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Radius search feature will launch on the #NewMyProperty South Africa website

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As you know we are busy with a complete new MyProperty South Africa website . Follow us on our Facebook page for all the latest progress on this. Our aim is to simplify search and bring out innovative new ways of searching for property. One of them is the new Radius Search feature. This will allow visitors to search for property around a point anywhere in South Africa. By selecting the size of the search (the radius) visitors will be able to increase their search area easily to include more properties. Properties that have (correct) geo location information (the show map feature in the OMS) will benefit from this but we will also include non-geocoded properties intelligently without revealing any location.

OMS Property Intelligence Reports enhancements – new search fields

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The search fields in the Property Report for the P.I. Reports have been updated and you can now also search on the following 5 new fields : Sectional Title Name, Farm Name, Erf Number, Portion Number and Owner Name

New national real estate franchise, Urban Link launched

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We are proud to announce the website launch of a new national franchise group, Urban Link. They offer residential rentals & sales plus commercial letting and business brokering services. Check out there website on: http://www.urbanlink.co.za/ For more info on our national group solutions check out this link: http://www.entegral.net/content/p202_real-estate-website-national-website.aspx or contact us for a free consultation and see how you can save on operational cost and admin time through our industry leading cloud solution. Powered by the OMS , all your franchise offices and agents have full access to an integrated property, contacts and documents management system.

New Namibia real estate agency website launched

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It’s been a very busy month for the Entegral team working on the New MyProperty website , OMS enhancements and new client websites. With a large client base in Namibia, the team also regularly develops new real estate agency websites. The latest launch is for Muller Property Investments operating in the Windhoek area. Here is a link to get your own template real estate website: http://entegral.net/content/p200_products-real-estate-website-template.aspx which you can easily enhance with a mobile website too: http://www.entegral.net/content/p203_products-real-estate-website-mobile-website.aspx

Instagram video for Estate Agents

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Instagram introduced video for their mobile app and it is now available for iPhones (and should be available on Android phones later). Read more here: http://blog.instagram.com/post/53448889009/video-on-instagram This opens up a new marketing opportunity for estate agents. For a start, it is very easy to record up to 15 seconds of video with Instagram and then post it to your social media accounts including Twitter and Facebook. You can also share the video through email and on your Tumblr blog. The trick is not to record the whole home overview in one shoot, you need to segment it and record all the rooms. This can be done easilly by just tapping on the Instagram record button to pause it. Here is a sample we've done and embedded on our blog using the Embed.ly service.  You can easily do this for your next listing mandate.        How to use Instagram to market a home? For Entegral OMS clients , you can also easily share your instagram video on your property. Simply g

The logo evolution of MyProperty

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by Adriaan Grove, Entegral founder. With the new MyProperty website currently being developed , we investigated revamping the logo. Back in February we started prototyping brand new logos but at the end decided to only make small design tweaks to the current one. Bringing out a complete new logo is risky and we felt that the current one should just evolve. I guess a bit of nostalgia also played a part. Sometimes a complete logo design is necessary and for the good, just have a look how Apple’s 1st logo looked in 1976 (also click here for an interesting view of the most drastic logo changes ever ): This took us on a trip down memory lane and I compiled a list of how our logos evolved through the years: Our first logo before 2005 was actually just standard text! Back then, every extra kilobyte on your page meant 1) extra bandwidth costs and 2) much slower pages for dial-up connections. Running a bootstrapped business , every page and image had to be optimized to save cost

OMS Property Intelligence Property Report enhancement

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You can now sort results on the Property Intelligence Property Reports by simply clicking on a column heading. Click again to reverse the sort order: You can now also group results by dragging a column header to the bar above the column headings as shown in this sample: The Property Intelligence reports is available as add-on to the OMS for monthly or yearly subscriptions. We use Lightstone data but give you benefits such as controlling which agents can access the reports, how many reports they can draw per month and integrating your logo automatically onto all the reports. If you are not already signed up, log in to the OMS, and go to ‘Reports’ / ‘Property Intelligence’ for more details and the signup form.

Simplicity is actually quite complicated

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How true is this? We are currently busy with a complete rebuild of the MyProperty website . There are 3 main areas to focus on: 1) the design 2) the functionality and 3) the overall user experience . We are spending a lot of time on all three and if you follow our #NewMyProperty tweets or Facebook page you can get some sneak peeks on what we’re doing. Some of the best features and design elements we’ll save for last. We have developed some new industry first search functionality and have gone to great lengths to ensure that we improve the overall user experience in order to attract more leads for all our real estate clients . “…Simplicity is often equated with minimalism. Yet true simplicity is so much more than just the absence of clutter or the removal of decoration. It’s about offering up the right things, in the right place, right when you need them. It’s about bringing order to complexity. And it’s about making something that always seems to “just work.” When

a New MyProperty website is under development

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by Adriaan Grove, CEO Entegral If you follow our Facebook page or Twitter social media accounts, you would have noticed our #NewMyProperty hash tags announcing our plans to launch a brand new MyProperty South Africa website . We’ve decided to do it this way to raise awareness of all the great features we are working on prior to launching the website. Development is under way and we’ve stacked our kitchen cupboards with enough coffee beans to keep our developers churning out awesome code till late at night. We will first launch MyProperty South Africa with a similar upgrade for MyProperty Namibia later the year. Some background MyProperty 1st launched way back in 2004 with a few listings. Without any funding, and focussing only on good SEO and great customer service, we’ve managed to organically grow it to where it is today as South Africa’s largest independent property portal. With over 100,000 listings our OMS and other systems are used daily by estate agents to also adver