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Showing Suite Software Was Recently Upgraded!

June 23rd, 2009
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We are always improving Showing Suite by adding the features requested by the thousands of real estate agents using our software. Our goal is to continue helping real estate agents sell their listings faster and for more money and we have been working hard to build on the necessary partnerships to make that goal a reality.

Below are the most recent upgrades you can now enjoy as a Showing Suite subscriber:

Showing Sync

You can now receive email notifications whenever new showings are pulled from your lockbox and inserted into your HomeFeedback (or Foreclosure Feedback) account via Showing Sync. These notices can be sent to both you and your sellers, so be sure to set the desired preferences for Showing Sync email notices in your Showing Suite account.

To edit the Showing Sync email notice settings, login to your account and go to Settings => Feedback. Check whether you want to you or your sellers to receive a notice when a showing has been entered via Showing Sync and press Save.

SentriLock Users

In addition to email notices being added to Showing Sync, SentriLock lockbox users can now view the activity log on an assigned SentriLock lockbox by selecting ‘View SentriLock Log’ from the dropdown for a particular listing, or by clicking the ‘View SentriLock Log’ link when viewing the showings for a particular property.

Showing Calendar

A collection of image buttons have been added so you can have more than just a simple “Schedule a Showing” text link when adding Showing Calendar to your website or MLS listing details. Now you can choose between an assortment of both animated and static image buttons to add to your listings for scheduling.

Go to the Calendar Settings page for the listing of your choice and select the desired image from the Public Calendar URL Type dropdown menu. A preview of the selected image button will appear on the right and you can copy and paste the HTML code for the button in the “Public Calendar HTML Snippet” box.

Home Followup – Leadsync

Home Followup users can now use Leadsync to help with real estate lead generation from their existing website. Creating a Leadsync form for your website is easy thanks to the new Lead Sync wizard. Drag and drop the fields of information you want to capture to build your Leadsync form. Once you’ve added all of the fields you want, you can choose which campaigns you want the leads to be subscribed to when they fill out the form. Then copy and insert the Lead Sync HTML code on your website and you’re done!

Now whenever a visitor comes to your website and wishes to contact you from your company website they can fill out the Lead Sync form and automatically start receiving your email campaign.

Teams and Office Accounts

Have a team account but need to be moved under an office account? Not a problem. This may have been an issue in the 2.0 system, but it’s a thing of the past. Now any team account can be moved underneath an office account. Just contact customer support and we’ll take care of you.

Ultimate Desktop

Speaking of team and office accounts, team/office administrators and assistants using the Ultimate Desktop may have noticed a few slight changes.

Not only did we clean up the look and feel a bit, but we made it easier to page through lists of information. Additionally, you also may have noticed that we added the date to the details that popup when you hover over a showing entry.

We hope you enjoy these new upgrades and features! If you have any suggestions on how we can improve Showing Suite software, be sure to contact us.

Showing Suite

Real Estate Listing Presentation Software

June 22nd, 2009
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There is no commission for coming in second place on a real estate listing presentation. Real estate agents are competitive by nature and that sinking feeling of not getting a listing is something we all do not want to feel the next time we go on one.

With listings presentations, you know you are going up against the big names in your area, the discount brokerages, more experienced agents, higher producing agents, and many times even other agents in your own office who offer the same brokerage to be listed with. Can you beat these folks at their game?….ABSOLUTELY!

As the CEO of Showing Suite and a licensed Real Estate broker, I am always trying to add products and features for real estate agents to use that they can beat all of the competitors. Now more than ever agents can be competitive with technology. But, you can’t just show a bunch of technology to clients and expect to get their business. You need to show those prospective seller’s or buyer’s how you will provide them with the technology and how that technology is going to sell their homes faster, for the most money and provide a transparent process for them to monitor their sale and transaction. Those are the benefits most important to home sellers.

If you are in an MLS that offers tech solutions, those are good. Note, that I did not say great as the problem is that every board member agent has the same technology solution or is essence the same software for real estate professionals. You need to show prospects solutions and value that you have that the competition does not. Whether that is listing presentation software from us or another vendor who gives you that advantage. Show prospects the technology that the MLS offer, but also more importantly show them technology that is this better than the MLS has or others in your brokerage or other brokerages.

So, on your real estate listing presentations use screen shots concurrently with their respective benefits. Show them how you are DIFFERENT and BETTER than your competition. This is when you show your arsenal, so in case you are not the last agent presenting, your competitors will then come in and not offer the same tools that you do for their business.

There are great tools out there from us and other companies. We offer a tool that many of your competitors may be using and you don’t want to fall short with listing presentation software. We also provide the pages that you can modify for your presentation in both Word and PowerPoint format.

If you have any ideas for new features or real estate software services, let me know as some of our best ideas come from our agent subscribers.

Good Selling,
Rick

Showing Suite