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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Introducing “Listing Showcase” from myRealPage

by myRealPage.com on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 12:46 AM

Categories:Listing Showcase,Listings,Updates

Say “hello” to the new addition to myRealPage Listings offering: Listing Showcase. Listing Showcase was created with one simple goal: to make your listings look cool on the web. Even if your website is not with us.

Listing Showcase allows you to create a variety of showcase-like listing presentations. We are including 3 showcase types in this first release:

1. Featured Listing

featured

2. Multi-Listing Band

band

3. Multi-Listing Slidewhow

Listing Showcases can be used by both myRealPage website users and “Listings-only” customers. If your website is with us, find the new “Listing Showcase” weblet which will allow you to both select an existing showcase, as well as create, edit or preview one. If you are a “Listings-only” customer, create a Listing Showcase through the Listing Options and use the “embed code” to insert the showcase into your current website.

listing-showcase-diagram

It is easy to set up a showcase. You simply need to follow a few simple steps through the wizard:

Pick which showcase you would like to create
Select the listings you would like to showcase
a) Individual listings
b) Listing batches, such as “My Listings”, “Office Listings”
c) Pre-defined searches
Fine-tune the settings, including colors, borders, etc.
A: If you are a myRealPage website customer, use “Listing Showcase” weblet to add the showcase to a webpage
B: If you are a “Listings only” customer, use the '”embed code” to insert the showcase into your non-myRealPage website

We plan to add more Listing Showcase types in the near future. Do you have ideas or suggestions? Drop us a line at support-<at>-myrealpage.com.

This feature is included in the standard Listings subscription. (Please note that in order to use predefined searches, your Real Estate board needs to allow Reciprocity program).

-- Brought to you by myRealPage.com

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by Paul McEwan on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 12:11 PM

Nice work!...and as is the standard for myrealpage I'm betting we can style these even further with CSS.

by Bill Skrypnyk on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 12:14 PM

Thanks Paul.

You are correct: both Featured Listing and Multi-Listing Band can be styled via css. There are also manual controls for the users to set their borders, colors, backgrounds, etc. (Multi-Listing Slideshow is done in flash and doesn't have any styles).

--Bill

by Michelle Vella at RealSTUDIO on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 06:26 PM

Excellent News! I have a few clients lined up already.

by Bill Skrypnyk on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 06:30 PM

Sounds great, Michelle!

We have been doing a great deal of development to support all sorts of customizations on our websites and listings. Look forward to showing your programmers our new features!

by Raj Dhaliwal on Tue, Nov, 24, 2009 09:14 PM

I am going to try it tonight..

by Bill Skrypnyk on Wed, Nov, 25, 2009 02:28 AM

Look forward to your feedback, Raj.

by Norm Fisher on Tue, Dec, 29, 2009 07:53 AM

Do you have ideas or suggestions?

Hi Bill,

Love this idea which could work particularly well on our "neighbourhoods" pages. As for display ideas, what about something that looks like your "Gallery" view for listing search results?

by Bill Skrypnyk on Tue, Dec, 29, 2009 11:18 AM

Thanks for dropping by Norm. We have, in fact, released a showcase type called "Multi-Listing Grid" which looks similar to our Gallery results view. Hope you find it useful.

by Rod Friesen on Tue, Dec, 29, 2009 11:54 AM

Good morning, I am new to MRP, but far from new to either real estate, web design or SEO. As a matter of fact, I was once employed at Ubertor while I was a licensed Realtor.

I will have some very interesting things to say and show you as I have been reading this Ubertor vs. MRP etc... I never purchased Ubertors product, but I have purchased MRP product, that should tell you something!

By the way, Ubertor is doing a little shady work at the bottom of this page: http://www.myrealpageexposed.myubertor.com/MyRealPage.ubr

Using MyRealPage as the page title and linking to a page within their own site, not to MyRealPage.com

Just an FYI... a little lack of character on their part.

by Bill Skrypnyk on Tue, Dec, 29, 2009 03:04 PM

Hello Rod.

Thank you for your vote of confidence: we appreciate your business and hope you like our product offering.

We are also open to hearing your suggestions and criticism: we have implemented many a good feature based on our customers' input.

As I have mentioned in my posts on the myRealPage vs Ubertor subject, myRealPage likes competition. It "tells" us when we need to pick up pace and how we stand in our market. But we'll also defend our brand name and reputation when public claims are made that are inaccurate, misleading or unfair.

Rod, if you are a tech-savvy REALTOR(r), you will find a wealth of tools in our products that you can explore on your own or with the help of a graphic designer or javascript developer. Many of these features have been built with an explicit intention to support 3rd party websites. If you would like pointers or ideas; or would like to offer yours, feel free to drop me a line at bill-<at>-myrealpage.com

Introducing “Listing Showcase” from myRealPage

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