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Chat with Clients through your X-Site Website

I just discovered a great new (beta) feature at Alamode.com, thanks to Eric Richardson's Real Estate Tech Blog and his Ala-mode website http://www.myoklahome.com/. I can now chat with visitors to my website. Its so easy to add a custom on-line chat button that appears on all of your web pages and enables you to do the following:

Be alerted when new visitors are at your site and what page they came in on,
Watch visitors move through your website.
Allow visitors to initiate a chat conversation with you...or you can initiate a conversation with them (probably best if you allow them to initiate it).

There is probably more but I just started using this feature last night. I am confident that, if used properly and politely, it will be a great tool. Already have ala-mode and want to know how to add the chat feature, just go to their help section and search for help on "chat".

Not yet an ala-mode user? In my own words, Ala-mode is a robust template based website tool for Appraisers, Lenders and Real Estate Agents. Go to www.alamode.com to check it out or go to my website at www.socohomegroup.com. Feel free to chat if I'm on-line.

Thanks Al a mode, Inc. - I'm hooked!

Posted by Cindy Brandon - EcoBroker, GRI, CRS, ePro on 03/02/2008 09:28 AM

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4 Comments on Chat with Clients through your X-Site Website

I also use X-Site and love it. I have 5 or 6 of them between Arizona and California, real estate and mortgage. I like the chat, online applications, digital signatures, email campaigns and 24/7 tech support.

Let me know if you want to swap links or be co broker partners.

Feel free to have your CA clients apply online.

03/10/2008 07:28 PM

by Mike Martell - RE/MAX Integrity Glendale, AZ (RE/MAX, Integrity Realtors)

Let me know if you want to swap links or be co broker partners.

03/10/2008 07:28 PM

by Mike Martell - RE/MAX Integrity Glendale, AZ (RE/MAX, Integrity Realtors)

Let me know if you want to swap links or be co broker partners.

03/10/2008 07:28 PM

by Mike Martell - RE/MAX Integrity Glendale, AZ (RE/MAX, Integrity Realtors)

Well, it's a neat feature in theory but every time I've tried to engage someone in a chat, they've declined the invitation and immediately fled from my site. Although I've never received an invitation to chat, I'm assuming that a "you've been invited to chat" message bonks up and you can neither be polite

nor impolite with it. One other small thing (are you listening AlaMode?) the refresh of the "available to chat" message is so slow when moving from page to page that there's little hope of tackling a fleeing site visitor.

03/11/2008 05:46 PM

by Jan DeGiorgio - Mountain Home Idaho Real Estate (CENTURY 21 Southern Idaho Realty)

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