Instructions and Help
Add/Modify/Delete Have/Want Listing
COOKIES
A new feature recently added is the ability of the service to remember
your password and id.
It does this by placing two cookies on your computer that contain your
id and password.
However if your browser does not allow cookies this is not possible
and your browsing experience on our service is not enhanced. We suggest
you enable cookies or at the very least "approve cookies before accepting
cookies."
In Netscape, click on Edit, Preferences and Advanced. You will
see the cookies options.
In Internet Explorer, click on View, Options, Advanced. You will
see the cookies options.
We personally recommend to "approve cookies before accepting."
That way you can prevent some sites that you may not want to allow from
placing these things misusing cookies.
Subject
This is perhaps the most important aspect of our service that you should
know. It is the subject line that you design that is circulated throughout
the world and locally by way of 14 other major circulation treatments.
Many people today are just too busy to follow up on vague or missing information.
If they are not interested, they will not be reading your full page of
information. If you can trigger interest then they may read your full page
of information and follow up on things. It really should read like a mini
classified ad.
Suggestions and Tips for the Subject
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Your subject line should have a minimum of four
ingredients: Area, Type, Price and/or Size, Sizzle.
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Make sure you place the key words for your listing. Whatever keywords you
place in the subject is what people can search for in the "Search Subject
Line By Key Words" option for searching. This includes an area.
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Some short forms are
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sf for sq.ft. ie: 40,000sf
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M for million ie: $2.5M
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K for thousand ie: $785K
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Don't get carried away with short forms but use of the common ones is quite
in order. It will provide more space in the subect for information that
might trigger a call for you.
Location
Always place the city first. Whenever someone searches and has them
displayed by Location the first word you type will be the location in alphabetical
order.
Since this is a public database we suggest you never place an address.
I personally recommend you never place an address, not even for your real
estate board listings. People will try to go direct to the owner
and of course in the majority of cases this is undesirable for many reasons
including bothering the owner and/or tenants. Normally there is a method
for showing and the real estate broker or salesperson in agreement with
the owner has a prearranged method that is convenient and considerate of
all parties for conducting the showings.
Internet Links Box for Photos and Other Links
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If I said to you that you could place color photos for all your listings
all year long in the Toronto Star every single day of the year for all
your listings all year long, that would be pretty exciting from a marketing
point of view, wouldn't it? The internet is 50 times larger than the Toronto
Star and yes you can do it all free with access to the internet and a membership
here.
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You should have your own web site. If you supply photos to us, we have
to charge since we get charged for space and transfer of files. However
if you place photos on your site you will never be charged since it is
most likely you will never exceed the maximums as we do.
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Ask your Interenet Service Provider for 1-5 megs of free web space. They
all provide it, but most do not advertise it. You have to ask for it. They
may ask if it is for business and want $50/mo. If you say it is just for
a few photos they may let it go. You can place photos in that free web
space.
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Ask them for instructions on how to place these photos. Once placed it
will have an internet address like www.interlog.com/~yourname/photo.jpg
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You can have photos scanned at a local print shop or computer store.
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The format is about a 20,000-30,000 byte jpeg photo.
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There is an Internet Links box in the Have Sheet Form. You will place the
link to the photo here.
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You can place two kinds of links:
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You can display the photo while people are reading the message. You can
experiment with the size of the photo.
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You can display the word Photo as a hypertext link in blue for instance.
A person would click on the photo and then wait while the picture loads.
If they are interested in your listing it is expected that they would very
much want to see the photo and wait.
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Please request by EMail the format for these links and I will fax them
to you. I would place them here but when I do, they do not show the syntax
because in html they are acted on. ie: only the word Photo appears, not
the syntax. As soon as I figure how to show the syntax here I will place
them.
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Other links like sketches, plans, layouts, artists renderings, surveys,
plot plans, aerial views, supportive links such as demographics, etc. can
and should be placed.
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Do not place your home page or email links in the Internet Links Box. You
already should have built your links for these items in your Membership
Data and they will already and automatically be inserted in every one of
your messages. If you change your email address under Modify Member Data,
it will change it on all your listings on the service.
If you receive an error, check to see if it is your password or id pair.
They are case sensitive. Always try at least three times if you get an
error. If the problem persists please contact our office. There are times
when the internet is down, computers are down, etc. Make sure you are connected
and on line. It is very easy to lose a connection while entering your information.
In this case, just redial back in and send the form. (keep the form in
memory! If you do not know how to do this, phone me now and I will help
you.)
If you are in a hurry, fax your have or want sheet to 905-577-6986 with
an explanation of the nature of the problem and we will place it for you.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any problem. We are always
here to help you. We do appreciate the opportunity to be of service to
you.
Sincerely
Gary Nusca, CCIM