Network Solutions

Herndon, VA (PRWEB) March 12, 2007

The use of blogging in business has become a popular and successful trend in the online marketing world recently. And now, Network Solutions has added free blogs to its Unix-based hosting packages to help small and medium-sized businesses connect with customers, boost sales, enhance brand visibility, and improve existing or future product offerings. In a few easy to follow steps, customers can set up and begin using a blog within their existing hosting package.

The popularity of blogs has risen in recent years, with Technorati currently tracking 70 million blogs. As blogs have entered the mainstream, business blogs are being used to complement a small business’ Web site. While a Web site generally provides important information about the organization and its products and services, more often that not — it’s quite static. A business blog allows small and medium-sized businesses to build and maintain a steady stream of communication with customers and prospects.

“Business blogs are a great way for small businesses to open and maintain meaningful dialog with their customers,” explains Jeff Grosman, Senior Vice President for Product Marketing & Management with Network Solutions. “Via their blogs, owners can pose questions regarding their products and services and gain real-time customer feedback and insights. This is key because customers and prospects like to know that their opinions matter.”

The use of blogging in business is also beneficial because a blog that is updated frequently and is rich with relevant content and links can also help increase the search engine ranking of a business’ core Web site. Search engines favor frequent updates, trackbacks (links to a blog from other bloggers) and the navigation structure of blogs. Savvy marketers will make their core Web sites easily accessible from their blog site.

“An active blog gives visitors more reasons to repeatedly visit both the blog and the business Web site. This added exposure can lead to increased traffic, and the increased traffic can increase search engine rankings, which all lead to higher sales for the Website owner,” explains Grosman.

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Inman News Presents Start-Up Alley at Real Estate Connect SF 17 Start-Ups to Watch for in 2010 and Beyond

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) June 16, 2010

17 start-up companies will be exhibiting in Start-Up Alley, part of Real Estate Connect, held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square on July 13-15, 2010.

These 17 innovative companies are using technology to break new ground in the world of real estate and marketing. These promising young companies are offering intriguing technologies in the areas of mobile devices, technology, web 2.0, social media and much more.

For over 14 years, Inman News publisher Brad Inman has brought the most innovative minds together for three awe-inspiring days of learning and collaboration. Real Estate Connect conference attendees can expect three jam-packed days of networking with the industrys sharpest minds. Attendees will be exposed to the very best business intelligence that will help rethink, reframe and recharge their business. Over 2000 real estate leaders and executives globally are expected to attend.

Here is a taste of the 17 Start-Up Alley companies:

Floorplanner

Floorplanner is a simple yet powerful web-based drawing application to create compelling 2D and 3D floor plans with almost no learning curve. Floorplanner is used by a growing number of Real Estate professionals in Europe and has recently started to offer their floor planning platform to US Realtors & building companies.

FUZeD Agent

Think of the hours you spend managing all your marketing channels. Ever wish it was simpler? More efficient? Offered better results? Ever wish you could just spend more time actually SELLING? Now its possible, thanks to the Fuzed Agent Fuzeboard. Socal Media Customer Relationship Management Websites Mores. Light Just One Fuze

HootHut.com

Hoothut.com simplifies social media and marketing for Realtors. Just add your profile and enter a quick listing. HootHut instantly creates Facebook real estate tabs, virtual tours, and flyers. While you’re sleeping, it feeds your listings to Zillow, Yahoo and Trulia. Visit HootHut to discover our cool Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter features! Done-for-you marketing. All in one little app at one little price.

IMAGEination.TV

IMAGEination.tv provides a suite of premium real estate marketing services, from video, photography, floor plans, copy writing and digital media through to our sophisticated, online artwork creation and ordering platform CampaignSPEED. CampaignSpeed is a turn-key online marketing solution, providing agents with compreshensive ‘online design’ functionality for print and web-based marketing, plus access to an innovative suite of digital marketing products and services.

List Globally

List Globally advertises the listings of agent and brokers to the world via our global network of market leading property portals. With one easy upload and one low fee per property, List Globally provides realtors with an effective listing and marketing advantage.

N-Play

N-Play.com is the industrys first online service that provides a simple way for buyers to place non-binding, comprehensive and secure offers on listings, interactively, without limitations. Sellers get a higher quantity of qualified offers and reduced time on market. Agents improve offer-to-close ratios, reduce wasted time on unproductive offers/clients and transact more sales.

NabeWise

NabeWise allows you to search for neighborhoods based on preferences by offering real-time rankings and a neighborhood scorecard in key categories such as Quality of Life, People, Things to Do, Character, and Schools. Its also a great place for agents to demonstrate local expertise online and to meet new clients.

NoteFlo

NoteFlo.com has created a Private Loan Marketplace that directly connects real estate loan seekers with thousands of private lenders across the country, all for free. Don’t hassle with the red tape of obtaining a bank loan, come to NoteFlo.com and get funded quickly.

PlaceLogic

PlaceLogic introduces PropertyScore for hyper-local neighborhood statistics, social information and mapping. Give your customers a private-label app where they can search and analyze properties and neighborhoods. Visit our booth to get started with a FREE version for your customers, and to see how our technology is working for CityTourVideo.com.

Pulse Realty

Pulse Realty Software helps real estate agencies focus on accountability, transparency and efficiency. Its business automation software solution, Pulse, organizes all critical data and activities along the entire customer lifecycle. Pulse improves agency profitability by increasing revenues through improved customer communication and by reducing costs through processing efficiencies.

RealtyJoin

RealtyJoin is the first social networking site for the entire real estate industry. Real estate investors, agents, mortgage brokers, contractors, and other professionals can find people, deals and opportunities on RealtyJoin. Since launching earlier this year, this free site has resulted in $ 1000s in new business for several members.

Real Metric

Real Metric, LLC was founded by real estate internet veterans Tom Ray & Justin Tracy. They previously developed, grew and sold the lead generation system, Realty Generator to Market Leader (House Values) in the fall of 2007. Years of experience within the IDX/MLS compliance space, have allowed the team to know the ins and outs of the real estate data dilemma. We feel it’s time to start giving these local MLSs the toolset to be able to secure and analyze their data in ways only huge tech start-ups normally operate.

RentJuice

RentJuice is the premier vendor in a new category of online software: Rental Relationship Management (RRM). With RRM, starting or growing a rental business is simple, even for sales brokerages. With one product, you can easily manage the entire rental process, from organizing and marketing listings to closing deals.

SCVNGR

SCVNGR is a game about going places, doing challenges and earning points. We are a Google backed technology company working with real estate brokers around the country to build high tech, city-wide adventures where a pre-qualified couple will win a down payment on a home. We use gaming dynamics to help sell more homes, list more homes, qualify buyers, generate leads, and attract news coverage.

Social Made Simple

Market yourself with Social Networks. SocialMadeSimple is the first all-in-one social network marketing solution designed specifically for Real Estate and Mortgage professionals. We combine Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and a Blog into one, easy-to-use system, with plans for success, and pre-formatted news, articles and links to post with one click.

Webrealestatetools.com

WebRealEstateTools.com. Dedicated to helping Realtors succeed with social media marketing, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter & WordPress blogging. Founded by active real estate professionals Drew Burkes & Peter Toner, they recently released “Social Media, Blogging & Web 2.0 Mastery School for Realtors”, the most important and complete Social Media, Blogging and Web 2.0 Course for Realtors ever created.

Working Equity

Working Equity, Inc. is an innovative financial services organization leveraging technology to deliver cutting edge solutions to the real estate industry. Using new advances in local home price indexes, Home Value Protection is a powerful new way to protect home owners from real estate market volatility.

For additional information about Start-Up Alley, or to receive a free press pass, please contact Katie Lance, Marketing Manager, Inman News at (510) 658-9252 ext. 147

About Inman News | Inman News (http://www.inman.com) is the leading source of independent real estate news, information, advice,

Inman News Presents Start-Up Alley at Real Estate Connect SF 17 Start-Ups to Watch for in 2010 and Beyond

Real Estate Technology Contests and Start-Ups Featured at Real Estate Connect SF July 13-15, 2010

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) July 1, 2010

Inman News’ (http://www.inman.com ) annual San Francisco real estate technology conference, Real Estate Connect, held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square on July 13-15, 2010, will feature a number of innovative and cutting-edge companies, start-ups, sponsors and speakers focused on the future of technology in real estate.

Real Estate Connect San Francisco will feature two high-profile contests showcasing the best of online real estate innovation. The first contest is the Connect Developer Challenge. This will be the ultimate real estate technology 48-hour hack-a-thon. By the end of Connect SF, a brand new set of web applications will be unveiled. The Connect Developer Challenge brings innovation to Connect in real time, on the big stage, in a way that highlights the companies and people pushing the online real estate envelope. The app that receives the most votes from the audience will win thousands of dollars in advertising space on Inman.com and free passes to Connect 2011.

The second contest is the New Kids on the Block Challenge. Inman News is known for supporting entrepreneurs and giving new companies a platform to launch in front of the most important crowd in real estate. Six young companies (special preference is given to start-ups that launch at Connect) give their pitch in front of real estate leaders who, with the audience, choose a winning company.

Also featured at Real Estate Connect are 21 start-up companies who will be exhibiting in Start-Up Alley. These promising young companies are offering intriguing technologies in the areas of mobile devices, technology, web 2.0, social media and much more.

A complete list of Start-Up Alley participants can be found on the Real Estate Connect site. Out of the 21, these 4 companies were recently added to the list:

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Real Estate Technology Contests and Start-Ups Featured at Real Estate Connect SF July 13-15, 2010

Eighteen Companies Featured at Start-Up Alley at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) July 26, 2012

Real Estate Connect is the industrys premier technology gathering. More than 1,000 leading real estate brokers, C-level executives, entrepreneurs, journalists, analysts and investors from around the globe are expected to attend.

Here are the eighteen companies that have been selected to participate:

BetterVoicemail: BetterVoicemail provides a professional voicemail service for real estate professionals by transcribing voicemails, giving callers property information and prioritizing callbacks.

Blazing Tours: Blazing Tours provides an all-in-one video solution that allows real estate professionals to shoot, edit, and publish professional-quality videos using a smart phone, along with step-by-step storyboards, editing and publishing tools.

BreakthroughBroker.com: BreakthroughBroker.com is a free resource center where real estate professionals can create marketing materials, learn from industry leaders through interviews and news, and share through blog posts and local events.

Doorsteps: Doorsteps is an online task management platform that helps real estate professionals educate and guide homebuyers through the home buying process. Doorsteps gives real estate professionals insight into their consumers, and consumers a place to take care of their home buying to-dos.

DreamCommerce: DreamCommerce is a social real estate platform that integrates MLS data and allows agents, brokers, and home buyers to connect and collaborate in a private, cloud-based workspace using the DreamPro app.

Happy Inspector: Happy Inspector is a property inspection application for iPad, iPhone and Android that allows real estate professionals to automate home inspections to save time and reduce paperwork.

HelloFax: HelloFax is building the paperless office through the use of digital signatures and online faxing technology. HelloFax is committed to eliminating the need for printers, scanners, fax machines, PDF editors and complicated electronic signature technology.

HomeZada: HomeZada is an all-in-one homeowner application that manages home improvement projects, home maintenance calendars, to-dos, home inventory, and property documents in the cloud.

LeaseRunner: LeaseRunner integrates tenant applications, background checks, e-signature leases, and rent collection into one digital process. LeaseRunner allows landlords, tenants, brokers, and managers to save time and money with a paperless leasing process.

Listedby.com: ListedBy.com is a free online marketplace and social network focused on real estate assets and real estate professionals. It enables real estate professionals to globally market their listings and their businesses.

Nest4Less: Nest4Less delivers timely home-related guidance, reminders and discounts. Nest4Less allows users to find significant discounts on everything from closing and moving costs to furnishings and home improvement.

POSTfuser: POSTfuser is a direct engagement social media company that works with real estate professionals to create custom, client-centric posting strategies to multiple social media platforms. The company allows real estate professionals to create conversation with their social media followers.

RealSatisfied: RealSatisfied is a customer satisfaction and reputation management resource built specifically for real estate. Using RealSatisfied, real estate brokers and agents can receive real-time, actionable feedback from buyers and sellers.

repree: repree Real Estate Transaction Manager is an online solution for real estate professionals to accelerate the buying and selling process. The cloud-based platform includes paperless transactions using eSignatures powered by DocuSign

Eighteen Companies Featured at Start-Up Alley at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco

Bungee Connect Advances to Public Beta: Single Environment Integrating Web Application Development, Testing, Deployment and Hosting Becomes the Most Extensive Implementation of a Platform-as-a-Service Reference Application Integrating Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce.com, Google Calendar and Others Provided to Developers for Exploration, Modification and Use in Real-World Business Applications

SALT LAKE CITY (PRWEB) February 18, 2008

Bungee Connect Advances to Public Beta: Single Environment Integrating Web Application Development, Testing, Deployment and Hosting Becomes the Most Extensive Implementation of a Platform-as-a-Service Reference Application Integrating Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce.com, Google Calendar and Others Provided to Developers for Exploration, Modification and Use in Real-World Business Applications

WPML Adds XLIFF to Connect WordPress with the Translation Community

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) June 23, 2011

WPML, the WordPress Multilingual Plugin, adds XLIFF interface to streamline translation of WordPress websites and cuts down translation time and cost by 50%.

With the new XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format) interface, translators use their favorite CAT tools on WordPress sites. Translation agencies and freelance translators can now leverage their existing infrastructure for WordPress.

A typical website contains many small pieces of text. Without having a good translation workflow, translators must spend much of their time copying and pasting content. Translation work becomes costly and prone to human error.

By using their CAT tools, translators can work more efficiently and do the same job in half the time it takes to enter translations directly to the CMS.

As WordPress powers more than 14% of the entire Web and multilingual sites become standard, translation workflow is now critically important.

The new XLIFF interface solves the problem completely. WordPress can now export jobs as XLIFF files. Translators use their CAT tools, translation memory and glossary and translate these files. They dont have to worry about formatting or site structure.

With this new technology, site owners can outsource their translation work to tens of thousands of agencies or freelance translators. Because translators use their familiar tools, they dont need to learn about WordPress.

The new XLIFF module is part of WPML – a plugin that turns WordPress into a multilingual CMS. It works together with WPMLs Translation Management module. Site owners choose what content to translate and to which languages. Their translators receive notification emails with XLIFF attachments, containing the translation jobs. They complete these jobs and upload back to WordPress in one batch. Throughout the process, site admins have complete visibility of the progress. They can see what parts of the site are being translated and whats already complete.

WPMLs XLIFF interface works with any CAT tool. It is tested with Trados, D

WPML Adds XLIFF to Connect WordPress with the Translation Community

Connect Simply Introduces Custom Blog Design to Compliment Their Growing Arsenal of Marketing Tools

Texarkana, TX (PRWEB) November 6, 2007

Inspired by the success of both “WeMagazineforWomen” and “WomensMediaSummit” blogs, Connect Simply has entered the custom blog design arena, giving their clients one more tool to connect and reach out to their customer base, while generating additional traffic/clients through the use of social media marketing. Many business have a need for such a tool, but don’t have the time to learn about the mechanics of building their own blogs.

Heidi Caswell of Connect Simply was approached by Heidi Richards, founder of the WECAI NETWORK , about setting up and customizing a WordPress Blog for WeMagazine . Heidi Caswell said “I’d be honored” and a new business relationship was born.

WeMagazine for Women is published quarterly. Its new custom blog provides one more way to connect with its readers on a daily basis, receive feedback, offer additional resources and articles, to stay in touch with the magazine’s subscriber base between issues. WeMagazine’s online presence grows through social media marketing.

Women’s Media Summit, a public relations and media marketing eConference for women featured many media experts including Raleigh Pinskey, (Promote Yourself Now & The Raleigh Group), Paul Hartunian, (The Publicity Junkie), Annie Jennings, Ponn Sabra, Beverly Mahone, and George Wright.

Connect Simply Introduces Custom Blog Design to Compliment Their Growing Arsenal of Marketing Tools

Gigya Launches WordPress Plug-in Making It Easy to Add Social and Authentication Features Enabling Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, OpenID, Functionality

Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) June 29, 2009

Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a plug-in for WordPress. WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging and OpenSource toolset in the world, has quickly become a favorite among developers seeking rich functionality and ease of use.

The new Socialize plug-in enables WordPress sites to easily add multi-dimensional social and authentication functionality by providing a single point of access to Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Sign in with Twitter as well as OpenID providers like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail. The plug-in is available on Gigya’s website at http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/About/Press.aspx?m=Press&p=1171 or on WordPress at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gigya-socialize-for-wordpress/

Powerful Authentication, Social and Promotional Features

WordPress sites that implement the plug-in have immediate access to a variety of powerful authentication and social features. Users can log into the site using their social network or webmail identity, enabling the Socialize plug-in to personalize the user experience by displaying the user’s name and image. Users can also update their status, promoting their activity to the newsfeeds of their social network, or invite specific social network friends with a custom message, driving traffic back to the original site. The Socialize WordPress plug-in also enables users to post comments on blog posts directly to their newsfeed on Facebook.

With the Socialize WordPress plug-in any site can allow users to share content or a specific event on the website. By integrating user profile and social graph data, Socialize makes the user experience social.

“It has never been easier to add so many social features to a WordPress powered site,” said Patrick Salyer, Director, Business Development, Gigya Inc. “No engineering skills are needed to add this functionality to your WordPress Toolbox. It is a great way to include seamless authentication, social and sharing features on any WordPress website.”

Gigya has also released a plug-in for Wildfire, the industry standard platform for sharing content to more than 70 destinations. The Wildfire WordPress plug-in enables bookmarking and email functionality for blog posts, providing another way for users to share content with friends and followers.

Currently, plug-ins for both WordPress and bbPress, WordPress’ forum software solution are available. They are both fully configurable from the WordPress administration panel, require little time to install, and require no programming knowledge.

Socialize’s code is also OpenSource, so developers can customize it as desired for their specific site needs.

About WordPress:

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there. For more information, please visit: http://www.wordpress.org.

About Gigya:

Gigya’s technology is the standard for connecting content and consumers with the social web, providing publishers and marketers with powerful tools for increasing audience reach and engagement. Reaching more than 250 million people each month, Gigya’s innovative widget advertising network enables marketers to engage consumers in social environments and enlist them as brand advocates. The company’s Wildfire and Socialize products enable publishers to syndicate and track their content across more than 70 unique platforms, and to integrate and promote their own websites with popular social platforms like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Publishers and advertisers including Coca-Cola, DoubleClick, Electronic Arts, Hyundai, JCPenney, Kraft, Levis, Photobucket, Samsung, Turner and Unilever choose Gigya to connect their content with the social web.

Media Contact:

Elizabeth Catterall

WIT Strategy

206.214.8036

ecatterall @ witstrategy.com

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Gigya Launches WordPress Plug-in Making It Easy to Add Social and Authentication Features Enabling Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, OpenID, Functionality