Just in time for Mother’s Day, we have launched three new RES Flyer designs to help you send a personal greeting to the Mom of your choosing. Click here to view a sample Mother’s Day Show.

To create your own Mother’s Day RES Flyer, you must first create your Real Estate Show. Once your Show is complete, click on Create Flyer link in your Show editor or from the Manage and Edit Existing Shows page. Choose one of the Mother’s Day Flyer templates and you’re on your way.

We’re hearing that Spring may have finally taken hold in most of the country. It’s hard for us to tell here in Southern California. So, it’s not too late to send out a spring greeting.

We’ve designed some new Spring RES Flyer templates to help.

And, since so many of you asked for a tutorial after the last templates we released. I’ve put together a sample spring RES flyer and a video tutorial using photos from my personal Flickr account. I have been taking a lot of photos of flowers lately and finally figured out a way to use them! Here is the link to my Flickr flowers and plants set. You’ll see how to use it in the video below. (If you just want to create a show using the exact photos you can download a ZIP file here: Five Flower Photos )

Don’t let the tutorial limit you. Be creative. Do you have a neighborhood you specifically wish to target? Take your camera out and snap some photos of the some of the homes with the best floral displays. Use the Spring template to highlight that neighborhood and link to it from your website and blog, or send the link to your email list for that area. Do you have some other ideas? Share them in the comments here, we’d love to hear them.

Here’s how to use my Flowers & Plants photos to create your own Spring greeting.

You’ve always been able to create personal electronic birthday greetings using Real Estate Shows. Now you can wrap those birthday greetings up in a pretty package as well!

Here’s a sample of an electronic birthday greeting using RealEstateShows.com.

On March 19, 2008 from 12:00 Noon to 1:45 PM in Room 505, I will be speaking at the Colorado Realtor Rally to be held the Colorado Convention Center. I’ll be covering some of the free tools you can use to grow your business and walking the audience though some live “how to” sessions on each of my selected tools. This will not be just another list of free websites, but a thorough analysis of a few real winners in the “FREE” category. I say “free” because nothing is really free. And some of the sites I’ll be presenting have options that eventually require that you pay… and you should!

Also presenting:

Mariana Wagner, Bonnie Cox, Chris Frerecks and Vali Wimberly are on a panel entitled Blogging for Business from 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM in Room 506

Click here to register for REALTOR® Rally!

New distribution channels have been added for your RES Flyers.

Today we launched distribution links to Zillow.com, Geebo.com and Hotpads.com, to add to the already available syndication channels at RealEstateShows.com. You may update any existing listing to these new channels by logging into your account, clicking on Manage & Edit Existing Shows and then clicking on the publish link for any property you’d like to distribute to these new channels.

Remember that none of the sites can use your distribution if you have not included the address for the property. We have been seeing a larger than expected number of attempts to create distribution without property addresses. This will result in a rejection by the distribution partners, since the address fields are part of their search criteria. So, be sure to include the correct address in your property description.