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Platinum Website

The Windermere Platinum Website is a fully customized website with reports that are unique and not been seen like this! These detailed full colored reports are instantaneous and available to be emailed upon request. Platinum websites are a must! Upgrade now and receive the following features!

Features include:

Custom CMA
School Reports
Crime Reports
Demographics
E-Commercials
Custom Colors
Your Listings
Google Analytics

You will be recognized as the most professional agent using this tool!

SchoolDigest

School reports and comparisons have never been like this!

Compare schools, school districts, schools in the same district, schools in other districts and more! Provide your clients with the valuable information they demand. Quickly and easily!

Once you've created the report they've requested either print out a full-color school report from your computer or email the report to anyone, anytime. Reports include private and public schools, school programs, number of students, school location mapped, and much more.

You can customize your report with your resume, photo, contact information, and cover letter.

To provide this kind of key information directly from your website in a seamless manner, all branded to you, makes you look like the ultimate resource for all their real estate needs.

RelocationDigest

Relocation reports and comparisons have never been like this! Compare your client's current community with the community they are relocating to in just minutes!

Once you've created the report, either printout a full-color relocation report from your computer or email the report to anyone, anytime. Reports include population and housing information, age demographics, financial and employment information, crime information, weather, environment, and more.

You can customize your report with your resume, photo, contact information, and cover letter.

To provide this kind of key information directly from your website in a seamless manner, all branded to you, makes you look like the ultimate resource for all their real estate needs.

Interactive Map Search

Never before has it been so simple to search for geographically specific data through your web browser. When using an interactive Zoom Map search, simply hold down the left mouse button and drag a box. Upon releasing the button, the map will redraw and zoom into the area you have selected.

RealPropertyDigest

Real Property Digest is a user-friendly, state-of-the-art CMA. The ability for an agent to provide their clients with an in-depth market analysis comparing the subject property with other properties on the market and those that have sold is recognized as "essential" for any listing agent. Any agent must know their market to best represent a seller. A professional, accurate and concise CMA assures the seller that the price for their home is right.

On the other end of the transaction, Real Property Digest reports are very helpful for a buyer who is unfamiliar with a market or who needs further assurance of the value of a home they may be purchasing. This information can help in price negotiation and establishing a homes value in a market.

Now with the advent of The Power Search(R), agents can create boundary free survey areas. A Comparative Market Analysis is no longer limited to city, zip code or MLS area. You are in control of determining the market you are using in your CMA.

Real Property Digest (CMA) Reports include:

Subject Property Photo
Listing Inventory by Month
Listing Days on Market
CMA Map with Comparable Listing Photos
Book View of Listings
Listing vs. Selling Office Report
Sales by Month
List Price vs. Sales Price
Survey Map and Market Activity
3-Up Comparable Reports
Comparable Properties by Status
Seller's Proceeds Report
Market Survey

Drip Prospecting

Drip Prospecting is a system that can send out a personalized series of messages to a contact automatically by email, and can be set for a predetermined time frame. It can be particularly helpful with prospects that contact you early in their information-gathering stage, but need to be cultivated until they are ready to act, sometimes months, even years later.

This cool, automated marketing system can increase your production because all you have to do is close "pre-sold" customers that you have been "in contact with" and "developing" over a period of time.

Drip marketing is becoming one of the most essential tools for busy real estate agents nationwide.

Real Estate Blog

The term Blog is short for Web log and can be described as an online diary. Easy to publish to from your home, office or anywhere in the world, as long as you have an internet connection and a computer.

So why would you want a Blog? It can make you look more sophisticated. It's an easy way to have a less formal means of communicating than your business web site. A Blog can provide an easy way to provide information to your target audience. You can provide instant "fresh" content instantly, as often as you like. It can make you look and sound authoritative in your field of expertise. AND perhaps MOST IMPORTANTLY, it can help boost traffic to your web site!

For those who like to write and would publish articles on a regular basis, this tool is for you!

Premium MLS IDX Feed Solutions

MLS DATA your way! The most powerful item in a real estate website is a premium MLS / IDX feed. Your visitors will appreciate a quality MLS search vehicle that displays all pertinent listing information and associated photos. You will appreciate all of the lead generating systems built into our IDX feed...with all inquiries branded to you. Let us take care of your listing data while you take care of your customers.

We sweep the MLS as often as MLS allows, ensuring the most current information available. In addition to active listings, we sweep all pertinent data that is allowed and available from MLS. This might include solds, expireds, days on market, etc. which enables us to then serve up this information in other innovative ways for your visitors, and additionally in tools for you such as our CMA or FlyerMaker systems.

We provide this data in either the latest interactive mapping technology and text-based search. Enjoy providing automatic email notification to your clients, saved searches and favorites, Google mapping, mortgage calculator, school and neighborhood information.

Windermere . . .
the best tools and technology to provide a professional presence.

Windermere has no competition when it comes to the level of technology that they employ in the day to day real estate business and provide for all Windermere agents to use. Agents use these tools for the sale of clients homes, they give the agents the ability to keep in touch with clients and potential clients and give agents the ability to create an ease of use that allows them to do more business and spend more time with clients, whether buyers or sellers.

Tools ranging from the simple e-mailing all agents their faxes when they arrive in the office to the uploading of documents to Windermere's paperless system, have been designed to make the processing of information easier and more efficient for the agents and their clients.

The Windermere Worksite

Agents who join Windermere have a toolbox of technology that is second to none built right into a personal worksite (WORC). That WORC contains all of the high quality marketing materials available. In addition, the WORC contains a strong Contact Management System which allows agents to keep all records of past, current and potential clients as set up tasks related to buying and selling real estate, as well as keeping track of anniversary dates, transaction closing dates and birthdays. The WORC also houses all of the agents, listings as well as their photo galleries that attach to those listings.

Windermere On-Line Marketing Tools

See Marketing Section

Windermere Paperless System

Windermere leads the way in making the processing of listing and sale transactions in a paperless environment. Agents keep a shadow file, but the Broker file for each individual transaction is kept online. Sixty days after sales have closed they are moved to the vault where they remain until a need arises to pull the file. By not having to make a paper copy of the file for the Broker, it saves paper. In addition, to saving paper, file store space and file boxes are not needed, thereby saving time and money.

Windermere Agent Websites

Windermere provides all agents with a free website where clients can find over 550,000 listings that are housed on the windermere.com website. In addition to the range of listings, agents also have a Welcome Home Newsletter which they can send to all of their clients.

For a nominal fee, Windermere agents can upgrade to a Silver website and add community links, community information on homes for sale and homes sold as well as featured properties. Windermere agents have all of the elements of the free site with the addition of these additional features.

Finally, Windermere agents can make one additional upgrade to a Platinum website which offers a blog, a drip e-mail campaign, a personalized CMA presentation and many other features.

Windermere's Partnership with Trulia.com

Windermere and Trulia have joined forces to provide exclusive banner advertising for Windermere agents and offices. Trulia provides Windermere agents with deep discounts for marketing their listings on Trulia.com.

How Many Use Trulia?

Hitwise Statistics of Trulias traffic from 3/06-1/08:

Statistics* Snapshot:
-Unique users per month: 3.0 million
-Visits per month: 3.5 million
-Homes for sale on site: 2.5 million

-Property records on site: 58.0 million
-Page views per month; results page 1: 10.0 million
-Average time on site per visit: 12.0 minutes

All of this means more business for Windermere agents and offices. This is Windermere at its "technology" best.

Internet Concierge Syndication

More Traffic

Our new listing syndication technology gives you an out-of-the-box web presence. They're your listings we are going to put them to work for you.

Windermere will enter the listings into a syndication partner which will spread your listings throughout the largest (30+ partners) and most advanced (stats, tracking, conversion) syndication network in existence.

More Prospects

Don't just generate more traffic generate more business. Through our new technology, it encourages more casual visitors to contact you while keeping comprehensive statistics and sending all prospects from your website, your blog, and your syndication advertising right back to you at no additional charge.

More Clients

Online real estate prospects are different from prospects who pick up the phone and call you. They tend to be more informed, and further out in the buying or selling cycle. They expect to be treated differently depending on their level of interest. Windermere recognizes this, and has engineered a number of automated software utilities to help you very easily deliver information to potential clients in a manner that is personal, timely and effective.

Mobile Agent

Mobile Agent is the newest Technology not seen west of Chicago! Windermere agents & their clients & future clients will be the first to search the MLS by using their cell phone.

What is Mobile Agent

While driving through neighborhoods, looking for homes for sale, your buyers can search the MLS from any cell phone by street name, address, MLS# or neighborhood and get property information & photos on all homes on the market. All showing requests are automatically sent to you, the participating agent.

Features

1 Property Search, Info & Photos by SMS

2 Website Integration

3 Daily updates via Data Feed

4 Lead routing to agents listings

5 Buyer Registration

6 Lead Generation

Did You Know

Over 100 Billion Text Messages are Sent in the USA Every Month!

Online Events and Training Calendar

Update your Calendar at any time of the day or night with the Windermere Online Events and Training calendar! All Windermere University classes and schedules, Sales Meetings, Work shops and Events are posted with times and locations. There are complete details outlining each class or event. This convenient calendar is available when you are! Go to www.ChooseWindermere.com to view upcoming events.

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