This week, we’d like to introduce you to a very special client of ours. Meet Manyee Lui, one of Vancouver’s most powerful Realtors and one of the most well known names in the Real Estate world. As a member of the MLS Medallion Club, you can be sure Manyee knows her way around some of Vancouver’s most prestigious Real Estate listings. If that is not enough for you, just go ahead and check out some of her active listings.

We thought we would highlight 3 features that Manyee is using on the Ubertor platform that is helping her dominate the Real Estate market.

Featuring Sold Listings

Most of us in Real Estate would think to highlight our active listings on our homepage to show our clients what we have to offer, not Manyee Lui. Infact, the strategy here is the complete opposite. By highlighting your sold listings you are showcasing to potential clients not only your accomplishments on the sellers side, but also illustrating to buyers that they’ll be working with a Real Estate powerhouse to help them find the home of their dreams. For the typical client, showcasing the your active listings is a great strategy. When you’re a powerhouse like Manyee Lui, you have a very different clientele to market to.

Using High Definition Photos

Manyee and her team are fully utilizing Ubertor’s photo tool, displaying a lot of high definition photos for her properties. You don’t have to hire a professional photographer (of course it will help) which can be a big pinch in old coin purse, but we definitely do encourage our clients to take the time to stage the property correctly and take clean, bright photos of each room. Remember when a client is behind the computer and searching for a home, they are picturing themselves sitting and living in that home. By taking a lot of photos of every corner, you are helping the client build that mental image.

Adding a Bilingual Aspect 

And last but certainly not least, we would like to commend Manyee Lui for using both simplified and traditional Chinese to cater to the sizeable investment of Chinese buyers in the Vancouver market. Ubertor’s websites support numerous languages and if you are focusing on a certain target market such as Chinese, Arabic, Russian or German buyers, we definitely encourage you to contact us and have your website to work for your clients.

We tip our hats to Manyee Lui and her team for building an awesome website on the Ubertor platform.

As always if you have any questions, feel free to contact our team. We’re always happy to help.

Today we would like to congratulate Vancouver Island’s Edie McPhedran as the this week’s Site of the Week (SOW). Designed by one of our very talented Approved Vendors, Mike Blaney, AKA (The Marketing Guy),  this beautiful website powered by Ubertor, incorporates many of the the design philosophies we stand by.

By applying Mike’s talented avant-garde design and Ubertor’s powerful features, Mike has created a beautiful user friendly website that speaks highly of  Edie’s brand. What makes Edie’s website awesome is the earthy colour scheme that  utlilizes  the simplicity of her design to create a user experience that builds a brand image of comfort, relaxing, simple, down to earth… and that is exaclty what a client expects when choosing to buy or sell their home.

Well done Mike and Edie on such a fantastic job!

Lets take a look at some other features which are equally as important as design and creating brand image: content and structure.

Content:

Take a quick glance at Edie’s homepage and you soon realize how her content works in harmony with her chic yet down to earth branding.  Without the “In Your Face” marketing strategies, the content is straight to the point in which the visitor understands what Edie is providing them.

Balancing just the right amount of information without being too concise or writing a thesis on your achievements and services is definitely no easy task. By utilizing Ubertor’s beautiful flash banner feature, these stunningly beautiful high definition nature photos work well with the overall brand. To sum it up everything the visitor needs is there without any unwanted extras. Great for SEO and moving higher up the Google rank.

Structure:

We found Edie’s website very simple to navigate to find the information we need. Like her content, everything the visitor would need is quickly available without including too many links and pages that might get visitors thrown off by clicking the back page button over and over.

Mike Blaney has done a terrific job in keeping the design philosophy of simplicity and modern, not only in the design of the website, but through the content and structure  Great websites are built by following a design philosophy from everything you incorporate into it and here we have a great example by a very talented Approved Vendor of Ubertor.

We tip our hats to Mike Blaney, and Edie McPherdan for creating and building an awesome Realtor website on the Ubertor platform.

As always, if you have any questions about Ubertor, and how you can get started, engage our team – we’re always happy to help.

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This week’s Site of the Week (SOW), is downtown Vancouver Sotheby’s Managing Broker, Greg Carros’ websites: www.carros.ca and www.vancouversothebysrealty.ca. Both sites are designed and customized by one of Ubertor’s Approved Vendors, Split Mango.

Both websites are sleek yet very simple, with the information both their current and prospective clients are looking for. Take for example the way they showcase their marketing initiatives. The message is clear cut and straight to the point. You understand what you’re going to get with Greg and his team.

Each website fully utilizes the powerful Ubertor listing module. Here’s an example. Take note of the large, widescreen, high definition property photos. If you look right below the address of the property, you can see Greg is using specific tools built right into the listing module to market this property the right way for the seller:

1. The Extras tab for specific documents
2. The Video tab for a virtual tour of the property
3. The Map tab to map the property for prospective buyers
4. The Tab function to add Walk Score to the property

Greg and his team have created 2 beautiful websites that both their team and their clients can be proud of.

If you have any questions about Ubertor, and how you and your team can get started, engage our team – we’re always happy to help.

This week’s site of the week is Andrewcarros.com. The website has a Google page rank of 2/10 and an Alexa rank (What is the Alexa Rank?) of 12,959,041.

For those of you who do not know Andrew Carros he is a Realtor based in Vancouver who specializes in selling attached and detached homes. He is also part of a group called The Carros Group alongside his partners Greg and David.

The custom design of the site follows the Sothebys branding. Great work with the slideshow and the high definition photos! He is taking advantage of the open house feature built into the Ubertor sytem.

Great information about The Carros Group and about Andrew is found throughout the site. You can see the great quality of pictures used in the site. Great photos and a very nice copy.

Another thing I like about the site is his Projects page. He is showcasing developments all across Canada. When you click on these links you’ll get these nice logos, photos and details. If you go down to where it says request info, your default email program will pop up for you to email him your questions about the project.

Keep up the great work Andrew.

This week’s site of the week (SOW) is Anne Marie and Roland Lewis’, Rolandlewis.com. The website has a Google Rank of 2/10 and an Alexa  Rank of 2,826,743.

There are a few reasons why this site, made this week’s SOW. The first, is the fresh and clean design by KuniDesign.com. Kuni has proved week after week, that his CSS skills are not to be messed with. The second, is the amount of content Anne Marie and Roland Lewis have on their home page. They exceed the 250 word minimum expected by Google, and they also provide detailed information on North, West, and Downtown Vancouver. The third, is a simple fact that the website clearly shows how the team will market your listings online. Finally, Anne Marie and Roland show their understanding of what a blog truly is. They utilize Ubertor’s blog for their listings, and have created a custom blog to share their knowledge of the Real Estate Market.

Knowledgeable, Fresh, and Unique describes this week’s SOW.

This week’s SOW award winner is ruthannewinter.com. The website has a Google Rank of 0/10 and an Alexa Rank of 3,440,544 (What is an Alexa Rank?).

Ruth Anne and her team specializes in Oakville, Burlington and surrounding areas. Ruth has a great flash slideshow on her homepage where she uses high quality pics. Kudos to Dara and Realty Support for the great design. I have to say I was really impressed with the One Eleven Forsythe page design. Good constrast, great photos and good copy on that particular page.

Overall, Ruth has done an awesome job with this website. Keep up the good work!

This week’s SOW goes to Ian Watt’s, Vancouver-Condo.ca. The website has a Google Rank of 2/10 and an Alexa Rank of 1,433,568 (What is an Alexa Rank?).

As many of you know, Ian is a Vancouver Realtor that specializes in condo sales. To promote his business, Ian has created a niche website that caters specifically to condo sales in downtown Vancouver. Surrounding sub-areas, Gastown, Yaletown, Coal Harbour, Westend, and Citygate have also been included. Ian’s use of the widget tool, has pushed his website forward, highlighting important points like his video blog and the Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meet-Up. To make it easy for his visitors to access his main website; Ian has provided 2 links in his navigation bar to access his primary site IanWatt.ca.

Overall, Ian has done a fantastic job with this niche website. Keep up the great work Ian.