New XSites feature:  Faster, easier, better contact management

April 16, 2013  |  Dustin Moore

Contact management is one of those necessary evils in the real estate business.  Every agent and broker knows they should do a better job managing contacts, but who has the time to fiddle with slow, complex CRM systems?  And  it’s usually even harder to get your website, IDX, and marketing system to work well with your CRM.  Luckily we've had that handled for a long time, and now it's faster and more intuitive than ever.

We've rewritten the entire XSites CRM from the ground up to be faster, easier, and more intuitive.  Here are just a few of the impressive new things you'll get with the new...

XSites update:  More modern, more powerful, and more in the future

April 02, 2013  |  Dustin Moore

We've got ambitious plans for your XSite.  We want better mobile display, better IDX, “stickier” lead capture tools, seamless  integration with our other products like RE:Focus Analytics, and of course we always want more speed.  When we were drawing up the blueprints for all the cool features we're going to build, it became apparent that our  XSites Engine (all the geeky code that helps you create a website) had to be updated to do everything we wanted.   So, starting in January we began overhauling the XSites Engine with the most modern "parts". The result is a better, more adaptable XSites...

RE:Focus Analytics is now available in Miami!

April 02, 2013  |  Dustin Moore

Hello South Beach!  We're excited that RE:Focus Analytics is now available for all members of the Miami REALTOR organization.  If you missed our insert that came along with your Florida REALTOR Magazine this month, you can see RE:Focus here.

RE:Focus Analytics is your MLS on the iPad.  It's a seriously stunning app that we think is going to change the way you use and interact with your MLS data.  RE:Focus creates a highly visual data console for interactive market analysis.  And it even works without an Internet connection!

The core feature of RE:Focus is "Lenses", which are a lot like saved...

How do you work when your MLS doesn’t?

April 01, 2013  |  Dustin Moore

Ever found yourself needing to help a buyer or seller, but can't access your MLS?  We bet your not alone.  As much as the MLS vendors work hard to keep the systems up 24/7/365, things happen and there are outages.  It raises an important question though:  How do you work when your MLS doesn't?

Our newest app — RE:Focus Analytics is the answer.  And while it does far more than simply serve as a backup to your MLS, I want to focus on that one critical element in this post:  RE:Focus works even when you can't connect to the MLS.  So if your MLS is down, you can still do everything you need to move...

What your visitors want - listings

June 18, 2012  |  Shawn Smalley

In last week’s blog post I mentioned three things that your visitors would expect to find on a real estate website: 1.) Listings, 2.) area information, and 3.) transaction advice. This week we’re going to focus on the first of those topics: Listings.
 
We’re going to start here because, realistically, this is the #1 thing that most people want. It’s absolutely essential for buyers who expect to find inventory, and even sellers would find it useful to search for a comparable property to get an idea of how they should price their own listing.  A real estate website without listings is like a...