, while on the call, all remotely. realPING makes web inquiries actionable and can lead to higher conversion rates, increased WOW factor and as a unique listing tool, more business. Get our RealTown.com special offer.

Blackwater Consulting

The Blackwater Consulting Group and its partner, Compass Internet Systems, provide a variety of technology related solutions for real estate professionals. We help turn traditional real estate agents and brokers into Internet real estate agents and Internet real estate brokers! We can give you a shot at the 82+% of real estate transactions happening on the Internet in YOUR market! While SEO is the hot topic these days when agents and brokers talk about succeeding on the Internet, being found by buyers is only the first step to success. It is about a whole lot more than SEO; it's about SEO that: 1) helps Internet buyers find you and your website; 2) helps you raise your conversion level from simply "Visitors" to "leads"; 3) helps coach you as to how to convert the Internet leads to sales; 4) helps you keep up with content updates and adjust to search engine algorithm changes, automatically. We do all this for our clients for UNDER $300 a month. With hundreds of clients all over North America, we know how to help you! Go to our landing page and fill out the form. A team member will review your site. We'll tell you if it is search-engine friendly and how to make it that way -- for FREE!

Point2 Technologies

Are you new to the business and looking for a quality website at an affordable price? Or, are you a real estate veteran looking for new ways to generate leads from your website? Point2Agent has solutions for everyone. From a free starter website to a full-featured professional site, Point2Agent delivers. Find the product that's right for you.

T-ReX Global

T-ReX Global makes simple web tools to help Real Estate Investors manage their finances and taxes. Investors can use the tools to keep track of their property finances. T-ReX Global has tools that help save Investors thousands of dollars during major tax events like buying property and doing a 1031 exchange. Depreciate’Em -- Helps Investors save thousands of dollars on your depreciation tax deduction. See your tax saving in 3 simple steps. Defer’Em -- Helps Investors save on taxes as you do a 1031 exchange. See all tax calculations and savings in 3 simple steps. Simplify’Em -- Simplest application to manage your property finances. Tax time is a breeze! We pride ourselves on taking tedious tasks of managing your finances and taxes for real estate investors and making them drop dead simple. The best news of all, these are tools are FREE to use!

Zillow

Zillow is an online real estate community of homeowners, buyers, sellers and real estate professionals. It is one of the most-visited U.S. real estate Web sites, attracting more than 5 million people each month. Agents can post their listings for free on the site, including the ability to upload up to 50 photos, display all contact information and link to a virtual tour on each listing. Zillow has a media supported revenue model, offering highly targeted advertising opportunities to the real estate industry.

DocuSign

Real Estate Professionals, are you tired of driving all around town to get the necessary signatures for your real estate transactions? Look no futher, we have the answer – DocuSign! DocuSign is the fastest way to get a signature. With DocuSign, you can send your real estate and broker forms for electronic signature in a flash. Use your current form creation process in combination with DocuSign's ability to electronically mark up the document with familiar yellow signature tabs and send notifications via email. You indicate where on the document you want your clients to sign and/or initial and enter the email address you would like the notification sent to — that's it! When your client receives the email notification, they will be walked through a few simple screens to select their electronic signature style and sign the document. You will receive an email notification when the document is signed and the completed electronic document. Your clients can even save their own electronic copy of the document for their files! Using DocuSign's electronic signature process with your real estate forms makes it easy and convenient for your customers, giving you the competitive advantage. Just think of all the time you will save! No printing. No Faxing. No Software to Install. It’s that easy, really. Go to our landing page to learn more and receive a special offer just for Real Town subscribers!

iHouse ConnectTel

ConnecTel is a 24/7 Listing Hotline from iHOUSE Web Solutions! With Connectel, you can automatically deliver prerecorded listing details to prospective buyers anywhere, anytime using your own dedicated toll-free listing information hotline. Connectel will capture every caller’s contact information and instantly notify you via phone, text message or email so you can follow-up while the lead is hot. Your real estate listing hotline includes ad tracking so you know where your leads are coming from and you can budget your marketing dollars accordingly. It also includes Find Me Follow Me call forwarding so you can be reached wherever you are. Plus, you will get 3 FREE customized double-sided sign riders when you sign up for ConnecTel. Visit the ConnecTel website today to sign up for a free test drive!

Matthew Ferrara

Looking for a fast, easy and cost-effective way to solve your technology issues, RealTown members can now use the services of Matthew Ferrara & Company and the company's TechHotline. For just $24.95 a call, the TechHotline will solve your issues or the call is FREE. That's right, you problem is solved or the call costs you nothing. This is the Matthew Ferrara guarantee! The TechHotline has been providing support to REALTOR corporate customers and Associations since 1999 and currently serves more than 600,000 real estate users nationwide. The service was founded because its owners were frustrated with their experiences with outsourced support that didn't care about the customer. The company's core principles are: answer the phone fast, employ friendly technicians and fix the problem. The TechHotline answers 10,000 calls a month, with an average wait time under two minutes, employing the latest support tools at its state-of-the-art call center to deliver a totally different technical support experience to consumers.

Webographers

Looking to enhance your real estate education? Are you ready to take advantage of the changing marketplace? When the paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero. Don’t be left behind. The REAL ESTATE WEBOGRAPHER™ course serves as an incredible benefit-rich, follow-up program for individuals who have are looking to take advantage of the latest technology tools. The Webographers program teaches Agents, Brokers and Assistants how to best utilize today's most popular web-based technologies, the solutions for an all inclusive, consumer-centric web presence. Available online 24/7/365, course materials allow working professionals to learn at their own pace while building the skill sets necessary to exceed the expectations of their web-savvy consumers and remain successful regardless of current or future market conditions. Go to the Web site for more information on this valuable program.
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