CGIDir Monday, July 10, 2006; 06:53 AM
Seattle-based XoomPad.com has launched its new satellite
mapping service to free real estate agents and brokers from dependence
on 4-5 large Real Estate firms monopolizing the Internet today.
President and CEO of XoomPad.com, Vipin Singh, said XoomPad.com is
built on one of the most scalable and robust technology platforms
existing today, viz LAMP, (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).
While the big Real estate brokerage firms have launched new websites
featuring the latest mapping technologies, they often do not work on
all browsers. Some Internet sites do not work on the latest version of
IE and some do not work on Mozilla Firefox. XoomPad works equally well
on all existing browsers, ending the widespread 'browser barrier' that
is rampant today.
Vipin
said XoomPad was created "by agents, for agents" and its mission is to
empower the independent Real Estate agents while protecting
the consumer from "day trading" their life savings away in "do it
yourself" type real estate transactions where thousands of dollars can
be lost due to lack of experience and expertise. The average consumer
is easily misled by the empty promise of new technologies, tries to do
it all by himself and this gives rise to behavior which led to the
Internet Stock trading bust. In addition, the average real estate agent
is often left standing alone, nickeled and dimmed by the huge old world
companies
and squeezed on the other end by hot shot Internet companies.
While
everyone agrees that the prospective home buyers' use of the Internet
while house hunting has sky rocketed in the last 3 years, XoomPad is
taking this trend a step further by providing the most advanced tools
to the average real estate agents. Paul Tretter, VP of Marketing for
XoomPad says, "Our best features are the lead management system in the
back end, built to help real estate agent/broker teams manage the
leads. We also give
consumers the best mapping technologies for aerial view of homes and
neighborhoods to get information in a timely fashion."
XoomPad's
first customer is UrbanTango.com which is an agent website of the
Keller Williams franchise office in North Seattle. At KW Vipin found a
different approach a group of agents working together, which allowed
him to get out of selling real estate and build a team for XoomPad
products, while the KW agents act as a family helping each other.
The XoomPad technical team is working hard to launch 6 other agent and
broker sites within the next 10 days, soon to be followed by over 100
in the next 30 days. XoomPad is in final contract discussions to launch
over 100 Real Estate agent websites for Keller William regional offices
and agents in the State of Washington. Vipin says the reception by the
agents and brokers has exceeded his expectations. He says the #1 agent
for a very large real estate company called, saying his company did not
support his website,
all they cared about was their own, and that he wanted to buy his tools
for his own website. "We are constantly validated in our mission to
help each and every real estate agent, because we know they care about
consumers," says Vipin. XoomPad has started plans to build broker/agent
sites within 50 major US cities and MLS systems within 90 days.
XoomPad.com
is a division of MyTypes, Inc. a Seattle based company with venture
funding from real estate industry insiders and technology veterans.
Each
office of Keller Williams is independently owned and operated.
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