Happy Grasshopper Announces New Integration with Chime
Happy Grasshopper brings on new integration to help agents, brokers and teams who struggle with content solutions Mar. 10, 2023 -- Happy Grasshopper, the No. 1 content platform for agents and brokerages, launches a new integration with Chime – an all-in-one real estate solution that offers CRM, IDX, team management, lead generation and more bundled in a seamless, easy to use package. With this integration, Chime members can effortlessly send Happy Grasshopper's high-quality content to all segments of their database. This feature helps them increase their lead conversion rates, generate more referrals from past clients and sphere, and recruit the right agents for their teams or brokerages. "We have many customers on Chime and have always had great respect for their company. Partnering with them presented a great opportunity to get more content out there for realtors to help grow their business. We provide the content and handle all of the automated messaging for Chime and are happy this collaboration is happening," said Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper. Happy Grasshopper's mission is to connect the world in conversation. The platform executes communication touch points for their clients by creating specialized messaging that works to nurture relationships consistently. With this integration, agents won't have to think about the content they want to create, their system will provide the market-driven and market-specific content Chime needs. "One of the areas where agents and brokers really struggle is finding the right content for all their marketing efforts, whether it is for Social Media, email campaigns or SMS to their database, and we at Chime are not experts so to have Happy Grasshopper as an integration partner is great and makes total sense. They also work very closely with some of our industry partners, and we want to make sure we deliver the best all-round solution for our customers," said Stuart Sim, VP of Industry Development at Chime. Chime is a full platform for real estate agents. They currently have 50,000 customers and are looking at growing their user base substantially in the next two years. The recipe for many agents and brokers to sell their listings has always been limited to posting their new and sold listings. Agents and brokers need content support that Happy Grasshopper provides to generate more leads and sales. HG will provide the expert view needed to build marketing campaigns that are the most effective for those agents. To learn more about the integration, visit happygrasshopper.com/hgrecruits. About Chime Chime is an all-in-one real estate solution that offers CRM, IDX, team management, lead generation and more bundled in a seamless, easy to use package. Our mission is to provide the best AI-powered tools, and facilitate the most valuable, professional collaboration for real estate professionals, helping them prosper in a tech-enhanced, hyper-competitive world. About Happy Grasshopper Happy Grasshopper is a technology-leveraged marketing company that creates and delivers content that fosters conversations with prospects, customers, and others through a variety of media (email, text, ringless voicemail drops, handwritten cards, and social media posts!). For more information, visit happygrasshopper.com.

ActivePipe Unveils Real Estate Content
New feature bridges gap between property marketing and content marketing Austin, TX - ActivePipe, the nation's leading email marketing solution for real estate companies and teams, announced today the rollout of Real Estate Content, a new feature that allows users to automate genuine content experiences within their email marketing campaigns. This feature is available now to current users following an extensive Q1-Q2 beta testing trial of rookie and veteran agents. "The Launch of Real Estate Content couldn't be timed better to coincide with Smart Match," says ActivePipe CRO Mike Feller. "With Real Estate Content, ActivePipe users can now take advantage of content marketing inside of their emails. We know that not everyone in agents' networks are looking to buy or sell their home, but with this feature, you can remain top-of-mind with current news, home design and renovation tips that are helpful, engaging and informative, so when they are ready to buy or sell, they know you're the one to call." Real Estate Content launches on the heels of ActivePipe's acquisition of HomePrezzo, the Australia-based presentation and content creation software that will help power Real Estate Content. HomePrezzo's tools, among many others, offer the ability to produce dynamic landing pages for agents, also. For agents choosing to utilize Real Estate Content, an option to be redirected to a personalized landing page is included. Real Estate Content reimagines content marketing by persona, ensuring each contact receives content matched to their personal interest no matter where they are in the property buying or selling process. Real Estate Content's blogs even help infer buying or selling intentions. This passive marketing technique gives you more information about your prospects making your personal outreach even more effective. Pre-built Customer Journeys are enhanced with clickable, agent-branded content, precisely catered to provide the right information to help move prospects closer to their goals while keeping you front of mind as the expert they need to complete a smooth transaction. ActivePipe's Real Estate Content library will deliver new pieces of data-driven content for agents. At launch, the library currently holds 100 original content marketing pieces for agents to choose from. Users can have content automatically inserted into their emails based on tags and categories assigned to their contacts. Through ActivePipe's proprietary AI system, user profiles are generated based on several categories and tags (i.e.: upsizer, downsizer, empty-nester, etc.) Agents and brokers are able to leverage ActivePipe to effectively lead their networks down a path of intention that results in more home sales. "ActivePipe developers are constantly looking for ways to save real estate agents time and money," Feller says. "However, the places we see opportunity to grow in the email marketing space are the same places agents are experiencing frustration. Our focus is to mitigate that frustration by listening to our users, many of whom were tired of sharing the same content to their networks. Real Estate Content saves time and brings more value to your email campaigns." About ActivePipe ActivePipe helps real estate agents to know which prospects to call next, based on their behaviour with your content. Cut through the noise and make easier calls by focusing on the topics your prospects are engaging with. It allows you to get your marketing done in minutes with a smooth, drag and drop email builder and pre-built customer journeys to set your business up for optimal conversions. Help your team get back to basics and never miss an opportunity.

Happy Grasshopper Announces Free Content for Every REALTOR
SAFETY HARBOR, FLA. - (March 26, 2020) -- Dan Stewart, CEO of Happy Grasshopper, today announced the creation of free messaging content for all real estate agents, teams and brokers, whether or not they are HG members. The new program is called "HG Free." "Our mission – to connect the world in conversation – has never been more important," Stewart said. "In this unprecedented time of social distancing, we must continue to hold conversations with one another through the communication media available to us. For our largest client base – real estate agents, teams, brokers, and franchises – staying in touch with leads, their sphere of influence, current and past clients and others is always important. Today, in the face of this world-wide, self-quarantining pandemic, it is crucial." Stewart noted that the free content Happy Grasshopper has created includes email and text messaging, voicemail drops, and social media messaging. "Every real estate entity will have access to this content, which they can copy, paste, edit and send to their database through Happy Grasshopper or their own system." "The real estate industry has been very good to us," Stewart added. "We value the relationships we've built in the real estate industry throughout North America. So, when times become uncertain, we want everyone to know that we are here for them, continuing to provide more and better services every day." Above: Happy Grasshopper Home Page about HG Free Content. "Many are fearful of what will happen to their businesses. Fear can be paralyzing. However, the worst course of action is inaction. We're providing an opportunity for everyone in real estate to be proactive. We will get through this, and those who continue to communicate and converse with the people in their databases are the ones who will emerge stronger than ever." A look at the Free Email Message Page for Real Estate Agents inside HG Free. Happy Grasshopper is a company that helps people initiate and foster conversations with prospects, customers, and others through a variety of media. Dan Stewart is available for media interviews, contact Brian Rayl for scheduling. Happy Grasshopper Home page: https://happygrasshopper.com/

Technology Companies Adwerx and ActivePipe Create Innovative Integration for Realtors
Integration Will Allow Real Estate Agents to Better Leverage Their Database for Sales DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 5, 2019 -- Adwerx, a leading provider of localized digital advertising, is now integrated with ActivePipe, an advanced drip email marketing solution offering valuable customer insights to real estate professionals. The integration is making it easy for real estate agents to automate time-consuming data entry processes and run targeted digital advertising campaigns. Through the Automated Listing Advertising Program, Adwerx provides real estate listing ads that launch when a property is publicly listed. These ads appear on the websites and mobile apps that consumers visit most and are targeted by location and lifestyle. ActivePipe allows real estate agents to identify the best prospects for a property, empowering agents to nurture contacts and build trust through a range of digital products. Their suite of products allows users to build one-off emails or automated drip campaigns that can incorporate properties, blog posts, videos, and a call to action. The Adwerx and ActivePipe collaboration will further empower agents currently using sphere of influence advertising. When integrated with ActivePipe to receive emails from open houses, listing presentations, and other events, emails will include the Adwerx QuickAdder™ from their sphere campaign and will be automatically added to the agent's sphere, bypassing manual entry. "I've loved using Adwerx and ActivePipe. They've both recently been introduced at our office and I've never looked back. I regularly receive positive feedback on our emails, their appearance, professionalism, etc. and I get at least one screenshot a day from someone who's seen my Adwerx ad online while reading the news," said Haley Urquhart, a REALTOR® Associate with Greenwood King Properties. Both companies are actively working to automate advanced digital marketing campaign processes to help users coordinate messages across channels and build a seamless customer experience. As more and more people spend their days switching between their laptops and mobile devices, designing campaigns to reach consumers in multiple spaces is becoming increasingly important. Additionally, research suggests that people are 22% more likely to purchase when they experience digital ads and open an email from the same brand. This integration will provide predictive analytics to help identify who in a CRM is most likely to become an active client, and enable agents to focus on providing superior service to home buyers and sellers. Adwerx has previously integrated with other transaction management providers, including Dotloop and SkySlope. For more information about Adwerx's services, please visit enterprise.adwerx.com. About ActivePipe ActivePipe allows real estate agents and brokers to Never Miss an Opportunity™️ through it's real estate specific email and email automation capabilities. Build a "just-listed" email to all other agents, as well as, your sphere in minutes and deploy drip campaigns specific to each property or prospect. ActivePipe nurtures the thousands of leads received each year advising the agent who, when and why to call, all supported by engagement data. A graduate of the 2018 NAR Reach class, ActivePipe is helping tens of thousands of customers across the U.S., Australia and the UK by delivering relevant property content, to the right person at the right time. To get in touch with the ActivePipe team or simply learn more, please visit activepipe.com. About Adwerx Adwerx provides Brilliantly Simple Digital Advertising™ for real estate, mortgage, insurance, financial services, and other businesses. Ads powered by Adwerx have received billions of impressions on social media, mobile platforms, and the most widely read news sites. Adwerx has served 200,000 customers across the U.S., Canada, and Australia and has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest Growing Private Companies for three years in a row. To see how Adwerx can work for you, please visit www.adwerx.com. Plus, NAR members receive 15% additional impressions on Adwerx campaigns, which can be combined with other eligible discounts. This exclusive benefit is available through the National Association of REALTORS®' REALTOR Benefits® Program.

Homes.com to Offer Free Newsletter Services Starting this Month
Keeping in touch with your leads and clients is a crucial part of generating referral business, and a monthly newsletter is a great way to do that. Homes.com is pleased to announce the arrival of the free agent newsletter. Check your email marketing center each month to review, edit, and send it. Don't have time for all that? Just sit back and Homes.com will automatically send the newsletter to your clients on your behalf each month. What is it? The monthly newsletter is sent from your email address to your contacts. We just write the content. Each month the newsletter will cover a variety of topics ranging from DIY projects, home maintenance tips and decorating ideas, to real estate advice. Who is automatically enrolled? Moving forward, new leads will automatically be enrolled in your monthly newsletter. If you would like to enroll your existing contacts or turn off the auto-enroll feature, simply log in to your Homes.com account, navigate to your email marketing center, and select the "Monthly Newsletter" option to make the changes. Can I edit it? You can! Once a newsletter is available, simply log in to your account, navigate to your email marketing center, and select the "Monthly Newsletter" option to start editing. When will this go out? The newsletter will automatically go out on the last Thursday of each month. Can I opt out of sending the newsletter? Yes. Simply set the "Send Newsletter Automatically" option to "No." How do I select newsletter recipients? At the bottom of your monthly newsletter screen, you'll find the "Newsletter Recipients" section. You can select all contacts or search for individual contacts to add or remove them from the newsletter. Can newsletter recipients unsubscribe from the newsletter? Yes. Each newsletter will offer an unsubscribe option in the footer for any of your contacts who don't wish to receive this type of content. Keep an eye out for the first newsletter to appear in your dashboard, and for more exciting account updates, business tips, and industry updates, follow us socially! Links to our social channels are at the top of the page! For support info, visit support.homes.com or call 866-774-2947. To view the original post, visit the Homes.com blog.

eMerge welcomes new Director of Marketing, Melissa McHone
July 28, 2017 - eMerge today announced that real estate industry veteran Melissa McHone has joined the company as the new Director of Marketing. Melissa brings more than ten years of industry experience to eMerge. She most recently served as a marketing manager for DocuSign Inc., developing and managing strategies and building relationships with the industry's leading Franchises, brokerages, MLSs/Associations and the NATIONAL Association of REALTORS® trade organization. ​Melissa also serves as a mentor for the NAR Reach Program helping to support new and upcoming companies in the real estate space with strategy ideas and GTM plans. "I wanted to take my time after DocuSign to find the next big opportunity within the real estate industry and I am confident that I have found that with eMerge," stated Melissa. "Unlike other marketing platforms in the space, eMerge covers your business from end to end including top agent recruitment, retention of current agents, and the easy ability for agents and brokers to be more productive so they can sell more real estate. Bondilyn and Ethan Jolly have put together a world-class team and I am excited to join them and use both my industry experience and marketing knowledge to further greater success with the team." "Melissa brings a tremendous amount of energy and ideas to the eMerge team, and we're excited to how that will translate to our brand awareness and educational outreach," said Bondilyn Jolly, Founder & CEO. "It's so refreshing to work with someone with such an intimate knowledge of the real estate space and how a technology such as eMerge can aid agents and brokers in lead engagement, nurturing and conversion." About eMerge The leading email marketing platform in the real estate space, eMerge services thousands of real estate agents, brokers and companies around the globe. Subscribers can use the platform’s do-it-yourself tools to create, schedule and analyze email campaigns and workflows or gain a helping hand with one of the proven real estate campaigns designed to help busy real estate pros stay on task and engaged with their online audience.

IXACT Contact Announces its New Mobile Friendly e-Newsletter 2.0
  TORONTO, CANADA (MARCH 28, 2017) - IXACT Contact has always provided the best monthly e-Newsletter of any real estate CRM. It's professionally written and designed, it always includes fresh content, and it can be fully automated. Now IXACT Contact is making it even better by taking it to a whole new level in terms of modern design, mobile-friendliness, and customizability. With 66% of all email being opened and read on mobile devices, sending your contacts an attractive and easy to read e-newsletter on smartphones and tablets will make you stand out from the crowd – and eliminates the annoying pinching, zooming, and scrolling. With enhancements to IXACT Contact's e-Newsletter, you're now able to: Customize the entire e-Newsletter You can now edit or exclude any of the pre-loaded articles that IXACT Contact provides, as well as add your own articles into the mix, allowing your e-Newsletter to reflect your region, your business, and your voice. Send a 'responsive' mobile-friendly e-Newsletter Your e-Newsletters can be easily read on all devices including smartphones and tablets. Customize the color theme You can now choose a custom color theme that matches your personal branding. "With these mobile enhancements, IXACT Contact now offers one of the most powerful and complete real estate CRM and online marketing solutions available," says Rich Gaasenbeek, Co-Founder and EVP, IXACT Contact, "Our personally branded and customizable e-Newsletter is a powerful tool that helps agents keep in touch with everyone in their database easily and cost-effectively." About IXACT Contact IXACT Contact® is an easy-to-use web-based real estate CRM and marketing solution.  IXACT Contact includes robust real estate contact management, powerful email marketing, and mobile friendly REALTOR® websites.  IXACT Contact helps real estate agents generate leads that convert into clients, keep in touch with past clients, hot prospects, and important referral sources, and stay organized and in control as their business grows.

Dayton Area Board of REALTORS Chooses Instanet
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 27, 2016 -- During industry group meetings of the Council of MLS being held this week, Instanet Solutions and CoreLogic® announced that the Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® (DABR) will be installing its TransactionDesk® platform, including Authentisign® and InstanetForms®. This means all members of DABR will receive Instanet's services as a member-benefit. TransactionDesk integrates deeply with CoreLogic® multiple listing and property information platforms, including Matrix™ and Realist®. Integration with these systems greatly reduces data entry by automatically populating transactions and forms with MLS and tax data, as well as populating transactions with documents attached to listings. For listing agents, these integrations also improve the workflow for attaching documents to listings. Martin Scrocchi, Instanet's CEO commented, "We are thrilled to be chosen by DABR. It is a testament to our products, services, integrations and our team. Instanet Solutions continues to add new enterprise clients at a record pace. More organizations are choosing our new TransactionDesk service as it enables comprehensive and complete end-to-end transaction management in one product while also leveraging unique and powerful integrations with Matrix and Realist resulting in the best possible user experience." "Dayton Realtors have been well served by CoreLogic's Matrix MLS platform, and we look forward to expanding that relationship with their Instanet service. Instanet's features will be an enormous benefit, allowing agents in the field or in the office to better serve consumers. We can't wait to roll it out," stated Dayton Area Board of Realtors president Michael Martin. About Instanet Solutions Instanet Solutions is a leading provider of real estate technology with over 500,000 licensed, paid user accounts of their various real estate focused products—Authentisign®, TransactionDesk®, InstanetForms®, and DocBox®. Instanet Solutions began delivering residential real estate technology in 1991 and is proud to be celebrating our 25th year of providing technology to the real estate world. Further information about Instanet Solutions and its products is available at www.instanetsolutions.com. About the Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® The Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® is a trade association representing over 2,700 REALTOR® and affiliate members in Montgomery, Greene, Darke, Warren, and Preble Counties in Ohio. As members of organized real estate, REALTORS® subscribe to a strict code of ethics and have access to numerous services and programs to enhance their professionalism. Since 1909, DABR has provided its members with the resources they need to ensure the continued growth and success of real estate practitioners to better serve the consumer.

HomeActions Surpasses 5,000 Clients and 3 Million Contacts
  GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla., July 12, 2016 -- HomeActions LLC, an e-prospecting and client relationship service for real estate professionals, has hit major milestones in its continued growth, sending out more than 3 million newsletters on behalf of more than 5,000 clients in its most recent two-week cycle — a figure that shows more than 40 percent growth in e-newsletter delivery over the course of a year. That's 6 million e-newsletters a month. "I'm thrilled to see us growing so much, so quickly," said Barry Friedman, founder and CEO of HomeActions. "This shows that we are providing the kinds of articles that homeowners and prospective homeowners really want to read and share. Even more than that, our growth shows how strongly real estate professionals rely on HomeActions to build — and maintain — close connections with clients and prospects." Each HomeActions newsletter contains professionally written articles that automatically populate the issue. The e-newsletters cover all issues of interest to homeowners, including home improvement, repairs, finance and insurance. They also include neighborhood and events widgets that provide hyperlocal content. In addition, clients can add stories from a continually growing library of nearly 1,000 articles and can also add their listings, open houses, and recently sold properties or any other personal content. Clients don't need any coding or programming skills to use the service. Indeed, no matter how clients use the newsletter, all articles are laid out and mailed automatically. For those who want to customize their newsletters, the company provides online, in-context help and live customer service support. Once the newsletters go out, real estate professionals can also see complete metrics on activity and can benefit from the new "predictive" tools that highlight readers who may be warming up to a transaction. About HomeActions HomeActions LLC was founded by Barry Friedman, CPA, who managed many CPA firms for over 25 years and subsequently sold them to American Express. He then created BizActions LLC, which became the largest marketing e-newsletter company for CPA firms and payroll companies. He sold it to Thomson Reuters in 2012. He has over 15 years' experience in the e-mail newsletter space. HomeActions LLC is a virtual company that employs more than 35 people and is headquartered in Green Cove Springs, Florida. For more information, please visit our website HomeActions.net or contact Richard J. Koreto, chief content officer, at 845-642-4314.

iHomefinder Launches MarketBoost to Help Agents and Brokers Keep in Touch with Clients
BERKELEY, CA — FEBRUARY 09, 2016 — iHomefinder, a leading provider of IDX solutions for real estate professionals, announced today the release of MarketBoost. MarketBoost empowers agents and brokers to stay-in-touch with their clients by sending automated, hyper-local, real estate market reports and listings-based emails. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently polled home buyers and found that 88% would use the same agent for future real estate transactions. Even with such a significant opportunity, agents often find it difficult to find the time to properly stay in touch with their clients. MarketBoost addresses the challenges of client communications head-on by creating engaging website and email content through reports and listings about the buyer’s local real estate market. By offering clients relevant, insightful knowledge, agents will be well positioned to grow their business. MarketBoost includes two major features: Market Report Pages and automated listings-based drip emails. Whether clients are buying, selling or simply staying abreast of market conditions, Market Report Pages offers graphically appealing content such as median price, days on the market, sale-to-list price ratios and more. With Market Report Pages, agents will have branded, hyper-local content they can use to build relationships and close more business. MarketBoost also allows agents and brokers to provide clients with automated emails, including sold, active and open house listings. By offering relevant information via email, agents drive clients to their website where visitors can dive deeply into hyper-local content that rivals the major consumer portals such as REALTOR.com, Zillow and Trulia. This enables the agent to stay top-of-mind as opportunities with new and existing clients arise. "Customers love market-based, listings content, which is at the core of MarketBoost,” said Chad Gray, Coldwell Banker real estate broker and founder of the Luxury Living Fort Lauderdale group. “Clients appreciate micro-market data that informs them of their local real estate market. When customers find value in my content, they are more likely to work with me.” “We’re excited to announce the launch of MarketBoost," said Brett DeSchepper, CEO of iHomefinder. “MarketBoost enables busy agents and brokers to keep in touch with their sphere of influence by sending highly-relevant, listings-based emails. This content increases client interaction, which helps agents and brokers close more business.” To learn more about MarketBoost, feel free to sign up for a free trial account.

IXACT Contact Extends Its "No Limits" Real Estate Email Marketing Capabilities
  TORONTO, ON (AUGUST 19, 2015)--New enhancements to IXACT Contact's powerful email marketing platform allow agents to send unlimited mass emails. In addition, each individual mass email message can have an unlimited distribution list. One of IXACT Contact's key goals is to provide REALTORS® with the most user-friendly yet powerful real estate CRM and email marketing platform on the market. The new "No Limits" email marketing engine delivers on this promise in a major way. A study by McKinsey and Company found that email continues to be the most effective form of online marketing today. Email is 40x more effective at acquiring new customers than social media sites like Facebook or Twitter. IXACT Contact understands the value and ROI email marketing offers to real estate agents. The company respects that every REALTOR® has different contact management and email marketing needs, therefore the CRM is offering customers the power to use the effective email marketing platform without limits. Other customer relationship managers have limitations on email distribution and struggle to deliver high volumes of email messages. These limits can impact the effectiveness of the real estate agent's email marketing efforts. "IXACT Contact customers use email marketing to keep in touch with past clients, stay top of mind with prospects, and generate leads," says Rich Gaasenbeek, Vice President, IXACT Contact, "Our software includes targeted drip email campaigns, sophisticated mass email functionality including Campaign Reporting, and a professionally designed and written monthly e-Newsletter, all of which help real estate sales professionals get the best possible ROI from their email marketing. With our "No Limits" enhancements, even the largest team with the biggest database can grow their email marketing without constraint." As part of IXACT Contact's "No Limits" strategy, the company has increased the monthly free allotment of mass emails per agent to 2,500, and real estate teams enjoy 2,500 mass emails per team member, with additional mass emails costing as little as half a penny each. The new allotment will ensure customers are able to share their messages with their entire database, as research has shown that 98% of REALTORS® send less than 2,500 mass emails per month. Individual mass emails can have any size distribution list, and as always, drip email is also unlimited. IXACT Contact has long been known in the industry as offering innovative real estate contact management software with outstanding email marketing capability. Real estate agents appreciate the ability to customize their mass emails in IXACT Contact to reflect their own real estate branding and to send an individual personalized email to each recipient. IXACT Contact places a strong emphasis on email deliverability, to ensure real estate agent's email messages are getting into their contact's Inbox. To ensure email deliverability, IXACT Contact sends all mass emails through a leading Email Service Provider (ESP). Leveraging the ESP's specialized email servers ensures the highest level of deliverability. IXACT Contact's ESP has established relationships with all the major email providers, and constantly monitors delivery and bounce-back statistics in order to ensure that any deliverability issues are identified and rectified as quickly as possible. "Email marketing is one of the most effective ways for real estate agents to keep in touch with past clients and prospects," says Jon Kay, Chief Technology Officer, IXACT Contact. "We're proud to offer REALTORS® with reliable "No Limits" easy-to-use email functionality allowing them to email any size distribution list, even including their entire database, quickly, easily, and as often as they like." About IXACT Contact Solutions Inc. IXACT Contact® is an easy-to-use web-based real estate CRM and real estate marketing system that helps REALTORS® build lasting relationships with past clients, hot prospects and important referral sources. IXACT Contact makes it easy to maintain full contact profiles and to stay in touch with clients in a way that's personalized, relevant and timely. With IXACT Contact, real estate agents can convert more leads into listings and attract more referrals and repeat business. Real estate sales and real estate prospecting become easy. Real estate marketing is also a snap with IXACT Contact's personalized mass email, drip marketing, real estate newsletter, and Email Campaign Reporting features. The Active Business side of the system helps Realtors keep control of transactions by managing all the to-do's associated with listings and buyers. Sign up for a free five week trial today at http://www.ixactcontact.com.

Reesio Launches Integration with MailChimp, Including Drip Email Campaigns
SAN FRANCISCO, Jun. 26, 2015 — Reesio, the combined CRM and Transaction Management platform for real estate professionals, has launched several new CRM features this week. The new features include the following: An integration with the email marketing platform MailChimp, which allows users to connect their MailChimp account directly within Reesio. From there, users can create email lists in Reesio that automatically sync to their MailChimp lists. This allows users to set up drip email campaigns, access email templates, and set up email blasts within MailChimp based on Reesio email lists. Reesio will now track email activities of synced email lists so that whenever an email is sent through MailChimp, an activity will show up in that contact's lead within Reesio. Email activities tracked include: when an email is sent, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, and bounced. A new tagging system that allows users to add/remove tags on multiple contacts. Reesio Co-Founder & CEO, Mark Thomas, said the drip email campaigns feature was requested over 80 times by customers in the past several months, and was by far and away the most heavily-requested feature the company has ever had. "When we say that we take customer feedback seriously here at Reesio, we mean it," said Thomas. "Every time a feature gets requested, we log it, and add the tally to the number of times it's been requested. We use the number of times a feature has been requested to heavily determine what we focus on for our product roadmap. Drip email campaigns were requested 60% more often than the next most-requested feature, so it was obvious that we needed to launch this feature now." As to whether users need to pay for a MailChimp account on top of paying for a Reesio account, the answer is that users will only need a paid MailChimp account if they have more than 2,000 contacts, send out more than 12,000 emails per month, or want to use the drip email campaigns feature (if users want to send out regular email blasts, that doesn't require a paid account if the number of contacts/emails is below the above threshold). Given that Reesio just launched the most-requested feature that it's every seen from customers, one might think that Reesio would be holding off on releasing new features anytime soon. Not so said Thomas. "Unlike other companies who only release new features once a month or once a quarter, Reesio releases new features on a weekly basis, and we're constantly iterating on our product to make it better. We never get complacent, and now that we've launched this MailChimp integration, we're on to building the next thing that will add value for our customers." Regarding what comes next product-wise for Reesio, Thomas mentioned that they've been able to secure a large state Realtor association partnership, and that association will be licensing their forms directly to Reesio. Which means Reesio can integrate those Realtor forms directly into its product, and member brokers/agents will be able to fill out their forms right within Reesio. While Thomas declined to mention which association they'll be partnering with, he did say that the forms integration should launch in the next few months, "Relationships with Realtor associations and MLS' are paramount to us. We're making it a top priority here at Reesio to work with state associations to integrate their forms into Reesio and also potentially offer Reesio as a member benefit to associations and MLS' across the country." Additional CRM and other features are also in the works for the coming months.

HomeActions Announces an Exciting New e-Prospecting Feature
  HomeActions listens to its clients, and is always adding improvements to make its services even more successful in enhancing agents' digital marketing ROI by generating new leads, listings, buyers and sales. Real estate clients were asking for a way to send time-sensitive announcements, like new listings and open houses, in between their biweekly newsletter launches. HomeActions responded with a new feature: OnTarget email blasts. With OnTarget, real estate agents can send important email messages to their entire databases anytime they want. They don't have to wait until the next newsletter to get the word out on: Open house events New listings and virtual tours Important market news and updates And real estate agents don't have to be tech gurus or design experts to use this system — HomeActions does all the heavy lifting: OnTarget emails are preformatted to automatically include the graphics, website links, social media links and contact information from the agents' e-newsletters. Agents have the ability to format the body of the OnTarget email and edit it, adding whatever text, images, links and tables they want. The HomeActions system will track every link in the body of the OnTarget email. Real estate agents don't need to take additional steps to shorten links or add link-tracking metrics. HomeActions filters out problem emails, ensuring that OnTarget emails will never launch to unsubscribed members or bad email addresses. Clients can preview your OnTarget messages online or in their inboxes before they launch to their contacts. OnTarget emails can be launched right away or scheduled to launch at a future date and time of the agents' choosing. Finally, OnTarget is an economical add-on with a high ROI, costing only $10 per month or $100 per year. About HomeActions HomeActions provides real estate agents with a complete e-prospecting system that significantly increases their repeat and referral business. HomeActions clients can set up handsomely designed e-newsletters branded with their photos and logos, and can even choose from a selection of specialty articles from the HomeActions custom library. Once the newsletters are sent out to the agents' prospects, HomeActions provides actionable intelligence for its clients, letting them know which of the articles their readers are finding most engaging. All the top national real estate agencies, including Keller Williams, Coldwell Banker, Long & Foster, ReMax, Weichert and ERA, have top-producing associates using HomeActions. Top producers know that HomeActions' advanced technology and compelling content foster relationships with homeowners, building the agents' repeat and referral business and getting them more listings, buyers and sales. More than 2 million consumers receive the HomeActions newsletter every two weeks. HomeActions is headquartered in Green Cove Springs, Florida. For more information, please visit our website www.HomeActions.net or contact Lee T. Sowers, SVP Sales and Marketing, at 908-910-0605 or LSowers[at[HomeActions.net.

Your Year in Email: Introducing Our Email Report Card App
When was the last time you checked your inbox? I think I can make a safe bet that you did it at least 10 seconds ago (or just now with me just mentioning the word inbox, you probably couldn't help yourself). I think I can also make a fair assumption that everyone is pretty good about checking their emails, but when it comes to responses, how to respond, and the maintenance of our contact bases, we start to fall off course. So really, how well are you doing with your email? Introducing Our Email Report Card App That's where we, Contactually, come in. Today we're launching our 2014 Email Report Card to give you even more insight into your email and just how was you did you in 2014 with your inbox. We're reviewing your 2014 year in email and tell you if you are an A+ email wiz or if you're falling a little short. From the mood of your emails to your most popular subject lines, we'll tell you where you are kicking butt and where you could improve to be even more effective with your email. Get started with your own Year in Email Report Card here. To view the original post, visit the Contactually blog.

Major Delta Customer Center Upgrade Coming June 2nd: The My Customer For Life™ Email System
A Major Upgrade Is Coming To Your Customer Center On June 2nd! DeltaNet's™ Customer Center is the 'hub' for your online and off-line business. Using Customer Center, you are able to efficiently process leads, manage email marketing with your customers and keep track of customer activity. We are really excited to announce some major marketing automation upgrades in Customer Center which will make keeping in touch with past, present and future customers much easier and more effective. These upgrades will not be released in DeltaNet™ until June 2nd. But because this is such a big deal to us (and you) we wanted to unveil the most exciting component of the upgrade today! Introducing The My Customer For Life™ Email Campaign System Email is the preferred business communication tool and it absolutely produces leads when used as an outbound marketing tactic. Because of this, email marketing is a foundational component of our platform's Customer Center in DeltaNet™. Customer Center's robust email campaign features allow you to set up email contact lists, execute emails campaign and view results so you can gauge and improve your ongoing email marketing performance. To further enhance your email marketing capabilities in our platform, we have built out a new automated relationship communication campaign tool called My Customer for Life™. This powerful drip email system sends outs pre-loaded monthly emails to customer groups and the contacts you specify. It combines templated emails already in our campaign system and several new emails into a year-round automated campaign, saving you time while providing ongoing touch points with your customers. These emails come pre-designed with your photo, company branding and verbiage created to provide value and keep the engagement going with your contacts. My Customer For Life drip emails include: Welcome Email Market Watch Invitation or Confirmation (if currently signed up) Virtual Market Analysis Invitation or Confirmation (if currently signed up) New Listing Emails Invitation or Confirmation (if currently signed up) Spring Forward Reminder Happy Easter Email Happy July 4th Email Fall Back Reminder Email Happy Holidays Email Figure 1- My Customer For Life Interface in DeltaNet's™ Customer Center Marketing Automation That Does The Work For You The My Customer For Life System does the all work for you once you have your settings configured based on your business preferences. Just turn the system on and specify your settings and let it go to work engaging with your customers! Your emails are coded to behave intelligently, with "smart" personalization fields that populate your customer information and messaging based on their historical engagement with your website. Below is sample screenshot of the Welcome Email (see Figure 2), which can be set to automatically send to anyone who creates a portfolio account on your website. This email contains welcome messaging along with account credentials. It also prepares your customers for the ongoing monthly emails to come by explaining the value in the communications they will be receiving. Your customers are always given an opportunity to be removed from your mailing list. Figure 2 -Welcome Email Sample Market Watch Invitation emails communicate the value of Market Watch to customers who are not currently subscribed in the system (See Figure 3). If they are already a subscriber, they receive an email confirming their subscription. Figure 3 - Market Watch Invitation Email Sample The My Customer For Life system was built with intelligent "smart" fields that auto-populate your customer's info into the message body (See Figure 4). You are able to then easily personalize the messaging for all the emails in the editor if you choose to. Figure 4 - System email editor (green arrows demonstrate smart fields) More Info To Come On The June 2nd Customer Center Upgrades Next Week! We will be releasing more details on the upgrade along with screenshots and specifics on how the system works together with your contacts and groups next week. If you do not have access to our upgraded Customer Center and would like to have access to the My Customer For Life system, you can upgrade through the DeltaNet™ system or by calling your company web site administrator. If you need help with this you can always reach out to our support department at [email protected] or 1-866-233-9833. To view the original article, visit the Delta Media Group.

WebsiteBox Feature Update – Our Email Platform Just Got A Whole Lot Better!
You spoke and we listened! Due to numerous requests, the WebsiteBox email platform has undergone some major changes giving you a more user-friendly layout, extensive integration with your WebsiteBox CRM and the ability to control your server settings. This is a free update for all of our clients and it will automatically be applied to your account! Some of the specific changes include: A more user-friendly interface where everything you need is only "one-click away" A Smart Spam filter has been added, giving you the ability to mark sender/e-mails as "junk" Many Server Settings have been added, including auto-deletion of emails from the folder of your choice Your CRM contacts and your Email contacts will now be automatically synced Login to your email account and experience the power of WebsiteBox's new email platform today! To view the original article, visit the WebsiteBox blog.

HomeActions e-Newsletter Reaches More Than 1.1 Million Consumers
  GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla., March 4, 2014 -- HomeActions.net, an e-newsletter supporting real estate agent e-prospecting, crossed the 1 million consumer threshold in February. Real estate agents send the HomeActions e-newsletter twice a month to consumers within their sphere of influence to keep themselves top-of-mind when customers are ready to buy or sell a home. "Agents find the HomeActions e-newsletter easy to use because it doesn't require technical skills to get it set up and mailed out," says HomeActions CEO Barry Friedman. "We upload email lists, write engaging news that homeowners can use and automatically mail an e-newsletter every two weeks, sending 2.2 million e-newsletters monthly." The e-newsletter positions the real estate agent as a genuine expert in: Maximizing home value Local real estate conditions Homeowner advocacy HomeActions' clients are also able to customize the top article space in each issue to highlight local market news and observations, further building their credibility and highlighting their industry experience. The e-newsletter's flexible design options let Realtors® match the colors, graphics, logos and photographs of their independent or franchise brand. While the e-newsletter is reaching more than 1.1 million unique consumers, exclusivity agreements prevent more than one agent from emailing the same customer. The engaging HomeActions content focuses on maximizing home value, including home improvements and maintenance, consumer finance, taxes, insurance, décor, safety, community living issues and green living. To maximize their visibility, agents can post the newsletter's articles to social media sites with a single click. Reporting analytics show how many e-newsletters are sent, who opened the issue, which articles they clicked on and when articles were read. About HomeActions HomeActions provides Realtors® a complete e-prospecting system to generate repeat and referral business, creating more listings, buyers and sales. The HomeActions system electronically delivers current, engaging e-newsletter content of interest to all homeowners, not just those actively buying or selling a home.

Email Marketing with Happy Grasshopper
I really was so excited about winning my subscription to Happy Grasshopper. Melissa with RE Technology was the first to call and congratulate me. I had already started investigating this light hearted way of keeping connected with contacts that are truly viable leads. It just makes complete sense to keep connected without blabbing constantly about real estate. As Celeste reminded me, this is an excellent extra to go along with an email marketing campaign that is, or should be, in place. I urge you to check out Happy Grasshopper. They have a free trial you can use with your existing contacts. You can also view Agi's video on YouTube.

SharperAgent by Market Leader Signs Huff Realty, the Twelfth HomeServices of America Brokerage to Use Web-Based Marketing Platform
  DENVER, CO - 03/15/12 -- Sharper Agent by Market Leader (NASDAQ: LEDR) a leading provider of web-based marketing systems for the real estate industry, today announced that Huff Realty has become the twelfth of 23 HomeServices of America members to provide its agents with complete access to SharperAgent tools for building lasting, profitable relationships with clients, prospects and contacts. Huff Realty's more than 500 agents serving Ohio and Kentucky join more 6,900 HomeServices agents nationwide with access to the SharperAgent platform. "Key to our success and growth in 2012 is enabling our real estate professionals with a complete platform of marketing tools to better manage their business and serve their customers," said Brad Devries, CEO of Huff Realty. "SharperAgent's marketing campaigns are the best on the market, and we're excited to join other HomeServices brokerages in partnering with them." HomeServices of America, Inc. is the second largest independent residential real estate brokerage firm in the United States and an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway. SharperAgent's Marketing Center will allow HomeServices agents to produce eNewsletters and automate multichannel campaigns that combine direct mail and email marketing with personal contact reminders. SharperAgent's customizable system features a library of more than 3,000 professionally designed templates. "Tens of thousands of real estate professionals throughout North America are using world-class marketing products from SharperAgent to engage, manage and convert their pipelines into more closed business," said Brian Wildermuth, co-founder of SharperAgent and Vice President of Strategic Account Development for Market Leader. "Leading brokerages nationwide are realizing the power and results possible with a system-wide marketing platform, and we're excited to welcome Huff Realty to our family of customers." To learn more about SharperAgent by Market Leader, please visit www.sharperagent.com or call 866-614-9372. About Market Leader Market Leader, founded in 1999, provides innovative online technology and marketing solutions for real estate professionals across the United States and Canada. The company serves more than 100,000 real estate agents, brokerages and franchisors, offering complete end-to-end solutions that enable them to grow and manage their businesses. Market Leader's subscription-based real estate marketing software -- including websites, contact management, a marketing center, and lead generation services -- helps customers generate a steady stream of prospects, plus provides the systems and training they need to convert those prospects into clients. In addition, the company's national consumer real estate sites, including www.realestate.com, give its customers access to millions of future home buyers and sellers, while providing consumers with free access to the information they seek. For more information on Market Leader visit www.MarketLeader.com.

Housing Trends eNewsletter Helps Agents Generate Leads
FrogPond's Housing Trend eNewsletter (HTEN) was designed to give professionals a free way to generate leads. This video tour of HTEN helps walk agents through this system and better understand its benefits. National Association of REALTORS® features Housing Trends eNewsletter as April's "Right Tools, Right Now" on Realtor.org. If you would like to watch the original YouTube video, please click here.  

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