We are excited to announce the addition of FrontDoor as a syndication partner for Residential for Sale Listings. FrontDoor is the newly-launched and highly anticipated real estate website of HGTV, the television network that gave us House Hunters and Designed to Sell. Following the lead of those shows, FrontDoor takes a comprehensive approach toward the buying and selling of a house.  In addition to listing millions of properties for sale around the country, it provides useful, accessible tips to sellers about raising home values, home staging, and other topics, and to buyers about what to look for when shopping for a house. 

We recently added the real estate marketplace CyberHomes as a syndication partner site, which means that real estate for sale listings can now be automatically submitted there! This is great news, as this website is a rising stars in the world of online real estate marketplaces. CyberHomes (which is the exclusive provider of real estate listings to AOL) offers detailed information and statistics on homes for sale, neighborhoods, and metro areas around the country as well as market trends. It also provides useful reference material for buyers and sellers of homes. Be sure to update and republish listings to take advantage of this new service benefit.

Many of you have probably noticed changes to your vFlyer account homepage since Thursday morning. We did an overhaul of the account homepage and made it into a dashboard where you can access the Craigslist HTML for any of your flyers, email and print any of your flyers, access the HTML for any widgets you’ve created, and more. You can think of your account homepage as a kind of “mission control” for your vFlyer account, which is how it should be! Now you no longer need to go through multiple steps to get the Craigslist HTML for a flyer, track the activity of a flyer, or do other flyer-related tasks - it’s all right in front of you when you log in to your account.

We hope this makes using vFlyer even easier. If you have feedback for us on the new dashboard, let us know.

If you’ve ever had your unsaved work on a flyer lost because your session expired while you were writing a long description, then you know how frustrating it can be. That’s why we recently introduced an autosave feature in the Flyer Editor and Photo Editor that automatically saves any work you’ve done on a flyer after 29 minutes of inactivity (or activity only in the description field). It’s still a good idea to click the Save Draft button every ten minutes or so in case you encounter a network problem or some other error, but the autosave feature provides added security against losing work you’ve done. 

Note: The autosave feature only applies to the Flyer Editor and Photo Editor.

Many of you have probably seen already that vFlyer now supports Wellcomemat as a video host. Wellcomemat is a kind of social networking site built around videos and devoted to the Real Estate market. You might call it “YouTube for Real Estate.” Thousands of real estate agents and brokers and other people selling houses use Wellcomemat to host the videos they make for their houses and properties. Now, as a vFlyer customer, you can embed Wellcomemat videos right into your flyers! It’s easy - just follow these steps:

1. You’ll first need to open a Wellcomemat account. It’s free and it will allow you to upload videos to the site.

2. Once you’ve created your account and uploaded a video to Wellcomemat, click the MENU button in the bottom right corner of the video.

3. Click Get URL/Link, then click Copy URL.

4. Log in to your vFlyer account and create a flyer.
5. In the video section of the Flyer Editor, select Wellcomemat from the drop-down menu and paste the URL for your video in the box.

Note: Video embedding is available only to vFlyer business subscribers (vFlyer Starter and above).

Trying to get more done in less time? Of course. That’s why we recently introduced a multi-photo upload feature for any flyer created on vFlyer.com. It makes uploading gallery photos a snap! Simply click the Setup Photo Gallery link in the Flyer Editor and then click the Upload Multiple Photos link. From there, click the Browse button and select the photos you want to upload while pressing the Ctrl key. Once you’ve selected your photos, click Upload. Voila! Your gallery photos are uploaded in one fell swoop.

Most users have noticed by now that we have updated our home page to better reflect the growing range of business verticals that vFlyer serves! Our goals was to provide users in specific verticals such as real estate, automotive and recruiting or human resources understand how vFlyer meets their special and unique set of needs. In each market, prospective users can see how specific vFlyer services such as marketplace distribution, widgets, mobile access, image enhancing and PDF generation can help them better promote their products and services online. We hope you find our new cross-matrix approach intuitive and useful and we would love to hear your feedback!

Buying or selling a boat is a lot like purchasing a home! The dollar amounts involved can be large and many times, people’s emotional ties to a boat can easily affect their judgment. Most people, however, put more time and energy into buying a boat, however, than they do selling it. Boats for Sale is one of the many product categories you will find under vehicles. Obviously when selling a boat you want to make sure you are selling it at the right price!

When trying to determine the right price for your boat look at comparable either online or in local papers. You can also use a service like Value Check from BOAT/US that has a pricing service for its members. There are also a number of resources available online that can help guide you in pricing and preparing your boat for sale.

Examples:

• Calabria Cal-Air Pro-V
• 2004 18 ft Chaparral 180 ssi
• Selling Two Sea Doos

I got this email today from Mark Galloway, an avid eBay Real Estate user and a realtor (United Country) and thought I would share it with you! Mark writes:

So it looks like we found someone who sells homes on eBay AND uses vFlyer AND has an eBook on the subject – its definitely worth checking out for all those interested! Mark sold his first house on eBay in 2004 after he and his family moved from Georgetown, Colorado to Kansas. After a buyer for his house backed out, Mark decided to auction it on eBay with great success. He has some great experience with classified ad and auction formats on the site.Thanks for sharing that information Mark!

Here are links to Mark’s eBook and vFlyer:

• “Real” 21st Century Real Estate Marketing
• vFlyer: 1898 Victorian Hutchinson, Kansas Farm Home 35 Acres

NOTE: I am doing some informal surveys with Realtors who use eBay to sell homes and i will be publishing a full report once I am through, if you subscribe to our rss feed you’ll get updated once I post it, thanks!