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Recognising that search engine ranking is increasingly becoming essential to corporate success, Blue Sky invested in a range of SEO enhancements including heading text, footers, meta tags and links. The result is a more visible website that is more easily found by prospective customers.

Google Apps Premier Edition Advantages from www.4pm.ie

For a low once-off fee, we can switch your domain to the free Google Apps service, which means you keep your existing email addresses, while gaining access to the remarkable suite of Google Applications, all easily shared among your co-workers.

For a low annual fee per user, you can use Google Apps Premier Edition. Switching to Premier brings many additional benefits, including:

1. 24/7 phone support direct from Google;
2. Guaranteed uptime of 99.9%;
3. 3 X more Gmail storage than Standard Edition;
4. Increased security;
5. More admin controls to easily connect to existing IT infrastructure;
6. More business features such as Blackberry and MS Outlook interoperability.

Contact 4pm.ie today on 01 497 7705 or email info@4pm.ie and we’ll start planning a smooth and painless switchover to Google Apps. Once you’ve switched, you’ll wonder how you ever got by without Google Apps!

The potential savings are enormous. If your organisation currently uses, or is considering, a Microsoft Exchange 2007 deployment, use this calculator to estimate how much a Google Apps Premier deployment could save: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value.html

For more on the benefits of Google Apps, click here: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/details.html

CASE STUDY: The City of Los Angeles.

L.A.’s 34,000 employees – including her police force – now use Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Apps for their messaging and collaboration needs. Why L.A. chose Google Apps is simple. Randi Levin, Chief Technical Officer for the city of Los Angeles, wanted to replace GroupWise and chose Google’s cloud approach from 15 different proposals believing it will save the city millions of dollars on IT, allowing her staff to shift resources dedicated to e-mail to other purposes. L.A.’s decision process was rigorous. The top four proposals gave oral presentations, with the proposal for Google Apps receiving the highest marks. On Oct. 27, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 in favor of using Gmail over Microsoft Outlook and the city began to use Google Apps in December 2009. Some 38,000 employees in government agencies in Washington, D.C., also use Gmail and other Google Apps. Google is also building a so-called Government Cloud, a dedicated cloud computing system for the U.S. government, in 2010.

Acquaint is targeted at offices and companies that need to reduce costs and generate more leads in this tough property market.

It is an advanced marketing and financial property software system for Irish estate agents that will do both sales and lettings more efficiently and more effectively.

With the property market so competitive, right now is the perfect opportunity to upgrade your office IT, website and business processes for the new decade. 4pm can look after everything, from design through to integration with our market-leading online marketing database, Property Drive, which is seamlessly-integrated with Acquaint.

Acquaint is a system that will transform the way your company does business by automating a lot of manual tasks such as producing statements, invoices, brochures, tracking appointments and broadcasting emails and text messages to prospective buyers as well as updating your website and the major portals such as MyHome, Propertytoday.ie, Propertynews.com and Globrix. It is a complete solution that will organise your negotiators with effective work flow processes and a reminder system for appointments and tasks, plus an integrated marketing engine.

Acquaint will dramatically reduce your company’s operating costs while at the same time increasing efficiencies and professionalism, which will ultimately generate additional leads by putting to work all of the contacts that you have built up over the years. Sitting around waiting for buyers doesn’t work anymore. Acquaint will generate buyers by effortlessly keeping in better touch with all the types of prospects that you have (or can collate), such as tenants, buyers, vendors and developers. Just use the professional, seamlessly-integrated SMS, email and postal mail-shot engines provided by Acquaint CRM.

In this market your office/company are probably doing more lettings than before and this area of the business can be a litigious, bureaucratic and administrative nightmare if not managed and resourced properly. In this environment it is just not feasible to finance employing more people. Leveraging technology is not only the more cost-effective solution but, clearly, the only feasible method to address this market.

With NO UP-FRONT FEES charged for the capital purchase of the Acquaint real estate software solution, we believe that we are delivering the best product and best price to estate agents in the market at this time. We do charge for training and data migration which is only necessary if you have an office system already in place and wish to upload/migrate all of this data into Acquaint. This requires onsite labour on our part which would not be feasible to absorb.

We believe that Acquaint offers a lot of functionality and automation that distinguishes it from the rest of the competition in the market and will contribute significantly to your operations. Consider, for example, its ability to allow negotiators access the system remotely, while out on a viewing, or at home, to catch up on admin, planning or prospecting.

In summary here are the advantages of Acquaint CRM:

• Reduces your admin and media costs.

• Provides services across selling houses, letting all types of properties.

• Provides professional services like valuations in a seamless and connected manner.

• Tightly integrated with additional services such as web design and portal uploading.

• It’s a comprehensive, intuitive, user friendly and configurable software application.

Call John or Cormac Kennedy on (01) 497 7705 today, or email info@4pm.ie, and we will arrange an Acquaint and Property Drive demonstration and/or a free trial. Find out more at www.acquaint.ie and check out our property marketing database solution at www.4pm.ie/propertydrive.aspx.

www.hookemacdonald.ie by www.4pm.ie

4PM, Ireland’s leading provider of property database websites, is delighted to announce the launch of Hooke & MacDonald’s stunning new website, at www.hookemacdonald.ie.  Hooke & MacDonald are acknowledged as one of Ireland’s leading estate agencies and won Residential Agency Team of the Year awards at the Irish Property Awards in four of the last six years.

Hooke & MacDonald chose 4PM for their new website because of our track record in developing visually attractive websites linked to our powerful, market proven property database, Property Drive. Our programmers were also able to develop the XML feeds that allow Hooke & MacDonald to easily export their listings data to a range of leading property portals.

Among the enhanced features on the site are:

1.       Video enabled

2.       Google maps integration (property displayed on map and complete property search through map view)

3.       Gallery view (view properties by photos)

4.       Price matrix (compare properties by price and location)

5.       User registration

• user profile
• save favourite properties
• print custom property list
• e-mail alerts system

6.       CMS integration so that the owner can easily update text content.

With the Irish property market likely to remain highly competitive for the foreseeable future, investment in next generation websites is the obvious way to cut costs and meet customer needs. 4PM’s philosophy is to deliver on both these criteria, within budget and on schedule.

For more on 4PM, please visit www.4pm.ie.

To appreciate the workmanship and functionality of Hooke & MacDonald’s new website, please visit www.hookemacdonald.ie.

To find out more about 4PM’s range of services, please call John Kennedy, CEO, on 01 497 7705 or email info@4pm.ie.

Mytown.ie is a growing portal which offers town-specific data, including property, business listings, events, groups and news and 4PM sees it as an excellent new portal for our accommodation listings.

Find out more at www.mytown.ie.

Find out more about 4PM Property Drive.

4PM, as sole European distributors of AdLizard web-to-print solutions, will use IFRA Expo to show newspapers how they can cut costs while opening up new markets. We will also be unveiling Qmecom, AdLizard’s incredible new system for personalizing rich media web advertisements by leveraging consumer profile and targeting information.

Discuss the potential of AdLizard and Qmecom with Cormac Kennedy at IFRA, Stand A726. To arrange a meeting with Cormac, please email info@4pm.ie or call him direct on +353-87-934-4852.

Find out more in our AdLizard section.

Irish antique dealer Michael Connell database website

A beautiful website with searchable access to Michael’s unrivalled collection of antiques. Michael’s showrooms are on Francis Street, Dublin 8, the heart of Ireland’s antiques trade.

4PM integrated its antiques database solution with a unique front end design and enhanced Search Engine Optimisation to project Michael’s business to a global market. For more information on 4PM’s world class solutions for antiques dealers, call us on Dublin 497 7705 or email info@4pm.ie. View our Portfolio at www.4pm.ie.

Michael Connell is exhibiting at the Irish Antique Dealers Fair in the RDS, Dublin until Sunday, September 27, 2009.

Roly’s Bistro in Ballsbridge has consistently been rated as one of the
best Dublin restaurants by both critics and customers since it opened
in 1992. When Roly’s recently decided to revamp their website, 4PM were the natural contractors to bring to the project. The new design – at www.rolysbistro.ie – is inviting, warm, friendly, even mouth-watering! As well as listing current menus, the website also features a blog, delivery service contacts, catering info, recipes and a shop.

Roly’s Bistro is a perfect example of a strong business that is aware of the web’s importance to marketing, both immediately and into the future. 4PM will continue to work with Roly’s on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and web marketing, to ensure that everybody online who needs a wonderful meal in Dublin knows exactly where to find Roly’s!

Trinity Letting Agents homepage - another 4PM design

Trinity Letting Agents is one of Ireland’s fastest-growing property management companies and 4PM is delighted to launch their new website, at www.trinitylettingagents.ie. Our designers took an existing corporate identity and logo on board and worked up a design that is fresh, different and full of useful information.

www.twitter.com/4pmweb

If your business is interested in harnessing the power of Twitter, please get in touch with us today for a free assessment and a proposal to help you benefit from this latest communications revolution. Tweet you soon!