New portal takes on the big boys

Your right, i think the free portals are the way forward, we came off Rightmove recently and joined all the free portals and in truth haven’t noticed a much reduced turnaround in business. The only site we are happy to pay for is propertyindex.com as we only pay for results and there’s no subscription fees. It's a much fairer business model - even the likes of globrix supplies unqualified traffic, i'll pay £1 for quality leads all day long!

• 08 October 2008 06:32 AM

Chaps we have left rightmove in our area, smaller independents and larger, just the corporates still now using rightmove. But the site now does not have the power, because the lack of agents in the area now using it. We have all the logos on sales particulars and newspaper adverts of findaproperty which has encouraged the potential purchasers to look on findaproperty instead. You have the power in your area to choose which website the purchasers will look at, so use it. Rightmove is nothing without your promoting their logos on your property particulars and newspaper adverts. We have had no one mention that we are not on rightmove anymore from our vendors. Plus we are £3** pounds better of a month. We get findaproperty free because we advertise in their newspapers. Also using globrix and will use NAEA web site when it starts

• 06 October 2008 07:03 AM

Perhaps more than at any time in living memory agents need to seize every lead, exhaust every interest no matter how faint or vague in the hope that it will generate business.

Property search sites are the barrier stopping many agencies achieving this. After all how can you communicate with potential clients if you don’t even know they are there?

Whether agents like it or not however, property search sites are not going to disappear.

So how can agencies overcome this obstacle – particularly at the moment?

The key is to be adaptable and to have a thorough knowledge of your existing clients and other individuals you do business with and to communicate effectively with them.

The most efficient way to achieve this is to have a coherent, unified CRM system

• 06 October 2008 02:48 AM

Visit Eurolink Software at Agency Expo 2008 – and you could win a brand-new Mini car worth up to £17,000! Something really special is happening at this year’s Agency Expo 2008 – Eurolink Software is offering visitors to its stand a chance to win a new Mini car worth up to £17,000. The gleaming prize motor will be displayed on the Eurolink Software stand throughout the two-day exhibition at the Business Design Centre in Islington on 14-15 October 2008. Details of the game are being kept under wraps until the event but visitors to Eurolink Software’s stand will have a chance to take part in a FREE contest which could end up with one of them winning this dream vehicle for themselves for keeps. We realise times are getting tougher for some agencies at the moment so we wanted to find a way of bringing some fun to this year’s Agency Expo – and we reckon this fabulous prize contest should do just that. The Eurolink Software stand will also be showcasing its ground-breaking Veco™ range of property sales and lettings solutions – including Veco-onelettings™, Veco-oneestate™, Veco-onesales™, its newly-launched Veco-oneauctions™ and the firm’s flagship product the Veco-onesystem™ which covers residential sales, letting, estate management and auctions in one single complete solution

• 06 October 2008 02:44 AM

So when he wants to be buried - will he set up a burial web site?

• 06 October 2008 02:12 AM