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Domain Name News!
- Don't lose your domain name to cyber-squatters. Be sure your contact information on your domain name record is up-to-date.
Listings Updated Daily On Your Website!
- QuickHomes® & our IDX Solution are helping clients nationwide! Here are the latest MLS’s that Advanced Access downloads: NORES in OK. Click here to view our current MLS downloads to find out if QuickHomes is available in your area. For more information about QuickHomes and our IDX Solution, please visit this link.
E-Mail Signatures
- Your e-mail is an extension of your business, so be sure you have an effective signature on all of your online correspondence. Your signature should include your pertinent information, and entice your recipients to contact you or to visit your website. Click here for more details.
Advanced Access Forums
- Check out the conversation in the Advanced Access Forums. Ask questions, learn more, and chat with other REALTORS® around the country. To see who's talking, log in to your Virtual Office and click on 'Support Center' then Advanced Access Forums.
Past Marketing Tips
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Intellicards v3.0
- Be sure to check out the features in the fabulous Intellicards v3.0. We know you're going to love the versatility, the incredible graphics, and the sheer volume of e-cards you can send to your clients and prospects.
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Fourth Annual Most Impressive Website Contest
Yesterday we kicked off the
Advanced Access 4th Annual 2006 Most Impressive Website
Contest. Shortly after our announcement went out, we began
to receive a flood of nominations! Thank you so much for your
participation, and please keep the nominations coming in! We wish each and
every one of our participants good luck.
If you are
American Idol fans rooting along with one of the current finalists, you will
be thrilled join in the spirit of competition and send in a nomination of your
personal Advanced Access website, or any other Advanced Access site that you
admire, to be critiqued by our 'Celebrity Judges". Once our highest judge
scored sites are selected in each category, we will unleash the voting to you,
our valued clients. "America will have voted" and we will "dim the lights" and
announce who will be the next 'Website Idol' in the Advanced Access' Most
Impressive Website Contest. Of course, no 'Idol' contest would be complete
without the comments, critiques, and wisdom from the "Celebrity Judges" -
Maria Patterson, Executive Editor -
RISMedia's Real Estate magazine, Allen F. Hainge, President -
The Allen F. Hainge CyberStars®, Chad Golladay, President &
Editor in Chief -
Broker Agent News, Terry Light,
HomeSurfer and
RealEstateABC, and Terry Watson, International Speaker -
TerryWatson.com.
The nomination period will run through May 19th, 2006, at 12:00 midnight (Pacific Time).
Please submit your nomination into ONE
CATEGORY ONLY (even if you believe your Website is the best in
multiple categories). You may submit your nomination
Nomination Category Selections:
Best Homepage - Also known as "curb appeal." When you enter the homepage of this site does it WOW you, catch your eye in some way, does it appear colorful and well organized, or is it just plain awesome?
Best Lead Generator - If your Website is simply a lead generator for you and you know it, select this option. Please enter some comments that will be displayed on the voting page to let people know why you think your site is the best. (Give us some numbers; tell us how you capture your visitors, etc.) If you see a Website that you think is incredibly effective and does a great job of capturing the users' information, submit your entry in this category.
Best Company Site – Does your Website represent your company or firm like no other? This site can showcase the parent company or firm that carries the bulk of your reputation across the country. Perhaps this company Website is the reason that you get more traffic than any other, and with the exposure or publicity that the larger, well-known company generates, take a moment to review any possibilities that may have come to your attention during the past year!
Best Use of a Template - Does the site use one of our standard designs, but looks completely revamped? Is the color, style or the navigational buttons and header graphics simply extraordinary?
Best Use of a THEME - In creating a successful Website, it's important to define WHO your audience is. When you visit this site, do you find a repetitive theme throughout the pages within? Do you know this site is geared specifically toward a certain market segment such as first time homebuyers or boomers?
Best Use of an AA Feature - Does the site find a unique use for one of the features offered by Advanced Access? We consider an AA feature to be any of the sections in the Virtual Office, including slideshows, local partners, favorite links, community links, bulletin board, listings, testimonials, free reports, about page, and more...
Most Original Content - Does the text in this Website entice you to explore further within its pages? When you view this Website you might be asking yourself, "Who did they hire as a copy writer?"
Most User Friendly - Do find this Website to be incredibly well organized, and you know instantly where you need to go to find what you're looking for? Review the site as a potential client or consumer, and enter the Website as if you didn’t know the first thing about real estate or how the process actually worked. This is an effective method to review and grade your own Website as well!
Submit your nomination in any of the above categories by May 19th, 2006, at 12:00 midnight (Pacific Time).
Good luck to all of the participants!
You may submit your
nomination
Importing Properties to ListNOW Via IDX
Many of our clients use an Advanced Access IDX data download solution and
utilize the 'Import from IDX' feature in ListNOW. If you have an IDX
solution through Advanced Access, please read this important announcement.
The 'Import from IDX' feature located at the top of your ListNOW 'Add Listing'
screen will only allow you to import IDX listings which are under your MLS Agent
ID or MLS Office ID. Until now, you may have been able to import any IDX
listing from your MLS into ListNOW, whether or not the listing belongs to you,
and even if we don't have your MLS Agent ID or MLS Office ID on file within your
IDX solution. This means that some of you may even experience a change
while attempting to import one of your own properties.
Not to worry, should you run into an issue importing a listing that is under
your MLS Agent ID or MLS Office ID, please contact our Customer Support team to
ensure that your ID's have indeed been added to your IDX solution, and to ensure that they are correct. Customer Support will be able to
have our MLS team add your MLS Agent ID and MLS Office ID or correct any errors
that may exist in your ID's.
This change has been made in an effort to maintain compliance with the
requirements stipulated by multiple listing services and to ensure ample
opportunities to expand upon the availability of special listing export services
provided through your Virtual Office.
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