Obeo is proud to introduce  Michelle Sharpe, Director of Strategic Alliances for North America.  Michelle has been part of the Obeo Executive team for close to 9 years!

With 25 years of Real Estate experience, Michelle has been an innovative leader in the Real Estate Realm.  Back in the late 80’s she assisted in the creation of the very first software for real estate offices, back when everyone was still using typewriters to create offers.  After several years of Office Administration and Management in Real Estate offices in the Greater Toronto Area, she moved back to her hometown in Peterborough, ON.  Michelle has been married now for 21 years with two gorgeous teenage girls.

Over the years Michelle’s greatest working pleasure has been mentoring and supporting our Obeo Team, our local area consultants, photographers and staff,  showing dedication and quality.  In our Canadian Market areas, Obeo is known as the ‘Crème de le Crème’, with the Obeo solutions platform and team being unique and powerful in the success of realtors marketing their homes.  She is still opening new markets in Canada, and hopes to have the entire country covered with great representation by early 2011.

For the past two years at Obeo, Michelle’s expertise has been flowing into our US division where she works as our Director of Strategic Alliances.  She is responsible for our Syndication partnerships, National RE firm preferred / approved supplier programs and our National Events.

During the years Michelle has been with Obeo, and we have seen many different hair styles!   We’re sure many of you have seen her at tradeshow events over the years, and noticed the variety of – dare we say – Big Hair Styles.  Chime in with your favourite ‘Michelle Hair Do’ !  Our favourite pick is the “Obeo Green Super Hero” photo, an anime rendering created by her daughter.  Michelle has been doing realtor seminars to showcase realtors the power of going green with their marketing efforts.

“There are great things in the horizons at Obeo, and I am proud to be part of such a great team!”  said Michelle Sharpe.   “Oh and by the way, curly big 80’s hair ROCKS in my book!”

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Zoocasa.com offers new, innovative way to search for homes in Canada

(PETERBOROUGH, Ontario) – Obeo, a leading provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, is pleased to announce a new strategic, syndication partnership with Zoocasa, a home hunting search engine for Canadian properties.

Zoocasa’s search platform provides consumers and business partners with a powerful portfolio of online home search and navigation services. The search engine uniquely connects interrelated concepts to provide a contextual presentation of home hunting-related information, such as where to find the best schools and calculating home-to-work commuting times.

The syndication partnership between Obeo and Zoocasa will allow agents and brokers using Obeo’s services to have additional online exposure for their listings and virtual tours. Their ads will appear on Zoocasa’s Web site, www.zoocasa.com.

“By aligning with strategic syndication partners, such as Zoocasa, we set ourselves apart from competing firms that only offer pictures,” said Michelle Sharpe, director of Obeo Canada. “This is just one more feature that makes Obeo a marketing firm and not just a picture-taking company.”

“Zoocasa has the same goals in mind about personalizing the buying experience,” Sharpe said. “Combining listing information and mapping technology, Zoocasa allows users to personalize their search experience and discover community, demographic and lifestyle information and then directs them to the agent who can help them choose the right home. We are very excited to begin this new partnership with Zoocasa and look forward to a future of being able to offer even more syndication to our clients.”

“Our partnership with Obeo helps Zoocasa provide the most accurate and up to date information of agent listings,” said Nyla Ahmad of Zoocasa.com. “Home buyers using Zoocasa, the top real estate search engine in Canada, now will get more accurate search results when looking for home listings that match their needs.”

About Zoocasa
Zoocasa is a search engine that makes it easier to find a resale home by adding tools, contextual information and an intuitive user experience to listings of homes for sale across Canada.  For more information, visit www.zoocasa.com.

About Obeo
Since its inception in 1999 and its evolution from 360 House 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. To find out more, go to http://www.obeo.com