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In This Issue |
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1. Have you contributed
to the Area
Wiki?
2. Meet the Team - How to exclude profiles and control order
of display
3. MaxiAgent
roll-out
delayed
4. How
to avoid
and deal
with SPAM
5.
Your ideas
and suggestions
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Have you contributed to the Area Wiki?
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We had
fantastic response to the Area Description Wiki since it was launched a few
months ago. We would like to thank all the agents who took the time to send us
area information and we hope that you will continue to update the area
descriptions. |
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It is important to note that by adding information you have given potential buyers a more complete and accurate idea of the area that you operate
in, not to mention earned yourself a link back to your listings from the area info page. Remember that the more unique and accurate info you add to the area info page, the more valuable your link will become.
To contribute to the Area Info Wiki, log into Agency Admin and click on Area Description. Remember to read the Terms and Conditions to ensure that your info gets published.
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Meet the Team – How to Exclude a Profile & Control Display Order
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If you
are the owner of one of our quality agency websites you will be glad to know that
you can now exclude an agent/agent team from the Meet the Team page. Lately we
have received a number of enquiries from agents, especially those who have
sales teams, to exclude these teams from the Meet the Team page in order to
avoid duplication of profiles. |
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Should you wish to exclude an agent/agent team, go to Agency Admin<, click on Agents Admin and select the agent/agent team you want to exclude under Edit an Agent’s Details. Then simply click the Exclude from Meet the Team box.
The default order is Agency Office (if you have multiple offices linked to the website), Category (principle, selling agent etc), and then first name alphabetically. You can now replace the default ordering with your own preference. This will replace the third ordering option, which is name alphabetically. |
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Maxi Agent Roll-Out Delayed
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We are
currently experience some connectivity issues which urged us to re-engineer
some of the functions of MaxiAgent |
We have therefore decided to delay the
launch of MaxiAgent to 1 October 2010. We will then start to move agencies across
from Agency Admin to the new system in batches. We hope to have all agencies
running on MaxiAgent by the end of November. |
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Your Ideas and Suggestions
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Some
exciting news from the SAHometraders office is that our developers have been
working hard on a new design for the SAHometraders site. |
You can be part of
this exciting project by sending us any ideas of suggestions that you might
have to improve the look, feel and functionality of our website to support@sahometraders.co.za.
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How to Avoid and Deal with Spam
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We often get enquiries on how to prevent
spam/junk email flooding to your Inbox. The truth is that the best way to avoid
spam is to ensure that you stay off spammers’ mailing lists.
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1. Never
publish your personal/business email address on any websites. Using your personal/business address
anywhere on the Web puts it at risk of being picked up by spammers, and
once an email address is in the hands of even just one spammer, your Inbox
is sure to be filled up with spam. If you want to publish ads on
classified sites like Gumtree, open a free account with Gmail/Yahoo and
use that email address as a contact. This way, if your email address gets
picked up by spammers, your personal/business email address will not be
spammed.
Please note: SAHometraders ensures
that your email address is secured, as we use a contact form which gets sent to
your email once a potential buyer enquires. This way your email address is
never displayed and spammers can’t get hold of it.
2.
Never read, reply to or try to unsubscribe from spam emails as this
is the spammers’ way of verifying that your email address exists.
3.
Before
you
join
a
mailing
list, make
sure
the
list
owner
or
Webmaster
will
not
sell
your
address.
Check to see if you can opt out of receiving unsolicited email from
the site where you're registering. If you are unsure about this, read the
site's privacy statement.
4. Don’t forward chain emails. But
what
do
you
do
if
you
are
already
on
the
spammers'
list?
Click here to learn how to block
spam from entering your inbox. |
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Paddock’s Press Newsletter
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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 August Edition of Paddock's Press. |
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