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Snap Tours

Real Estate Marketing Is A Snap With New Snap Tours Web Site 

LAKELAND, FL- Friday, September 4, 2009— A Lakeland businessman recently launched a company designed to assist real estate agents in marketing themselves and their listings.

Snap Tours is a real estate marketing tool for agents anywhere in the United States, said Michael G. Barrett, creative director of Snap Tours and the company’s founder.

Snap Tours is a Lakeland-based company offering a complete marketing package that is a step above traditional real estate virtual tours, Barrett said. Agents can use Snap Tours to create virtual tours, branded e-mails and brochures. With just one click, Snap Tours can convert photos, information and the agent’s personal brand into video.

“We’re the only service that does that,” Barrett said.

The site also makes it easy for real estate agents to share their listings via 39 social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  The listing information can even be posted on MLS.

The marketing information that real estate agents can generate from Snap Tours integrates with www.realtor.com, a site used widely by agents to list properties.

“This doesn’t require downloading any software,” Barrett said. “This is all Internet-based, which means you can do this from your office, your home or your laptop.”

Tracking and reports is another important feature on the site, he said. This feature provides statistical information on the tours that are viewed by visitors and enables agents to track their marketing efforts for every listed property.

Lakeland Realtor Gate Arty uses Snap Tours to market his listings and said the technology is “vastly superior” to other virtual tour Web sites.

“It’s just a better quality product overall,” Arty said. “I like the multi-functional aspects of it.”

Arty said he also is a fan of the complete real estate marketing package capabilities Snap Tours offers. 

“I’m very much into branding, he said. “I like the fact that you pay one fee and you get all those components. It’s like a one-stop shop.”

Snap Tours costs $39.95 per month and agents can post an unlimited number of real estate listings. No long-term contracts are required. Signing up for the services requires a one-time graphic set-up fee of $49.95, which covers the cost of creating the custom branding aspects for each agent. 

Snap Tours is more than a new business venture for Barrett. He created the site as a means of generating revenue to fund Trash Mountain Project, a non-profit organization he founded with Brett Durbin after a trip to Tegucigalpa, Honduras in November 2008 to film a documentary about families living in the neighboring trash dump community.

Proceeds from Snap Tours will be used to build homes and provide necessities to children and families living in similar communities around the world, Barrett said.

For more information on Snap Tours, visit the company’s Web site: www.mysnaptours.com or call (888) 503-7627.

For more information on The Trash Mountain Project, visit www.trashmountain.com.

About Snap Tours

Snap Tours is a real estate marketing tool that enables agents to create virtual tours, branded e-mails and brochures. With just one click, Snap Tours can convert photos, information and the agent’s personal brand into video.

The site also makes it easy for real estate agents to share their listings via 39 social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  The listing information can even be posted on MLS and it integrates effortlessly with www.realtor.com.

For more information, visit the company’s Web site: www.mysnaptours.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING SOLUTION

MARKETLINX OFFERS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING SOLUTION —Viral Marketing Tool Promotes Real Estate Listings Using Facebook™ and Twitter™— SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2009 – MarketLinx, Inc., a leading provider of information technology to the residential real estate industry and a member of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, announced today that it has partnered with AnnounceMyMove, LLC to offer a new social media marketing tool to its MLXchange™, TEMPO™ and InnoVia™ customers. Called AnnounceMyListing™, the solution uses Web-based social media services to promote real estate listings and introduce agents to their clients’ social networks. The program pulls data and images from MarketLinx multiple listing service (MLS) systems to automatically create unique listing announcements. Visitors can then use these interactive announcements to easily share the listings with friends on popular social media services like Facebook™, MySpace™ and Twitter™. “With more than 200 million users, sites like Facebook represent a huge, untapped resource for real estate professionals,” said Bryan Foreman, president of MarketLinx MLS Solutions. “By adding social networking tools to our world-class MLS systems, we’ve created a marketing solution that has tremendous value for both agents and consumers. Agents can directly access their client’s sphere of influence to expand their referral network, while consumers benefit from highly targeted listing exposure. AnnounceMyMove is a pioneer in social media solutions for the real estate industry and we are very excited to bring their viral marketing technology to our customers.” For details on AnnounceMyListing, MarketLinx customers should contact their regional account manager or Janelle Odishoo, AnnounceMyMove co-founder and vice president of marketing and business development, at (888) 823-0919 ext. 151. For information on MarketLinx’s full suite of real estate information technology solutions and services, visit www.marketlinx.com. About MarketLinx® MarketLinx, Inc., a subsidiary of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), offers a full range of products and support services to address the information technology needs of the real estate brokerage and multiple listing service (MLS) market segments. The company’s full array of capabilities streamlines the real estate listing, financing and closing processes, resulting in increased efficiency and profitability. MarketLinx provides North America’s leading MLS and real estate software systems, including solutions for broker business management, agent productivity, front and back-office management, and MLS data aggregation and distribution. For more information, visit www.marketlinx.com. About First American The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is a FORTUNE 500® company that traces its history to 1889. With revenues of approximately $6.2 billion in 2008, it is America’s largest provider of business information. First American combines advanced analytics with its vast data resources to supply businesses and consumers with valuable information products to support the major economic events of people’s lives, such as getting a job, renting an apartment, buying a car or house, securing a mortgage and opening or buying a business. The First American Family of Companies, many of which command leading market share positions in their respective industries, operate within five primary business segments, including: Title Insurance and Services, Specialty Insurance, Information and Outsourcing Solutions, Data and Analytic Solutions, and Risk Mitigation and Business Solutions. More information about the company and an archive of its press releases can be found at www.firstam.com. About AnnounceMyMove AnnounceMyMove, LLC is an industry pioneer in providing “social media” marketing tools to the real estate industry. Individual agents and offices, local and national real estate companies, and Multiple Listing Services have contracted with AnnounceMyMove to provide a unique relationship marketing tool to help them grow their business. AnnounceMyListing is the company’s newest product and uses the concept of Web 2.0 and shared APIs to provide REALTORS® with a viral marketing tool to promote their listings and build referrals. For more information, visit www.announcemymove.com.

Loan Modification Tools

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 3, 2009 -- ModTutor.com is proud to announce its "free" loan modification service, designed to empower the average American with the knowledge and confidence needed when requesting new mortgage terms from their lender(s). A video presentation of the service can be viewed at the URL

http://www.modtutor.com/sneakpreview. Mod Tutor provides various tools which aid the homeowners to submit their own loan modification request and avoid using already depleted funds on a foreclosure counselor or real estate attorney. The confidence gained by homeowners who take advantage of this free system will allow them to address their mortgage concerns head on.

"We have families on the edge of foreclosure that are being offered things that are too good to be true, and we will take every measure we can to educate and protect consumers and homeowners, bring these scams to light, and work to prevent con artists from exploiting the housing crisis,"stated HUD Secretary Donovan in a press release this past April.

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Find How This Realtor Modified 7 of His Own Mortgages

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"Not all loan modification companies are scams, but many homeowners do not know which companies to choose and/or lack the financial capacity to hire professional services," says Sammy Heard, Director for ModTutor.com

The major difference between MakingHomesAffordable.gov, a government-sponsored site, and ModTutor.com is that the information on ModTutor.com is broken down into easy-to-understand terms and formats. The main focus on most government sites is to assist homeowners whose loans are backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, only accounting for a small portion of homeowners, leaving the rest of the nation out on a limb. In attempting to modify their loan, many homeowners make simple mistakes during the submission process which gets them denied by their lender(s). Unlike most government sites which give you broad information, Mod Tutor has specific resources to help you avoid these pitfalls.

Created by loan modification professionals, the ModTutor.com site is a great free resource that includes an instructional video library, a comprehensive e-book, a question-and-answer discussion board, lender-specific modification forms, state foreclosure summation, and a breakdown of the Making Homes Affordable program.

"The country's mortgage crisis has put many homeowners in a position where they feel that they have limited options and resources for mortgage assistance. Homeowners are flooded with multiple solicitations from mortgage professionals and even law firms touting promises of modifying loans and saving homes for an upfront fee totaling several thousands of dollars. At ModTutor.com we believe that with the proper education and resources, homeowners can work directly with their lender and accomplish the same results as professionals. We have developed a system, free of charge for homeowners, providing them the tools and resources needed to be successful in obtaining a loan modification,"

says Paul Akinmade, Lead Designer for ModTutor.com.

A preview of the services provided can be viewed at

http://www.modtutor.com/sneakpreview.

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Find How This Realtor Modified 7 of His Own Mortgages

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"Not all loan modification companies are scams, but many homeowners do not know which companies to choose and/or lack the financial capacity to hire professional services," says Sammy Heard, Director for ModTutor.com