Using Technology to Increase Sales Nathan Ryan Senior Trainer United Country Real Estate

Overview of Today’s Topics New for 2012 – Items we launched at convention Review of technology offerings

New for 2012 Record Web Leads You will see more “ Only Leads” Office website Updated look and feel New Specialty sites and collateral Ski Property River Front Property Country Homes Retirement Properties ** Very close to completion

Office Websites and Leads

Record Web Leads New lead Capture Mechanisms

New Office Websites Web Site First Impression – It’s as important as your office appearance 1 – Header Imagery – Show off your Area / Type of Properties 2 – Featured Properties – This tells everyone what you sell 3 – Agent Bio’s and Pictures – No pictures – this is what you are telling them

Do you have the new design? Have you sent in new pictures? Does every agent have a photo and Bio? Look at the content, does is say what you want it to say? Send updates to Mike Podraza Check Your Office Website For:

United Country Website Traffic Statistics

Where to Get Your Local Stats Contact the web team for your Google Analytics login information – Free version is okay, PRO is better.

Specialty Sites

Gun Shots Then Cannon Balls… We have improved accuracy across all of our specialty sites both on an SEO level and usability level for all United Country Brokers and Agents.

Gun Shots Then Cannon Balls… Golf Property For Sale Recreational Real Estate Coastal Property For Sale Historic Homes For Sale Lakefront Property For Sale Timberland Property TX Golf Property For Sale Resort Property For Sale Horse Farms For Sale Land For Sale Mountain Property For Sale Golf Homes For Sale Waterfront For Sale Hunting Property For Sale Desert Property For Sale Farms For Sale Equine Property For Sale Lakefront Homes For Sale Fishing Property For Sale SC Timberland Property Ranch For Sale Acreage For Sale Rural Property For Sale

Specialty Property Most Specialty property areas on the intranet site have Listing Presentations, to allow you to compete right away. Properties are driven to the Specialty sites by property codes that can be found on the intranet site

Index by Property Type Maximize Listing Exposure Over 30,000 Listings indexed Automatically loads up keywords Creates Cross Traffic for sites Build on itself

Specialty Property Many of our offices use Special Confidential when they list a specialty property Order a Special Confidential by calling Send out a virtual postcard from Peak Performance and two weeks later send another virtual postcard or some other form of follow up.

Social Media and Mobile Strategies

Works for Auctions and coming soon international properties

Social Media websites SEO Mobile Maximize Listing Exposure More than 800 million users interact with over 900 million objects (pages, groups, events and community pages) on Facebook in Social networking now accounts for 22 percent of all time spent online in the US. Twitter is averaging 230 million tweets a day. That’s up 110% from the beginning of Source: Facebook Source: Twitter Source: Nielsen Report

Technology Overview Dial-in Technical Support to Home Office Field-deployed Technical Support Enhanced R&D to identify / deploy competitive technologies Proxibid Discounts for Auction Execution United Country online "Post Card" System “Flank” Websites (Waterfront, Premier, Ranch, Golf, etc. Productivity Tool Online Training Multi-Picture Upload Tool Auction-Centric Websites Agent Websites Agent / Broker CRM tool (Peak Performance) Info USA Online Program Company Store Strategic Partner Intranet Programs Office Specific SEO Tune-ups Regularly Scheduled Webinars Regularly Scheduled Regional Training Technology Bundle of Services United Country Intranet (UnitedRealEstate.com) "Realtime" Listings Management System UnitedCountry.com Website Office Websites Search Engine Optimization for all Websites Private Internet Domain Name for each Office Hosted Mail under Domain Name for each Office Daily Confidentials Delivery On-demand "Special Confidentials" System Listings pushed to Trulia, Google Base, Homescape, … URL Maintenance and Renewal

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