Last Chance for Property Portal Watch Workshop

The Property Portal Watch Workshop is on next Tuesday in New York. This event brings together the owners and operators of market leading property portals to discuss the key issues facing their businesses.
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Calling all iPhone Applications

iPhone applications are becoming an important distribution channel for property portals around the world.  Some major sites are telling us that as much as 20% of their weekend visits are coming from their iPhone application while others are reporting large volumes of downloads from the iTunes store.

Any which way you cut it, mobile access to portal sites is coming of age.

The team here at Property Portal Watch plans to review the property portal applications on the market and to help us we need to know what applications there are out there.

Therefore, tell us about the property portal iPhone applications that you know by either commenting on this post or by sending an email to editor@propertyportalwatch.com.

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.

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Follow PropertyPortalWatch on Twitter

You can now follow Property Portal Watch on twitter.  You will receive regular snippets of news and views as they happen around the world.  All you have to do is go to www.twitter.com/portalwatch and sign up as a follower of Property Portal Watch.

You can also follow Property Portal Watch’s sister site, Property Ad Guru by subscribing to their twitter feed at www.twitter.com/propertyadguru.

Free Workshop – January 6, New York

There are still places available to our inaugral workshop. Property Portal Watch, in conjunction with the team at Inman News, are proud to announce the free Strategies for Tough Times workshop to be held on the 6th January in New York – the day before Inman Real Estate Connect conference.  The first 50 people to register will receive FREE passes to the Inman Real Estate Connec conference.

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Overviews – We Need Your Help

At Property Portal Watch we are keen to increase the number of overviews we provide of property portals around the world. Now the best way to do this is for the property portals themselves to send a brief overview of their site to us.   Your site will be included in the Site Overviews section of PPW.

To make this easy, we have identified 11 sections that we want to overview on each portal. Therefore if you are interested in having your portal featured, then all you need to do is send an email to editor@propertyportalwatch.com and write a few paragraphs around each of the following sections.

• Ownership
• Market Position
• Key Measurements
• Market Coverage
• Advertising Model
• Financials
• Site Sections
• Technology
• Key Management
• History
• Recent Press

An example is the overview of realestate.com.au

We look forward to hearing from you shortly.