SPS Customer Newsletter February 2010

By admin / February 26, 2010 / SPS News

FEBRUARY 2010

We are delivering on our commitment to invest in- and grow the SPS™ Real Estate Marketing service by adding new marketing functions and technology based upon your feedback.

We have some exciting news to announce in this newsletter about our Multi-User account, which makes the SPS service even greater value for Teams and Offices and creates new solutions for you via Resellers. We also have many new marketing features too to tell you about!

We are also supporting the ActiveRain RainCamp™ event on Tuesday 9th March in Denver. A full day of hard core training designed to show you how to leverage the internet to make more money in your business (see more details below) or find our more.

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Regards
Paul Eastwood
President
SPS, Single Property Sites Inc.

NEWS

Marketing Enhancements

New! Multi-User Accounts. With a Level 10 or higher subscription (@ $49 per month) it’s now possible to not only set up additional Agents, Co-Listers and Sponsors, but you may also allow each of these additional users to have their ‘own’ login access to your main account. So, an entire Office or Team of a few Agents can now share a single account and benefit from the lower prices with higher subscriptions.

For example ANY 20 listings can be live at any time for just $92 per month. And of course you can still create as many as you like to help you win listings – and remember too SOLD listings stay live for free. Read more..

New! Automated Marketing. We have changed the Activation (Turn ON ) process so that your listings are immediately promoted. All the syndications are now processed automatically – there’s nothing you need to do. In fact, the only marketing you now need to perform is to use our excellent CRAIGSLIST posting wizard to get your listing to Craigslist (see below!).

In addition to this, you will be sent an email immediately which tells you all the marketing and promotion that has occurred, and gives you a complete list of all the ways to link to, and present your listing to others.

New! CRAIGSLIST Posting Wizard. The CRAIGSLIST posting process is now a wizard-based process. It couldn’t be easier!! All you need to do is make sure you get your Browser settings correct in IE8 and IE7 (all explained on the first page) – then follow the instructions.

Once you have posted to Craigslist, you will be able to see a NEW Report (from the Manage Sites page at the top) that shows you the history and status of all your Craigslist postings.

NEW! More Lead Capture with Click-To-Call. There are two new options for CLICK TO CALL. We have added a very affordable SPS click to call service: For just 10% of your subscription we add a really cool click-to-call button to all your sites for more lead capture. So, if you are at $29 for 5 active sites, then you get Click-To-Call for just $2.90 /mth (all call charges included – and thats for all Users if you have a multi-user system).
(see this on our demo site www.1122MainStreet.com)
We have also integrated to IF BY PHONE who are a very advanced Click to Call and Phone Services company. We continue to support REAL PING too!

All options are chosen by going to your PROFILE page and looking for the Click To Call link half way down the page by your phone number details.

New! More Feeds and Syndications. With the addition of a few strategic syndication partners we have nearly tripled the destination websites your listings get sent to. We will be updating our Syndications details soon to make it clear what is actually happening and where they all go to!

New! Its Now Even Easier to Win Listings. Our FreeView™ system has been a core differentiation of the SPS service, providing a very easy way to create a draft site and then share it with your prospective seller so that you can impress them before you even meet them! Well this system has been simplified even further so that its easier and more intuitive to use. One of the key changes we made is that the FreeView links are now ‘fixed’ for a specific property site, and so you can continue to extend the life of the FreeView as needed by you or your client.

To use FreeView, just create a DRAFT site and then you will see the FreeView link for that site on the MY SITES list.

New! Comprehensive Language Translation. We have added a new TRANSLATION option at the foot of every website. This is powerful stuff!

New! Metric and Imperial Measures If you are marketing OUTSIDE the United States then you’ll want to use Square Meters, Hectares and Kilometers to describe aspects of properties. These options are now built in and will be automatically selected based on your country, but can also be chosen individually. We have also tweaked the various plug-in services we connect to too, to ensure they are METRIC too.

New! PDF Downloader. We have added a new “view as PDF” button on each website – see the ICON over on the right hand side of the top menu for any of your websites. This is a simple service and is not meant to replace the FLYERS, but it does offer convenience.

New! XML Import. If you have a lot of listings then we can now accept XML feeds to import listing data into your account. This method not only allows import, but will also ensure daily update of all your listing data to ensure correct prices etc. You will need an XML feed of your listings. Please contact us if you are interested.

Want to be a Reseller?

New! Reseller Accounts. If you provide marketing services to Realtors, then a special account with SPS will allow you to package the SPS solution with your own services so that you can offer a complete marketing solution to your Real Estate clients. Read more..

Don’t Forget!

Watermark for SOLD listings – which stay LIVE for free! When your property status is changed to SOLD (EDIT listing – see ‘Address/Status’), a corner Watermark saying ‘SOLD’ is now displayed. Remember too, that SOLD listings stay LIVE for free – fabulous SEO benefits for you.

More HOW TO Videos and Help. See the HOW-TO menu item for access to the learning center where you can watch our tutorials on how to upload movies and more.

More Widget Options. We have created a new side-bar scrolling widget which is great for website side-bars (like ActiveRain – see it now!)
We have also created additional IFRAME code for widgets which means you can embed widgets in even more websites! (Widgets now have IFRAME code as well as Javascript). On MANAGE SITES – click the Widget icon for full details.

SMS TEXT Flyer – FREE for all sites Consumers can TEXT the domain and get back property details – a free service add-on from SPS. And don’t forget that every site has its owe Mobile Website automatically generated too.

Improved Mapping now shows ALL Your Properties! We’ve improved our mapping presentation so now you can have an easy and attractive way of showing ALL your listings and locations to buyers on every site’s Google map! Now when buyers click the mapping link on any of your Single Property Sites, they’ll see the location of every property you have listed! See it now … go to 1122MainStreet.com and click the “Map It” link on the left-hand side.

Sponsorship Options. If you want to have your Loan Officer, or Title Company etc. be a co-marketer of your listings or even share the cost of your SPS service, you can now set them up as a Sponsor for any listing site. Its all totally under your control.

Banner Ad Campaigns. Our new BANNER campaign system allows you to create a marketing campaign that you can then link to any Listing Sites.
Each Campaign can have from 0 to 7 banner ad positions as well a sponsor linked to it.

Leads and Inquiries Center Keeps Track of All Your Leads. Now, your Single Property Site keeps track of all your leads and inquiries for you. Login to your SPS Control Panel and check out the new Leads and Inquiries Center. Any time someone requests information about your Single Property Site, their contact information is saved for you in the Control Panel. You can even set up text message alerts so you’re notified anytime there’s a new inquiry.