MyRealPage adds "Retweet" button to blogs

We have just added a neat little feature that allows you to automatically include a "Retweet" button on your blogs with MyRealPage. Just choose to show the "Retweet" button in your "Blog" weblet and it will show up for all blog posts. The button is powered by tweetmeme (http://tweetmeme.com) and the URL shortening is done by bit.ly (http://bit.ly).

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"Take it from someone who really knows..."

I got this today from our Customer Support. These sorts of emails make my day! :) I should start publishing more of them. I do like the metrics that follow the "...someone who really knows..." Really shows that they do!

"Take it from someone who really knows.

Having been on the supplier end of real estate web sites since 1998, four months ago I began my own real estate career. It was a no-brainer that I chose MyRealPage to provide my web services. The power of their offering at the price they offer it is remarkable in itself.

Tech support is prompt, courteous and thorough. Customization allows me to evolve the content that benefits my search ranking and brand exposure while the user interface allows my prospects to conveniently search for properties at their leisure.

In the first four mouths I have had 892 unique visitors with 1,400 separate visits. The month over month growth is averaging over 50% and it’s accelerating. The website is on track to host over 300 unique visitors in its 4th month. These are 300 prospects that are likely NOT going to my competitors’ sites.

I have 7 leads turned into client prospects on the website, 5 more called me directly and I listed my first million dollar property from my website 3 days ago. All this in the first 4 months, what will happen in 4 years?

If you ask me about which web site company to choose, MyRealPage is my top choice.

Rebecca Benedict – www.benedictdevlin.com

Coldwell Banker OnTrack Realty Red Deer"

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MyRealPage widgetizes its entire Listings and IDX product: beta

MyRealPage plug-and-play listings for WordPress, Blogger, Point2Agent, Joomla, Drupal, or any other website. Pop it in like a YouTube video: simple as that!

Have you ever wished you could pick-and-choose how your website should look and behave and where your website should be hosted by simply picking the best-of-breed plugins and widgets? Ever wished you could avoid the "all-or-nothing" vendor lock-in with some of the providers of real estate websites?

To those who did: we heard you and that's why we have taken our entire Listings and IDX product and condensed it into a series of embeddable code snippets, much like YouTube videos. And much like YouTube videos, you can now simply embed any section of your Listings with MyRealPage into any page on your website hosted on WordPress, Point2Agent, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, or any other*. Isn't that what the Web2.0 mashup promise was about? Except, in our case, the typically small "widget" is a full-blown smart application with lots of features, pages, forms, galleries, google maps, walkscore, etc: all rolled into a single line of embeddable code. How is it better than "framing" an IDX, you may ask? Here is a quick list:

• Fully integrates into a "hosting" page with a single line of javascript code
• Eliminates ugly double scroll bars or very tall pages that try to work around the ugly double scroll bars
• Back button support on most modern browsers
• Full CSS support to fine-tune the listings look-and-feel to match your website's.
• Auto-boxing support: you can configure our Listing pages to auto-box themselves into your website when invoked directly (e.g. from emails)
• Separate code snippets to embed "Your Listings", "Office Listings", "IDX/VOW Search", your Pre-Defined Searches, and your Pre-Defined Forms. Each of these can be on a separate page. It's easier than ever now to create a section of your website dedicated to a neighborhood and plug in your relevant Pre-Defined searches there (remember, you can create as many of these with us as you like; for free!)

We hope this new product feature will be of most use to those who subscribe to MyRealPage "Listings-only" product (which incidentally includes iPhone/Android mobile support) and also to those who maintain more than one website and want their listings to be on all of them. Our listings pages integrate seemlessly with the websites we host ourselves, but we do recognize that there can be many reasons why you may decide to host your website elsewhere or have more than one. We also recognize that many take this decision very seriously: I found that it's especially true for those who embrace WordPress. This new feature is designed to support your choice and ultimately give you more freedom and let you avoid various forms of vendor "lock-in".

Here are a few examples of our Listings running on various platforms:

WordPress (bare-bones installation)



Blogger Example



Point2Agent Example

I would also like to thank all of our early adopters who installed the widget and provided us with very valuable feedback and observations. It helped us make our first release better. Thank you!

Let us know what you think!

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* Most of website platforms, open-source or otherwise, are supported, as long as they allow you to embed your own javascript (and if they don't, you are probably on the wrong platform :)