Property Portal Watch Workshop is on Again!

Once again Property Portal Watch has teamed with the folks at Inman to bring you the second Property Portal Watch Workshop.  This day long free session will be held on the 4th August in San Francisco – the day before the Inman Conference.  This free workshop brings together the management teams of property portals from around the world to talk about the hottest issues facing property portals today.

The first edition of the workshop was successfully held in New York in January this year.  That session brought together 50 people from 13 countries representing 33 different portals.  As one attendee said “the property portal workshop last monday was by far the best part of the [Inman] conference.”

Once again we have a limited number free tickets to the Inman Connect conference for those attending the Property Portal Watch Workshop.

At the last workshop, we looked at a range of issues facing portal sites around the world.  In depth discussion was had on such issues as:

• Will Google really have an impact on property portals and what should property portals do?
• Is the freemium model a risk to established pay to list portals?
• What other models are out there and what impact will they have on property portals?
• What are the premium products that property portals should be launching and when should they launch them?
• What is the best go to market approach for selling advertising to agents?
• Should portals expand their businesses beyond the traditional listings business?

And so on …

The discussion was very robust and everyone shared the ups and downs of their experiences.

Given the success of this session and the strong survey feedback, we have decided to hold it again in San Francisco on the 4th August, the day before the Inman Conference kicks off.  Click here for more information on the work shop.

We are working on the agenda at the moment however it will still be a very interactive, workshop strucuture.

Not only is Property Portal Watch Workshop free, but we have organised 25 free passes to the Real Estate Connect Conference itself – a value of nearly $900 each. They way we plan to distribute these is via a lottery. Therefore, everyone who has registered as wanting to attend the Workshop by the 14th June, will go into the draw to win one of the 25 free passes to the Real Estate Connect Conference. Everyone who is not successful in the lottery, will be able to purchase a pass to the conference for the heavily discounted rate of US$299.

Make sure you register your interest today by sending an email to editor@propertyportalwatch.com.

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