RealBird Newsletter

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Just in time for the holiday season we launched new RealBird features a few days ago. Some pretty cool ones in fact.

Text message (SMS) real estate marketing for your RealBird listings

The RealBird Text Message (SMS) Real Estate Marketing Service enables your prospective home buyers to send a short code (text message) via their mobile phone to your dedicated number and receive your property information instantly on their cell phone. The automatically returned text message will contain the brief information of your property, your phone number and a link to your RealBird mobile property website. The RealBird service will also capture the phone numbers of the prospects, notifies you instantly and save these leads for you.

It's quick to get started and it is very, very cost effective:

• RealBird PRO membership (US and Canada): only $99/year for unlimited listings - if you are a PRO member already, no additional RealBird fee applies
• Twilio local phone number: $1/monoth . That's right, only a buck per month
• Twilio text message charge: 1 cent per SMS received and 1 cent per SMS sent back to the prospect. So a captured lead is only $0.02 ( 2 cents/lead ). This is only due when you actually received a lead

 You can be up and running in 10 minutes: 

• Log into RealBird (if you are a free member, you can upgrade to PRO instantly from the member area)
• Follow the instructions in this tutorial to set up a Twilio account and to configure it with your RealBird service.

New Craigslist ad template

As a follow-up on the new RealBird single property website platform that we launched in October, the Craigslist ad template is now upgraded as well. Not only the ad looks much nicer, it also provides you with unlimited color themes and an option to turn particular links on and off. The RealBird code generator is also improved to reduce the time it takes from start to finish to post your RealBird listings on Craigslist.

There is nothing new to learn: You can access the code generator from the Listing Management page in the RealBird member area or through your RealBird Quick Share page. Just click "Post to Craigslist" and the new interface opens (example above). Just follow the onscreen instructions and your custom and beautiful ad can be on Craigslist in a few minutes.

Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Happy Holidays !

-- The RealBird Team

RealBird Inc.
www.realbird.com
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Canada, UK: +1 (650) 587-0797

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