Dennis McGuire's Blog

iPhone Realty Site

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:13:46 -0700

Can't wait for the great RE apps on the iPhone. Although this is not a typical iPhone app, I have been using this iPhone friendly site. As I am frequently on the road, I need mobile access to all my favorite RE blogs. Check it out here: http://www.irealtyblogs.com/iphone/preview/

When you are on your iPhone, check it out at http://www.irealtyblogs.com. The page will display on any mobile device, but the iPhone is why I made it. It contains all the web's great RE blogs including Inman, Zillow, Trulia, Geek Estate, Mike's Corner, and many more.

The page allows you to share on Twitter, Digg, delicious, and your iPhone contacts.

How To Create A Real Estate Widget

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:25:58 -0800

Today at the DEMO conference, Sproutbuilder.com launched a WYSIWYG widget creator. This slick tool allowed me to create a professional real estate listing widget in under 10 minutes. I was able to add links, text descriptions, a video, and also include a map...all for my sample listing. I was able to create widgets of all shapes and sizes. All of this for FREE! After creating my real estate widget, it was easy to copy and paste code into sites like Facebook, Wordpress, and many other blogs & social networks. Send me an email if you need help with creating your real estate widget...but it honestly gets no easier than this.

Check out how to create a professional real estate widget here: http://livepads1.com/2008/01/30/407/

Better Categories On The Way!

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:04:51 -0800

As we are quickly approaching 400 real estate websites we have covered here at LivePads1.com, we have been receiving a lot of feedback from you regarding a better way to categorize our entries. We cover a lot of terrific start-ups that can really help enhance real estate professional's websites, but are often lost deep within the blog. Soon you will be able to find sites relating to "Listing Service", "Home Values", or "Social Networks", etc. This will quicly allow you to navigate to exactly what you are looking for. We will be doing this on a ‘rolling basis', so please be patient. Entries into the blog will continue business as usual, so keep submitting your sites.

The main goal of our site is to help promote new and emerging real estate technologies to real estate professionals. If you are a real estate agent looking to submit your listings website, please don't as we will not post. We're not here to promote personal listings sites, we're here to help you enhance your personal listings site.

Thanks everyone and best of luck to you with your real estate business!

http://www.livepads1.com

301 Real Estate Web Sites

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:34:50 -0800

Livepads1.com has showcased over 300 real estate web sites from around the web. Our goal is to present new real estate sites, blogs, technology, and tips to our users. With over 4000 readers today, we have quickly become a key source of information for real estate professionals. If you have not checked out our blog, visit us at http://www.livepads1.com

Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:23:30 -0800

I am very excited and honored to be named to International Listings Top 50 Real Estate Marketing Bloggers list (http://www.intlistings.com/articles/2007/top-50-real-estate-marketing-bloggers/). The LivePads Blog has been doing very well as well as our LivePads Real Estate Facebook Application. We have been very busy working on our new Open Social application so you will be able to add your listings to sites such as LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Ning, and many other social networks. Look for an announcement on that shorty.

We are also very busy developing the LivePads Android application, an application that will soon run on Google's wireless mobile platform. More details on that to come shortly.

Again, thank you all on Active Rain in making LivePads very successful and enjoy the list from International Listings; there are tons of great blogs listed.

Dennis
http://www.livepads.com/

LivePads Facebook Application

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:12:37 -0800

Leveraging the power of Facebook, LivePads assists users in the buying and selling of homes. As a
homebuyer, a Facebook user can add the LivePads Facebook application to their profile. Once added, the
homebuyer will enter his or her house criteria and the powerful search engine will crawl all real estate
sites for houses that match the search criteria. When buyers find houses they like, they can save the
houses to their profiles. This powerful feature allows users to file houses so they can quickly access them
in the future, share their saved houses with their realtors and request more information, and also share
their saved houses with their networks of friends.

The second piece of the application is geared toward home sellers and realtors. As realtors, users can add
their current real estate inventories to their Facebook profiles. Realtors have the ability to send houses to
their clients via the Facebook network. Also, as new houses are added, your entire friend network on Facebook is notified of the new listing via the Facebook news service. As home sellers, users can list their homes for sale on their profiles. Users then have the option to send their houses for sale to users in their friend lists. Once another user receives the request, they also have the option to display the home for sale along with details, with another option to share with their friend list. This adds more marketing and sales opportunities for the home seller by having their home being displayed on multiple Facebook profiles. Finally, if a user notices one of their friends has a house for sale and knows of another friend that is looking for a house, the user will have the ability to send the house to another user's Facebook profile.

LivePads has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and has been covered by Inman News.

http://apps.facebook.com/livepads

http://www.livepads.com

Real Estate Technology Solutions: http://www.livepads1.com

New Real Estate Agent Toy ( A must have!)

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:24:35 -0800

We recently covered a new wireless memory card for digital cameras. It could turn out to be a must-have for all real estate agents when loading pictures to their websites. Here is the overview:

http://livepads1.com/2007/11/20/new-real-estate-agent-toy/

212 Real Estate Technology Solutions & Counting

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:52:07 -0800

LivePads1.com has completed a re-design of our current site. We have profiled 212 real estate technology solutions to date and continue to add more and more everyday. If your site is looking for some new cool features, chances are you'll find what you are looking for at LivePads1.com. It is a one stop shop for real estate professionals. Check us out at http://www.livepads1.com/

LivePads Website | http://www.livepads.com/

Facebook Application | http://apps.facebook.com/livepads

How To Add Widgets To Your Real Estate Site

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:38:05 -0800

A widget is a chunk of code that can be embedded into any web page. Of course you have to be the owner of the web page and cannot add widgets to any other sites. What the widget does is feed fresh content, images, videos, etc. to your site. Widgets are not static and will always provide dynamic, fresh content for your site from a 3rd party. Widgetbox.com has a ton of real estate related widgets on their site today: http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/real+estate

You can add widgets from sites like YouTube for your home tours, flikr for static home pictures, add mortgage calculators, add breaking news around real estate, etc. There is no maintenance for widgets once they are loaded to your site.

I'll walk you through an example of how easy it is to add a widget to your site or blog. We'll use vflyer for the example.
1. Click http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/vflyer
2. Begin to customize your widget with the name, dimensions, colors.
3. Click "Get Widget"
4. If you would like to add the widget to your site, click "Get Widget Code". Simply copy the code form either snippet (I'd recommend "Flash embed code". If you would like to add the widget to something other your site, say a blog or social network, select the option you want and follow the steps.
5. Open up your site and locate where you would like to place the code you copied from the previous step.
6. Simply paste the code into your site and publish.

Visit http://www.livepads.wordpress.com for more handy tips to enhance your real estate site.

150+ Real Estate Technology Solutions

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:13:05 -0800

LivePads has recently posted over 150+ real estate technology tools and sites from around the internet. We offer these tools free on our blog to help you sell more listings. Some of the sites you probably heard of including Google, but there are many sites you never heard that can really help you out. Again, if you have any questions on how to utilize any of these technologies, feel free to drop us an email. We showcased many tools including real estate widgets, web site creation, mashup map creation, free listing services, and many more. We're currently adding 5-10 new sites a day. We know you don't have the time to keep up with the latest technology, so we bring everything to you. Check it out at:

http://www.livepads.wordpress.com

Also, don't forget the real estate Facebook application at: http://apps.facebook.com/livepads

Thanks,

Dennis

Directions On How To Use Facebook To Sell Homes

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:44:53 -0700

I have to admit that I am really enjoying my time here is AR. People in the community are very welcoming. I have to give a special "thanks" to Missy Caulk for referring me to AR. http://activerain.com/blogs/missycaulk

Since Missy wrote about us in her blog, I have received quite a few emails asking how to utilize Facebook to sell homes. If anyone ever has any questions on the LivePads application on Facebook, please let me know and I'll work with you one-on-one. I can be reached at dennis@livepads.com.

With that said, I'd like to provide everyone in AR clear directions on how to use Facebook to sell your properties.

1. Click here and add the application to your account: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5319246444&b&ref=pd
2. Once you have the application added, locate LivePads in your left navigation.
3. Click that link and you will be taken to the LivePads application.
4. On the home page, click "Sell A House".
5. Enter home details on the screen and click "submit".
6. Next screen will ask to upload a maximum of 3 photos of the house (1 picture here is req'd)
7. Click "Submit" after you locate the photo.
8. Click "Finish" on the final screen.
9. Your house in now located in you "Saved List" from the top navigation. To add to you profile, click the "Add To Profile" box. Also, you have the option to send this listing to all your friends on Facebook, also ask them to host the house on their profile.
10. After you click "Add To Profile" you will see " Profile Updated Successfully".
11. Now go check out to your profile page and your listing is there for the entire world to see.

Again, please send me an email if you need any assistance. Enjoy everyone and best of luck to you.

Dennis

LivePads In The News

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:48:25 -0700

Since our initial launch, several media outlets have run stories on our Facebook application including The Wall Street Journal, Inman News, and Yahoo. Thought I would post them here for people to take a look at. Hope you enjoy the reading. Again, if anyone ever has questions on how to use the application to sell your listings, feel free to send me an email at dennis@livepads.com.

http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2007/10/23/using-facebook-to-sell-a-home/

http://www.inman.com/inmanstories.aspx?ID=64961

http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20071016/bs_prweb/prweb561225_2

http://3dwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2007/10/using-facebook-to-market-new-and.html

And finally, the guys over at 1000wattconsulting.com recently added us to their Web 2.0 Map located at: http://www.1000wattconsulting.com/web2.0

To check out the application on Facebook, visit http://apps.facebook.com/livepads

To check out our Real Estate Web 2.0 blog, visit http://www.livepads.wordpress.com

LivePads Has Joined Active Rain

Dennis McGuire (LivePads) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:12:23 -0700

LivePads.com is a real estate web 2.0 site that connects people with homes.

LivePads provides real estate professionals, home buyers, and home sellers the necessary tools for all real estate needs. People can search for homes, sell their homes, utilize social networking, and find
valuable web resources for real estate.

Visit the LivePads Facebook Application today: http://apps.facebook.com/livepads
If you need any assistance on how to use the application, send me an email and I'll be happy to show you how the application works.

Also, visit our Real Estate Web 2.0 Blog at http://livepads.wordpress.com/

Thanks everyone and I'm looking forward to my time on Active Rain.

Dennis