Embed your listings into your personal website and blog! Simply login to your OpenHouseAdvertising account, click the embed icon located on your active listings page, then copy the snippet of code and paste it into the HTML section of your site. Done! Now you can direct buyers to your property websites with one click.
(Below is a live example. You may customize your properties to fit accordingly)
At OpenHouseAdvertising.com we know how important it is to get the attention of potential buyers. We’re excited to announce that our virtual tours for real estate are faster than ever! Interested buyers will love the cinematic transitions and high image quality without having to wait all day for the tour to load.
With the use of OpenHouseAdvertising’s virtual tour websites, you will be rewarded with educated buyers who are interested in buying the home long before they step foot in the front door, saving you time and money.
To see our tours live click here or go to openhouseadvertising.com/showcases
There are many ways property websites can help market your listings and grow your real estate business. Here are 5 ideas on how to take advantage of these sales-generating marketing tools.
Show Off Your Photos
It’s a waste of money and time if you take spectacular photos and the only place their going to be seen is on the MLS and your company’s syndication sites. Property websites that include virtual tours use your photos to create beautiful slide shows that captivate your audience. Click here to see examples.
Share properties via email
Property websites make it easy to share properties via email. Now, instead of sending photos and text, send engaging websites that are hard to forget.
Increase your brand awareness with custom looks
Customized sites allow you to create beautiful property showcases that match your company website, logo and colors. Buyers will think you’ve got the web all figure out, thus proving to them you know what it takes to sell their home. To learn more about custom sites click here
Create traffic generating websites with Craigslist Flyers
Post your listing to craiglist.com and other classified sites once a week using your web flyer included with all property websites. All ads on Craigslist expire after seven days so we send you an email reminder.
Better assist long-distance buyers
Simplify the search process for long-distance buyers by sharing a website of the home with them. Sometimes buyers purchase homes without even taking a visit, property websites are perfect way to showcase that vacation home you’re trying to sell.
To learn more about property websites visit www.openhouseadvertising.com
Introducing our new single property website, “Elegance”. Designed by the founders of OpenHouseAdvertising.com, Elegance showcases your real estate beautifully using contrasting BlanchedAlmond and Beige colors with a contemporary design. Click here to view all of our virtual tours.
Enjoy!
Now you can create alerts on your Virtual Tour Websites to let potential buyers know of Open House dates or other important information. (e.g. Open House this Sunday 12 noon to 3 pm) Your alert message will be posted on your property website and Craigslist flyer.
To post an alert and notify potential buyers of any news instantly, follow these easy steps…
To remove your alert, follow the above steps - Delete your alert and click “save”
Adding your Open House info to your virtual tour websites/and flyers is a simple and effective way to generate traffic to both your websites as well as your Open Houses
Is Bigger Better? It is when you’ve got great real estate photos that can help sell a home. Recently we released our latest version of our virtual tour that’s more than twice the size of our old one.
Click the image above to view it live!
Regardless of your price point we recommend you take advantage of Craigslist. It’s one of the best ways to bring traffic to your property, and it’s free.
1. Go to Craigslist.com. Select your region and then create an account. It’s free. This will save you time in the long run because posting ads without an account takes longer.
2. Return to the Craiglist.com home page and click “Post to Classifieds” in the upper left hand corner.
3. Select “Housing Offered”
4. Select your category (e.g. “Real Estate by Broker”)
5. Select the location nearest you.
6. Add Property Information
Enter in the “Price” “Posting Title” and “Specific Location” into the required fields
Get your HTML flyer
Log into your account at OpenHouseAdvertising.com
Click on you agent tools link next to the single property website you’d like to post on Craigslist.com.
Copy the snippet of code shown below and paste it into the “Posting Description” of your ad.
7. That’s it. There is no need to add anything else. The snippet of code you just pasted into the description has everything you need. Click “Continue”.
8. Input the verification at the bottom
9. You’re done. If you did not create an account you’ll be sent an email of your ad to verify it. You’ll need to click a link in the email to make your post official.
10. Your ad will go live within 15 minutes. However, it will only appear on craigslist.com for 7 days. After that it will expire. We’ll send you an email reminder once a week to re-post. Monday or Tuesday works best.
If you have any questions please let us know
Bellevue, WA- OpenHouseAdvertising.com has announced that they’ve teamed up with ByOwnerMLS.com to give their single listing websites even more exposure. Now when your property websites will be found by searching for real esate for sale using ByOwnerMLS.com.
ByOwnerMLS is a Real Estate search engine that brings together virtually every “for sale by owner” listing. Consumers can now search the most comprehensive resource of “for sale by owner” home, condominium, time share, rental, vacation home, town home, multi-family, vacant land and commercial listings posted on the web. Listing partners upload and modify their inventory as it changes, providing viewers with an accurate representation for every “for sale by owner” listing.
Recent surveys have shown that between 70% to 85% of home buyers start their search online. With so many popular Real Estate websites that don’t pull from the MLS, it is difficult and time-consuming for agents to post their listings on all of them. Open House Advertising has your solution.
Here is a growing list of sites your single listing website will be submitted to:
Trulia is a real estate search engine that helps buyers find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help buyers make better decisions in the process.
Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content (real esate), which becomes searchable on Google.
Over 56% of all Internet searches on “real estate” and related terms are conducted on Google and our partner sites, and the majority of those searchers are actively looking for listings or referrals to brokers and agents. You can make sure that they can find your listings by submitting them to Google Base
Vast.com is a leading vertical search platform for autos, travel, and real estate, with millions of users a month making purchasing decisions through Vast.com’s network of partner websites. Vast.com improves the online shopping experience with the largest selection, sub-second search times, and intuitive auto, real estate, and vacation rental search that helps users find the best match on the Internet for their needs.
Launched in November 2005, the site allows users to search for housing using a graphical map. Listings are displayed at their addresses, allowing users to conduct a location-based search. Through the graphical interface, users click on individual property listings depicted by animated building icons. Whereas many websites are mash-ups of other mapping applications, like Google Maps, HotPads uses its own original mapping application.
The Overstock.com real estate channel claims 2.9 million properties, including 2.6 million residential listings. Of those, 1.96 million are single-family homes, 246,000 are condos and townhouses, and another 73,720 are multi-unit properties.
Overstock.com moves into real estate
Overstock hits home run with Overstock real esate
Propsmart is a next-generation real estate search engine, aggregating over a million property listings from hundreds of online sources and private sellers and making them easily searchable with a GoogleMap-based visual interface.
Oodle is the fastest growing classifieds service. Pulling together and organizing millions of listings from all over the Web, Oodle is simply the best way to buy and sell through online classifieds.
With 52 million house valuations across the U.S., the site attracts as many as four million visitors a month. In less than a year since launch, the Seattle company has become one of the Internet’s biggest real estate destinations.
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Properazzi is the world’s largest property portal, with listings in over 50 countries. They help buyers find a property wherever they are, or wherever they’re looking to go. They aren’t an estate agency and don’t recommend properties. Instead, bring the best of the web by aggregating millions of properties from just as many estate agents and property websites.
ByOwnerMLS is a Real Estate search engine that brings together virtually every “for sale by owner” listing. Consumers can now search the most comprehensive resource of “for sale by owner” home, condominium, time share, rental, vacation home, town home, multi-family, vacant land and commercial listings posted on the web. Our Listing Company partners upload and modify their inventory as it changes, providing our viewers an accurate representation for every “for sale by owner” listing. (For more information about adding your inventory
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Today OpenHouseAdvertising.com launched their latest single listing website design. This new look was created with the goal to simplify the information displayed for each listing. We also wanted to create a look that does not use a background image but still allows customization. Click here to take a look. If you come across a better looking display for real estate let us by leaving a comment below.
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