Virtual Results Blog

MyDupontCircle – M Squared Real Estate

By Drew Meyers on November 30, 2011

URL: http://mydupontcircle.com/

Description: Joshua Oliver is one of our pilot sites for the VR Broker’s Choice Program. He is an agent with M Squared Real Estate in Washington DC.

FREE Webinar: Utilizing & Maximizing Your Virtual Results Website

By Drew Meyers on November 28, 2011

On Thursday, we’re conducting our third weekly webinar on how to utilize a Virtual Results Predesigned Website that Works in a way that produces results for your business. Our conversion specialist, CJ Hays, will walk through the ins and outs of our predesigned WordPress platform as well as answer any and all questions from participants.

When: Thursday December 1st – 1:00-1:30 PM PST

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What we’ll cover:

  • Your WordPress Dashboard and all its functions
  • Showcasing your listings using the VR Listing Management plugin (hint: it’s REALLY easy)
  • Producing content within WordPress
  • Conversion strategies
  • 5 Content Ideas for Your Blog
  • Question and Answer

Register Now

Whether you are a current client looking to better understand how to use your site, an agent currently evaluating real estate WordPress website vendors, or just an agent looking for a few blogging tips — this is your chance to learn what Virtual Results products and strategies are all about.

Of course, there is No Obligation — so you might as well register right now..

Evan Johnson Realty Group

By Drew Meyers on November 28, 2011

URL: http://evanjohnson.com/

Description: Evan Johnson Realty Group is a Coldwell Banker group covering Washington DC, Arlington and the surrounding area.

Investing in Your Web Presence for 2012? A Black Friday Special by VR

By Drew Meyers on November 25, 2011

For those of you who are tired of your antiquated website that doesn’t work and committed to investing in your online marketing for 2012, there’s no better time to purchase one of our predesigned websites than Black Friday. Why? Because we are running a special giveaway to celebrate the occasion that’s too good to pass up.

Whether you are looking to invest full-time or just have it on the side as passive income it is important that you get help from a reliable source once you are ready. There are plenty of websites with blogs and videos out there that explain different types of investing and how to get started, they can even help you take you first steps in the investing world, however make sure to do some investigation about the company you want to get started with. There are lots of scammers out there on the internet looking for people who don’t know what they’re doing and end up disappearing after taking their money, that’s why you should look into the company as well as the satisfaction from previous customers.

Taking your first steps isn’t that complicated with the right help, but if you want to get started as soon as possible then you should set up an investment portfolio, but for those who don’t know how to do that then you can easily start with Conservative Investing Mobile Apps, they have the step-by-step process on how to create one. Once you have this complete then you can get a mentor on how to start your journey. 

In the near future we will be providing seminars with a full explanation about the basics of investing

We look forward to speaking to you soon

Contact Us for Details

Don’t Know How to Do Something in WordPress? We’ve got Video Tutorials for That

By Drew Meyers on November 21, 2011

For those Virtual Results clients who have already used WordPress for a few years, our web sites are EXTREMELY intuitive. But for those who have no prior exposure to WordPress, there is certainly a learning curve involved to learn the ins and outs of WordPress — and we’re constantly working on ways to help improve the learning process. Starting today, whether you are a WordPress master or novice, you now have a full array of video tutorials that explain everyday tasks such as changing your password, adding new pages, pasting from Word, replacing an image, managing widgets and adding paragraphs. From the Dashboard of your site, just click on “Video Tutorials” in the upper left corner — and you’ll see the full list of available video tutorials.

Video Tutorials 2039 Lori Bee 2014 WordPress
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With that, watch some videos and master WordPress!

If you have questions, please leave them either here in the comments or on the Geek Estate Pro forum.

5 Content Ideas for Your Real Estate WordPress Blog

By Drew Meyers on November 17, 2011

Here are 5 content ideas we covered on our Virtual Results webinar today:

  1. The next time you visit your favorite coffee spot, interview your local Barista, and feature them and their coffee shop on your blog.
  2. Local events. Concerts. Festivals. Sporting events. Be the source of local events for your areas of expertise.
  3. “My Favorite Hole in the Wall Thai Food in Seattle” (if you like Thai food like I do)
  4. The 5 newest real estate listings in [city name] for the week of [date range]
  5. Recruit local business owners to produce content for your site. However, remember, it’s hard work to convince others to write for your site — but it’s worth the effort over the long term.
What content ideas are working for you?

FREE Webinar: Utilizing & Maximizing Your Virtual Results Website

By Drew Meyers on November 15, 2011

On Thursday, we’re conducting our second weekly webinar on how to utilize a Virtual Results Predesigned Website that Works in a way that produces results for your business. Our conversion specialist, CJ Hays, will walk through the ins and outs of our predesigned WordPress platform as well as answer any and all questions from participants.

When: Thursday November 17th – 1:00-1:30 PM PST

Sign Up Now

What we’ll cover:

  • Your WordPress Dashboard and all its functions
  • Showcasing your listings using the VR Listing Management plugin (hint: it’s REALLY easy)
  • Producing content within WordPress
  • Conversion strategies
  • 5 Content Ideas for Your Blog
  • Question and Answer

Register Now

Whether you are a current client looking to better understand how to use your site, an agent currently evaluating real estate WordPress website vendors, or just an agent looking for a few blogging tips — this is your chance to learn what Virtual Results products and strategies are all about.

Of course, there is No Obligation — so you might as well register right now..

FREE Webinar: Utilizing & Maximizing Your Virtual Results Website

By Drew Meyers on November 09, 2011

Starting tomorrow, we’re going to start a weekly webinar on how to utilize a Virtual Results Predesigned Website that Works in a way that produces results for your business. One of our conversion specialists, CJ Hays, will walk through the ins and outs of our predesigned WordPress platform as well as answer any and all questions from participants.

When: Thursday November 10th – 1:00-1:30 PM PST

Sign Up Now

What we’ll cover:

  • Your WordPress Dashboard and all its functions
  • Showcasing your listings using the VR Listing Management plugin (hint: it’s REALLY easy)
  • Producing content within WordPress
  • Conversion strategies
  • 3 Effective Blogging strategies
  • Question and Answer

Register Now

Whether you are a current client looking to better understand how to use your site, an agent currently evaluating real estate WordPress website vendors, or just an agent looking for a few blogging tips — this is your chance to learn what Virtual Results products and strategies are all about.

Of course, there is No Obligation — so you might as well register right now..

Predesigned How To: Submitting your XML Sitemap

By Drew Meyers on November 08, 2011

We’ve been asked several times by clients on our predesigned platform about submitting an XML sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. Here is a run down of what that process entails:

1. Enable XML Sitemap functionality in your SEO settings. Navigate to the “SEO” portion of your dashboard, then click on “XML Sitemaps” within that portion of your settings.

2. Check the “Ping Yahoo” and “Ping Ask” from the settings.

3. Click the blue “Save XML Sitemaps Settings” button

XML Sitemaps 2039 Lori Bee 2014 WordPress
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4. Login to Google Webmaster Tools

5. Click “Add Site”

6. Type in your domain name, then click continue.

Webmaster Tools - Home
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7. Verify your ownership of the domain name with the “Add a meta tag to your site’s home page” option under alternate methods.

8. Copy the meta tag from the screen.

9. Paste the meta tag into your SEO settings and save your settings

WordPress SEO Configuration 2039 Lori Bee 2014 WordPress
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10. Click “verify” at the bottom of the screen in Google Webmasters

11. Rejoice!!

Remember, an XML sitemap will help with crawl-ability, particularly if you have hundreds or thousands of pages and posts. But it will NOT increase your rankings.

If there are any questions, let us know.

Bravado, The Latest and Greatest Component of our Predesigned Platform

By Drew Meyers on October 26, 2011

You know buyers want search. So, naturally, that means you should give them search, right?

Yes.

With that in mind…today, we’re beyond excited to announce Bravado, a brand new theme for our Predesigned Websites that Work platform! As expected, the focus of the theme is getting your traffic as quickly as possible into the search experience since that’s where the majority of your conversions will take place.

For those that have spent some time looking through our current predesigned sites such as LoriBee.com, LaPalmaHomeFinder411.com, Mariannewhyte.com, and Sandiegoequityfacts.com — you’ve likely noticed they are all designed from our initial “Under Pressure” theme. There are a broad range of colors available for Under Pressure and a few different home page layout options, but allowing our clients to choose from multiple amazing themes has always been the plan for our predesigned platform. We wanted to spice it up a bit with an entirely new, SIMPLER look for our current and future clients to utilize — and Bravado was born.

Bravado is a bit less “bloggy” than Under Pressure and more targeted at those who want a dedicated site to get people straight into the search experience. We know from our analytics that 60-70% of visitors to the typical agent or brokerage site end up looking at listings — so we made getting to listings even simpler and more obvious. Of course, Bravado is still built on WordPress with all the great features that come with each and every one of our predesigned sites.

For those that want to take a peak at the first wave of Bravado clients:

Going forward, new clients will be able to select either theme when they signup for a new site. Current clients can request a change of themes at any time for a $75 charge to do the graphics and setup work (leave a request in the work requests portion of Geek Estate Pro).

As a side note, one of the questions we answer over and over from potential clients is “What colors are available?” And we now have a solution in the form of a brand new theme previewer that allows you to view our various themes and colors available on our platform.

See All Bravado Colors

Want to get up and running with Bravado (or Under Pressure)?

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As far as some inspiration for the theme, here’s the video that inspired our designer, Chris Hesenflow aka “WordPress Superman”, during Bravado’s design process.

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