Jan
25
2012

Obeo Adds 10 New Virtual Staging Furniture Collections

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Obeo has been bringing your vacant real estate photo to life with our photo realistic virtual staging service and interactive vStager virtual remodeling tool for over a year. Using the latest 3D rendering technologies, we are able to take a photo of an empty room and then fill it full of beautiful furniture & accessories. Our virtual staging graphics team can add designer couches, tables, rugs, lamps, tv’s, draperies and many other items to make the home look like a million dollars.

Obeo offers the highest quality and most photo realistic imagery available for your properties and we are proud to announce that we have added 10 new furniture collections to our virtual staging lineup. These include 8 living rooms, 1 bedroom and 1 dining room.  In total, Obeo’s virtual staging lineup includes over 86 different furniture collections.  Fabric and wood stain can be changed on each of the collections, so in total, there are 1000′s of styles to choose from!  We have a wide variety of different styles of furniture for living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms and other areas of the home. Each of these collections contains couches, rugs, tables, draperies and other furniture items to create the perfect look for the room.

It’s proven that staging helps sell homes faster and at a higher price. With Obeo’s virtual staging, you will save hundreds (or thousands) over traditional staging and avoid the hassle of moving furniture around the home. Virtual Staging allows the interested buyers to see the potential of the home using digital imagery.  This imagery is made available to our client, so that they can use the images in all their other marketing. Many of our clients leave framed prints within the listing!

But wait… there’s more!  Obeo takes virtual staging to the next level with vStager. This interactive virtual staging platform includes our professional virtual staging service, but also includes the following:

Obeo vStager allows potential buyers to get their creative juices flowing, because they can use this interactive and engaging tool to see what the home may look like if they were to move in. It’s the best value in town, because we give you 5 virtually staged images for the same price our competition charges for a single image. View Demo

Ready to Order?  Click here!

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Jan
25
2012

Where in the World is Obeo?

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It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to play Where in the World is Obeo!  Take a look at these gorgeous photos, and try to guess the City. Check out the clues and start guessing now… The first Fan to guess correctly, will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Virtual Tour with professional real estate photography. So where in the world is Obeo this week? (answers must be given on our Fan Page).

Here are Your Clues:

This City was founded in 1821 at the site of a trading post.

This area was originally part of the Choctaw Nation.

Union troops ravaged and burned this town three times during the Civil War.

This is one of America’s  “Bang For Your Buck” city according to Forbes magazine. 

If you think you might know the answer, head on over to our Facebook Fan Page, and comment with your answer.  The first Facebook Fan to answer correctly will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Virtual Tour.

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Jan
19
2012

View the Recording of “A New Way of Goal Setting”

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Obeo Gives Back returned this week with a phenomenal session on Goal Setting. If you missed the live session, you can view the recording here!

 

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Jan
18
2012

Where in the World is Obeo?

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It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to play Where in the World is Obeo!  Take a look at these gorgeous photos, and try to guess the City. Check out the clues and start guessing now… The first Fan to guess correctly, will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Package. So where in the world is Obeo this week? (answers must be given on our Fan Page).

Here are Your Clues:

This city is named after a town in Lincolnshire, England from which several prominent colonists originated.  

“City Of Baked Beans” is one of this cities many nicknames.

In 1636  first college established in North America was founded here.   

On January 15, 1919, 21 people were killed and 150 injured as hot molasses crushed, asphyxiated, and cooked many of the victims to death on the streets of this city.

 

If you think you might know the answer, head on over to our Facebook Fan Page, and comment with your answer.  The first Facebook Fan to answer correctly will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Package.

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By marci.james | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (0)
Jan
12
2012

Obeo’s New SEO Optimization Drives Traffic Back to YOU!

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Obeo wants to help you win the battle for your listings.  Studies show that 96 percent of homebuyers are researching properties online.  The competition for these online homebuyers is fierce! Your unbranded listings are being marketed to these homebuyers all over the internet, without your control.  Are you tired of  being cheated?   Tired of losing commissions to your competition?  Tired of being asked to “buy back” your own leads?   Take control by driving consumers back to your branded sites, not the competition’s.  Obeo is  proud to announce that today, we went live with a new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) feature to help you win the battle for your listings!

When searching  for “real estate” on Google, you will  get 2.2 BILLION page results. With that many results, buyers need to use specific terms to narrow their results, and  to find what they are looking for.  They may use the name of the community they want to live in, or even the development subdivision. Buyers may search for specific features they are looking for in the home or local nearby attractions.  You want to make sure your listings rise to the top of the search results, when this happens.

With Obeo, you can now enter specific “keywords” on your bio page and for each of your listings.  These additional keywords will be added to the generic keywords we have been using  to help increase the SEO for you and your listings.  When you add custom keywords and phrases into your Obeo Members Area, these keywords and phrases will be embedded into your Obeo bio page and your Obeo HomeSite virtual tour.  In addition, Obeo will create a free high definition video for every listing, tag that video with your keywords and phrases, and  export the video to YouTube.  Ta daaaa!  You’ve become an SEO Powerhouse!

In order to get the very most out of this free service Obeo is offering, you must do a little research on your own. You need to find out what the very best keywords and phrases are for you to use.  The Google Ad Words Tool is a free and very effective way to find which keywords and phrases are the best.  You can search for keyword ideas by entering a keyword related to your business,  or a URL to a page containing content related to your business. The tool will show you what search words and phrases consumers are actually using.  Or you can enter what you think is a good keyword or phrase, and the tool will show which phrases and keywords are the most popular.  Remember… there is a lot of competition for the “top” keywords and phrases.  Everybody uses them.  So, you might get better results by choosing more “specific” keywords and phrases, that are used less often by consumers, but are also used by very few other Realtors.  Even though they are not used in as many searches, the consumers that use these phrases are going to be better leads.  For example, instead of using “Denver Real Estate” use “homes on Rolling Hills Golf Course”.

Okay, now that you have your keywords and phrases, you need to tag your Obeo Bio Page and listings!

Here’s how to tag your listings:

  1. Go to http://www.obeo.com/login and login in using your Obeo username and password.
  2. Scroll down to the “Manage Virtual Tours” heading. Select the listing you want to add the keywords to, select “Edit Tour Details”, and then hit the “GO” button.
  3. On the lower right of this “General” page, you will see a new field called “Search Key Words”. Simply type all your keywords and phrases (separate with commas) into this field, click the save button, and your done!

And here’s how to tag your Bio Page:

  1. Go to http://www.obeo.com/login and login in using your Obeo username and password.
  2. In the box at the top that is labeled “Contact Info”, click “Edit Information”.  
  3. At the very top, under the heading “Website Information”,  you will see a new field called “Search Key Words”. Simply type all your keywords and phrases (separate with commas) into this field, click the save button, and your done!   

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By marci.james | Posted in Press Releases, Product Punch, social media | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)
Jan
11
2012

Where in the World is Obeo?

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It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time to play Where in the World is Obeo!  Take a look at these gorgeous photos, and try to guess the City. Check out the clues and start guessing now… The first Fan to guess correctly, will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Package. So where in the world is Obeo this week? (answers must be given on our Fan Page).

Here are Your Clues:

This is one of only two cities in the world to be home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners.

This is the only city in North America destroyed by a fire as an act of war.  

The Eastern Continental Divide runs right through this city’s downtown.

 Many of this city’s streets and corridors follow the paths created by the Creek and Cherokee Indian nations who inhabited the area until the early 19th Century.  


 

If you think you might know the answer, head on over to our Facebook Fan Page, and comment with your answer.  The first Facebook Fan to answer correctly will win a free Obeo Homesite Still Package.

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Jan
10
2012

A New Way of Goal Setting – Ignite your passion and drive your actions.

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Obeo Gives Back is returning this week!  Join us this Thursday for a special webinar featuring Dave Blanchard, Chairman and CEO of The Og Mandino Group (www.ogmandino.com). This event will focus on a new way of setting goals and accomplishing them. It’s time to discover how to use your mind constructively to create a clear vision that will ignite your passion—passion that will drive action.

According to Dave, “We have all written New Year’s resolutions, annual lists of the things we need to do, want to stop doing, or promise to change. These interminable, yet quickly disposable to-do lists have provided evergreen material for many a late-night comic. After all, the best humor generally comes from honest introspection. Other than a little late-January self-reflective jocularity, little benefit is ever realized by this annual exercise in futility.

 I hope we can muster a smile in this moment as we reflect on our own New Year’s resolutions from the past that seemed to lack the resolve needed to sustain action. Would you agree that it’s time to break free from this tedious routine and discover how to use your mind constructively to create a clear vision that will ignite your passion—passion that will drive action? With a clear vision of where we are headed and having it tied to our daily actions, we will be ready to Intentionally Create our life.

 Og emphatically punctuates this: “My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. I will act now.” Goal setting is dreaming and dreaming is goal setting—when we know how to take the proper action.”  If you are ready, come Thursday and we’ll take this on.”

Check out what Glade Jones, CEO of Obeo, has to say about this fun event:

 

 

Please join us Thursday, Jan 12th at 10 am Mountain Time

A New Way of Goal Setting – Ignite your passion and drive your actions.

To access the uStream series, you must create a UStream account. To set up this free account, go to http://www.ustream.tv/login-signup?ref=%2Fdashboard  

Live uStream Channel - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/og-mandino-group
Password: obeo

 

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Jan
05
2012

Obeo’s Free Social Media Webinar Schedule for January & February

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Happy New Year, Friends!  2012 is going to be a big year in Social Media and we want to make sure you don’t miss a thing!  Here is our Social Media Webinar schedule for January and February.  Don’t miss any of the great social media webinars below!

 How to Master YouTube  Would you like to have a robust YouTube account full of videos that you didn’t have to create?  Learn how in this informative webinar. We’ll also show you how to organize your Channel and Play Lists, how to optimize your videos for search, and we’ll even share powerful networking tips for using YouTube as a “Social” site.  Realtors who use video have a 50x greater chance of ranking of page 1 of Google!

 

Jan 3,  11am MST https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/993566752

Feb 7, 11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/373549144

Google Tools for Real Estate   Join Obeo’s Social Media Manager, Marci James to learn about her 12 favorite Google Tools for Real Estate. These are all FREE tools that you can start using immediately to boost your visibility online, enhance your marketing, and make your business easier to manage! Marci will show you how to use tools like Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Earth, and more.

 

Jan 10, 11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/933864424

Feb 14 11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/165159329

 

Blogging for Real Estate  Whether you’re currently blogging or not, join Obeo’s Social Media Manager, Marci James for this fabulous webinar on Blogging Essentials. Blogging doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Learn about the different ways you can blog, which blog platforms are best, where to get content, how to promote your blog, and much more!

 

 

Jan 17  11am MST https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/529260017

Feb 21,  11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/118130112

 

Twitter 101 for Real Estate  We’ll teach you how to correctly set up your twitter account, how to use Twitter Search to find the right peeps to follow, how to engage and interact thru replies, retweets and direct messages, how to use and follow #hashtags, and more!

 

 

Jan 24, 11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/585090264

Feb 28, 11am MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/668781409

Facebook Timeline Explained  Everything you need to know about how to use Facebook’s new Timeline layout!  We’ll cover the new layout, the new features, the new apps and more.  Create an awesome banner, add exciting life events, control your featured apps, add posts and photos to your facebook map app and more

 

 

Jan 3, 1pm MST   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/803946969

Jan 17, 1pm MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/561611265

Feb 7,  1pm MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/934961000

Feb 21,  1pm MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/759370456

 

Facebook 101 for Real Estate  Facebook has become a crucial part of a Real Estate Agent’s marketing plan. Engaging in on-line conversations is more effective than advertising! Join us for Facebook 101 and learn how to create a simple yet effective Facebook presence. You’ll learn how to use your Personal Facebook Profile Page for marketing your business without boring your family and friends! We will show you how to create Friend Lists, how to choose your security settings, how to share and tag posts, and much more.

Jan 10, 1pm MST    https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/429618441

Feb 14, 1pm MST   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/879499521

 

Facebook 102 For Real Estate Business Pages  Learn how to create a fabulous Facebook Fan page, even if you have no clue how to start! We will discuss the types of Fan Pages that work best for Real Estate, how to set it up, how to get fans, how to engage and interact with fan, which applications are best, and so much more. We will also include some great tips and strategies on marketing your Business Page.

 

 

Jan 24, 1pm MST   https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/933072424

Feb 28, 1pm MST  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/525143153

 

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Jan
04
2012

Obeo’s Moving into Manitoba!

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Look out Manitoba, Obeo has arrived! Amazing photography, virtual tours, and some of the best online marketing products in the world are synonymous with  Obeo.   Now, imagine your next listing having an online presentation that allows  potential buyers to not only see the home, but to make it their own, by changing wall colour, flooring, cabinets and more.  Obeo’s marketing platform will WOW your consumers, and best of all it is affordable.  If you’re a Realtor in Manitoba, make 2012 your best year ever with Obeo’s marketing strategies.

Obeo has been proudly servicing realtors in most metro areas of Canada for over 10 years, and we are very excited to be opening up the province of Manitoba!  Managing the territory for Obeo, is Regional Consultant & Photographer Mukesh Barmeda.   Mukesh has an extensive background in photography and true love for his art.  Over the past four years he has operated his photography company and worked as a Financial Advisor.  His talents in photography and his business experience make a perfect fit for Obeo.   His solid understanding of the importance of client satisfaction gives him a unique ability to combine the creative with the professional.    Based in Winnipeg, Mukesh will be building the Obeo brand and servicing real estate professionals in Winnipeg and the surrounding areas immediately,  then expanding with a photography network throughout the province.  Obeo is  also is happy to have Arlete Santos as the Sales & Marketing Manager & Haimchand Katwaroo as General Manager for the province of Manitoba.

Mukesh and his team are armed with the powerful tools that Obeo provides to realtors across North America and they look forward to teaming up with you, Manitoba!

View a tour Mukesh  did for a local Winnipeg realtor:  www.Obeo.com/699381

 For a special promotion please view and register at:  www.Obeo.com/3Minute

 

To reach Mukesh, his contact info is:

Local:  204-250-8205
Customer Service:  800-729-6236
mukesh.barmeda@obeoteam.com
www.Obeo.com/MukeshBarmeda – see big Orange Local Price List button!

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Jan
03
2012

REbuildUSA™, in Partnership with Lowes, Offers 203K Specialist Training & Certification

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As a Realtor, you want to take advantage of great opportunities available in today’s market and help make your client’s  home ownership dream come true.  The FHA 203k Loan Program is one of those great opportunities!  If you are not familiar with the loan program, here are the basics, taken from the REbuildUSA website:

  • Only 3.5% down payment required, which can be gifted by family members
  • More flexible qualification requirements allow those with less than perfect credit to purchase a home at competitive rates
  • A single loan for both purchase and improvement of your home means you make only one loan application and pay one set of closing costs – saving you time and money
  •  FHA loans are assumable and there are no prepayment penalties
  • An FHA Energy Efficient Mortgage (EEM) can allow you to qualify for a larger mortgage to add additional improvements that will lower your utility expenses.
  • By including cost of renovation in your home mortgage, you pay for these improvements over time at a much lower interest expense than conventional alternatives
  • Rather than paying a premium for a home in “perfect” condition, take advantage of the great prices available on foreclosures or other homes on the market that are in need of repair or remodeling
  • Instead of paying for a previous owners improvements you may not desire, invest instead in exactly the features, colors, styles, etc. that suit your tastes and needs
  • Enjoy the opportunity to live in an up-to-date home in a great location closer to work, shopping, cultural activities and more
You may also want to watch this terrific video, and hear more information straight from REbuildUSA™ founders, Dennis and Teresa Walsh.

 

If the 203K Loan Program interests you, then you should consider becoming a 203k Specialist.  Grow your business by bringing professional guidance and support to allow more clients to enjoy the benefits of the FHA 203k Home Purchase & Renovation Loan program.  The REbuildUSA™203k Specialist™ designation training delivers the most comprehensive and practical information, strategies and organizational tools to position you as an expert in this important growing area of real estate. Once you complete this course, you then enjoy the benefits as a professional member of REbuildUSA™!

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