Newsletter





May 2005




e-Agent Launches a New Look!

www.e-agent.biz has a new look and new functionality! We've made a few changes to the main site and your logged in area that will hopefully make your experience using our service a little bit simpler. We've moved the log in area to the main page, along with links to the user manual and FAQ. We've also added a collection area for people who may be interested in our services, so if you have friends or colleagues around the country who may be interested in becoming an e-Agent, they can now leave their information with our sales department for a free search engine analysis and consultation.





New Features Added to the e-Agent's Logged in Area

We're making more of your requests a reality! Now you can log in with your username and password and perform further edits to your website.


  • Edit and create multiple auto-response and sales cycle emails:
    - Log in and click on "My Account". You'll see "Manage Buyer/Seller/Relocation Email Content" links on the left side of the page. Follow the instructions to create your own personalized emails.




  • Change the tag line on the main page of your site:
    on the left side of the page you'll see the "Update Template Text" link. Now instead of having "When (your territory) is the question, (your name) is the answer" on the main page, you can create your own tag line. (Changes to your tag line take up to 72 hours to appear on your live site.)

Note: this newsletter is sent to all existing e-Agents as well as all real estate professionals on our waiting list.


Newsletter





May 2005




e-Agent is giving away a 50 Inch Samsung Flat Screen TV!

In our first ever give-a-way contest we have seen a few early e-Agents emerge as the front runners! For those of you who do not know about the contest, we are currently offering all existing clients the ability to win a brand new 50 inch flat screen Samsung television to anyone who sells a minimum of 10 points worth (or more, highest point total wins) of territories to new real estate agents. Who ever has the most points at the end of the 60 days wins! Second and third place are cash-related prizes.



If you are an existing client and you would like to be part of this contest all you have to do is get people to sign up, select "Referred by another e-Agent" on the sign up page, and fill in your name. That's it! Who ever has the most points at midnight EST on June 20th, 2005 will win a brand new Samsung 50 inch flat screen television shipped to their door, courtesy of e-Agent.

All e-Agents are automatically enrolled; however, it is not necessary for any client to participate in the give-a-way. This is our first contest with hopefully more to come. If you would like to become an e-Agent please contact us at 1-866-EAGENTS (324-3687) or feel free to write to our sales department at sales@e-agent.biz and someone will be in contact with you shortly for a free search engine analysis.


New e-Agent CMA Program in the making

Since the start of our CMA pilot-program in mid-February this year we have seen real estate agents in our network very responsive and wonderfully receptive to this new product and our special introductory offering of $15 per lead with no real commitment time wise to be part of the program. Well over 90% of the e-Agents who opted into the program are still subscribed and more than 60% of new clients have opted to get the leads so we need to expand the advertising and this program entirely going forward. Since e-Agent is going to expand the CMA program in the near future we will be bringing up our pricing up to match the industry standard, pay for the cost of advertising more aggressively and dedicate manpower internally for what will become an entirely new department.


Future Pricing may look something like this:

  e-Agents will pay:   $20-$25/lead     Opt in/out every 30 days
  Non e-Agents will pay:   $35-$40/lead     Opt in/out every 30 days








Note: this newsletter is sent to all existing e-Agents as well as all real estate professionals on our waiting list.


Newsletter





May 2005




Existing clients will save nearly 40% off of the published rate and have a 30 day window to completely lock up these optional leads from the date of signup. If existing clients do not take these optional CMA style leads, we will allow other existing clients and Non-e-Agents to accept the leads into their account. Compared to other companies in the industry we are much less expensive. Most other companies are asking for annual contracts and are charging on average over $100 per CMA lead for the exact same amount of data we are providing right now at our introductory offer of $15. e-Agent is confident that this new program will help dramatically increase our exposure as a company and help all of our existing clients to get new leads with more qualification than ever before.


New Billing Process for all e-Agents

Starting June 15th, e-Agent will institute its new lead billing process for your May lead total. Here is how it will work:

  • All e-Agent territories will be scrubbed for duplicate leads prior to any billing.
    Ex: if a potential client comes in as a buyer 5 times through your e-Agent site within the same month, you will only pay for it once. Our software will match relevant data to remove it from your account automatically.


  • E-Agent software will also apply a 10% discount on top of the duplicates it removes to cover for people who enter invalid information if your territory compiled more than 10 leads in one month.


  • If you have less than 10 leads per month we will go through your account manually to apply any credits to be solely determined by our staff.


  • We will no longer take any submissions from clients for bogus or duplicate lead submissions. E-Agent will have software and a very fair percentage model in place going forward this will save us all time, effort, energy and money.




Our Fancy New Phone Options (1-866-EAGENTS)

If you have called our 800 number in the last month you will notice that we have changed our phone options. e-Agent still takes customer service calls, sales calls and any general questions you may have about the service but we also now have a new phone system in place that can help you even if we are not here and you are not in front of a computer. Questions for many of your most frequently asked ones can now be answered by simply hitting a few numbers on any phone key pad. For instance, if you want general information on what e-Agent offers you can find it on our phone line or for existing clients if you want information on how to change your biographical information, billing data or upload listings you can now get instructions 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Those are just a few of the functions our 800 number now offers so be sure to listen to any and all of the information on the system. e-Agent hopes that you enjoy and utilize our new dial in customer service.











Note: this newsletter is sent to all existing e-Agents as well as all real estate professionals on our waiting list.