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Instant Notifications? You want it. You got it.

You may have seen Redfin’s announcement about instant listing notifications, and you may be wondering how you can get in on this new feature.

Great news! GraphicalData has been providing instant updates for years (although you may not know about it, so here’s the scoop).

Here’s how it works.

First, you or your client can quickly and easily create an account on your GraphicalData website:

Just find the ‘Log in| Register’ link or the ‘Listings by Email’ feature on your Home page.

GraphicalData Log in | Register Link

Listings by Email feature

After creating an account, simply start a home search and select to save that search.

Save Search

Choose instant notifications when saving, and your client is set.

Instand notifications

Notifications—and even search details—can be changed or stopped at any time by clicking the ‘Searches’ link in the upper right of your website when the client is logged in.

Change Notifications

That’s it! Instant Notifications.

As always, we love to hear your feedback on how we can improve the service. Leave a comment or contact us.

gdIntranet Launches at Windermere North Spokane

SPOKANE, WA — Dallas Becker joined the ownership of Windermere North Spokane in 2007. Today he continues his family’s commitment to providing world-class real estate service to his clients and the best resources and tools available to his agents.

GraphicalData is providing some of those tools. We’ve recently launched gdIntranet to help the owners, staff, and agents of Windermere North Spokane improve communication and productivity.

Figure 1. The intranet dashboard.

Here’s just a few of the ways gdIntranet works to unify Dallas’s team while saving them time and effort.

Company calendar

A single, unified calendar allows the entire team to know the schedule without having to worry about making it into the office or calling and emailing to find out about changes. Open houses, Office events, partner meetings—everything’s right there, updated in real time.

Figure 2. Company calendar.

One place to find the right document

Document management is streamlined and simplified with electronic copies and permission-based access. Each member of the Windermere North Spokane team—from owners and management to agents and staff—can be assured that the latest updates to manuals, handbooks, contracts, etc. are available to the right people at the right time.

Figure 3. Browsing for documents.

Communication is key

Communication is vital to the success of Dallas, his agents and his staff. gdIntranet covers this area in a variety of ways.

  • A secure, internal blog enables Dallas to update his entire team, while team members can access these broadcasts at their convenience.
  • If something urgent needs to be shared, push email—flitered by group or role—can get the message out immediately.
  • Message boards allow for discussion and feedback between interested parties without the cumbersome scheduling of conference calls or meetings.

Figure 4. Message center.

Thanks to GraphicalData, we now have a user-friendly, customized intranet solution to offer our agents. Not only did Mike and the rest of the GD team work hard to understand our needs, they quickly turned our wish list into reality.

The response we received from our agents has been very positive—easy to navigate, aesthetically pleasing and packed with useful information. We look forward to working with GD as we continue our efforts to deliver world class tools and services to our agent partners.

Dallas Becker, Windermere North Spokane

GraphicalData and Dallas Becker are working together to offer a wide array of productivity tools to the agents of Windermere North Spokane. Tools that get used, and can be found in a single place, accessible from any internet-connected computer or device the agents use, for productivity anywhere, any time.

Introducing, the all-new, graphicaldata.com

After many months of team effort, we are really excited to launch our new public site.

While the new site started as a re-branding effort—as new owners, we wanted to refresh the look and feel of the site to make it better reflect our personal design aesthetic—we also had a few other goals in mind:

  • More clearly define our products and services
  • Make support articles, videos and contact information drop-dead easy to find
  • Eat our own dog food: Use our own product to build the site+blog with social media integration (more details on that in a future article)

We’ll be posting news articles, how-to’s, tips, product announcements, industry news and the like on our new blog on a regular basis. To keep up-to-date, we invite you to subscribe to receive automatic email updates:

» Subscribe to the gdBlog now

If you prefer, you can also follow us on facebook or twitter.

Michael Rahmn Sig

P.S. We’d love your feedback — good or bad — just leave us a note in the comments.

Virtual Media & Photo Galleries Now Swept From NWMLS

Recently new fields were added into the NWMLS data that IDX providers sweep to acquire listing information. In addition to the newer foreclosure fields, we are now able to sweep Photo Galleries that agents have added to their listing in this specific MLS.

Most photo galleries should sweep in automatically. If for some reason one fails to sweep in, you are able to add it manually via the listings section tab in your admin center. Merely copy the address link of your photo gallery, wherever it may be hosted, and then paste it into the appropriate listing.

If you need help on this feature, contact our customer support for assistance.