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Flashback 2008...

It has been a busy year for us at vFlyer. We have split time between improving the quality of the service, adding cool features, and providing more exposure for you and your listings (as in 9 new marketplace partners). Almost all of the the new features are directly related to ideas and suggestions by our members. We want to thank you for the fantastic suggestions and encourage you to share more of them in 2009!

Take a glance at what we did last year. You may find that you missed some of these new features. We have much more to come in 2009. We are already working on new marketplace partners, cool new Widgets, improved configuration options on the single listing websites, and more...

January-March

We added Zillow, Backpage, HotPads, OLX and Geebo as new automatic submission partners.

Features added


New Premium Layout

We introduced a new Premium Flyer Layout, which includes a built-in Flash slide show that scrolls through all the photos uploaded to the Flyer and separate tabs for each page of the Flyer, including a features page, an interactive map, and a built-in contact form.

The premium layout also provides the option of adding video to the Flyer. We received great responses from our members on the new premium layout!

Re-Ordering of Photos

By popular demand, we introduced the capability of rearranging gallery photos uploaded to a Flyer. This enabled our members to easily change of the order of the photos in their Flyers.

April-June

We added DotHomes and Yahoo! Real Estate as new automatic submission partners.

Features added

Premium Brokerage Themes

With the addition of the new Century 21 design theme, the number of premium broker themes we offered our business subscribers rose to six. The other broker themes we offered were RE/MAX, Prudential, Coldwell Banker, Keller Williams, and Alain Pinel.

Multi-Photo Upload

After receiving several requests for this feature, we added the ability to upload multiple photos to your Flyers at once rather than uploading them one at a time.

Wellcomemat video support

We added the ability to embed videos hosted on WellcomeMat in your Flyers to the existing list of YouTube and Blip.tv.

Homepage Dashboard

To simplify the process of accessing the Craigslist HTML, print content, and Widget HTML, we introduced a Flyer Dashboard and Widget Dashboard on each vFlyer member's account homepage.

July-September

We added FrontDoor and Cyberhomes as new automatic submission partners.

Features added

Widgets 2.0 Released

We introduced several major enhancements to our Widget offerings, including the ability to choose particular listings that you want to appear in your Widgets. We also enabled you to promote listings not hosted on vFlyer in your Widgets. And finally, we made it easy to embed your widgets in your blog and social networks!

Printer friendly flyer for your clients

We created a new print version of your Flyers, accessible via a Print Flyer link on each Flyer. This allowed your clients and prospects to print your Flyers right from their home printer. The new print version includes basic information, some photos from the listing, your contact information, and a map to your listing location.

October-December

Our best quarter in terms of innovation was Q4. Based on a tremendous amount of feedback, we concluded that enabling our members to create unique, brand-specific content was critically important. We therefore embarked on and completed a project to redesign the vFlyer Theme Editor. After many weeks of long hours, we released Theme Editor V2, which allows any vFlyer subscriber, regardless of how big or small their company is, to create branded Flyer themes.

Features added

Extensive Enhancement to Theme Customization Capabilities

Our new and improved Theme Editor gave you the option to upload branded headers and background images and match the colors of your custom theme to them, thus enabling you to easily create branded Flyer themes. We saw a lot of fantastic branded themes over the last three months of 2008 that were created by real estate agents, brokers, property managers, auto dealers, and marketing professionals. It was great fun for us to see our members get creative with their custom design themes!

NOTE: If you are a vFlyer subscriber and want a branded Flyer theme but cannot create one yourself, we can have one of our designers create one for you for just $99. If you're interested, contact us at support@vflyer.com.

26 New Customizable Broker Themes

Along with the introduction of our new Theme Editor, we added 26 new customizable real estate broker themes. The library of stock images includes the following real estate brokers: RE/MAX, Coldwell Banker, Keller Williams, Century 21, Prudential, Alain Pinel, ERA, Weichert Realtors, EXIT Realty, GMAC Real Estate, Sotheby's International Realty, Realty Executives, Long & Foster, John L. Scott, Metro Brokers/GMAC, ZipRealty, Windermere Real Estate, Intero Real Estate Services, Harry Norman Realtors, Real Living, Watson Realty Corp., Realty One Group, CBS Home Real Estate, Allen Tate Realtors, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, Weidel Realtors, and First Team Real Estate.

Enhanced Account Profile with Listing Search Capability

We enabled you to add search and sort capabilities to your Account Profile, allowing viewers of your Account Profile to see just the listings in a single category and search within a category. We also gave you the option of deciding how many listings to display per page. These enhancements made the Account Profile immensely more powerful as a website component or even a website alternative.

2008 VFLYER STARS

Every once in a while we like to identify and recognize vFlyer Star members who are active supporters and advocates of vFlyer in their companies, industry communities, and organizations. We have appreciated your support and feedback over the last year.

If you think you or someone else you know should be recognized as a vFlyer Star, let us know by sending an email to support@vflyer.com

Here are 2008 stars

Maureen Henry, Rockland Home Staging
Greg Markov, Phoenix Heritage Real Estate Group/HomeSmart
Betty Simmons, RE/MAX Best Associates
Troy Murphy, Real Estate Technology Consultant
John Hage, Broker, Minnesota Rental Homes
Dr. Rainer Tschanett, Tschanett Consulting
Missy Caulk, Keller Williams
Josiah Greenewald, Content Manager, Climb Real Estate Group
Julie and Josh Essig, Vine Property Group
Mike Whaling, 30 Lines, and Eric Brown, Urbane Apartments


We are encouraged by the tremendous response to the new features that were introduced in 2008. With your help, 2009 will bring even more advanced capabilities to benefit your marketing. At vFlyer, we are dedicated to helping sellers and businesses sell quickly and easily! Help us build the ultimate classified ad posting solution. Hope to see you online soon.

Best,
The vFlyer Team
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