Showing posts with label business opportunities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business opportunities. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Business of Online Home Search

I've been searching for a new house for the past several months.

I searched the Net with Google as the default search engine. I was just so pleasantly surprised to find even bigger, more innovative property and listing engines such as Trulia & Point2 Homes.

Point2 Homes was developed in Canada. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they listed over 500 agents direct from the Philippines! Many just recently joined, and I was glad to stumble upon it thanks to my habitual tendency to research. They had a lot of houses to show, too.

The technology and intuitive interface makes it easy to list and blog on a more regular basis. I first read about the possibility of doing a real estate blog integrated with other services such as online maps from Yuga. Google Maps energizes the home search process by plotting the location of those listed houses using of those green, squamous-cell-like 'things' that sort of pops out on the area like a mini-cobra. To what extent will it make the search easier--well, what do you think?

The concept of integration drives the continuous improvement of these sites. There's the blogs to build community of brokers. Well, not all brokers and agents can write. However, there were a few entries that seemed to read well about the area of their specialization.

Speaking of Point2Homes, this became an amazing online e-commerce application to come up with my own dynamic, databased new real estate listing website. I ended up including a good number of BF Homes, Paranaque direct listings--a result of those many days of searching on foot for the perfect house. These are the houses that didn't meet my needs, but may meet other home buyers' preferences!

I am now putting those listings on my pilot site, to load and syndicate with other Pinoy brokers across the world. Yup, I didn't forget to link to my own Architerra blog just to nudge the neural networking growth a wee bit.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

A Dose of Vitamins and Good Cheer

Our friend and Bibliamate, Christian David, recently gave Gerry my hubby a nice present: a bottle of Intra capsules!

Intra is a popular vitamin supplement from the Lifestyles group. Christian is International Marketing Director for the company. And since you can only get the product through its network of marketing professionals,we were fortunate to get it direct from the head himself!

Gerry was feeling weak, feverish, and had a sore throat. Must have been due to the past few weeks of high-stress activities and shortened hours of sleep. Christian was kind enough to part with a bottle. He genuinely wanted to make Gerry feel better (as Gerry's wife, I sensed that).

Ger has been taking Intra for the past 3 days. And true enough he started to detox. The high fiber cleansed out the digestive debris and he started to feel a lot better. Combined with his anti-allergy medicine, the flu-like symptoms disappeared. I asked Christian, "Do you have something to lower high cholesterol?". I was only half kidding. I needed to bring my cholesterol down from a 200+ high risk level. I was already feeling dizzy most of the time, partly due to raised blood pressure combined with other pressures.

I read the flyer on Intra that claims it has 23 botanicals that strengthen's the body's systems. Perfect for those who lack sufficient nutrients due to imbalanced and usually rushed meals.

Christian also gave us some info on Nutria, another vitamin supplement from the Lifestyles, which we could use in tandem with Intra. The list brings to mind colorful images of a lush botanical garden: apple, rosehip, green tea, cherry, orange, prune, parsley, onion, mango, spinach, pineapple--it goes on and on. Plus nutrients like selenium, molybdenum, folic acid, beta carotene, zinc, chromium and much more. The list seems so comprehensive--and all of those nutrients found in one vitamin pill!

We all know that a pill is not a cure-all. But if you want to have extra insurance for good health and resistance to the elements, supplemental formulas such as those of Intra and Nutria are safe, sound and penny-wise propositions. I am happy that Intra worked for Gerry. He is usually skeptical about nutritional supplements. For years he handled the regional marketing of a popular multinational vitamin brand. So he knows that there are a number of questionable supplement claims out there. But he didn't question the positive results he got from Intra.

Though I know Christian wasn't trying to sell us any stuff, his perfect health and cheerful, intelligent disposition made him a convincing endorser of his own products. You can e-mail Christian David or text him at 0917-535-1312 for more of how you can benefit from Intra. Better yet, why not ask him about the benefits of joining their growing business group?