Archive for December, 2006

Happy holiday to you all!

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Take the time to enjoy life during the next week of celebration! I wish you all great family moments and lots of fun.
I’ll be back on screen in january, see you there!

Oh! and here’s a link if you wan’t to have fun with your photos :
ElfYourSelf.com

Frédérick

Finding a property by it’s phone number

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Find a specific propertyFor a year now, the 5 digits codes that used to be indicated on the lawn signs have been replaced by the owner’s phone number. To make it easier to find a property that you’ve seen on the street, a new search tool has been inserted on the right column of ByTheOwner’s home page.

Enter the phone number in the box and you’ll get directly in the properties description.

Note that you don’t have to follow any particular format when you enter the number.

Tools to help you price your property

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

For a while now, all the properties sold through ByTheOwner are available under the View sold properties tab of the search results. Access to this information is a great tool to help home owners set up the price for their for sale property.
Sold properties on ByTheOwner

Our paying customers also have access to a special report of similar properties in the Your account section. Consulting this report usually gives a pretty good idea of the price that can be asked for your home.
I don’t know any other websites that gives those infos at the moment. This would be great for the fsbo trend in Canada!

Statistics, for the curious ones

Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Our clients actually have access to the number of visits to their listing. This statistic is usually really appreciated by our customers. Knowing this, we’ve decided to give them more!
Here’s what should be available in the near future under the “Your Account” section.
  1. Number of times the property is shown in the search results
  2. Conversion rate : Which proportion of the visitors are clicking on your property in the search result. This is a great indicator of whether your property is catching buyers’ attention or not.
  3. Visits from external referrers. This one lets you know where your visitors are coming from. This is really usefull if you managed to get your home listed in some classifieds websites.

Search options, your suggestions

Monday, December 4th, 2006

What do you think of the search tools offered on ByTheOwner? Do you find them too complicated? Not enough? I’d be highly interested in having your thoughts on the subject because we are starting to think about reprogramming those pages.

What could be done to bring you a greater user experience?

J’aimerais beaucoup avoir votre opinion sur le sujet par rapport à DuProprio.com. Avez-vous des commentaires constructifs à formuler sur les outils de recherche disponibles sur le site? À force d’avoir le nez dans le site, et d’en connaître tous les recoins, il m’est difficile de me mettre dans la peau de quelqu’un qui visiterait le site pour la première fois.

Comment simplifier tout ça?