November 13, 2006
Looking Sharp
I recently stumbled across a really nice service for people who sell stuff (houses, cars, baseball cards, etc) on the internet. It’s called vFlyer and it’s a very simple (and free!) tool for turning boring online classified ads into very
attractive electronic “flyers.” My favorite application is the ability to use vFlyer to plug in a few simple variables about what you’re selling (price, condition and maybe a few photos) and then generate html code that can be pasted into a craigslist posting to create a really flashy advertisement for your item. I have never been very savvy with html and my craigslist posts for my first flip (and all the things I sold during the renovation) were pretty hum-drum until I started using vFlyer.
The service also allows you to e-mail your electronic flyer and create PDFs. It has a tool for tracking the amount of “views” your flyer is getting and, for real estate, it automatically “publishes” your flyer to a number of popular housing search sites (Google Base, PropSmart, Edgeio, etc). It’s still a beta service and I had some problems getting my flyer published to a couple of their affiliates, but their customer service team was very responsive in getting the problem resolved.
You are lucky you get to use vflyer. I looked at it when it was first launched and was impressed. I could not use it for my listings because the department of commerce here in MN requires that all of my advertising have a company logo on it, the Federal goverment requires that all of my marketing materials have the fair housing logo on them, our local board of realtors requires that I have the realtor r and mls logo on all marketing materials. There was no where in the form template to add these required items. I mentioned these items to the developers of vflyer and they are going to, or maybe they already have modify the flyer so realtor can use it too.
Interesting and innovative service, and I love that it’s free. I wonder how this will affect the FSBO market.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve been using it.
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