Our newest approved vendor focuses on curating the relationships with foreign buyers and providing solutions for local realtors to become better equipped with this demographic.

1.        What does Web Mainland do?

Web Mainland Media Ltd. Company is an established bilingual website design and Wechat marketing company.  Our advantage lies in our progressive web design skills and concise knowledge of the Chinese market development. Our customized, bilingual and professional design services, effectively aid business growth. We have cultivated close relationships with successful realtors and influential real estate brokerages such as MacDonald Realty and Royal LePage. We are dedicated to our clients and help hundreds of native English-speaking realtors develop an enticing international buyers market.  Our accurate listing translation, Baidu SEO and Wechat market page design have all  proven to be efficient marketing tools that attract international buyers.  We believe bilingual websites create are the next chapter for real estate industry!

2.        Tell us about what inspired you to found Web Mainland.

The real estate market is rapidly changing. Online integration is now becoming an essential part of any real estate business endeavour. Market statistics indicate a drastic increase in online searches specifically pertaining to real estate. For many real estate agents, there is an untapped market of potential home buyers. Our goal is to encourage real estate professionals to make smart use of automated marketing tools and to have effective websites in order to take full advantage of these significant changes in the market.

3.        Why are bilingual websites so important in our market?

According to The  Province (Nov-2nd,2015), study shows 70% of detached homes sold in a six-month period on Vancouver’s west side went to Mainland Chinese buyers. Realtors need to cater their marketing efforts towards them.

As for Wechat Marketing, research has shown that over 90% of Chinese people have Wechat installed on their smartphones, and 25% of wechat users check their message more than 30 times a day.

Because of this, Wechat marketing and bilingual website are effective tools for realtors to promote themselves and to communicate with their clients as well as to post recent listings.

4.        What interests you particularly about the real estate industry?

We’re fascinated by the possibilities! An industry that used to be strictly national is becoming more and more global. There is a great need for bilingual website and Wechat marketing in Western Canada due to the increasing number of buyers from Mainland China. Currently, the real estate business in North America remains drastically different from China’s in many aspects. By encouraging the use of Wechat Marketing, and bilingual Websites, realtors will be able to connect with customers anytime anywhere.  To us, it’s essential that our company bridges the gap between Western and Chinese culture so that we can all discover the potentials of the local market together.

5.        Give us a rundown on some of your services?

Bilingual Website Design- We are experts in website design. We’ll customize your websites, both in Chinese and English versions on the powerful Ubertor platform. You’ll have input on the design process and we’ll make sure your site is optimized.  All content on your website including listing details can easily switch between English and Chinese at any time. We pride ourselves on original content creation, the Chinese content we provide you with is not a robotic translation. We elaborately work on the wording for better SEO results.

Wechat Marketing- we translate your listing and make it into a Wechat Post so you can easily reach your clients and pass your listing information through Wechat no matter where they are.

6.        Describe Webmainland in three words.

Communication, Humanity and Technology.

7.        What’s the best way for new clients to get in touch with you?

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Class is in session!

First time Zen U students, Crystal Lai and Danica Lopez De Leon

For those of you who have tried to contact Ubertor’s support via email, you may be familiar with the ticketing system offered by Zendesk. Therefore, to continuously find better ways to support our users, our team had to get some advice from Zendesk in person

Zen U name tags for Ubertor

Zen U in Vancouver

All in all, it was a fun and knowledgeable day at class (especially with the fantastic food offered by Zendesk)! Our team can’t wait to attend the next Zen U course.

Yummy food bar at Zen U

Please join us in welcoming Danica Lopez De Leon (UberDanica) to the Ubertor team! Her energetic personality is already a big asset to helping out our clients and providing remarkable service.

She was born in the Philippines and moved to Canada when she was 5, and is half Filipino and half Spanish. She grew up in Richmond, B.C.

She comes from a huge family (consisting of 5 sisters, a brother, and two dogs). This is proving extremely helpful when she has to handle multiple clients’ requests!

Danica (third from right) and her family

She loves trying new types of food, and also enjoys playing sports such as basketball and volleyball in her spare time. Her cheerful spirit will undoubtedly contribute to Ubertor’s dedication to keeping our clients happy.

As our newest addition, she’ll be providing our users with top notch support over our Live Chat and phone, so do feel free to introduce yourself and say hello.

The Christmas party was held at Capilano Golf & Country Club – a great place to enjoy a Christmas party.

Ubertor was the Premiere Sponsor of the event!

The Ubertor team on hand to answer your questions.

(From L-R: Bryan Sloan, Whistler Realtor Peter Dagg, Khaled Elabd, and Bryan Garcia) 

The Ubertor team with Mike Blaney, a platinum Ubertor Approved Vendor. This photo was taken by a professional photographer.

The Ubertor team with West Vancouver Realtor, Elizabeth Dyer.

Christine and Crystal meeting and greeting Realtors.

The entertainment for the event – magician, Wes Barker. Here you can see he’s trying to escape out of a straight jacket in under 2 minutes.

The live jazz band providing Christmas carols for everyone. 

From our team to yours, as well as your families, we would like to wish everyone an early safe and happy holidays and happy new year.

Our team will be online throughout the holidays to help if you have any questions. 

Now you can have snow falling on your website, meaning no matter where you are in the world, it’s always a white Christmas!

If you would like this on your Ubertor site simply engage one of our team members and we can set it up for you.

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Crystal went to high school in Beijing, and landed at the University of British Columbia for university where she majored in Psychology and minored in Philosophy.

In her free time, Crystal enjoys volunteering at the Vancouver Aquarium where she answers questions about the animals for visitors.

Crystal joins our team as one of our Client Service Rockstars. You can chat with Crystal in our Live Help throughout the week and catch her weekly blog post that will cover some funny, yet educational topics surrounding Real Estate and technology.

Last week, I was able to sit down with one of our newest clients, Whistler Realtor Sharon Audley and have a quick one on one consultation to help her build her dream website (which is still a work in progress). Sharon was kind enough to come by our office located in beautiful Whistler British Columbia to discuss how she envisioned what is simply, building her own brand and image to her clients and the general public. After meeting with Sharon, I thought I would write this blog post to share my experience, in hopes of inspiring other Realtors with a few simple rules.

 Rule 1: Simple, Sleek & Sexy

The most important rule to remember when building your website is to follow the 3S’s. Remember, your website is your branding image, and in this very competitive industry, marketing is everything. When thinking about branding, you always want to ensure what you present to the public represents who you are and what you bring to the table. In many cases, the motif of “simple, sleek and sexy” always works. Think Steve Jobs and Apple.

 Rule 2: The Client Experience.

Besides having a beautifully designed website, you want the client to keep coming back again and again searching for information and listings. Knowing Sharon is located here in Whistler, we both knew we had to connect her clients through her website and give them a little taste of that Whistler experience. I was able to show Sharon our flash banner feature in which you can pick any picture you want (in this case pictures of Whistler’s natural beauty) and offer your customers a way to connect with you, and their dream home.

 Rule 3: Know that Ubertor is here to help!

Whether it’s calling our very talented customer support agents or coming by to say “Hi” at our beautiful Whistler office, we love keeping in touch with our clients and to help you get the most out of your website. Remember sometimes you may not even know you have a great feature available to use on your website until you contact us…So give us a call or come by to say hi!

We’re happy to welcome and introduce our newest team member – Khaled Elabd (UberKhaled). Khaled has traveled all the way from Ontario to join our team. A passionate fan of the mountains, and the Vancouver Canucks (as you can see below), Whistler was a perfect place for Khaled to call home. When I first met Khaled, he said it was always his dream to live in Beautiful B.C. Now that dream has come true…

Khaled grew up in Egypt, and moved to Ontario where he attended McMaster University where he studied Economics and most recently worked for Bell Mobility as a business analyst and marketing associate.

Khaled is joining Ubertor as a customer service specialist. He’ll be in our live help and providing phone support for our users. Be sure to say “hello” and introduce yourself in live chat, or over the phone if you connect with Khaled.