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Good morning. Welcome to another edition of Delta Media Group's Tech Tuesday Live. I say live 'cause we've been kind of on hiatus here for the past couple of weeks, so it's good to be back. It's good to see you.

All right, so now that we're back, we've got a new feature to go over. Now this is something that is brand new, we just added to the Delta Net, and it's something that people have requested, so it's just kinda cool. We think it's kinda cool. So without further ado, let's go into Delta Net and take a look at it.

So what this will do is, if you have ever wanted to have a market watch report automatically post to your Facebook page every time it's updated, you're in luck 'cause that's what we just added. So to set these up, the way it works is it's not like you go into a customer account and setup a market watch there and have that post, this is actually independent of any of your customer accounts. You go up and we're gonna setup a market watch report that is specifically for posting on Facebook, like that is the purpose of this report.

So, to set it up, we just scroll down here to Listings, and then click on Market Watches. So this takes you to your market watch page, so this is where you can generate these customer independent market watches, the way to set them up, we'll just click on Add a Market Watch, and now, just like any other market watch, we can define the area for it in exactly the same ways. So we can go with by market, or we'll type in a market name. And I'm gonna go ahead and click on it. So from here we would type in a name, this is all demo data as always, so it's not real stuff, so we get kind of weird numbers, but we get the point. Can type in a city name, school district name, county should work, neighborhood area, so whatever you can search through the website, you should be able to pull up the market by name here.

Once you type it in, we'll just click on it and that selects that area, and now you can use these optional filters, to further narrow down the properties that this market watch is gonna look at. By default, it will look at everything in the market you selected, but if you wanna only look in a certain price range, you can narrow that down, and you can see all the options on here. Home size, bedrooms, bathrooms, all that stuff. So, if you wanna narrow it down further, you just fill in those fields before you click done, and in this case, I don't wanna add anything special, so I'm just gonna click Done.

Now I give my market watch a title. Call this Canton Market Watch. I did type in Canton didn't I? I hope so, and then you setup your interval. So in this case, like with a customer account, the interval is going to be how often the system will send this market watch to the customer. In this case, it's actually how often the system regenerates this market watch. So, it'll create the market watch report with the initial set of data. If I set this on monthly, then a month from now, the system is gonna rerun this market watch report and update it, and then when it updates it, that's when it will repost.

So, quarterly, we'll go with quarterly, why not? Gonna create market watch, and now there's our market watch report. So from here, I can click on preview and actually see what it looks like. I won't click it here, 'cause like I said, it's demo data, so it's not gonna show you actual live data from the market, but know that you can click on that and see that preview of it. The market watch itself, basically looks like the market watches that go out to the customers. And then you also have all of these share links here. So you can share directly from this page to any of these different places, or just hit email and send it, email it directly to someone kind of as if you set it up for them, and then lastly, we click on delete and get rid of it. Can also change the frequency here. If you decide you want to change it, quarterly isn't often enough, we can kick it down to weekly, or biweekly or monthly, you know, you can see the options there.

All right, so that is the first way. So I'll go ahead and delete this one. There we go. Now if I add a market watch again, I can do this by radius or area. If I do radius, it's actually what it sounds like, instead of typing in a name of a market, it gives me just a circle on a map. I can define the center, either by just dragging this little dot. There we go, drag the little dot around and then the radius itself, by dragging the circle down. Or I can define the center as a specific address. So if people wanna say what's the market like within five miles of my home address, you can type their home address at the top and hit locate and then center the circle right on that. So it's five miles around a specific address, and then just drag out this circle to five miles. You can see it's 3.74 at this point, so it does actually tell you the mileage. If I drag it out a little, 4.28, 4.6, five and a quarter. 4.89, close enough, but you get the point.

Now the last way you can create one of these. Let me refresh this page. Market Watches. I will add a market watch and I'll say By Area. Again, this works exactly the same way, in this case you define a polygon. So I can zoom in if I want and if I just click, it puts down and anchor. I can draw a shape that looks like whatever I want, and then when I close it out, it just includes listing within that shaded area. And again, I can define the optional filters however I want. Click on Done, again that creates it. I'll call it Canton Market Watch again, 'cause why not? Leave it on monthly, Create Market Watch Report and then my report's created.

Okay, so from the settings here, you can see how you can go in and create the market watch and how you can share it directly. How you initiate the share. However, if you want the system to post for you automatically, we'll scroll down here to Facebook. Click on that, and I have other videos where we've gone over the post preferences, but you'll see, I'll go into Post Preferences, there will be an additional setting on this page that allows you to define how you want the market watches to post, and what pages you want them to post to. So, sign in with Facebook. There we go. So it signs me into my Facebook account, you can see I'm on my personal page setting by default, so this is what we'd post after the personal page, but if I go to more pages and click on that, I should get a list of all the pages that I have admin access to. Your business page will probably be under here, but I'll click on my little test page, and now this is the post settings for that particular page, and like I said, we've done other videos where we've gone over the Facebook post preferences, you can see that we can, you know post new listings. We can have it post open houses, all that stuff, but the one we're interested in for this particular video is market watch.

So if I wanted to post my market watches automatically, the market watches I created on the previous page, I'll just switch that to on, and then Post Frequency is gonna be not how often it posts, but the most it will post. So for example, I have one market watch set up and I have it set to run monthly. So I don't really have to change this because at most it's gonna post once a month, but let's say I setup two or three different market watches and I want all those to post, but if I have three and I only want it to post at most one a day. So if I set them all up on the same day in a month, they're all gonna try to post again, 'cause it'll all be updated the same day. If I don't want it to post all three of them, I'll switch this to one per day, it'll only post one and then it will queue the other market watch reports to post on following days. So that's what this setting does. It's not how often it actually posts, it's the most it will post based on how often you have it setup.

So once you have these settings the way you want them, go ahead and click Save Preferences and now it's gonna take my one market watch and it's automatically gonna post it to my, in this case my little tester Facebook page at most once per day. So basically when that post regenerates in a month or when that market watch regenerates in a month, it's gonna post it on my Facebook page for me. So that's all there is to it, once you setup your market watches, turn on your Facebook settings, you can just let it run, and the automations will take care of it for you.

All right, so as always, thanks a lot for joining me this week. I hope you're super excited about the market watch posting feature. I know I am. It's awesome stuff. Feel free to give us a call if you have any questions or concerns or send an email into support@deltagroup.com or leave a comment on our video on either Facebook or YouTube, and we'll be sure to answer any of your questions, and if you want to get notifications when these new videos come up or when we pop up live, go ahead and like and subscribe to our Facebook and YouTube channels and you'll get notifications on whichever one you like or subscribe to us on. So thanks a lot for joining me and I will see you again next week with something new.