We are very excited to announce to you our FREE social media auto-posting services! Obeo now takes the hassle out of being social by automatically posting your new Obeo listings to your personal Facebook Wall, Twitter Feed and/or YouTube Video Channel.

This new service from Obeo will help you be more social and will instantly spread the word about your new listings. Obeo will even show you which websites sent you the most traffic on our detailed statistics reports.

To set this up, just visit your Obeo Members Area and tell us which websites you want your listings to go to. Once this is setup, we will automatically post your new listings for you as soon as the photos are uploaded. Here is a quick tutorial.

Another free upgrade we have added is the ability to link directly to your Facebook/Twitter page from the Obeo HomeSite tour. This will allow potential buyers that look at your listings to become your fan on Facebook or follow your posts on Twitter with a few clicks.

We have created a few webinars in the upcoming weeks to teach everyone about this new feature and how to better use social media in your marketing strategy. Click here to view our upcoming webinar schedule.

Obeo is excited to announce a new solution for your empty vacant properties!

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 & decorations. Our virtual staging team can add designer couches, tables, rugs, lamps, tv’s, draperies and many other furniture items to make the home look like a million bucks.

Staged homes typically sell faster and for more money. With Obeo Virtual Staging you can help potential buyers visualize the home better and be more excited about moving in.

This product is not just for vacant homes either. You can move existing furniture out of a room for the photo, and then let us upgrade the appearance of the home online with one of our many virtual furniture collections.

Take it a step further with Obeo StyleDesigner and allow potential buyers to customize the color of the walls, floors, countertops and cabinets using our interactive design tools.

Pricing starts at just $75 per room, so it’s a big savings over traditional staging.

Click Here to learn more about Obeo Virtual Staging and to view demos.  You can also see our  live demo tour.

As you can see by the aerial picture above of the San Diego Convention Center, it overlooks the surrounding marina. So we decided to change things up a little this year for the NAR convention and secure a yacht just steps away from the convention floor and most of the area hotels. Whether you are local to Southern California or coming from a long commute, we will make sure your journey to San Diego was well worth it! Please come aboard and be our guest for nibbles, refreshments and most importantly a strategy for your business!

You will find us on the San Diego Prestige – 560 Express, a luxury yacht that will stay moored at the docks behind the convention center. We have some exciting things we want to share with you, and ask that you R.S.V.P. so that we can schedule a time to share a great navigational route for your business.

Please RSVP your best time to meet and strategize with Obeo!
Call: 1-801-924-5534

You will find us on the San Diego Prestige – 560 Express, a luxury yacht that will stay moored at the docks behind the convention center. We will be there from Nov. 13th – 16th, 2009. The yacht is docked at the:

Marriot Marina (right next to the convention center)
333 W. Harbor Drive
Gate 3 – Slip F1

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Sutton professionals will gain access to Obeo’s industry leading customizable visual, interactive online marketing tools and syndicated marketing partnerships benefiting their homebuyers and home sellers.

“With the ever-changing real estate market, consumers are increasingly curious and explore many online media to find the perfect home,” said Michelle Sharpe, director of Obeo Canada. “Sutton professionals, realizing the importance of today’s social media systems and consumer centric behavior, will have a powerful suite of tools to include in their listing portfolio with the opportunity of driving more traffic to their listings” Sharpe continued.

“Partnering with Obeo allows Sutton to provide its members with an Industry Specialist in online marketing, providing compelling visual content to home buyers will save them time and facilitate more informed decisions” said Cary Shivrattan, Franchise Relations at Sutton Group Realty Services. “With Obeo’s powerful systems, consumers and realtors can post listings/tours to their own social media sites with the click of a button as well as create a YouTube presentation in seconds. This is powerful, leading edge technology that we are excited to bring to our members!” Shivrattan continued.

About Sutton Group Realty Services:
Founded in 1983 Sutton was designed to put the REALTOR® – not the real estate company – at the center of each business transaction. With over 8,700 REALTORS® and 200 offices across Canada, there is always a Sutton REALTOR® nearby to serve you! For more information, visit www.sutton.com.

About Obeo
Since its inception in 1999 and its evolution from 360House to Obeo in 2004, the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company has become the largest preferred supplier of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in the United States and Canada. The Latin word for “to go to” or “to encompass,” Obeo provides REALTORS®, homebuilders, land developers and property managers with customized online marketing solutions and offline sales tools.

Don’t miss this session where Verl Workman explores what’s working, what’s a waste of time, and how to position yourself in the best light possible on the Web. Verl talks about social networking in-depth, building your online niche and what to integrate into your marketing plan with very little effort. Viral marketing is all about building your Web presence, making you stand out, while getting noticed and gaining credibility – and in this fun, fast-paced session you’ll learn all the latest tips from Verl to really get your social network cranking AND earning you money!

WHAT: Free Webinar about Social Networking
WHEN: Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
TIME: 1:30 – 2:30 pm MST (3:30 pm Eastern)

Register Now for this Free Webinar!

Can’t make it? Verl will also be repeating this webinar on Sept. 17th. @ 10am MST – Register for the 17th

Don’t forget to click the “share” button below to share this webinar with family, friends and colleagues.

1)    Faster Download Time

The Obeo Team has just finished rebuilding the back-end engine that powers Obeo HomeSite. The new version of our core virtual tour viewer is twice as fast as the previous version! All of the sections of Obeo HomeSite have been optimized to load faster, download quicker and give you a better experience while looking at the online listing. Additional speed improvements have been made throughout the Obeo.com website.

2)    Full-Screen Theater Mode

Another new feature with this upgrade is the full-screen theater mode! You can now sit back and watch a great presentation of the home, as the photos zoom & fade back and forth. You can now also advance the photos by using the back/next arrows inside the virtual tour. Simply click on the “Theater” button when looking at the virtual tour to see these new upgrades.

3)    Optimized for Social Media Linking & SEO

The new version of Obeo HomeSite has been optimized for all your social media linking. When you post your tour to Facebook, Twitter and other social media websites, you will now see a photo and description of the listing on your link/bookmark. These changes will help make your social media links stand out, and also improve your search engine rankings (SEO) on Google. Don’t forget to click the ‘Share’ button in the bottom-left corner of Obeo HomeSite, to quickly post your listings to dozens of social media websites!

4)    Updated Floor Plan Display

Many of you may not realize, but Obeo HomeSite has a great feature to display the floor plan of the property. If you have a floor plan file and you would like to display it on the tour, you can go to your Obeo Members Area and upload that floor plan for FREE. When you do this, a new floor plan icon will appear on the main menu and users can view the floor plan of the property.

5)    Improved Statistics Tracking

As most of you know, Obeo provides great statistics reports for your listings. These reports are available in your Obeo Members Area and they display detailed information on the daily traffic to your listings.  We also have a report that shows you which websites are sending traffic to your tours. This tracking has now been improved, so you will see more websites listed in this area, instead of hits tracking as ‘Direct’. With this information, you will be able to see which websites are sending you the most traffic and where your advertising dollars are best being spent.

We hope you enjoy these free upgrades to your Obeo HomeSite tours. If you have any listings that don’t have an Obeo tour on them, please contact us. Thanks!

Full-Screen Panoramas

As potential buyers are viewing your Obeo listing, they now have the option to view the photos AND panoramas in full-screen. Our HD photography looks amazing when it fills your entire screen and allows anyone to see the crystal clear details of each room in the home.

Free Document Hosting

Obeo now allows you to upload property documents to your Obeo HomeSite, which can be downloaded by anyone viewing the virtual tour. We can host property disclosure documents, tax records, community guidelines or any other file you want to share with potential buyers. These files are uploaded from your members area and can be viewed/downloaded from the tour in the “Tools” section of Obeo HomeSite. Learn More

Audio Plays Throughout the Tour

Obeo allows you to pick from hundreds of audio tracks and play them on the virtual tour at no cost. This background music (as well as any custom audio that could be purchased) will now play throughout the tour, no matter what section the user may be looking at.

Improved Panorama Quality

We have recently upgraded the quality and resolution of our 360-degree panoramas. The images now show more detail in every room and you can zoom into each photo for a closer look. This quality improvement applies to any recently photographed tour and all tours going forward.

We hope you enjoy these new free upgrades on your Obeo HomeSite tour. You can also check out our live demo. If you have any questions about these updates, or would like to place a new order, please contact your local Obeo representative. Thanks!

Obeo is very excited to introduce several new video options for you to enjoy!

This free service takes the still photos and panoramas from your listings and turns them into an interactive video presentation. Any past and future Obeo Tour can now be exported to a high-quality video. These video options (a $20 value) are available to our customers for a limited time at no additional cost.

From the Obeo Members Area, you can now build a powerful listing video by simply clicking a few buttons. You have full control over the information displayed in the video, you can change the order of the photos and also select the background music to play during your video from hundreds of available songs. After saving your options, a video will be automatically generated and posted to your Obeo Tour.

After the video is created, you can download the listing video to your computer. This video can then be played on your laptop, ipod/iphone or any other portable media device. You can also post your video file to dozens of video sharing websites for additional exposure to your listing.

Obeo already syndicates our listings to over 150 local & national websites for additional exposure. Now we take that even further by posting your video automatically to YouTube.com, one of the most popular websites on the Internet. This service is current free for all Obeo clients, for a limited time.

Obeo HomeSite will now accept video links and embedded videos from 3rd party websites as well. This means that if you have a property video hosted on another website you can link directly to that video from your Obeo HomeSite Tour. A new video icon will show up on the virtual tour which launches the 3rd party video.

Obeo has created several tutorials for you to learn more about our video options. Click here to learn more about our video features and how to enable them on your Obeo listings. We also have several live webinars to explain all the details about this new feature.  Click here to view our live webinar schedule.

We hope you enjoy these new video upgrades to your Obeo listings and please let us know if you have any comments or questions. Thanks!

Facebook has over 150 million members worldwide and is one of the top ten most visited websites on the Internet. Facebook allows people and businesses to connect and interact with each other in a common platform. We have created this page on Facebook to allow  our clients, employees, photographers and fans of Obeo to interact more with each other and get the latest information about Obeo.

On the Obeo Facebook page, you will find:

• Brief information about Obeo.
• Recent Obeo News/Updates.
• Special promotions on a regular basis.
• Great photography examples from our Obeographer network.
• Comments and discussions about Obeo.
• A list of Facebook members who are fans of Obeo.

The Obeo fan page is located at:

http://www.facebook.com/SayObeo

If you are already a member of Facebook, we invite you to become a fan of Obeo. If you are not yet a member of Facebook, what are you waiting for? It’s free to join and it’s a great way to interact with friends, family, co-workers and other people that share your same interests. Enjoy!