Title: eRealAnalyzer Tutorial for Auctioneers
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/646279178

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System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

Learn the advantages of marketing your property with the eRealAnalyzer. We will go over the benefits to both you as well as your buyers. The eRealAnalyzer is being offered FREE though the IGNITE System so please take advantage of it during the trial period.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/628418523

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

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eRealInvestor Integration

AuctionServices.com is proud to announce a new partnership with eRealInvestor! These new tools allow in-depth analysis of real estate directly from the auction listing and are free as our gift to you from now until late January. For more information about this exciting new feature, please click here.

New Chat Support System

The AuctionServices.com Team always stands ready to help and support any auctioneers who should ever require our assistance. To better facilitate that support, we introduced our new chat support system into the Ignite system. This improved support system is more stable and robust than the previous version, but also offers advanced functions to better enable us to assist with problems or questions of any sort. Just click on the button pictured below next time you’re in Ignite and our team will be happy to assist you.

Live Chat Support

Organizational Calendar Control

AuctionZip Hub Limited Beta

Improved Assets for Sale Ordering

CAPTCHA

Merry Christmas!

eRealAnalyzer Tool will integrate directly in Ignite listings, allowing buyers to evaluate a home or commercial property before bidding or buying.

“We are pleased to partner with eRealInvestor to offer this integrated property analysis solution to companies using the Ignite Suite to list real estate auctions and properties for sale on their websites ,” said Romanus. “eRealInvestor has developed a powerful solution to simplify property analysis, and we are confident their solution will generate more revenue for auctioneers and real estate professionals alike.”

Roanoke, VA – AuctionServices.com, Inc., (www.auctionservices.com) announces a partnership with eRealInvestor to bring an integrated property analysis tool to Ignite Suite, according to Richard Romanus, President and CEO.

“We are pleased to partner with eRealInvestor to offer this integrated property analysis solution to companies using the Ignite Suite to list real estate auctions and properties for sale on their websites ,” said Romanus. “eRealInvestor has developed a powerful solution to simplify property analysis, and we are confident their solution will generate more revenue for auctioneers and real estate professionals alike.”

The net result is more bidders participating, making higher bids because they realize instantly how much cash flow a property can generate and ultimately paying more for the property.

The eRealAnalyzer provides web-based access to all the financial modeling and graphs needed to make investment decisions without having to buy or install software or manage spreadsheets. This solution generates more revenue by driving more bidders per auction, more bids per auction and higher final selling prices.

Mike Genstil, founder of eRealInvestor, said that eRealInvestor is already working with several companies in the property auction category, such as Williams Auction, as well as powering thousands of real estate sites. He noted, “On certain sites more than half of buyers are using eRealAnalyzer to evaluate a home or commercial property before purchasing. Winning bidders are using eRealAnalyzer several times before winning the auction.”

He added, “eRealAnalyzer makes property evaluation simple and instantaneous. Buyers and investors are drawn into the listing and can experiment with different scenarios. The net result is more bidders participating, making higher bids because they realize instantly how much cash flow a property can generate and ultimately paying more for the property. It’s a win-win-win for buyers, sellers and auctioneers / real estate brokers and we are excited to bring that opportunity to the Ignite users.”

“The eRealAnalyzer tool integrates directly with the auction or real estate for sale listing in Ignite Suite,” explained Romanus. “We plan to launch the integration by Christmas and offer a 30-day free trial for companies to try the tool on their listings.”

For more information about eRealInvestor and to view a demo of the eRealAnalyzer tool, visit www.erealinvestor.com/ignite. For information about Ignite Suite call (540) 206-3311.

eRealInvestor, Inc., has developed eRealAnalyzer(TM), the real estate industry’s first one-click away financial analysis application. eRealAnalyzer(TM) powers the online analysis of thousands of properties listed on real estate portals and real estate agent websites. The website lists over one million resale, for sale by owner, and foreclosure properties, all easily searchable by cash flow and other key financial criteria. The company was founded in 2007 by executives with decades of real estate investment and software development expertise to simplify the process of identifying and analyzing the best real estate deals. Visit: www.erealinvestor.com.

Founded in 1994, AuctionServices.com provides cutting-edge professional web design, secure, reliable web hosting, marketing and the Ignite Suite of tools and services, a web-based enterprise resource management system that enables companies to proactively manage their organizational memberships, employee access, marketing, web content and syndication.

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Media Contacts:
Mike Genstil
Founder and CEO
eRealInvestor
(415) 205-3686
mgenstil@erealinvestor.com

Richard Romanus
President and CEO
AuctionServices.com, Inc.
(540) 446-5541
rick@auctionservices.com

Source: AuctionServices.com, Inc.

The Ignite system is currently experiencing difficulties publishing changes to auctions. We are aware of the error messages and working actively to resolve them. During this time, you may encounter an error message “We’re sorry but something went wrong,” while attempting to publish a new or existing auction. This post will be updated shortly with more information as it becomes available.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this error message may cause.

Best regards,

– The AuctionServices.com Team

12/2 2:18PM EDT

Publishing is now working properly. Please contact AuctionServices.com if you are continuing to experience any problems publishing auctions and/or changes to auctions.

Best regards,

– The AuctionServices.com Team

1. Faster image gallery uploads

2. Grid-style gallery organizer

3. Property Information Package Tracker module improvements

4. Removal of Scribd iPaper

Faster image gallery uploads

We received feedback from auctioneers who explained that the image gallery uploads were taking too long. The process was originally set up as follows:

• Upload image 1
• Create thumbnails for image 1
• Store image 1 and its thumbnails
• Upload image 2
• Create thumbnails for image 2
• Store image 2 and its thumbnails
• etc.

Compared with the old AuctionServices.com auction calendar (which only created one thumbnail for each image), this process of resizing and creating multiple thumbnails for each image was more time consuming, especially for large galleries. The workaround was previously to let the upload continue in one browser window (or tab) and continue working in another. While this workaround does still apply, we changed the process to expedite image uploads as follows

• Upload image 1
• Upload image 2 AND start creating the image 1 thumbnails in the background
• Upload image 3 AND continue creating image thumbnails for images 1 and 2
• etc.

This should provide a much quicker upload process for the auctioneer as all images are now thumbnailed and resized in the background.

Grid-style gallery organizer

The existing ability to re-arrange (or re-order) image galleries via drag-and-drop actions on the edit screen still exists; however, there is now an additional choice for “Order Images Only”. This new choice shows the entire image gallery in a thumbnail grid instead of a vertically stacked list. It does not allow image deletion or caption editing; but based on feedback from auctioneers, this style of re-arranging the order of images in galleries will allow for much faster re-sorting of images. This especially applies for batches of images that are uploaded as additions to existing galleries.

Property Information Package Tracker module improvements

The Property Information Package tracking system used by our auctioneers also received some great feedback! In addition to its existing funcationality, it  now includes additional capabilities. Using the new features, you can elect to turn on an approval system for document viewing. This will allow auctioneers to pre-approve who is able to view the documents prior to allowing them access to the documents.

Removal of Scribd iPaper

Due to a policy enforcement change at Scribd, we are discontinuing the inclusion of Scribd’s digital paper service with Ignite.

1. Uploaded documents will continue to be available to your sites’ visitors in the original format they were uploaded in. For example, if you upload a Microsoft Word document, the original Word document will be downloaded.
2. We do encourage all customers to use platform- and software-neutral file formats, such as PDF, for document uploads.
3. We understand that some auctioneers liked the digital paper preview, so we are actively evaluating alternative digital paper solutions as replacements.

More information will be forthcoming as we research various other options as a replacement

Best regards,

– The AuctionServices.com Team

P.S. As a token of our appreciation for taking the time to review this update, please accept our offer of 50% off of your next NAL Newsletter Ad. Click here to place your order and use the following coupon code at checkout: HALFNAL (offer expires 11/3/2009. Limit of ten discounted ads total and one discounted ad per customer). Please bookmark this site to stay current on Ignite updates and other information.

UPDATE: 9:10PM EDT Digital paper service is temporarily disabled until the problem with Scribd can be resolved. Visitors to auctions will still be able to download the original document to access the information.

UPDATE: 11:59PM EDT Due to a policy enforcement change at Scribd, we are discontinuing the inclusion of Scribd’s digital paper service with Ignite. In light of this, we do encourage all customers to use platform- and software-neutral file formats, such as PDF, for document uploads. More information regarding the discontinuation of the Scribd iPaper service in Ignite will be published in a separate post once our team has an opportunity to review the situation in more detail.

For select sites with limited horizontal width, there may be slight anomalies in the display on select browsers. Please use the Ignite support ticket system (Ignite login required) to report these incidents on your site as needed.

Grid display on an AuctionServices.com Auction Detail Page

This change was brought about by feedback from auctioneers, so please keep the feedback coming (whether it be positive or negative) and know that we are listening!

UPDATE: As of approximately 12:52PM EDT, the Scribd API service is restored.