Virtual Results Blog

As you may or may not know, Virtual Results acts as the internet marketing department for agents, teams, and brokers around the country. The goal of any business website should be to produce leads for you to turn into clients. As part of our consulting services, we do 100% unique content creation, craigslist posting, full blown World Class SEO, monitor analytics, A/B testing, and just about everything in between (full range of services outlined here).

Last month, the website of one of our consulting clients produced 132 leads in one month. Yes, that was 132 leads in one month!

How many leads has your website produced lately?

If we don’t produce results, go ahead, fire us. The ROI needs to make sense, but if you and your team are able to turn phone numbers and email addresses into clients, we’re confident it will. We only work with one consulting client in a given market, so contact us today if you’re looking to take your business to the next level and for a bit of extra promoting you can consider ordering custom printed tags.

From the start, our focus with our predesigned websites that work platform has been to build the best real estate WordPress platform possible; page layouts and colors are one of the things necessary to achieving that goal. The latest addition to our platform that we’d like to share is a new Coldwell Banker color scheme. There are now 12 different colors to choose from as well as 3 search box variations, and varying other home page layout options. We have several Coldwell Banker clients, but Debbie Vertucci, a Coldwell Banker agent in Irvine, is our first client using this new color scheme.

For the brokers reading this, if you want to provide the best WordPress sites to your agents — websites that work — we’d be happy to design a custom color scheme for your agents as part of a brokerage package. If interested in discussing further, we’d love to speak with you.

We’ve got a number of other great additions in the works. Stay tuned.

The 2nd #retechchat is taking place tonight at 6 PM PST / 9 PM EST. The topic this week will be “mobile marketing“.

If you want to participate, there are a few options:

• Follow the #retechchat hashtag
• Add a search column to Tweetdeck for the hashtag #retechchat
• Join Tweetchat under #retechchat (recommended approach)

See you at 6 PST!

Today, we’re pleased to launch the new VirtualResults.net!

Everyone needs a website revamp from time to time — and we’re no different after 3 plus years with our old site. Being a boutique design company, it’s a challenge to spend our precious design and development time on ourselves when they could otherwise be spent building amazing client websites — but it was finally time to buckle down and revamp our “home base”.

We’ve given the site more of a clean “3.0” feel and added a bunch of new content to the site  to better reflect our current offerings — including an about page, details on each of our amazing team members and our respective superhuman characteristics, a FAQ, a high level overview of our SEO and consulting services, example Facebook/Twitter/Posterous skins we’ve designed, examples of our new predesigned websites that work, and of course an overview of our predesigned platform.

To go with a brand new site, we’re running a two week special on our predesigned websites that work – for the next 2 weeks, you can buy one of our predesigned websites for $599 — that’s $100 off our regular price of $699. Each site includes a full custom header, 13 available color schemes (and growing), and 6 different home page variations. I won’t go into the ins and outs of the platform – instead, I’ll let our examples speak for themselves.

So, have a look around and, whether is a website that works or a world class SEO – or anything in between, let us know what we can help you succeed online.

We’ve got lots of amazing projects and sites in the works, so check back often for updates..

— The Team at Virtual Results

On Wednesday, I’ll be conducting a WordPress blogging demo and Q&A session with Linda Aaron at Coldwell Banker Bain’s South Lake Union Office. If you are an agent/broker with CBBain in the Greater Seattle area and looking to learn more about WordPress or have a few specific questions you want answered, come on by between 1 and 4 Wednesday afternoon. You can RSVP here.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Here’s an example website that we did for Enrico Pozzo from the Lake Union office – MagnoliaListings.com.

We have a new promo offer for our predesigned websites that work platform that we wanted to share. Going forward, those who are our 1st client in your respective MLS get $200 OFF the standard $699 setup price. Our partner, Diverse Solutions, has been adding MLS markets like crazy (have you been following their blog updates?), so we want to give agents in those markets an incentive to go with a best in class website to go along with their best in class IDX. Now, instead of hooking up Diverse to that antiquated website of yours from the stone age, you can hook it up to an amazing professionally designed WordPress web site that provides the base SEO foundation and overall flexibility to grow your business over the next decade. We can have your site ready to add content to within 48 hours of payment, assuming you can give us direction and graphics for the custom header. If you’re curious what our predesigned websites look like, you can take a look at Loftsoma.com, LaPalmaHomeFinder411, or Lake St Clair Life. Here are some more example predesigned sites.

So, if you are looking to upgrade to a website that works, make sure to tell us your MLS and ask us whether you are eligible for the $200 discount when you speak with us. $499 for one of these websites is an amazing amazing deal (in my humble opinion anyway)!

We look forward to hearing from you.

It’s a given your listings — both active and past solds — need to be showcased prominently on your website. And we know listings need to be displayed with high resolution photos and that everyone hates data entry. It’s also a given that a listing price can and does change from time to time. For instance, your seller and you may decide to drop the price after 6 months on the market. When that happens, ideally, you would change the list price in one central place and it would change everywhere online — right? Well, the VR Real Estate Listing Management WP Plugin takes you one step closer to making that happen. We know the MLS is the first place that you change a list price — and then your website is probably the second place. For those of you with one of our new predesigned websites that work, you no longer have to worry about changing the list price in both your MLS and the backend of your website. Change it in your MLS, and your website automatically updates!

Version 1 of our plugin, which merged your own high res photos with virtually zero listing data entry other than the MLS #, was awesome – but version 2 is simply amazing. The plugin now supports past solds (complete with your own “Sold” page) as well as actives in areas without IDX coverage such as Manhattan. Plus, entering the MLS number now auto-fills your details fields so that your “listings” landing page (example on HomeSalesOrangeCounty) now displays a description of the listing as well as just the address.

To insert a listing, simply hit “add listing” from your dashboard, enter the address & MLS id number, add your high resolution photos — and you’re done! For those interested in the details, here’s the more detailed process of adding a listing.

You must be a Virtual Results client to use this plugin. If you’re interested in making the leap from a website that doesn’t work to one that actually does work, get in touch with us.

And stay tuned — we’ve got more cool stuff in the works to share soon.

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