The Bu2iness

An interesting read...

2009-03-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

It's official: house-buyers get it wrong

A new book explains that people make terrible decisions about property: even without mortgage confusion and market fears

Click on the link below to read the Times online article...
Once youve ahd a read, please feel free to add your comments on our blog.

Click here to read the article

Dont rely on the Scuttlebutt!

2009-03-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Here at The Bu2iness Towers, we like to inform you guys of everything that we are working on and how we are getting along with our development and projects.

Please take a look at our newsletter below to keep updated.

We are currently working on Volume 2 - which will be ready to read shortly.
P.s - Scuttlebutt means informal rumour and gossip!
We thought this was very well fitting to our newsletter, as we aim to deliver only pure facts and information to our users... (unlike some of our competitors!)

Branded Banners all the way!

2009-03-06T04:04:00.000-08:00

We have changed the default website to allow users to upload a full length company banner! Please click on the image above to see a larger image.

Your banner will now be able to stretch the full width of the page with menu links centered to the page and placed beneath your banner, making better use of the space. Please note that if you choose not to update your banner to a full length version then your existing logo will still be displayed but it will be centered to the page instead of being left aligned.

If you are using The Bu2iness Free default website and would like it to look like this then these are the steps you need to take:

1. Please prepare a jpeg banner with the following dimensions 794 x 150 pixels (these are the dimensions to best fit this space)
2. Login to The Bu2iness and in your Website Settings upload the new banner and save your changes. This change will take immediate effect
3. This feature is live now, so get uploading!

A new feature - Expandable History Notes

2009-03-05T04:01:00.000-08:00

Click on the image above to see as a full screen!
(we know your eyes aren't that good!)

This morning we have rolled live a new feature "Expandable History Notes" against applicants and properties.

You will see this enabled on the Property and Applicant Summary Pages, next to the headings where history notes are available. There is a "+" symbol which allows you to click and expand the history notes.

So, why have we done this?
We have enabled this feature for two reasons...

1) It makes it easier to scroll through the summary pages to find the information you are looking for.

2) The history notes are only loaded on request which means it helps the performance of the website.

Take a look!

Estate Agent Today have something to say...

2008-11-10T05:51:00.000-08:00

Estate Agent Today have made use of some results from a survey we constructed in September- The Estate Agents Anonymous Business Survey. To read the article please go to:

http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/News/Story/?storyid=1240&title=Agents_slow_to_take_up_free_portals&type=news_features

Drum Roll Please...

2008-11-03T03:10:00.000-08:00

Guess what?! The Bu2iness has been nominated and short-listed for one of the very prestigious Negotiator Awards- 'Estate Agents Innovation Award'.

The awards ceremony is being held at the Park Lane Hilton on 11th of November, so fingers crossed and we'll keep you posted!

Agency Expo...

2008-10-20T08:53:00.000-07:00

Here at The Bu2iness we are recovering from the Agency Expo and we're busy arranging meetings with lots of prospective business deals, exciting times!

Our CEO Charlie Wright hosted 2 seminars on the day- one on how to cut IT costs and become more efficient, and one on Agency 2013- a predictive glimpse into the future of the Estate Agency Industry. The discussion panel for the second seminar included Peter Bolton Kind, CEO of The NAEA, Lucy Pendleton, MD of James Pendleton Estate Agents, and Dan Lee, MD of Globrix. The seminar was chaired by Bob North, columnist for Estate Agency News.

If you would like any information on the two seminars, please email its@thebu2iness.com and we will send you a copy of the presentation.

The Tech Fest!

2008-09-26T08:41:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all of you who came along to the Tech Fest last Thursday (18th Sept)- we had a great time and hope you did too!

Congratulations to Brett from Andrew Milsom & Partners, and Jacqui from Urban Spaces who were the winners of the TM Lewin suits!

Diaries at the ready- here are the dates of our next Tech Fests:

Central London - 3rd Dec
Manchester - 14th Jan
Leeds - 18th Feb
Exeter - 18th March
Bristol - 18th April

Hope to see you there! Email: events@thebu2iness.com

Some property stories

2008-08-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a bit of a mixture of property stories we've found, take a look...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jun/29/houseprices.housingmarket

http://www.freshnews.in/amy-winehouse%E2%80%99s-home-%E2%80%98in-disastrous-disarray%E2%80%99-30792

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/06/08/pwebsites108.xml

The Bu2iness's Media Diet...

2008-08-01T01:35:00.000-07:00

We thought you might like to take a peek at our top Media picks here at The Bu2iness.

Rat & Mouse
http://www.theratandmouse.co.uk/weblog/
A fantastic property blog

Globrix
http://www.globrix.com/
The UK's fasted growing search engine

Zoomf
http://www.zoomf.com/
Another one of our favourite property search engines

Estate Agenct Today
http://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/
Estate Agency industry news at it's best

Home sweet home

2008-07-31T06:50:00.000-07:00

The Bu2iness has a brand new home page! Check it out at www.thebu2iness.com, and we're still running our iphone competition when you register, so register your details for your chance to win!

The Bu2iness mascot

2008-07-10T08:44:00.000-07:00

Look at our company mascot! (and he's been helping us deliver the launch party boxes!)
Thanks Bingo! Welcome to the team!

The Launch Party Bags

2008-07-09T13:06:00.000-07:00

Now, we feel that it’s time to celebrate the launch of our fantastic new service, and would like to invite you to celebrate with us, so look out for our party bags and blue party boxes with ‘The Bu2iness’ balloons. We are sending them nationwide to spread the word about the wonders of ‘The Bu2iness’. And, just to make life EVEN better, if you send us a picture of yourself with our party bag or box, you could be in with a chance to win a brand new 3G i-Phone.

'The Bu2iness' Direct Mail Factory

2008-07-09T12:57:00.000-07:00

'The Bu2iness' Team have had some very long days building the 'Party Boxes', so they are ready to send out to Agents, to celebrate the launch of the website.

A huge thank you to Emily (who is going to be having nightmares about blue boxes for the rest of her life!)

The Bu2iness - Sneak Preview

2008-07-02T02:33:00.000-07:00

Good Morning All,

We held a sneak preview of 'The Bu2iness' in London in April '08.

We invited some of our nearest and dearest Estate Agents and gave them a quick glimpse of
things to come!

The feedback from this event was very interesting and we thank you all for coming.

Take a look at some of the pictures from the Event.

See you soon.

The Bu2iness Team

The Bu2iness's first update

2008-07-02T02:24:00.000-07:00

Hello to you all and welcome to 'The Bu2iness' Forum.

We will be updating you with new improvements to the product and any
interesting news that we wish to share with you along the way.

We welcome anyone to join in and give us feedback about 'The Bu2iness' too.*

See you all soon.

The Bu2iness Team

*Should any of you feel the need to be rude or nasty - we will delete your comments!