The team behind property portal Radar Homes has announced a busy schedule of local visits to meet agents and talk about the business.
The meetings will also provide insights into internet marketing, training on SEO, social media and website trends.
Although the original umbrella company of Radar Homes, Home Swap, has gone into liquidation, the portal has stressed that it is very much business as usual.
Meetings, to which both non-Radar users as well as members are invited, are planned for Plymouth, Exeter, Bristol/Bath, Bournemouth, Salisbury, Horsham and Coventry over the next few weeks.
Anyone who would like more information should email: admin@radarhomes.co.uk
Comments
Great News!
Can creditors come along to the meetings?
Rosalind,
Industry Observer is absolutely right, this sort of stuff should not be on your site - it is spoiling it. Please get rid..
Apologies for poor spelling, i sent this via iphone and have fat fingers!
Pete Henderson - I think the point is that this site is normally used to convey information that is relevant to estate agents and may be of public interest, the first part of your story/classified ad is fine. It's interesting to see you've done what rightmove have been doing for 3 years and organising seminars although i doubt the contact could match. This is no disrrespect to you but they are industry leaders with more history, development and information than you. If i wanted to learn about cola i would go to a seminar run by Coke not Netto's own brand cola.
The link and your riduculously long comment/sales pitch is obviosuly designed to encourage people to contact you and drum up business. No matter how much chest puffing you do and denials you make this was clearly the point of the article and i am amazed it has been allowed to run by EAT. If rightmove or DPG Group tried to do this i'm sure everyone would be up in arms. The again they don't have to, as the can pay for advertising.
Indusrty Observer , well said, others do it and they tend to show they are very poor set ups, eg INEA
@ Pete Henderson
Pete this is meant to be a forum, along with LAT, for discussion on industry issues of wide interest.
Forgtive me but your post is nothing but a scandalous free adverising ride. Just answer me this one question.
The article which in itself I suppose is OK but is again simply self-interest selling and promotion, ends with an emaoil address to use for more information.
So why then publish what is obviously that information in an enormously long post giving agendas and dates and goodness knows what else?
I just don't see EAT or LAT as the forums for these kinds of articles frankly, but for certain not your follow up post. How much free advertising do you want?
I don`t understand all the bad comments ?!?
Rightmove just call us when the prices are going up or when they are trying to screwing us for another £60 for a facebook app or putting our logos on the site. etc
RadarHomes have been proactive in my area and have most of the tools RM want to charge me a fortune for, so I for one am saving money with them.
For anyone else just stick your head in the sand, Rightmove might bring there prices down if you leave it there long enough !!!
Pete Henderson. In answer to 'industry observer' as an observer of the property 'industry' I would have thought this is exactly what you would want to observe?
The steady progress of a small but growing Property Portal which is agent owned giving control of on line marketing back to the agent members?
You are more than welcome to come along to any of our meetings and see for yourself the valuable info into all things 'internet' and newspaper that Radarhomes provide in conjuction with our technology partners.
Well, I have to say that they seem to be getting about a bit.
Their site is linked to by 307,000 other websites.
Rightmove is mentioned on other websites over 85 million times.
That's a mountain to climb.
Good luck
Rosalind
Surely this blatant sales pitch should be removed - article and Pete Henderson's post.
Why have an email contact foot of the article, only for the information that an email would engender, to appear as a post?
This looks interesting, actually. I think for RadarHomes it's sensible to broaden the touch points with agents to include general sessions and help on online marketing - shows an understanding that portals on their own aren't the be all and end all.
Bit like Rangers then bust, then oh no we have not just mugged some debt away.
Hi everyone,
All agents are welcome, members and non-members. If you haven’t replied about your attendance yet, please RSVP to admin@radarhomes.co.uk. You're welcome to bring as many staff for the training / discussion as you like, but we need to know numbers for ordering the teas and coffees. You can also see full details on our website:
http://agents.radarhomes.co.uk/2012/02/15/radarhomes-group-meetings-venuestimes/
AGENDA IN MORE DETAIL:
(1) Radarhomes developments:
2011 in review – the growth, the platform enhancements we introduced, the new Radar mobile site, and the call recording / tracking capabilities. We’ll talk about, and answer questions on, the recent investment in Radar. And we’ll cover plans for 2012.
(2) SEO advice for agent sites
We’re going to give a 101 practical session on Google Search Engine optimisation for agents, with practical steps you can take to improve your ranking in Google.
(3) Internet portal changes
We’ll cover an overview of the market changes in the portal landscape. Agent feedback on this session has been very positive.
(4) Trends we're seeing in estate agent websites & Mobile sites
Then we’ll take a look at emerging best practice on agent websites and a practical guide to effective mobile websites for agents.
(5) Local Newspapers
Finally, we’ll cover some of the work we are doing with newspaper groups, explaining a recent partnership Radarhomes formed with Bristol Property Live (an agent owned paper in Bristol).
FULL SCHEDULE OF VENUES AND TIMES
CORNWALL
Monday 20th 2:00 pm - 4.30 pm
Lanhydrock Hotel and Golf Club, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 5AQ.
http://www.lanhydrockhotel.com/
PLYMOUTH
Tuesday 21st 10.30 am - 12.30pm
IBIS / Novatel, Marsh Mills, Longbridge Road, Forder Valley, Plymouth, PL6 8LD.
http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-2093-ibis-plymouth/media.shtml
EXETER
Tuesday 21st 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Exeter Golf and Country Club, Countess Wear, Exeter, EX2 7AE.
http://www.exetergcc.co.uk/finest/
BARNSTAPLE
Wednesday 22nd 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Slee Blackwell Solicitors, 10 Cross Street, Barnstaple, North Devon, EX31 1BA
http://www.sleeblackwell.co.uk/
BRISTOL / BATH
Wednesday 22nd 2:00 pm - 4.30 pm
Arnos Manor Hotel, 470 Bath Road, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3HQ.
http://www.arnosmanorhotel.co.uk/
BOURNEMOUTH:
Monday 5th March AM - Bournemouth - TBC
SALISBURY:
Tuesday 6th March PM - Salisbury - TBC
HORSHAM:
Thursday 8th March PM - Horsham - TBC
MIDLANDS:
Thursday 22nd March PM - Coventry - TBC
Please RSVP to admin@radarhomes.co.uk
See you there. Thanks!
Pete, Lisa, Dan, Patrick
Radarhomes team