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New property partner, Junkmail.co.za for all Entegral OMS clients

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How does 750,000 unique monthly visitors sounds to you? This is the number of people visiting South Africa’s leading classified website, JunkMail on a monthly basis, making it one of SA’s top most visited websites. How would you like to target this massive visitor base? Now you can with Entegral. A new partnerships with JunkMail allows property listings from the OMS to be automatically advertised on SA’s leading classified website.  JunkMail now forms part of our extensive range of partner portals . The JunkMail portal is available exclusively to agents listing their properties through the OMS. We are currently advertising the latest 10,000 property listings on a daily basis with plans to increase the number of listings on a weekly basis.  The additional exposure is free for OMS clients until further notice.  We will only interface quality listings, your listings should include photos & description. Property listings on JunkMail links directly to your listing on MyPrope

More Google Streetview towns for South Africa

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Great news for all our clients is that Google has just released StreetView for more South African towns.  Entegral was first to launch Google Streetview for a property portal in South Africa +- 12 months ago and have since rolled the functionality out to national and office clients. Estate Agents can Geocode their properties for maximum effect, full instructions here . The result of the latest Google streetview enhancements, is that streetview may be available in your area and you can use it to your advantage for securing listing mandates. Read the full Google press release here . A wide array of imagery is now available for Limpopo, Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, North West, and Mpumalanga provinces. The southernmost tip of Africa has made its debut on Street View, with the addition of Cape Agulhas , the notoriously hazardous place for sailors where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet. Coastal fans can take a drive through the beautiful West Coast National Park ,

Some great QR codes ideas for Real Estate Agents

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We’ve had a great response so far from our clients on the new industry first QR codes integration into our OMS product: http://productblog.entegral.net/2011/07/introducing-property-listing-qr-codes.html We were also the first SA website to integrate a QR virtual business card on MyProperty.co.za on every agent’s personal details : http://productblog.entegral.net/2011/07/new-qr-code-business-card-on-myproperty.html So here are some cool ideas we’ve gathered on how to use QR codes in Real Estate: 1. On the back of your business card : a no brainer really. People can scan your business card QR code and your contact details are instantly added to their phone. A time saver for your contact. 2. On your car . Someone snaps your QR code in traffic and have your details. Plus you will look super high tech! 3. On property flyers. Want more info on a particular property, just scan the QR code. 4. Yard signs (for sale / rental). Get more details on a property by scanning t

New templates launched in June ‘11

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During the month of June we had the pleasure in of launching a host of new templates and other property-type websites.  We’ve blogged just how popular our template based sites are in the past and comes to show this month we’ve launched 4 template based websites and a mobile template site.   Our newest clients to Entegral whom ordered a template is Arlon Properties from Pretoria ( www.arlon.co.za ), Start Properties from Roodepoort ( www.start-properties.co.za ), Venti Properties also from Pretoria ( www.ventiproperties.co.za ) and Daphne Swanepoel Properties form Namibia Swakopmund ( www.dsprop.com )                            Read more about Entegral’s template website offering on: http://www.entegral.net/content/p180_products-real-estate-website.aspx   A long time client of ours, RE/MAX Living from the Atlantic Seaboard and City Bowl became one of the very few estate agencies that have yet to invest in a mobile website.  Since South Africa is one of the countries with one of

New QR Code business card on MyProperty

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Here’s a cool feature we’ve enabled on property portal MyProperty.co.za , a QR Code business card. Open up your profile, e.g. http://www.myproperty.co.za/agent/360/Brenda-Penny.aspx When someone scans the QR code with their smartphone it provides them with an option to save a business card to their phone. Another first for MyProperty.

Introducing property listing QR Codes

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The OMS now allows you to generate a QR (Quick Response) code for a particular property. Simply open a property listing and go to the reports section and select QR code . It uses your website url (configured in your office settings) and property reference number for the listing to generate a unique QR code. When someone scans this QR code with a phone barcode scanner, they are taken to the property details on your website. If you have a mobile website hosted through us, you will be taken directly to the mobile version. There are many applications including putting it on printed brochures in shop windows for passer-bys to scan or putting in on a for sale board in front of a property. What is a QR code? A QR code (abbreviation for Quick Response code ) is a specific barcode that is readable by camera telepones. The barcode consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded may be text, specific data or URL. More here http://en.w