Internet marketing for real estate: a practical tactical blog

What’s New From Union Street Media?

Since the last site launch post, Union Street Media has been busy with a variety of exciting projects:

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New Hampshire real estate agency Prudential Spencer Hughes is a long time client of Union Street Media. They went for a redesign to update the look of their website. They’re also continuing with our Report Recommend Revise Internet Marketing services to ensure the site’s high level of performance.

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Overland Summers is a teen adventure program that offers a variety of lifetime experiences to youth. Their offerings include hiking & biking excursions, writing programs, language immersion programs, and more. Overland came to us wanting a redesign that would better express the incredible programs they offer. They are also marketing their website through Union Street Media’s RRR Program.

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Eve Thompson is a Reston, VA, realtor who has been utilizing our Internet Marketing services for some time. Eve made the decision to have Union Street Media build a brand new website that reflects the “new urban” appeal of Reston. Our Internet Marketing team continues to work with Eve on her online marketing efforts through the RRR program.

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The Burlington Tennis Club is a member-owned, non-profit recreational club located in Chittenden County, VT. They came to Union Street Media wanting to keep up with the times, and attract younger members with a cleaner, better designed website. Their goal was to shift their advertising focus from traditional methods to include more digital marketing.

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Located in Greenwich, CT, Brunswick School is a college preparatory day school for boys in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12. Brunswick needed a fresh, new design for their site that provided easier navigation for potential students, their parents, and alumni. Union Street Media gave them the functionality they desired in a professional and aesthetically pleasing package.

Bullrock Corporation LogoBullrock Corporation has been in construction management and real estate development since the early 1980s, and in 2000 they became involved in the senior living business. Bullrock Corporation came to us needing a website that provided clear information about their services, targeted potential customers, and provided a professional representation of their business.

Union Street Media is proud to add each of these sites to our evolving portfolio of clients!

Union Street Media’s Newest Site Launches

There were a number of exciting site launches this month:

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Camp Pemigewassett (or “Camp Pemi” for short) is a family owned boys camp in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire.  They needed a better laid out site to reach potential campers to experience this character building camping experience. Their new site helps extend their reach and foster relationships with alumni.

dream-maker-logoDream Maker Properties LLC is a boutique real estate firm in North Carolina that needed a stronger web presence to highlight their expertise. With offices in Chapel Hill and Elkin, they needed their website to extend their viability in North Carolina real estate. The new website and blog is designed to achieve just that that.

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OMARA is a non-profit booster club that works with the Okemo Mountain Competition Programs and Okemo Mountain School to provide support to those who are serious about their future in their respective discipline. Their site offers more insight into what they do, who they serve, and the awesome snow sports programs at Okemo Mountain Resort.

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This Massachusetts real estate agency needed to display their experience in Cape Cod commercial real estate, vacation rentals, and collection of other properties they offer.  Their new site gives visitors a fresh new interface, easier navigation, and a blog for the folks at Bayside Realty Consultants to display their knowledge.

tubbs-mill-logoThis hydro-powered commercial property in Stowe needed a website that illustrated its authentic beauty. Redstone Commercial Group can be proud of this historic property, which was formerly a saw and grist mill. Check out the captivating Tubbs Mill and matching website here.

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RE/MAX Presidential is a real estate agency serving the Mount Washington Valley in New Hampshire and Maine. They needed a better designed website to feature their extensive property listings and wealth of local knowledge. Check out their new site to see how easy to navigate it has become.

merritt-merritt-logoThe Merritt & Merritt & Moulton boutique law firm, located here in Burlington, VT, provides support and guidance to a variety of start up companies. Their new Wordpress template better displays the depth of professional services they provide.

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This forum for Vermont entrepreneurs was also switched to the Wordpress platform. It now has better functionality to provide a better link to the network of associated organizations and individuals. You can see the site and find out when their next meeting is here.

The Union Street Media team is proud to have these new additions to our constantly growing portfolio of awesome websites!

Union Street Media’s Latest Site Launches!

Union Street Media has a lot of exciting new website launches this month:

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From the Upper Connecticut River Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, James Becker provides custom furniture, reproduction furniture, and his own original designs.  Jim provided USM with excellent photography and site copy.  We were able to put it all together to create an awesome looking site for Jas. Becker Cabinetmaker Inc.

ski_home_logoAll of the agents at Ski Home Realty are avid skiers and snowboarders, making them experts in Mount Snow region real estate. They needed a fresh new design and content to reflect their expertise. From their office at the base of Mt. Snow, Ski Home Realty provides quality townhouses, condos, vacation rentals, and more to those looking for an exciting Vermont snow adventure.

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Chip Craig and the team at GreyBeard Realty are based in the mountains of Western North Carolina.  As longtime Union Street Media clients, the came back to us to refresh their site to make it more functional and user-friendly.  We were happy to help out in the process and are proud of the results!

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The Aloha Foundation on Lake Fairlee in Vermont is another longtime Union Street Media client that relaunched their site with us this past month.  After visiting the site, you’ll see why we’d love to go back to camp for a summer!

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The Green Castle Estate House is an intimate vacation villa on a remarkably beautiful and historic plantation in the Jamaican countryside. Green Castle brings together diverse stakeholders that are committed to a positive future. They specialize in eco-friendly vacations and they needed a clean new design to illustrate the gorgeous environment Green Castle inhabits.

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The Burlington Climate Action Plan is helping the City reduce emissions to 80% below what they were in 2007 by 2050. The BCAP needed a more functional website to make their plan more widespread and easier to find on the internet.

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The Church Street Marketplace is an award winning open air mall that is a hub of activity. Union Street Media gave this Burlington cultural center a new design so web surfers can easily find out more about the various stores, restaurants, and events that make Church Street such a downtown hot spot. Visitors of Burlington can also find information about history, directions, parking, and store hours.

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At the Putnam Indian Field School in Greenwich CT, children build positive relationships, grow in independence, develop skills, and gain knowledge in areas that interest them in a warm and nurturing environment. The redesigned website allows new families and returning ones to have easy access to PIFS information and enriching programs.

All of these sites are proudly welcomed to our expanding portfolio. If you want your website to better represent your business, contact Union Street Media today!

Another Round of Site Launches!

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First off we have a redesign for Sox to Go. You can pick up any type of socks from your favorite NBA team to socks with Moose on them! We provided them with  a re-designed site to better reflect the more intuitive e-commerce flow that customers are looking for with a fresh new color palette.

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From skiing to real estate Tamara McKinney focuses her business on Squaw Valley, North Lake Tahoe and Truckee areas. Tamara is a former Olympic skier and has intimate knowledge of the Squaw Valley having grown up there.

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Children of Fallen Patriots is an excellent foundation based on helping children who have lost loved ones get the money they need for a college eduction. This organization needed a more secure site to accept donations and a more interactive way for visitors to share experiences and thoughts through the site and social media platforms. Union Street Media was delighted to be able to make this possible.

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Tourterelle brings some French charm to New Haven VT. They belong to the Vermont Fresh Network and work with area farms to bring the freshest ingredients from the field to the plate. They were looking for an innovative design with great usability and search engine optimization to establish a presence in a competitive market.

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Prestige Real Estate of Killington They specialize in listing and selling Killington condominiums, town homes, single-family homes, multi-family homes and land. Ted and Heidi at Prestige Killington are long standing clients and we were excited to take their existing site to the next level of functionality using the latest real estate tools available including seamless MLS integration.

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The Corvus Group are a full-service real estate brokerage firm servicing the Dartmouth – Lake Sunapee region of New Hampshire. The designer went for a clean, crisp approach, which helps visitors locate exactly what they are looking and are able to learn about the area through fresh blog content and knowledgeable area information.

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At Brookside Gynecology , skilled and caring physicians offer up-to-date information, thorough evaluation methods, and excellence in treatment options for women from adolescence through adulthood. We updated the look of their site, made it easier to navigate, and added additional information that was missing from the current sites.  The new look is more feminine, soft, and up-to-date, while still looking professional and a touch clinical in nature.


We are proud to add these websites to Union Street Media’s ever-growing portfolio!

New Site Launches by Union Street Media

Another month has passed and we have launched four great new websites!

The first new website that we are pleased to present to the public is that of ACRE Strategies which is a real estate consulting firm focused on empowering buyers in Massachusetts. The ACRE site is a perfect example of a clean brand-building site for a new business.

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The second site that we would like to introduce is that of the Burlington Legacy Project. The Burlington Legacy Project is a city government organization focused on promoting sustainable municipal growth strategies for Burlington as it grows into the future.  This is a wonderful organization that works to provide a framework for Burlington to help it maintain its vibrant urban nature and wonderful character far into the future.

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Sneakers Bistro has been a Union Street Media client for many years now, so when they wanted an updated look for their website they came back to us. For those of you aren’t local and thus don’t know about this local legend, Sneakers is a fantastic breakfast and lunch spot in the heart of Winooski, Vermont. It is a fun, energetic place and that is just the thing we went for in our new design of the site. Have a look  – we dare you to look at their site and not want Cheese Grits.

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The last Website that we would like to introduce is Atlantic Barn and Timber – a wonderful custom timber framing company in North Carolina. For artisans such as the people at Atlantic Barn, a website needs to support the images of their work – not distract from them. Their new site is subtly designed to be a digital extension of their truly fantastic craft.

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We here at Union Street Media are please to add these sites to our ever-growing, diverse website portfolio!

New Site Launches by Union Street Media

As always, we have been very busy here this summer at Union Street Media building and launching new sites for some great new clients.

We would like to welcome Harbor Light Realty to the Union Street Media family. Harbor Light is a seven-person office specializing in residential and investment properties in the Lake Sunapee Region of New Hampshire. Their new website is a great example of a real estate site that not only sells the agency’s expertize but really sells the market area.

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As more people hear about our real estate sites, we find new clients coming from farther and farther afield. To serve this growing segment of our business, we are using third party IDX services and building great lead generation websites for people all over the country. In our last launch update, we featured a new WordPress real estate site for Lina Panza in Montclair New Jersey. This month we are pleased to add two more WordPress real estate clients to our ranks.

Granger Properties specializes in vacation and second homes in the Lake Tahoe area. In building their website, they wanted to really focus on the activities and lifestyle that the Lake Tahoe area offers. Please visit the site and see how Granger Properties can introduce you to living in Tahoe!

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In the Washington D.C. area we have just launched a WordPress real estate site for Eve Thompson. Eve Thompson chose to focus her website on the internationally known town of Reston, Virgina. Reston was built to revolutionize post-World War II town planning, and has an incredibly unique and interesting character. Please join Eve and see all that Reston has to offer.

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One of the things that we at Union Street Media most value about our clients is that they are constantly coming to us with new ideas and concepts that we can help them realize. A particularly fantastic idea that Burlington VT Real Estate Broker, Brian Boardman, brought to us recently was Agents Driving Hybrids. Brian had purchased a hybrid and realized that with all the miles that Realtors log, this was a chance to make a significant difference in the carbon footprint of the entire industry. Brian wanted to develop web-based resources that would help other Realtors and agents to make the switch to driving hybrids and thus Agents Driving Hybrids was born. Please visit the website and see what Brain is doing to make a difference.

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The last site we would like to introduce is the new online face of Massy Quick Wealth Management and Investment Consulting. The Morristown, NJ based firm specializes in management of private funds for wealthy individuals and organizations. They work as fee-only peer investors, viewing each client’s portfolio through the eyes of the investor instead of as a commission-based service provider.

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We are very please to add these website to Union Street Media’s portfolio.

Union Street Media Introduces the New Online Face of the Northwestern Vermont Board of Realtors

We here at Union Street Media are pleased to announce the launching of The Northwestern Vermont Board of Realtors new website, NVBR.com. We are very happy to add this new site to our growing list of Realtor board and Association sites which include The New Hampshire Association of Realtors and the Vermont Association of Realtors.

New Site Launches by Union Street Media

As always, we have been busy here at Union Street Media adding new clients and websites to our portfolio. We are pleased to announce the launch of four new websites for four great companies this month. Our Real Estate Department has been very busy and has introduced three new sites in the past month. They are:

Atlantic Bay Sotheby’s International is a great real estate agency serving Outer Cape Cod. They are located in Provincetown and specialize in primary and vacation homes as well as summer vacation rentals. This our second site on the Cape, and a welcome addition to the Union Street Media family.

We are also happy to welcome Kristie Dinsmore’s new site to our portfolio. Kristie Dinsmore is an expert Realtor in Southern New Hampshire Real Estate. Kristie has been a customer of ours for a number of years using our IDX integration on a third party website. We are very pleased that she has decided to build a complete site with Union Street Media.

The last Real Estate Site that we have introduced is a really interesting site for Lina Panza, a Realtor in Montclair, New Jersey. She has chosen to focus on a particular topic which is becoming more and more relevant: walkable suburbs. Partnering with Union Street Media, she as built a site focusing on suburban real estate with walkable commutes to trains and commercial districts. Her site is a great example of an agent seeing an unfilled niche in their market and building a website to take advantage of the opportunity. We are pleased to introduce this as our first real estate site in the state of New Jersey.

In the interactive realm, we launched an extensive travel information and resource site for a client based in Seattle. Know Your Trip is a great travel site that acts as a hub for travelers to share information and stories from their experiences. The site is organized into regions allowing travelers to find the information that they want quickly and easily. We are very pleased to introduce it to the travel community!

The last piece of news that we would like to announce is the first example of Union Street Media’s new video bio services. We are always looking for new ways to break down the barriers between our clients and their online visitors. To this end, we have begun to offer video production services to help our clients showcase their personality and their vision for their market. Our first subject was Burlington Realtor, Brian Boardman. We included testimonials from past clients and showed what makes Brian’s view of the area unique and exiting. Please watch the video here and let us know what you think!

New Site Launches by Union Street Media

We have been hard at work here at Union Street Media. In the last month, we have launched 4 great new websites.

Camp Takumta is a wonderful camp here in Vermont for children who have or are battling cancer. The camp has been serving children in the Vermont and Upstate New York area for 24 years. Their new site incorporates photo galleries, a blog and a dynamic calendar to allow parents and campers to stay connected through out the year.

Oleet & Co is a Burlington based financial services firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions. The firm (formally Worth Mountain Associates) Advises New England companies as they navigate the tumultuous financial market, ensuring a prosporous and productive future.

In the past month we have launched two new Real Estate related websites. The first is Tami Pelletier Real Estate LLC, a real estate office in Weare, New Hampshire. Tami Pelletier specilizes in all kinds of Southern New Hampshire Residental Real Estate and has more than 19 years of experience in the feild.

The Grand View Commons is a new water front community in Wolfboro, New Hampshire situated on Wolfboro Neck on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. The community offers waterfront and interior homes conveniently situated a moments from the downtown of one of the oldest summer communites in the country.

We are very pleased to add these new clients to our portfolio.

New Site Launches By Union Street Media

It has been a busy couple of months here at Union Street and we have quite a few new sites to announce.

We have three new real estate sites which have launched in the last month, including brokerage sites for Housing Solutions Real Estate of Hanover NH and Joy Tarbel Realty of North Conway NH. We also launched a new individual agent site for Kathy O’Brien, a Realtor here on Lake Champlain. These sites are wonderful examples of how an effective web design can capture the look and feel of a region.

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In addition we have launched a fully redesigned website for The Grand Isle Lake House a premiere Wedding venue on Lake Champlain. One of our staff members was recently married there and is still raving about it. If you are looking to tie the knot you need to have a look at what they have to offer.

We are also proud to have launched Ken Woodhead Woodworking this month. Located in the hills above Woodstock, Vermont, and other custom handcrafted woodworks from his studio. A master craftsman, Ken’s attention to detail has produced a series of beautiful hand made wood works that you can see in his gallery.Custom Handcrafted Woodworking

Last but certainly not least we a happy to launch sites for two of the best senior living communities in Vermont, The Lodge at Shelburn Bay and The Lodge at Otter Creek both of these wonderful communities offer an ideal setting for maintaining an active senior lifestyle.

We’re very pleased to add these great sites to our portfolio!

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