Friday, March 6, 2009

March Special

Wow! What a gorgeous day! Hard to believe it's only the 6th of March and it's supposed to go up to 16 degrees today. I hope you'll take a few minutes to enjoy the weather while it lasts. Work will still be there later.

This month we have a great special. We're offering YourListing.com (Throwaway) websites for just $39.99. The regular price for these is $69.99. If you haven't used these before, just think of how happy your seller will be, especially in this challenging market, to have a website dedicated to their home. We register the domain name, host the site for one year, and put the site together -- all for this low price. All you have to do is provide us with a description of the property. We'll even add a neighbourhood description, including all the area amenities.

This product is guaranteed to get you vendor satisfaction, if nothing else. We also have vinyl-lettered sign riders (3 sizes available) to advertise the site below your For Sale sign.

Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

UPDATING TREB's LINKING SITUATION:

Just to let you know, TREB has now fixed their problems with the linking, and we are now able to link automatically again. This means that your tours can be linked to TREB within one minute, once you give us the MLS number. You can call or email it to us, and we'll take care of it right away during business hours, and as soon as we can after hours.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Introducing Advirtours & Me

Hello, My name is Merle Garbe and I am the President of Advirtours Inc., the Toronto Real Estate Board's #1 Virtual Tour provider.

I'd like to welcome you to our new Advirtours blog, and I hope you have a very happy Family Day. This is an interactive blog, so please feel free to use it to post comments, questions, suggestions, and more. I’ll be using it to keep you posted about our specials, or about other great services that I can share with you. Periodically I will also be sharing some tips about ways to take the best possible advantage of our virtual tours and our companion products.

SOME INFORMATION REGARDING TREB: For the past couple of weeks, TREB has been having technical difficulties with their linking server. They are working hard to resolve the problem, but until that happens, we have been forced to send the tour links to TREB’s Photography Department for manual linking (as opposed to the automated system we previously used). This does take longer, but it is out of our control, and we hope you will be patient and understanding while TREB works out this problem.

ON A TOTALLY UNRELATED SUBJECT -- As many of you know, in my spare time, I run a non-profit theatre company that performs at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, right down the hall from where Jersey Boys is playing now. If you haven’t already seen this fabulous show, I highly recommend it. Right now, my company is in rehearsal for Neil Simon’s comedy The Sunshine Boys, running from April 23 till May 3.

If there is ever anything you’d like to share with the visitors to this blog (of a non-commercial nature), please send it along. I look forward to posting items about any community events, or cultural activities.