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Propertyqube Monthly Newsletter – Professional Edition

February 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

What’s new on Propertyqube?

Welcome to the new monthly edition of the Propertyqube newsletter, designed specially for industry professionals! We want to make sure you’re up to date with the latest Propertyqube news so you can get as much value out of our site as possible. 

We’ll keep you up to date on product refinements, new feature launches, progress of the community and interesting stuff we find on our site, all contributed from thousands of members like you.

We’ve been making great progress in building up our community. January was a record month for us with over 43k uniques and over a quarter of a million page views. This led to more new consumer members, new questions asked and more listings being emailed from our system than any month since we launched in May of last year. We have lots more work to do in building this up to a truly valuable resource for you and we hope you will continue to help us spread the word!

Market snapshots beta launch

We launched a new product called Market Snapshots! We are extremely early in the development of this product but the overall idea is to develop analytics around the Google Base housing ecosystem. Where does your city rank in foreclosures? How does it change over time? You can now use Propertyqube to answer questions like this and many more!

Pics from around the community
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Kristal Kraft
Denver, CO
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Claudia Ridge
Englewood, FL
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Kelly Mitchell
Honolulu, HI
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Propertyqube conversation spotlight

Q: Looking at making an offer on a house. The asking price is $246k but needs some improvement. How low should I go?

9 responses | Read more

Q: How high-end does a kitchen update need to be for a medium-priced home?

4 responses | Read more

Q: If my Parents still owe on their mortgage, can they sell their house to me for less than they owe?

5 responses | Read more

 Q:  When buying a home, should you use an agent from the same firm that has the home listed?

3 responses | Read more

What is Propertyqube? Propertyqube is an Online Real Estate Social Community connecting consumers to professionals. We give you the tools to reach consumers while helping to build your brand and network in your local area. Check out the many tools available to you, all absolutely free of charge including:

  • Feed in your already existing blog or start one using our easy to use blog plaform
  • Brand your listings. We feed in Google Base listings and allow you to claim them
  • Show off your knowledge to local buyers and sellers in Propertyqube Conversations
  • Network with other professionals in one of our groups or start one yourself
  • Your network is the most important aspect of what you do. Grow it right here on Propertyqube. Invite colleagues and past clients to connect and recommend you to the community.

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Share Twitter Marketing Strategies – Join the Newest Propertyqube Group

February 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Come join the newest Propertyqube Group – Twitter!

The goal and purpose of this group is to share Twitter marketing strategies, tools & resources available to Realtors. Twitter is so much more than ‘web based chat’ and many people are already using it as a business tool.

The group was created by John Jones and you can check out John’s profile here.

Here’s a flavor of some of the discussion happening already in the group:

Do professionals use Twitter to market their listings?

What are your techniques for growing your Twitter network but keeping the people in it relevant?

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What products can you not live without?

January 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In true Techcrunch style (see Arrington post yesterday) , tell us what sites you got the most use out of and most importantly, WHY!?

Here’s my personal list of products I use most regularly:

- Google Reader: I would be lost without it and wasting hours of my life going from site to site in an effort to stay up to date on what’s happening out there. It’s usually the first thing I open and the last thing I close.

- Hulu: I am a pretty frequent user of Hulu. I don’t have a ton of time to watch TV but there are those shows that I love catching up on.

- Blackberry: My Curve is by my side at all times. I feel insecure without it.

- Menupages: Living in NYC and being single, I rarely cook. Menupages.com gets at least three visits from me a week.

- Linkedin: Running a start-up and always looking for ways to seek guidance from experts and meet new people, Linkedin is one of those services that I truly can’t live without.

You can join the discussion here. Would love to hear what everyone thinks!

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Happy New Year!!

January 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

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We want to wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2009! 2008 has surely been one to remember and the Propertyqube team wants to thank all of you for your continued support. We’ve made some great friendships over the year and we look forward to meeting more of you out there in the real estate and start-up world in the years to come.

2008 was a good year for Propertyqube. We officially launched our product this past June after being in test mode for some months and we had a blast doing it. In only six short months, we’ve been able to grow our site from nothing into a nice little community. We’ve reached about 28k unique visitors a month with over a billion page views since launch! That is no easy task in the amount of time we’ve been live and we couldn’t have done it without all of you.

In 2009, you’ll be hearing from us a lot. We are going to remain relentless in tweaking, refining and getting the word out there about Propertyqube. We have lots of plans and product refinements in the works and we can’t wait to release them to the broader public. We hope you will continue this journey with us!

- The Propertyqube Team

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How is the current real estate market impacting you?

November 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment

There are lots of us out there wondering how economic conditions and the down real estate market will play out over time. How will each of us be impacted? How are those being most impacted getting through times like these? What should we all be doing to weather the storm?

Here’s your place to share thoughts, helpful tips and tell stories. We want to hear from you!

Subscribe to this question to keep up to date through email on the stories, tips and thoughts being posted by our Propertyqube community.

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Propertyqube Update – October 08

October 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

Propertyqube Gaining Momentum

We want to thank all of our community members, especially our Elite Huddle Groups, for helping us spread the word about Propertyqube! Our unique visitors are up 180% since our formal launch this past June with monthly traffic growth above 50%! We’re now approaching 20,000 unique visitors a month! We couldn’t do this without you helping to spread the word. THANK YOU.

We have a long journey ahead of us but we’re committed to creating a fun and valuable resource to help you get the information you want. If you have any suggestions on what we can do better, we’d love to hear from you.

Check out our new home page now featuring listings (only listings claimed by professionals in our network) and the most recent questions asked by consumers.

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Check Out Your Local PropertyLife Scene!

Browse local photos, recent questions, current news and blog articles along with new listings on the market. It’s even more fun if you contribute! Simply log in and join the fun.

Search and contribute to your Local PropertyLife here!

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Propertyqube Conversations – Tap the knowledge of our community

In times like these, there’s nothing better than getting an answer to your real estate question from a person. Ask your real estate related questions on Propertyqube and tap the knowledge of the community. There’s thousands of people in our community waiting to share their super brain power with you!

Q: Is it our advantage as the seller to give permission for our Realtor to be a dual agent?
answered by Gene Dexter and Cathy Baumbusch

“There is an advantage to you as seller but it is not necessarily a positive or ethical one.” Read more

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Our Real Estate Content Network has just reached 200 publishers! Check out some of the recent articles and stay up to date on your local market by visiting your local PropertyLife page.

Jim Duncan: From the Archives: Do Days on Market Matter?

“This is a perennial debate/discussion that has taken on new meaning in this market. Jeremy Hart in Blacksburg beat me to renewing the debate and forced me to edit this brief post, that had been scheduled for more than a month …” Read more

Jonathan Dalton: Volatility, Wall Street and Real Estate

“Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve received variations of the same question from several people. Roughly restated, it’s along the lines of “now that Wall Street has melted down and the credit markets are freezing, how far have prices come down in Phoenix?” Read more

Freshome: 40 of The Most Creative Lamp Designs Ever

“We all know that one of the easiest ways you have to light a dark corner in any room or add some atmospheric lighting to your living-room area, is to place your choice of lamp. With numerous designs, shapes, colors, dimensions or lighting abilities, lamps constitute one of the most convenient methods one has to alter the lighting tone of a room.” Read more

Keep up to date on what we’re working on by vistiing our blog.
- The Propertyqube Team

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Scavenger Hunt Winner!

October 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

We’ve been going through the huge number of scavenger hunt submissions and after pooling all of those who answered the questions correctly, we picked a winner at random.

Join me in congratulating John McDonald as the winner of our first scavenger hunt!

Thanks to all those who participated in the game. It was a ton of fun going through the submissions and we’ll most likely run another contest of this nature soon.

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Huge response to our Scavenger Hunt forced our email server to go down

September 16, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Due to the overwhelming response to our scavenger hunt, our email server went down! We want to be sure that we got all responses so please reforward all responses to ensure you are included in the contest!

Sorry for the inconvenience and we have taken necessary precautions to keep our email server up and running.

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Go to Inman’s Global Connect, on us. Game on!

September 14, 2008 · 1 Comment

At Propertyqube, we love to have fun and with the summer winding down, we thought we would spice things up a little. We’re purchasing and giving away a pass to Inman’s Global Connect Conference in NYC this January! Wondering how to win? Participate in our very own scavenger hunt!

Here are the details:

- Contest starts today and ends September 29th.

- The winner(s) gets a pass to Global Connect, a $549 value (just the conference).

- To win, participate in the scavenger hunt below by sending an email with all answers to davidbethoney@propertyqube.com, All participants who find and send all answers (in one email) will be entered into a pool which we’ll be choosing the winner from.

The best part, every time the number of participants grows by 300, we’ll add on another free pass. That’s right! So go spread the word. Who knows, you may find yourself in the Big Apple this January!

Scavenger Hunt rules:

  1. How many Propertyqube "for sale" listings in Boston, MA with the following criteria: 3 bedrooms between a price range of $400,000 and $2,000,000 (don’t worry about number of listings changing, we’re keeping track during the contest days).
  2. Name that blog and blog writer who published a recent article titled "My mandate is clear" on August 20th. How many Propertyqube fans does this blog have and what Propertyqube category are the blog entries posted in?
  3. Within Propertyqube Conversatons, what professionals answered Geoff Gray’s question on September 4th about a short sale (tell us the agent names)? For the professional who answered the question most recently, how many groups do they belong to?
  4. How many real estate agents are in the Meet and Greet Group? For the real estate agent who has initials "LS", what’s the square footage of the featured listing in their profile?

Send an email with your answers to Davidbethoney@propertyqube.com on or before September 29th. If you’re the winner and can’t make it to NYC in January, we’ll give you a gift card worth the value of a conference pass.

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New PropertyLife page up!

August 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to let you know that we pushed a new PropertyLife page layout to production!

Go check it out here.

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