SAHometraders May 2010 Newsletter

New Features

• How Did You Find Us?

If you own a site designed and hosted by
SAHometraders, you will notice that we have added a
quick survey to your Enquiry and Contact Us pages, as
seen on the right. This survey will help you establish how
visitors found your website, which can be valuable to
those who want to evaluate their marketing efforts. The
result of the survey can be found on the enquiry/contact
request sent to you.

• Get Ready for MaxiAgent

SAHometraders are in the process of finalising an exciting new property
management solution called MaxiAgent, which will replace our current Agency
Admin when we switch over in August 2010. This real estate CRM (customer
relations management) based application can be used to manage your real estate
agency/franchise/operation by giving you tools to manage contacts
(buyers/sellers/tenants/landlords etc), mandates, sales, commissions, marketing,
administration, reports etc. MaxiAgent is a user-friendly tool, which was developed
by SAHometraders with you, the estate agent/principal/franchisor in mind, and will
undoubtedly make managing real estate easier. To test drive this web-based
system, contact us and we will send you login details.

Subscriber Updates

• Chateau Properties Welcomes Prize

Congratulations to Chateau Properties who won the Property Map Competition. Megan van Niekerk accepted the Garmin GPS on behalf of the agency in Durbanville. Here she is seen receiving the prize from Charles Scott, Marketing and Sale Manager (Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu Natal).

• Copyright Your Images

The issue of copyrighting images on SAHometraders has recently come up, so we decided to shed some light on the watermarking of images in order to prevent people from copying and using your images. Our website protects your images to a certain point but it doesn’t stop people from technologically manipulating the system. A solution might be for you to watermark your images with your website address, agency name or logo, like I did with the ones below:
Photoshop users can easily apply a watermark to their images (click here to find out how) or you can use the various online programmes like www.picmarkr.com to help you watermark you images. Some sites even offer software that can be downloaded onto your computer to make it even easier for you to batch watermark images. A Google search will bring up the options.

• Overall Problems With Internet Connectivity

For certain of us, last week was marked by Internet connectivity problems due to
maintenance work on the Seacom Cable. These disruptions were felt as far as the
Middle East and interrupted many services across Europe, Asia and Africa. We
appreciate that web-based businesses like ourselves will have to deal with these
disruptions from time to time and like those of you who were left with the
frustration of not being able to access the Internet or send/receive email, we are
happy that all is back to normal.

• Paddock’s Press Newsletter

Paddock’s Press is a monthly digital newsletter published to educate and update
the sectional title community. It a great source for everyone who is in any way
involved with sectional titles – whether as an agent or a sectional title owner. Click
here to read the April Edition of Paddock’s Press.


	New Features • How Did You Find Us? If you own a site designed and hosted by SAHometraders, you will notice that we have added a quick survey to your Enquiry and Contact Us pages, as seen on the right. This survey will help you establish how visitors found your website, which can be valuable to those who want to evaluate their marketing efforts. The result of the survey can be found on the enquiry/contact request sent to you. • Get Ready for MaxiAgent SAHometraders are in the process of finalising an exciting new property management solution called MaxiAgent, which will replace our current Agency Admin when we switch over in August 2010. This real estate CRM (customer relations management) based application can be used to manage your real estate agency/franchise/operation by giving you tools to manage contacts (buyers/sellers/tenants/landlords etc), mandates, sales, commissions, marketing, administration, reports etc. MaxiAgent is a user-friendly tool, which was developed by SAHometraders with you, the estate agent/principal/franchisor in mind, and will undoubtedly make managing real estate easier. To test drive this web-based system, contact us and we will send you login details. Subscriber Updates • Chateau Properties Welcomes Prize Congratulations to Chateau Properties who won the Property Map Competition. Megan van Niekerk accepted the Garmin GPS on behalf of the agency in Durbanville. Here she is seen receiving the prize from Charles Scott, Marketing and Sale Manager (Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu Natal). • Copyright Your Images The issue of copyrighting images on SAHometraders has recently come up, so we decided to shed some light on the watermarking of images in order to prevent people from copying and using your images. Our website protects your images to a certain point but it doesn’t stop people from technologically manipulating the system. A solution might be for you to watermark your images with your website address, agency name or logo, like I did with the ones below: Photoshop users can easily apply a watermark to their images (click here to find out how) or you can use the various online programmes like www.picmarkr.com to help you watermark you images. Some sites even offer software that can be downloaded onto your computer to make it even easier for you to batch watermark images. A Google search will bring up the options. • Overall Problems With Internet Connectivity For certain of us, last week was marked by Internet connectivity problems due to maintenance work on the Seacom Cable. These disruptions were felt as far as the Middle East and interrupted many services across Europe, Asia and Africa. We appreciate that web-based businesses like ourselves will have to deal with these disruptions from time to time and like those of you who were left with the frustration of not being able to access the Internet or send/receive email, we are happy that all is back to normal. • Paddock’s Press Newsletter Paddock’s Press is a monthly digital newsletter published to educate and update the sectional title community. It a great source for everyone who is in any way involved with sectional titles – whether as an agent or a sectional title owner. Click here to read the April Edition of Paddock’s Press.