Summer ’09 e-newsletter

for the love of websites

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It’s that time of the year again!

It’s hard to believe that another year is drawing to a close … and what a tough year it’s been in the industry! Thankfully things seem to be looking up – and we’d like to take this chance to wish you a well-deserved break and a prosperous 2010.

Wishing you a safe and relaxing festive season,

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Newspaper IconWhat’s caught our eye in the news

Print giving way to the Web in SA real estate

Print is steadily losing ground as the Internet becomes the number one advertising medium for estate agents, a new survey shows.

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Light bulb iconUsing your website to help you sell – quick and easy tips

More on our ‘must-do’ checklist

In our Spring issue we introduced our 1 page checklist of top tips for getting the most out of your website. This list is the result of 6 years of intensive experience spent putting up over 300 estate agency websites! In this issue we take a look at the value of automatically emailed property alerts.

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Our clients – Up Close and Personal…
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Lew Norgarb, from Norgarb Properties

  • If you weren’t an estate agent, what would you like to be? A movie maker…of the candid camera sort! Life’s too short not to laugh!
  • Favourite book? Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Best thing about your web-box website? Definitely the alert system. Now we don’t need to make endless calls to notify our buyers of new releases or status changes – it’s just 1, 2, 3 and Bob’s your Uncle.
  • New Year’s resolution? Balance my life better, work wise not hard.

Go and visit Lew’s site on www.norgarbproperties.co.za

 
Blowhorn iconWHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO

Looking back on our year

We are always striving to ensure that our clients have the best websites with the latest features. Staying abreast of all developments has meant a busy year, with the following key additions:

  • adding enormo.com to the list of property portals to which we copy our clients’ properties – they have 4 million visitors a month in over 70 countries!
  • our extremely well-received new search facility
  • a new design option for our lite sites
  • option to resend property alerts if prices change (or at any other time)
  • many improvements to our agent interface to make it even more user-friendly. (If you can use email, then you can manage a web-box website)
  • search engine optimisation (SEO) of client sites

Of course, these improvements come at no additional charge to all our clients – thanks to our model of leasing out and maintaining websites (rather than building them and moving on).

While many of these features are automatically enabled, some require the client’s go-ahead. So if you’re a web-box client and would like any of the above, let us know!

 
webbox special offer It's the festive season and we're in the mood for giving!

We’re getting into the holiday spirit by giving 10 lucky winners a
3 month free trial
of our lite site!

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