Setup is simple and easy! Take a few minutes and watch the PropTrackr Real Estate Management System training video and we will show you how easy it is to add multiple languages to your PropTrackr real estate website.

Click the download button to copy the HTML text used to display and link the multiple language icons to Google Translate, converting your site into multiple languages.

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The hottest trend right now is advertising your business and yourself on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz to name a few. Blogging is another great way to get your name and business out there. PropTrackr give you all of these features with our system. Check out the FREE 14 Day Trial and get started today. Contact us today to find out how PropTrackr Web Based Real Estate Management Software can improve your business.

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Here at PropTrackr we have gathered up of a dozen resources and tools to help get you started with your social marketing and online presence. Start with the tools below to get you started with your online marketing, but you have to remember to keep posting and advertising on these networks. Social marketing only works if you join in on the conversation. You don’t have to check these social networks everyday but it would be good to be posting and commenting a few times a week.

Tips & Guides

10 Things to do before launching your blog.
There are lots of posts and articles about why adopting a blog for your small business is a good idea — how it’s good for customer retention, lead generation, and serves as an effective way to build links and rankings in the search engines. But if you’re a small business owner…
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How to get started blogging.
Respond to something elsewhere on the web: the best way to start blogging: simply link to something elsewhere that you feel is interesting, or (better) that you disagree with. If you make a constructive response to what someone else has posted, for example, you can start a…
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How to write for bloggers
This is a short guide that wants to encourage you to blog, and to blog well. The most important thing to remember is that blogging is about conversing – discussing the things that interest you. When you blog…
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The Blogger´s Guide to SEO.
You have a choice. You can target a general high traffic keyword you have little chance of ranking well for and get barely any traffic. Or you can shoot for a keyword that gets a moderate…
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SEOmoz | 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic.
Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings…
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How to optimize website images from a SEO perspective.
Product images, screenshots, your beautiful team members, catchy images for your website content, corporate images, logos, icons, you name it – all your online images…
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List of social networking websites on Wikipedia.
This is a list of major active social networking website.
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Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle”
Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by people you know and trust. It’s a pretty cool idea, especially in that it’s pretty…
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Tools & Analytics

Google Alerts – The Google Alerts is a content monitoring service, offered by the search engine company Google, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service. Notifications can be sent by email, as a web feed or displayed on the users iGoogle page.
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Technorati – Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[2] The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
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FeedBurner – FeedBurner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004.[1] FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers.
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Google Analytics – Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service[1], currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.
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When using Google Analytics to help track inbound links – When creating an advertisement on another website, this little tool allow you to track all traffic from that website by adding a little bit of tracking code to the website address.
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Trending Tools – help find out what’s hot right now

Digg – Digg is a social news website. The site’s cornerstone function consists of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.
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Google Trends – Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., about Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally.
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Popular Bookmarks on Delicious – Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique URLs bookmarked URLs.
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Twitter Search – Search Twitter in Real Time.
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Yahoo! Buzz Index – Todayʼs Top 20 Overall Searches – Yahoo takes the time to let you know what is trending on Yahoo. See what HOT now and if you can get involved to drive traffic.
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Tweetmeme – TweetMeme finds the hottest stories from twitter for you to retweet.
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Social Networks

A comprehensive list of social networks
Delicious
Last.fm
Facebook
Flickr!
FriendFeed
LinkedIn
Twitter
Google Buzz
Digg
Seesmic
Stumbleupon
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network
Squidoo
Diigo – Social Bookmarking

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Social Tools & Applications

Topsy – A search engine powered by tweets
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Ping FM – Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!
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Hootsuite – With HootSuite, you can monitor keywords, manage multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm and WordPress profiles, schedule messages…
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TweetDeck – TweetDeck: a simple and fast way to experience Twitter.
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TwitterFeed – Offers to tweet the last posts published in a blog via the RSS feed.
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If you were a potential buyer would you prefer to see a handful of images or a video tour of a property?

We will assume that most of you have responded that you would prefer a video tour, and that’s why we are going to let you know of the free tools (other than time & camera) that make it easy to get virtual tours up on your website/s.
Here is an example of a video tour produced by Kathleen Buckley:

First of all, you will need the raw video footage which will require you to go to the property, with a video camera, and shoot a video of the property. Don’t worry! This will not be your final production so your shoot does not need to be perfect from beginning to end.

It was mentioned above that the camera is not a free tool, but we recommend something like a
Flip because they are provide good video, are relatively inexpensive and extremely portable.

You may have noticed that Kathleen’s video pointed to the property out on the map. You could do the same thing by using Google Maps (Ideally in satellite view). Just zoom in on the property while recording your screen with Jing, an excellent & free screen recording tool.

Once you have obtained all the desired footage, you can use one of several free video editors including, but not limited to:

• Windows Movie Maker (for Windows)
• Apple iMovie (for Macs)
• JayCut (a web-based video editing applicication)

The video editors are pretty straight-forward to use, and I will not go into details. Just import the clips you want, remove the unwanted parts, add music if desired, etc.

Once your video is completed you may want to upload it to YouTube , a free video hosting web site.

YouTube will allow you to obtain the HTML necessary to embed the video anywhere you would like. So all you need to do is paste that code on your website/s and listing sites to make it available to your potential buyers!

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Last night’s scheduled updates went through in a swift, neat fashion as intended. Many updates were made to the PropTrackr software including, but not limited to:

• Upgrades to the Repair Estimator
• New Graphs added to the Dashboard
• More detailed information portrayed by e-mail notifications
• Property Search enabled to search by Assigned Users
• Many minor cosmetic changes that you may notice as you log in & explore the system.

The first update you may notice is that the dashboard has a bit more flare with new graphs for the Task Manager and Property Follow-up widgets. Being able to monitor office tasks and property notes at a mere glance is intended to assist in the management aspects of your Real Estate Business.

The Repair Estimator has been updated to allow for custom repair fields to be created, enabling one to manually enter any and all repairs to be included in a Repair Proposal.

Also included in last night’s release was the expansion of e-mail notifications sent via PropTrackr:

• Whenever a document is uploaded to your PropTrackr account, you are now notified by email. Included in this email is the property address and the document uploaded.
• Notification e-mails may now be sent upon editing a pre-existing property notes.
• Every notification (whether it is for uploaded documents, new/updated notes, added properties, etc) will now have the property’s address included within the e-mail.

These notifications were updated to save you time by eliminating the need to identify what property/document the e-mail was in reference to.

In order for your account to display the updates as intended, please delete the cookies and cache (temporary Internet files) from your web browser. This article provides step by step instructions for clearing the cache in most common browsers.

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Another successful update last night. The PropTrackr development team has been hard at work solving issues and updating the system. Last they released another set of updates to the system. Here is a list of just a few of the updates & bug fixes that were released in last night’s update.

System Updates

• New Property Search Filter
• New Comparables Estimator – Eppraisal Estimate added
• The ability to sort and order mortgages
• Failed fax email notification
• Tracking client side property submissions
• Property notes – Notification

Bug Fixes

• HUD-1 removed from application center
• Dashboard last 5 contacts now link to contact details
• Failed fax email notification with details
• Viewing content of sent faxes
• PropMapr Data feed updated

There is a new property search filter giving our clients the ability to now search by specific fields like address, city, state, zip code and contact name.

Also included in last night’s update is a new comparable search function. You can now see an estimated price of a real estate property from Zillow and Eppraisal with the PropTrackr estimate showing up giving our clients more options to choose from.

Taking suggestions from our clients, have proven to be a huge advantage in developing our software. This next update came from one of our clients, when adding a property note to the system you can now view who received the note under the “Notified” section of property notes.

Being able to easy and efficiently track client data is huge for running a real estate business and that is why we added the feature to track customer submitted properties. When a client logs into your PropTrackr account and submits a property for sale to your real estate company, their contact name is now listed as the source. Giving you the ability to sort and organize your data by customers who submitted data.

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PropTrackr Real Estate Management Software finally released the affiliate marketing program to the public. After two months of private beta testing PropTrackr has released the affiliate program to all of our clients. If you haven’t had a chance to read up on what this program is, take a few minutes to read one of our previous blog posts explaining how the program works. We will soon have a training video on how to utilize this new system. Be sure to stop by the PropTrackr Support Center to watch the PropTrackr Affiliate Marketing Program Video. You can also read up on the program at the support center here.

We would love to hear from you about these new updates. What do you think, have we improved the system? Is the system functioning better for your company? Have you tried out the new affiliate program, is it easy to use? Take a few minutes and let us know what you think.

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Along with the new filtering system the Contact Rolodex has a new look and functionality. The new look allows our customers to see a list of contacts on the left and the contacts details on the right. With the new functionality of the contact we have listened to your suggestions and you can now add your custom contact type. Simply navigate to the admin configuration section and there will be a new tab for contact types. Organize and sort your contact list the way you want!
Below is a list of the updates from last nights release.

SYSTEM UPDATES & NEW FEATURES

• New filtering ability on property list.
• Ability to create custom contact types.
• Print details to include latest property information.
• Updated the contact listings

BUG FIXES

• Print Note Details updated to be consistent with look of property detail print
• User Interface updates to action plans.
• Update to note requirement field.
• Client side document upload.
• Bug fix on latest 5 property leads.
• Update to client side mortgage features.
• WordPress Post Scheduling broken.
• Bug with SSL on “Properties” link

UPCOMING SYSTEM UPDATES

• Action plan logging.
• Continued work on soon to be released import properties.

Do you have some suggestions for us? Stop by the support center and let us know, we would love to hear from you on what you would like to see improved with the PropTrackr Real Estate Management Software. Let us know what you think about these new updates and fixes are they working for you? Contact us and we would be more than happy to take some time out and help you better understand the system.

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With last night’s release quite a few system fixes went out with the release. Mostly cosmetic changes to the admin system, consistency with the graphics, updates to reducing graphic file sizes and more. But the largest most noticeable update is the NEW Property Document Section. The new document section has been redesign from the ground up, easier organization allows locating and attaching documents to properties simpler and faster. The new organization tree of the property document center allows you to add new documents quickly to any specific real estate property, create new faxes for that real estate property, organize all the documents into packages for easy emailing or faxing and best of all, create HUD-1’s directly from this new section. Once created the HUD-1 is attached to the property details for easy location.

With all of the updates that were released last night you should see how these additions to the PropTrackr Real Estate Management Software can be useful to your real estate business. Optimizing the system along with decreasing file size should improve overall speed of the system, improving your daily productivity by increasing how much you can get done within a day. We would love to hear from you all, about the new updates and what you think about the new property document center. So take a few minutes and let us know what you think.

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We are working extremely hard at improving the PropTrackr system. Our newest update is on our training videos about the system. Learn step by step on how to improve the look and feel of your website, adding property details, learn how to create a faxing package and more. Stop by our support center training video section and learn how PropTrackr can improve your daily productivity. We are also very close to releasing our Affiliate Marketing program to the public, earn extra money by simply advertising on your networks. Learn more here.

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