Listings Manager

1. Real Estate Upgrade

The Real Estate Upgrade is required in order to display listings at your website. The Real Estate Upgrade includes:

• Listings Manager
• Buyer's Resources
• Overview of the Buying & Selling Process
• Benefits of Home Ownership
• Finding the Right Home
• Home Shopping Tips
• Home Inspections
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
• Seller's Resources
Overview of the Buying & Selling Process
• Preparing Your Home Through The Eyes Of A Buyer
• Repair & Cleaning Checklist
• Possible Work Orders
• What To Do While Your House Is Being Shown
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
• Free Buyer Reports (lead capture form)
• Common Home Buying Mistakes
• Finding Your Home
• Moving And Packing Tips
• Thinking About Buying Your First Home
• What Happens At Closing
• Free Seller Reports (lead capture form)
• Common Selling Mistakes
• Home Selling Strategies
• Home Showing Tips
• Moving Checklist
• Sell Your Home For More
• Dream House Finder (lead capture form)
• Market Analysis (lead capture form)
• Schools (off-site link)
• Weather (off-site link)

2. Access The Listings Manager

To administer your listings, log into your web site administration portal (www.originatornetwork.com) and follow these links to the "Listings" tab

• Manage Website
• Edit Web Site
• Listings

3. Listings Manager

Click on the Listings tab on the top nav bar to get to the My Listings page.

3.1 Add a Listing

Use the "Add a Listing" link to begin the process of creating your listing.

3.2 Basic Info

3.3 Select Features

Select the features of the home. You can add additional features using the blank, custom fields.

3.4 Additional Information

Add additional information about the property. You can add additional features using the blank, custom fields.

3.5 Add Photos and Documents

Use the "Browse..." button to locate photo and/or document files on your computer. You may also enter a URL (web address) to a file on the Internet. After locating one or more files, select "Save & Continue."

Illustrated below is an example of a photo and document after they have been attached to a listing.

Photos must be in .GIF or .JPEG format. Each photo must be no more than five megabytes in size. The ideal width for a listing photo is 270 pixels. You may upload more than one photo for an individual listing.

When a consumer views the listing at your site, they will see the main photo. If you've uploaded additional images, there will be a "More Photos" link embedded in the listing. If you've uploaded one or more document(s) - for example, a house plan - they'll see a "Documents" link embedded in the listing.

Use the "Photos" link to access the Photos page and add or remove files.

3.6 Virtual Tour

If you have a virtual tour you can link to it by entering the URL:

3.7 Style

Choose a style to control how the listing will appear at your website. You may also assign the listing to a group and include it in the sideshow (see Sideshow below). By default, the check box is selected next to "Display your Business Card Info and Personal Photo in Listing." This will cause your photo and business card information to be displayed in the listing and brochure. Deselect the check-box to remove your photo and business card information from the listing and brochure.

Recently Sold, Featured Properties and Side show and are the three default groups.

Any custom group(s) you create will appear below the default groups.

4. Manage Listing Groups

You may assign listings to the default groups provided (All, Featured, Recently Sold). You may also create your own unique groups. A wizard will guide you through the process of assigning listings to groups.

4.1 Create a Listing Group

Follow these links to create a listing group:

• Listings
• Manage Listing Groups
• Add Group

4.2 Listing Group Name

Provide a descriptive name. Consumers will see this group name.

4.3 Choose Group Style

Three styles are available. Your selection will determine how your listing group is displayed on your web site.

1. Display listing photo with property information.
2. Display listings in table format.
3. Display a Google map with listings. Each listing is identified on the map.

4.4 Select Listings

Select the listings you want in the group.

Click on the listing you want to move, then click on Remove or Add. The left box shows the listings that are not in the group. The right box shows the listings that are included in the group.

4.5 Select Sequence

Select the order in which you want the listings to appear in the group.

4.6 Link Listing Groups to Your Web Site's Navigation Bar

Once you have created a listing group, its link can be found at the bottom of the Web Site Main Navigation page under "Unlinked Pages." This illustration shows the Condos listing group in the Unlinked Pages section. (The Unlinked Pages section is located farther down the page than is illustrated here.)

To link the Condos listing group to the navigation bar on your web site, select "Link" in the Condos' row. A wizard will guide you through the process of linking the page to your web site.

4.7 Listing Groups and Consumers

Here is an example of three Listing Group links on the left-navigation bar (Featured Properties, Ocean Front, and All Listings), and a display of the listings belonging to the Ocean Front group.

5. Email Listings

Follow the "Listings" tab to the "My Listings" page. Follow the "Email Listing" link to the wizard. The wizard will lead you through the process of sending email to consumers.

5.1 Add Email Recipients

Use the "Add" button to email the listing to people from your Contacts Manager. Type email addresses in the text box for people not yet in your Contacts Manager. Save and Continue.

5.2 Format Email Message

In the "Format" drop-down menu you'll select an email format. There are three types.

1. Text w/HTML. This option will send the email in HTML format. A link to your listing will be included in the email.
2. Text w/HTML and Listing. The format delivers your message and the listing in one email message.
3. Text w/HTML and PDF File attachment. This option will send the email in HTML format. A PDF file of the listing (viewed in Acrobat Reader) will be attached to the email.

If you have created your listing but have not published it to your live web site you will only be able to use "Text w/HTML and PDF attachment." Once the listing is published, you can use all three formats.

6. Create Brochure

Follow the "Listings" tab to the "My Listings" page.

Follow the "Create Brochure" link to the wizard. The wizard will lead you through the process of creating a brochure.

6.1 Select Layout

Select the layout of your brochure.

6.2 Brochure Text

Create the text you want to appear in the brochure. Scroll down the screen to see other details included in the brochure.

6.3 Preview and Print

Select "Create Brochure" to create and view the brochure. Select "Create Brochure" or "Finish" or "Finish" to exit this wizard.

7. Edit Property Disclaimers

This wizard helps you post disclaimers to your listings. The disclaimers will appear at the bottom of the listing when viewed at your website.

Follow the "Listings" tab to the "My Listings" page.

Follow the "Edit Property Disclaimers" link to the wizard. The wizard will lead you through the process of editing your disclaimers.

7.1 Edit Disclaimer

The "Default" disclaimer will appear on all listing of all types. The drop-down menu displays the listing types recognized by the system.

You may customize the disclaimer for listing types (not for individual listings). For example, to customize the disclaimer for Single-Family Home, select Single-Family Home in the drop-down and edit the disclaimer in the text editor.

8. Last Updated Date

Select the checkbox if you want the "Last Updated" date to appear on your listings. If you do not want the date to appear, do not select the check-box.

9. Delete Features and Additional Info

Use this area to delete fields you do not want to use. These fields can be found in the "Features" and "Additional Info" screens.

10. Enable Side Show

Once you have uploaded listing photos, you may present them on your home page in the form of a dynamic side show.

To enable the side show on your home page, follow the links:

• Web Site Editor
• Web Site tab
• Main page
• Home Page Configuration

Under "Home Page Elements" select the "Slideshow" check box. Select "Save & Continue." The Wizard will guide you through the remainder of the setup process.

NOTE: In order to see editing changes at your website, you may have to close and restart your browser.

11. Administer Slideshow

To administer the listings that are displayed in your slideshow, follow these links.

• Listings
• Manage Listing Groups

Use the "Edit" link for the Slideshow group to:

• Select which listing groups appear in your side show.
• Change the order in which listings appear in your side show.

To add text to your side show listings, follow these links.

• Web Site
• Edit Layout Mode
• EDIT SLIDESHOW
• Add listings to your side show.
• Change the order in which listings appear in your side show.
• Add up to three lines of text to each side show listing.
• Choose the transition style between side show listings.

To add a page with your Slideshow listings to your left- or top-navigation bar, follow these links.

• Web Site
• Edit Pages & Categories
• Edit the "Slideshow" page to:
• Change the name "Slideshow" to something else you'd like.
• Link the "Slideshow" page to the left- or top-navigation bar.
• Highlight the link style.
• Open it in the same, or a new browser window.
• Associate the Slideshow link with a particular navigation bar category.

12. Consumer Property Listing Sort

Consumers can sort your listings in ascending and descending order by:

• Homes with photos
• Homes with virtual tours
• City
• Property type
• Price
• Square footage
• Number of bedrooms
• Number of bathrooms
• MLS number
• Lot size
• Year built

You can set the default sort features.

When a consumer moves from one listing group to another, "All Listings" to "Featured Listings," for example, the consumer's sort preferences are not carried over to the new listing group. The client's default sort will be displayed.

When a consumer goes to a specific listing (listing details) then returns to the same listing group, the consumer sort will remain.

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