One of the issues we have been working on regarding RealBird's lead capturing functionality was making sure that prospective clients' inquiries actually reach you. Email inquiries and showing requests were sometimes lost in space. Either because of spam filter settings or simply because sometimes emails go unnoticed due to information overload.

In May, 2009 we introduced the Message Archive for RealBird members and started to store all of your prospects' and clients' inquires and even consumer-to-consumer forwards for the RealBird Listing Publisher and the RealBird Property Search services. However, that facility still required RealBird members to log in every now and then in order to see if there are new messages that need attention. While this feature was a big step, in practice, it was still not the perfect solution. One forgets to check the Message Archive or due to the log in requirements just delays it. And we all know that a week old lead is as almost as good as no lead at all.

We needed to do better than that. All the powerful features of RealBird is useless if the leads are missed or go cold for the reasons described above. With this new release, we believe we sold the problem. The RealBird Message Archive now has a handy RSS feed that you can subscribe to with your favorite feed reader. You can add it to your browser toolbar, to your iGoogle browser homepage, Google Reader and even access it from your mobile devices, you name it. Most phones - Blackberry, iPhone etc. - has some sort of RSS reader application so that you can be notified when a new inquiry is submitted through RealBird. There are even services that you can use to receive text messages when this RSS feed is updated.

You can get your own RSS feed in the RealBird Member area under the Message Archive section. See the screenshot below:

RealBird Message Archive RSS feed

 

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-- Zoltan 
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13 Comments on Never miss a client inquiry again - The RealBird Message Archive has an RSS feed now - Productivity update #3

OCT
30
2009
117,698 Points

Hi Zoltan,  I will read up more about real bird. Have seen it on AR, but don't know much about it. thanks for sharing
8:03pm • #1
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I've just started using Realbird a couple of weeks ago, and I'm excited to receive my first lead so I can see how your system really works from the back end.
8:07pm • #2
610,466 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Ginger - Just come on on board. It's free to register and you can manage up to 3 active listings at one time for free, full featured.

Donna - Thanks. Let us know how it worked out for you.

-- Zoltan
8:24pm • #3
176,840 Points 1 Featured Post Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp

Zoltan, I love all the continuous goodies you give us. This is a great new feature! THANK YOU.
9:08pm • #4
610,466 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hi Kathryn - More to come :) New features and products are ready to leave to leave the RealBird Nest
10:12pm • #5
OCT
31
2009
491,893 Points 36 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Thank you for the new advantage.  Real Bird rocks!

Now featured on the Optimist Group.

I've used Real Bird for a couple of years now and it has helped me garner clients and make the right impression.  For anyone not using Real Bird: You are losing a lot of business, if you do not use Real Bird!  Don't delay: just go there now (www.RealBird.com) and start using the system.
1:26am • #6
380,575 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Great post. Thanks for the updates of course. Always great to see cutting edge stuff.
8:25am • #7

You guys are the best!
barbara
8:15pm • #8
NOV
01
2009
610,466 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Mirela - Thanks for featuring the post !
9:19pm • #9
610,466 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Terry, Barbara - Thank you very much
9:19pm • #10
NOV
03
2009
490,747 Points 5 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Called Shot Master

This was a great idea, now I don't have to login to see what's going on. I would hate to miss a prospect.
2:08pm • #11
200,421 Points 8 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

I LOVE all the new features on Realbird! My company has now given us a new website that allows us to post directly to Craigslist, but I just smile and know that I've been able to do that for YEARS with you guys! Realbird has kept me above the learning curve since I first started using it.

Now with the RSS feed for messages, I will never miss a message!

Thanks!
2:52pm • #12
610,466 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Corinne - Yes, all the bells and whistles of RealBird is useless unless we make sure that you actually receive the inquiries. The RSS feed should help greatly. Thanks

Dee - :) Thanks for the kind words and for being such a long time member.

-- Zoltan
4:42pm • #13

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