As we announced a few minutes ago, the Discussions section on the John Hall intranet now sends emails to REALTORS® that have subscribed to a particular category of topics. This improvement affects 2 questions I’m often asked from listing agents and buyer’s agents.
Q: How do I let other REALTORS® know I’m willing to help with their open houses?
A: First subscribe to the “Listings that need to be held open” discussion category. This will ensure you’re notified via email whenever another John Hall REALTOR® adds their listings to this forum. Then start a new topic in the “Agents that would like to help with open houses” category where you talk a little bit about yourself and the geographical areas you would like to work.
Previously we had a checkbox in the intranet profiles that indicated whether you would like to help with open houses or not. The feedback about the checkbox indicated it wasn’t that useful. So this week we took note of the 51 REALTORS® that had checked they would like to help, then deleted it. We then subscribed those 51 REALTORS® to the “Listings that need to be help open” category. This means they will now be emailed when a listing agent adds their listing to the open house discussion.
Q: How do I find other REALTORS® that would like to sit my listings as Open Houses?
A: Post your listing in the “Listings that need to be held open” category! Not only will it be there for all passerbys, it will also be emailed to all REALTORS® that are subscribed that category. This category’s subscriber count is currently 51.
I’m extremely optimistic this improvement will help both sides much better than the tools we had before.
