MyRealPage adds Virtual Tour links for your listings on MLS®

Some time ago, we have launched a Media Center for our listings that offered a compact and attractive way to showcase your listings: hi-res photos, videos, virtual tours, as well as Google Map, Google Earth and WalkScore. Now we are making it possible to link to this Listing Media Center on its own, without the rest of the details. Why would this be useful? This can serve now as an external Virtual Tour link which you can submit to your Real Estate board to be part of your listing’s information. You can use MyRealPage Private Office to “decorate” your listing with hi-res photos and videos and you may find that you don’t need to have external hosting for your virtual tours (which of course you may still do: the choice is yours).

This external Virtual Tour link can be generated in the “More…” tab in your Listing Editor, and you can even configure it to include the link to your main website and/or your contact details along with a contact form: please ensure though, that this abides by the rules of your Real Estate board as some disallow branding information in external virtual tour links.

 

Do you have ideas or suggestions? Send us an email to support-<at>-myrealpage.com or post your comments there.

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MyRealPage adds CoolIris to its Listing Photo Galleries

MyRealPage has added another great looking gallery to its array of Listing Galleries to provide the best possible showcase for your properties. This one is from CoolIris (http://cooliris.com). CoolIris is more than just an image gallery, it embraces an entirely new approach to browsing the web through rich media, such as images and movies. However, the component we used – the image gallery – is also very attractive and slick. The gallery below shows you a sample presentation in CoolIris of listing photos. (try dragging around and clicking in the gallery below)

You can choose CoolIris to be your default gallery through “Listing Options” under “Listings” tab in your Private Office. We hope you will enjoy this new addition to MyRealPage support for rich media in your listings: it’s available to everyone with Listings subscription.

Special thanks to Peter Colak of http://homesproperties.ca for seeding the idea to incorporate CoolIris into our galleries!

Have a comment or a suggestion? Drop us a line in the comments or at support-<at>-myrealpage.com.

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MyRealPage QR codes for Listings and Contact Info = Mobile Coolness Factor

Have you heard of QR codes?  These little things are basically a variant of barcodes. (Here is a link to a QR wiki age) What is interesting about them is that many smart phones, such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm Pre have applications that can scan and decode them by using the built-in phone cameras. Decoded QR codes can be many things, such as URLs, contact records, etc. So we thought, why not use the QR codes to make it easier for mobile users to access listing information and your contact details on the go.

Here is a hypothetical scenario: imagine that someone is walking by your freshly planted “FOR SALE” sign for a property you have just listed. She notices the QR code with “LISTING DETAILS” caption nicely attached to the sign. Being a hip mobile savvy user, she pulls out her iPhone and scans the code; and within a few seconds she is looking at the full details webpage of your listing, complete with all the photos, contact form, etc. She also notices your phone number and next to it another QR code that says: “SCAN THIS FOR MY CONTACT DETAILS”. She does just that and instantly sees the QR reader create a contact record with your details and ask her whether she wants to add it to her Contacts. All this has happened without your lead typing a single character into her phone.

Think about the possibilities now. You can print a QR code at the back of your business card, on your listing materials, anywhere where you can save your leads some typing and increase your mobile coolness mojo! :)

The official announcement for this feature release will be forthcoming on MyRealPage official blog, but this little post is a special sneak peak for those who follow :)

Here is a quick schematic of how this works for Listing Details:

And the same but for Contact Details:

Here is where you will find your Listings’ QR Codes:

And your Contact Info QR Code:

Do you have comments or suggestions? Do you know of a creative idea to use the QR code? Let us know! Post your comment here or send us an email to support-at-myrealpage.com

(BTW, did you like the nice shadow effects on the images above? I created this post in Windows LiveWriter which I use now to publish to MyRealPage blog (check our latest support of the API) as well as the ones hosted by Blogger. I am very happy with this software: lots of great features: check it out!)

UPDATE: Helpful link for Blackberry users who want to install a barcode reader: http://www.beetagg.com/supportedphones/