Having trouble finding just the right Web site that will help you get more business?

Web site marketing has just reached a new level of sophistication with the introduction of Best Image Marketing's new 3.0 version of its Number1expert Web sites for top residential real estate professionals.

Code-named "Diamond," each Version 3.0 Web site makes you the local market expert with over 60 pages of information related to your's or your broker’s homes and communities, including personal and professional profiles and other information for buyers and sellers.

This makes 3.0 the most comprehensive Web site available for real estate professionals to show off their properties, market their skills, and capture business from the Internet.

More features are customizable, including multiple color choices and the ability to place graphic elements in different places on your site. For techies, the site includes advanced Javascript drop down menus, embedded Flash animation, and a utility called Diamond Cutter™, that lets you edit some site elements. Don't be intimidated - these features can be used by any Realtor even if you don't have any Web page building experience. To see Diamond Cutter's features, click here.

A utility that all Realtors need to understand how to use on the Internet is the ability to add, delete and edit their listings. A utility that all Realtors need to understand how to use on the Internet is the ability to add, delete and edit their listings. With Instant Listings™, Best Image's listings application, you can do that from any computer with Web access, and advertise your listings for free on top homes sites.

Track and manage your leads with HomeCaster, a lead management application that receives and stores leads generated by your site. When a lead comes in, you'll be able to send your latest listings with the click of a button to any buyers or sellers.

Ready or not for broker reciprocity

Version 3.0 sites will also allow visitors to see all the homes they want on the entire Internet without leaving your site. By touching the site’s "Search All Homes" button, a buyer can access national listings databases, national real estate agencies, unique and luxury properties, condos and apartments, new construction, and several other categories. Buyers can contact you with the MLS number of the homes they want more information. This also triggers a reply from you with the latest news and more listings.

Another button, "Search All Local Listings," will enable buyers to search for all homes within your local MLS – which makes the site ready for broker reciprocity, if and when your MLS and broker lets you have the listings.

Information delivery is the biggest challenge for agents who are competing on the Internet for buyer's and seller's attention. By giving your Web site visitors such a wealth of data as Best Image provides for you, it will be easy for you to compete on the same playing field as your competitors.

Published: September 28, 2001

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Blanche Evans is the award-winning senior editor of Realty Times, the Internet's leading independent real estate news service. She is featured daily on the Realty Times Video Network in the "Realty Viewpoint" segment. Blanche has been named one of the "25 Most Influential People In Real Estate" by REALTOR Magazine, and has been twice recognized as a "notable." In 2005, she was named "Top Reporter Covering the NAR" by Delahaye-Bacon's. Blanche is a renowned author of five real estate books. Her newest, Bubbles, Booms and Busts: Make Money In Any Real Estate Market, McGraw-Hill, was rave-reviewed by The New York Times. She was also selected from hundreds of real estate experts to contribute to Donald Trump's book, Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies, Rutledge Hill Press, and is featured on page 68. Order Now Review - Honors In 2006, Blanche was selected among scores of candidates to author two consumer real estate guidebooks for the National Association of Realtors: The NAR Guide to Home Buying, and The NAR Guide to Home Selling, Wiley & Sons. She is currently planning two new books for the NAR and its members.       Known for her keen insight into real estate industry issues and for her ability to make complex subjects easy to understand, Blanche is a sought-after keynote and continuing education speaker. Real estate organizations from MLSs, to brokerages, to franchisors, to associations hire her to provide up-to-the-minute analysis of real estate industry news and advice on how to improve revenues. Her passionate delivery, peppered with stinging wit, is a huge hit with audiences and fans. Don Klein, CEO Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, Blanche Evans, Richard Courtney, president 2007, GRAR "The GNAR membership meeting last week featured Blanche Evans as the keynote speaker. Her comments and insights resonated extremely well with those in attendance and we have had many requests for copies of her PowerPoint Presentation. She was a terrific part of the membership meeting and convention program!" - Don Klein, CEO Greater Nashville Association of Realtors Coverage from WSMV, Nashville - 8-14-2007 That Interview Guy - Get Inside The Head Of Today's Generation 2007 AE Institute Session - To purchase 2006 AE Institute Session - Parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 HouseValues Mastermind call - Parts 1 2 Blanche's fireside chat with Jeremy Conaway, HAR - Click here. To contact Blanche, email her at . For more articles by Blanche, click here.