vFlyers Lets You Put Listings on Your Blog
vFlyer, the classified listings service, unveiled a new widget service to its members today that allow you to take your v-Flyer-hosted listings with you anywhere, including your blog.
Previous vFlyer coverage:
vFlyer’s widget editor lets you customize either horizontal or vertical galleries, or if you have lots of listings you can create a scrolling display of images. You can choose to create either Flash or JavaScript widgets and vFlyer churns out the necessary HTML code to let you post it on your own website, a blog, social networks or online marketplaces like eBay.
Basic customizations like background color and link colors so you can better blend your widget in with the rest of your site. See the following example:
vFlyer is interesting as it’s morphing from being strictly a online classifieds platform into a single property web site provider (see Do Single Property Websites Sell Homes?) and now to a full listings management package.
However, unlike total web site solutions like Ubertor, Top Producer and Point 2 Agent - vFlyer provides agents with a custom online marketing platform and inventory management system. You then have the ability to pipe that data into whatever environment you choose. That could be a Wordpress blog or even your existing web site.
What I really like about this idea because it allows you to be much more flexible in your hosting options and doesn’t tie to you to one exclusive provider for all your web business needs. This isn’t for everyone; but for more tech savvy Realtors, this “offsite” approach could give you the ability to pull together many disparate elements (blogs, forums, etc.) and other real estate widgets (see Real Estate Widgets for your Website) and create the ultimate real estate portal.
vFlyer currently lets you post up to 10 active flyers for free. Premium plan start at $19.95/month after that.
More coverage:
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
8 Comment(s)
2 Trackback(s)
- From jonahadkins | jonahadkins | Dec 31, 1969
- From vFlyers Lets You Put Listings on Your Blog by Real estate classifieds | Mar 2, 2007
Black Tie Todd | Feb 27, 2007 | Reply
Anyone figure out how to place the vFlyer gallery widget on their WP hosted blog, please let me know. Haven’t made the jump to my own domain hosted WP blog, so any help would be appreciated.
Jay | Feb 27, 2007 | Reply
Awesome! Widget tools for wordpress users (and others). Take note developers, there is a huge market for your widget code for tools like this!
Oliver Muoto | Feb 27, 2007 | Reply
We have documentation on how to embed widgets on different blogging systems at:
http://www.vflyerwiki.com/wiki/doku.php?id=widgets_embedding
JeffX | Feb 27, 2007 | Reply
Your site is like crack (not that I know what thats like but I hear it’s pretty addictive)…I actually now read your site before I manage mine every morning…
Great stuff, as usual…
Incredible Agent | Feb 27, 2007 | Reply
Karnak predicts that we will see an explosion of real estate widgets in 2007. Gotta love the widget wide web.
John Schroeder | Feb 28, 2007 | Reply
It will be interesting to see all of the different widgets that become available for listings. One that showcases video clips of your listings on a scrolling basis would be great.
TitleRep | Feb 28, 2007 | Reply
This is good stuff…
I’ve showed vflyer to so many clients over the last couple months. Now I have a great reason to follow up with them and show the new functions!
TitleRep | Feb 28, 2007 | Reply
Oops… My URL link was wrong in the previous post. Should have been http://www.TitleRep.info, not http://www.TitleRep.com. I don’t want Dave, from Chicago Title getting all my feedback emails or anything.