Well, there is a solution – Wisestamp. Wisestamp is an extention/add-on for Google’s Chrome browser and Mozilla’s Firefox (as well as Thunderbird and Flock).

By the way, if you are still using Internet Explorer, I HIGHLY recommend you stop. Chrome is my preferred browser because of its great speed and infrequent crashes and freeze-ups.  However, the MLS still doesn’t support any other browser except IE so you’ll have to use it for that.

With Wisestamp, you install the extension, create your email signature and voila, you’re ready to go! Photo signatures in Gmail. Easy.

Google Alerts are a great way to monitor your name, your brand, and your reputation. You enter in your name, your company name, or any other keywords you want to receive updates for and Google will let you know when it comes across any of those phrases on the web.

Some ideas on how to use Google Alerts:

• Your name- see where you are appearing online and if your clients are talking about you.
• Your company name – see what people are saying about your company.
• Your slogan- have a great slogan? Is it copyrighted? Find out quickly if anyone else thought it was great and is now using it.
• Listing marketing – set up a google alert for your listing address. Use the alert to let your sellers know of the marketing your are providing for their property.
• Research & Education – I have a google alert set up for ‘real estate’ + ‘social media’ so I can stay on top of new developments as they happen. You may want to set up an alert for your niche, say “South Bend” + foreclosure.
• Keep an eye on your competition. Keep you Google Alert wide enough to capture your competition in its results. If your website is optimized for Notre Dame Real Estate, set up a Google Alert to find any other references to Notre Dame Real Estate. This can help you learn of new competition and to stay ahead of them.

Need help setting up an alert? Just ask.

Consider this post to be a spilling of the beans. I had an idea nearly a year ago that would provide a way for real estate agents to market their listings to students looking for housing. Being that I live so close to Notre Dame this was a local issue. A client asked me if I knew of a resource to market listings near campus. I said I did not and moved on. A few days later I was talking to my mom in the kitchen and told her the idea I had about starting a website catered to such real estate and I told her I was starting it. CampusHomesOnline.com was born! Through the help of a Twitter friend (well, most of his work is in this thus far) we are close to a beta launch.

CampusHomesOnline.com is a centralized and national listing service for real estate agents, property managers and homeowners to advertise homes for sale/rent, apartments for rent, and game day rentals to students and renters. Listings are a flat $29 for a 6-month ad – no hidden fees, no commissions like other listing services. Visitors features include:

• Ability to save searches and retrieve results later
• Sign up for email notifications of new listings that match their search criteria
• Ability to text a listing to a friend
• Save searches to a custom URL to share with friends and family
• Search by miles radius from campus (.5 mile, 1 mile, 1.5 miles, etc.)
• Listings are limited to 1.5 miles from a campus to keep content relevant

Advertiser features include:

• Copy a listing to carry over information to a new listing
• Spotlight advertiser packages
• Featured property packages
• Web 2.0 Widgets to place on your website or in blog posts
• HTML code for Craigslist

We are very excited about the launch. Sign up for information regarding the release!

All Campuses ~ One Site ~ Housing U

www.feedmyinbox.com is a service that allows you to enter the URL (web address) of any site and your email address and you will be sent an email on a daily basis when new posts are available. I use this for things like a Craigslist search. Craigslist doesn’t offer email notifications when a new item is for sale that matches my search criteria (say ‘couch’). So I go to Craigslist, do the search for a couch, then copy and paste the URL (http://southbend.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=couch) into www.feedmyinbox.com’s form. I enter my email address and I receive daily emails with new couches for sale on Craigslist. Keeps me from missing anything good. Try it with my website! Enter www.myassistantcan.com into feedmyinbox’s form and stay up to date with me!

Have any questions, please let me know.

Tired of the same old fonts available in your programs? Then check out this fantastic list of cool, high-quality fonts from Smashing Magazine.

Need help installing a new font? You can find a tutorial at Microsoft’s website.

Or, if you prefer a totally custom font of your own handwriting, you can do a YouFont. Simply fill out the template, upload the file and then they create a font based on your own handwriting. It’s $13 – pretty cheap for a custom font! Plus, you don’t pay until you approve the font.

See a font you like but don’t know what font it is? Trying to mimic a corporate font? You can upload a file with the font here and find out what font it is.

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