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Hello and welcome to another edition of Tech Tuesday, presented by Delta Media Group, where the paperboy doesn't have to chase us to the ends of the earth to get his $2. Today we are going to take a look at the listing profile page in the DeltaNet. We've made some changes to it, and we've tried to improve the workflow there. We're just going to go in and give it another look.

First of all, I am in DeltaNet 6 so we need to get to our listing profile page. Now in DeltaNet 5, you would typically do this by clicking on listings and then clicking on active listings, and that'll take you to your manage listings page. In DeltaNet 6, you have a few different ways you can get there. I can either click on listings here, and you can see it opens up my listings dashboard, I can click on edit listing and it'll have me enter an address or MLS ID that'll take me straight to that listing profile page, or I can click on manage my listings, and that takes me straight over to that page as well, where I can then select from my listings. I would just click on the MLS ID of any of those listings to get to that profile page, or you may have some additional options here on your listing dashboard that may allow you to get there.

Now, the other convenient way to get there is through the DeltaNet 6 quick actions up here at the top. If I just type in the address or the MLS ID, you can see it brings up some results. Then one of those is listings and I can just click on edit, and that takes me straight to that listing profile page where I can make changes if I want to.

Here we are, our listing profile page in the DeltaNet. The first thing is we have restructured this page. Originally, as you scrolled down this page, you would just find more widgets or more boxes like this as you scrolled down, and you would have to scroll all the way through them to get to whatever you want. We've simplified that by making tabs up here at the top so you can just click on the kind of thing that you want to make changes to and it'll take you straight to that section. We've started off in the main section. There may be additional options here for you, but this is kind of the primary listing information shows up here. If it is a pocket listing like this one, this is where you'll have the link to click to go in and edit the pocket listing or make changes to that.

Next, we can click on photos. We made that the second option because the idea is that that's something that you are more likely to be looking for on this page. We click on photos, that gives us our photos options. From here, you can see that we can replace photos. If I click select photo, it'll let me select from the photos on my computer and then set that one up to replace this photo. I can do that down the line here. I can click the download button to download any of these photos if I'd like to. I can click delete to individually delete any of them. I can add in a title for any of these. Then as we scroll down here, now I can also add in bulk photos that'll add to the end of the list.

Now, some of the more recent functionality we've added here is you used to have to replace each of these photos individually if you wanted to replace them. Now you have the option of hitting select photo, and then once you have selected the photos for each of the ones you'd like to replace, so if for example, I wanted to do photo one, I would click select photos, select my replacement, and then I would go down and do, say, photo three, or display three, photo six here, and just choose all the photos or select a new photo for each of the ones I'd like to replace. Then just click this button at the bottom where it's going to update them all at once. That'll replace all those photos. If I typed in any titles as I go down, it'll enter those titles as well.

It allows me to just go ahead and select all my replacements, hit one button and have them replace all at once, just like how I can bulk upload photos here. I would click on add files, select all of the photos that I'd like to add. It would put them all in the uploader here. I would then click start upload and it would upload them all and add them to the photo list. We simplified the photo workflow a bit so that you can do more actions in bulk to save you a little bit of time.

Now the other thing you can do in this page, as is kind of stated up here, you can grab this little hamburger menu, or little grabber here, and you can move these around in order to change the order of the photos on the page. If I drag this one up here, for example, here we go, so now I've reordered a few of the pictures. I didn't have to click anything to save that. Now that I've moved those, it saved those immediately upon me moving them.

Now, specifically for replacing photos, one thing to keep in mind here is that once you have made any changes to the photos, now this includes reordering the photos, adding any new photos or replacing any photos, it will basically flag this listing in our system so that we will stop pulling in photos from the MLS for this listing. That's so that we don't overwrite your changes. Now, if you did go in and make changes and then want to start pulling from the MLS again, we can do that. You just need to contact us so that we can basically remove that flag so that this'll start pulling from those again. Now the last thing you can do on this page is you have a download a zip file of all photos. You can click this button and that will download a zip file that will contain all of the listing photos. Again, just designed as a convenience feature to save you some time.

Now the next thing you can do here is we'll click on videos. Now we have some detailed Tech Tuesdays on actually going in and adding video media like this, but just to give you a quick idea, every one of these fields works in roughly the same way. I'll just take the video that I'd like to add, click the little plus sign to expand that section, and then all I have to do is grab the video URL. This is a YouTube video so I would just go to that video page on YouTube, paste the URL here in this video URL field, and hit update. Then the system will fill in the rest of these fields automatically for me. I don't want to go in and add the video ID and then add the URL, then share URL. I just add one of these things. Then when I click update, the system will handle the rest and embed this on the page.

The same goes for the rest of these. If I wanted to do a Facebook video, I would put in the Facebook video URL, hit update. Once it's already in there, I just hit remove and that'll delete it. All these sections work the same way.

Now the next piece here, we're going to click on open house. This is how I would add an open house to this listing. If this ability is turned on at the company level, and you have the ability to add open houses to your listings, this is where you would do it. You can see all the open houses that are already set up for this listing, or you can add a new one. You can also set up the virtual open houses from here. You would set this up just like a regular open house, but click our virtual open house button. That gives you the ability to put in a URL where that virtual open house will be presented. We've got other videos that go through that in detail.

The next thing you can do here is set open house availability. What this does is basically present to the other agents in the company when this listing is available to host an open house so that they can see that. Then they can request to be able to host that open house at that time. You have this open house availability system in here, you just set the dates, hit add open house availability, and it will basically display those on the welcome page as long as that is turned on at the company level for all the other agents in the company. Then if anyone wants to host that, they can click a button on that interface to get the request to go to you, and then you can approve or deny it as to whether they get to host this open house. Now that is a system that can be turned on at the company level. Again, we have some other videos that go through in detail that.

Moving on, if I click on V tours, this is where I would enter a primary or secondary virtual tour for this listing. You can just paste the URL in here. You can also choose a vendor, but you don't need to. Really you just need to paste in the URL and hit update. That'll add a link to the listing detail page that will take users to your virtual tour. It actually opens it in a new window. Now builders and communities, if the builder and community system is turned on for your company, you can go in here and you can select from the company's builders or communities, basically to associate this listing with a specific builder or a community or both. You would just select those and hit update.

Now for showings, this lets you add showings to a listing. You can see it gives you the ability to enter an outside agent number, outside agent name, and just in general enter all the information about the showing. You can then choose whether or not this will create a calendar event and show up on your calendar. If you have, for example, your Office 365 calendar synced, you can create a calendar event for this and it will also show up on your office calendar in addition to your calendar in the DeltaNet. Then you can also choose whether or not this showing will be displayed on the seller reports, if you have any seller reports set up for this listing to go out to your sellers. We have detailed videos on the seller reports also for getting those set up, but this is where you would add those new showings in. Just enter the information and click add new showing.

Next we have notes. This works in much the same way as the showings, only with less fields. You just enter your note, just plain text, and you can choose whether or not this note will just exist here. You can go back in and see it after the fact, and you can see there are a few notes that I've added in here before. If you check the box, in addition to showing up here, those notes will also appear on the seller reports. It just allows you to easily store information about this listing or specific to this listing that you can either reference by yourself through the DeltaNet, or if you'd like to share it with your seller, you can have it included on those seller reports also.

Now next we have mapping. Now this allows you to ... or really the primary function of this page is if it is, especially if it is a newer listing, the map coordinates might not show up correctly in the map search. Typically this happens, oftentimes the location on a map comes from Google. We'll put that information to basically ask Google where the pin on a map should be based on the address for that listing. That's where it shows up in the map search. If for some reason that's incorrect, there are some regions where mapping information is just less reliable.

Also with new listings, Google might not have them mapped yet. You have the ability to manually set that pin here. You would just click on is this listing in the wrong position and that'll open up a map. You can see it opens up in a new tab here, and then you can drag that pin to wherever you think it should be or wherever ... not really where you think it should be, but where the listing actually is, and then hit save this location. From that point forward, that's where this listing will show up in the map search. It allows you to correct that location.

I'll go ahead and close out that tab. Next we have title and tagline, so we'll click on that. Now here we have these tagline and title information that you can add to this listing. Some of this is just for reference internally, like this name field. Title can be used for some different marketing features if those are turned on. Otherwise it's just a title you can add to the listing through here. Then tagline will also potentially be usable through or searchable through the DeltaNet. You can use it for different things in there. Tagline will also show up on the listing search results pages on most of the search results templates. When someone brings up a search results page, the tagline for the listing may show up there. It's particularly useful for things like vacation rentals, where the rental kind of has a name. Tagline will work well for that.

Next we have sellers. This allows you to attach a seller to this listing. It's an easy way for you to keep track of who the seller is once you have them added to your system or added to your CRM in the DeltaNet. You just type their name in here and then it brings up an auto completer and then I can just select them, and now it's added them here. Now we've added new functionality that there will be more videos for going forward, where if the user has signed in with a Facebook account, it will pull their Facebook profile photo and automatically populate that here. That's kind of handy. This is a way that I can easily attach a seller to a listing. Then if I need to contact that seller, I can just open up my listing profile page, go over to sellers, look at my seller card here, and then I can just click on that button to go ahead and load up an email.

Now I can customize this however I'd like, but you can see our default email, "Your property is now available on my website." The particularly nice thing here is when the listing first comes in, you can go in, add the seller, and then really quickly fire off this email so that they know that the listing's now available on the website and it gives them a link to where they can view their listing on your website.

I'll close that out. Now the next, there is a custom field section. This is only available if custom fields are turned on at the company level. For most companies it's not, but this is where that would be if that system is turned on. Primarily, this is if there was something very specific to your market that has been added to the property search, you would be able to turn this on and off for listings from this page or from this widget. Then next we have an import export notes. This allows you to quickly import a CSV or export a CSV of the notes that have been added to this listing.

There you have it. That is the listing profile page in the DeltaNet with our most recent updates to it. It allows you to kind of more quickly get to this information. It's segmented in a way that it's a little bit easier to kind of understand and absorb, to be able to make changes to your listings in the DeltaNet. As always, if you have any questions, comments, concerns, feel free to send an email into support@deltagroup.com, or give us a call and we will be happy to walk you through whatever functionality you'd like. Thanks a lot for joining me. I will see you again next week.