We are announcing the pending arrival of several new features for RealEstateShows.com today. Many of you have specifically requested these features and I'm happy to say that most, if not all, will be launching on August 21 23, 2007.

Flyers And Distribution - Coming August 21 23, 2007

On August 21 23, 2007 we will be launching the ability for you to instantly create and distribute a flyer from the photos and information already contained in your Real Estate Shows. Read more...

three flyer designs at RealEstateShows.com

RSS Feeds For Each Show Category?

Wouldn’t it be nice to display all of your Neighborhood Shows in the sidebar of your blog or website? Or all of your active listings via a widget of your choosing?

Or maybe you live on the Internet edge. Wouldn’t it be nice to automatically post each new public Real Estate Show you create to Jaiku, Tumblr, Twitter or any other platform that automatically creates posts based on RSS feeds? Wouldn’t it be nice to let everyone in your Facebook network know about new Real Estate Shows instantly using Facebook Notes? Coming soon!

Full Screen Play - Coming August 21 23, 2007

On August 21 23, 2007, we will be launching a new version of our Real Estate Shows player that will include the ability to view the main Show in full screen mode.

This is a feature we’ve had numerous requests for and we’re happy to oblige. The new player has be redesigned to be more streamlined, and it has features similar to popular video players. We have introduced a new MENU button that will display important links to more photos, floorplans, video, panoramas and more as graphical buttons. These buttons will also display automatically at the end of a show. The consumer won’t be able to miss them.

In addition, the new player will make it easier for the Internet viewer to share the show with their friends on social bookmarking sites and social networks, like Facebook.

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51 Comments on Flyers, Distribution, RSS Feeds And Full Screen Play

AUG
10
2007
3 Featured Posts
Jeff, those will be great upgrades. I'll pass it on to the users in my office.
1:46pm • #1
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Jeff, This is awesome, thank you. I can't wait for August 21.
1:51pm • #2
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Jeff - That is fantastic! I have been wondering when you guys would create a widget for Blogs. Can't wait to get mine.
1:58pm • #3
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Jeff, you are the bomb! I have been wondering about flyers. Love it. I am gonna have to learn the other stuff. Guess I better go read your past posts! Thanks for a fantastic product.
2:15pm • #4
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Jeff- This is terrific news, I eagerly awaits the launch. Good to see a company that is always on the cutting edge this will ensure market share rentention.
2:24pm • #5
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Gary, Mana, Bill and John... thanks. We're happy to get these our of the development cycle! :)
2:24pm • #6
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Jennifer... thanks, but in some ways I feel like we're playing catchup on these specific features. We've concentrated our development in the past on ease of use and not distribution. I'm glad we shifted for a bit.
2:43pm • #7
Hey Jeff! Awesome list of new features. I can't wait to give them a try. You guys rock!
3:11pm • #8
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Jeff - it is going to be like Christmas in August.  Almost makes me want to become a realtor so I can have my own listings,  Almost!  Can't wait for the new features.  
3:30pm • #9
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Jennifer, Maureen and Stephanie... thanks. You'll like them even more when you can actually use them. :)
3:45pm • #11

Maureen - Almost makes me want to become a Realtor too!  Oh, wait. I am.  Pre-Licensing classes start next week. Wish me luck ...

Jeff - thanks for letting us know in advance. I've cleared my calendar for the morning of the 21st so that Ican play around with the new features.

3:46pm • #12
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Jeff- I was tossing around the idea of getting the real estate show service. Now that I see that you are always looking for way to improve it I will be signing up.
3:51pm • #13
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Jeff... I'll be doing the exact same thing!

Robert... please let me know your thoughts once you have. Thank you. 

4:05pm • #14
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I love it and now will have more to play around with. I use the show for listings, for buyers (they like to see their soon to be home during the process) and of course to highlight Hawaii and my pretty toes. oops!

Thanks for all you folks do to make our and our client's journey through the shows an enlightening experience!

4:55pm • #15
131,109 Points 14 Featured Posts Outside Blog
Thanks Jeff, we really appreciate all your efforts and we look forward to the 21st like everyone else.
5:13pm • #16
Fantastic!   One stop marketing --hip hip hooray
5:21pm • #17
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Jeff,

Very very cool!!  That seems like a fantastic tool to take marketing to a whole other level. 

6:32pm • #18
225,354 Points 41 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Jeff, I LOVE YOU!!  I cancelled my Visual Tour account.  Wanna see the confirmation email?

It's incredible how you keep adding value to RES.  Thank you.

6:34pm • #19
418,736 Points 17 Featured Posts Outside Blog

I really need to sign up for this product. It's on the list of things I need for my business!

Lisa Hill

7:27pm • #20
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Several of our clients have expessed an interest in full screen shows - makes a lot of sense. So much is dependent on how we explain things initially.
7:35pm • #21
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Excellent upgrades Jeff!!!! I absolutely love it!!!
7:47pm • #22
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Can't wait !! I have a question ........you are going to be syndicating to different web sites. Some of those mentioned on your RealEstateShows blog, I already syndicated to. So now when this feature comes and I syndicate it to all those mentioned, how will Google determine which to use ?  Do you understand what I'm asking...........inquiring minds want to know ????
7:53pm • #23
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Smiling, Dancing, givin a Wahoo!
9:03pm • #24
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Jeff, I look forward to putting the new features to use.  Thanks for always enhancing the service. 
9:56pm • #26
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Missy, you will get to select which ones you want to syndicate to. We will never force the syndication. :)

Celeste... you have some of the best feet Shows I've ever seen.

Jay, Aziz, Jeannette, Maggie... thank you.

Lisa... it won't cost you anything but time to give it a try. And you'll find it won't cost you much of that either. :)

Sharon... we had always felt it was not a huge benefit from the buyer side, since there is still a high percentage of consumer screens that view our site in less thant 1074 x 768 resolution. But the sellers seem to think it's important. That was enough reason to do it.

Chris, Sue, Barbara, Steve... I think you're going to like them. 

11:11pm • #27
AUG
11
2007
316,920 Points 45 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hi Jeff - some great new improvements to an already great product!

I have a question for you - in the last RES show I was working on for one of my listings, it dawned on me that we can't use tall pictures in the tours as it chops off the top and bottom part of the picture.  Is that something that can be looked into, if it's not already?  Some pictures just really need to be that size and yet they just don't work yet with these shows.  I'd love to see that as an upcoming change, if it's possible!

Many thanks for this product and all the upgrades you keep adding!
Ann

6:29am • #28
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Jeff, I love syndications but I'm just curious if you know which one will win out on Google ?

9:08am • #29
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Ann... we don't use the tall photos for one reason and one reason only - we want this to mimic video as much as possible. Seeing the edges of the photo breaks that illusion and destroys some of the connection the viewer makes with the Show. Tall photos can be placed in the "more photos" section and are not cropped. We allowed this early on in our development and the Show quality suffered greatly. 

Missy... I'm not sure. I'm gong to have to do a bit more research on that one. Your concern is that having the listing information in many places will hurt, not help?

10:47am • #30
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Hey Jeff, I didn't realize we had a print button on our Shows until I got a Google Alert...When I opened it up, it was a brochure like single sheet.  It had all the pictures and the pertinent details on the it.  I thought that was an upgrade!! 

Better yet....google is indexing it too!!! LOL

11:11am • #31
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Awesome, Awesome, Awesome! These are some great new features for an already outstanding product!  Thanks!
11:46am • #32
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Thanks for the updates, I just signed on and appreciate getting some good upgrades already
5:37pm • #33
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I didn't think that realestateshows can get any better!  You and your team are amazing!  THANKS for these updates.  I just love this fantastic product!
10:56pm • #34
AUG
12
2007
422,082 Points 90 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Bob... :) Most of our competitors don't SEO for the realtor on their tours. They optimize for themselves. We put the property data and the realtor information in the meta for each show. The RealEstateShows.com name is nowhere to be found on our player or in the title, or meta tags of the shows.  That benefits you.

Jim and Maria... thank you.

Michael... thank you as well.

Irina... we can get a lot better, trust me. And we will.

 

2:35am • #35
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Most of our competitors don't SEO for the realtor on their tours. They optimize for themselves. We put the property data and the realtor information in the meta for each show. The RealEstateShows.com name is nowhere to be found on our player or in the title, or meta tags of the shows.  That benefits you.

I didn't realize this until I did a few gogle searches early on and noticed our shows ranked very high.  Real Estate Shows Rock..

5:29am • #36
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Hi Jeff - many thanks for that explanation, and I understand about the white edges that show up on a tall picture. 

Ann

11:13am • #37
AUG
13
2007
1 Featured Post

Jeff,

A great list of enhancements - the flyer will save me time and I LOVE that!  The widgets sound interesting too.  Thanks for all the hard work! 

11:43pm • #38
AUG
14
2007
422,082 Points 90 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Jay... thanks for verifying.

Ann... you're so welcome.

Rita... truly our pleasure. 

1:12am • #39

Jeff,

This is amazing! What would we all do without you and RES?

9:58am • #40
AUG
15
2007
252,518 Points 7 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Jeff,

Like I said on your RES blog, I am excited.

Question:

Will I be able to "convert" existing shows to offer full-screen play?

Or will I need to redo them entirely?

Thanks!

4:55am • #41
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Mike... everything is completely backwards compatible. If it is a really old show, you may want to replace the photos just to take advantage of the new compression settings, which provide crisper images, but it's not necessary. I'm hoping to have a preview sample shortly.
10:37am • #42
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"Backward Compatible!"

You're singing my song, Jeff.

I'll be loading up with shows in blogs now.

10:48pm • #43
AUG
16
2007
7 Featured Posts
This stuff looks really awesome!  You always make your products easy to use.  Great anticipation here!
12:31am • #44
AUG
20
2007
422,082 Points 90 Featured Posts Outside Blog

It pains me to do this, but I have to let you know that we're delaying the launch until August 23. Details here:

http://res.realestateshows.com/new-features-delayed-until-august-23/

11:51pm • #45
AUG
21
2007
316,920 Points 45 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hi Jeff - I'm sure it does pain you to delay this launch.  Those of us who use your products really appreciate the quality and the need for making sure it works as it should before releasing, especially the part about it impacting all the tours already created.

Many thanks for your care about your product and for caring how it impacts all of us!  We'll be here when it's ready for launch!!

Ann  

5:37am • #46
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Ann... thanks. We're probably going to hit another milestone today... Show number 200,000 will be created at some point in the next 24 hours. That's 200,000 chances that someone has used a character that messes with the feeds. You can only do so much in testing before you have to turn an update loose on the world, but sometimes it's best to hold on a few more days. In this case, we've yet to get a successful response back from Trulia. We should have that today. 

 

Thanks for your kind words and your patience. 

9:14am • #47
Very interesting.  Looks like a great tool.  I would like to post something like this on my website as a service for local realtors.  
9:46am • #48
422,082 Points 90 Featured Posts Outside Blog
Seth, I'll have someone contact you.
9:48am • #49
AUG
30
2007

Love my video shows.  My customers love it!!  thats for the great improvements!!!

 Berta Smith

10:39pm • #50
422,082 Points 90 Featured Posts Outside Blog
Berta... truly, it's our pleasure. We're now looking at the trends in flyer design selection and deciding where to go next with new designs. We should have a few more up shortly.
10:46pm • #51

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