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Arkom were genuine and friendly, we have worked together for over 7 years now and the relationship is as strong as ever. Arkom are creative technology experts who are always working hard to develop solutions for our customers benefit. We are really pleased with the volume of traffic the site achieves, which compliments our professional approach in estate agency — whilst delivering our biggest ‘office’. The site is growing all the time and Arkom have been instrumental in this, they are a progressive company who have grown with us.”
Andrea Blyth
Simon Blyth Estate Agents
Estate Agent Website for Simon Blyth Estate Agents
Arkom have developed an Estate Agent Website For Simon Blyth are one of Yorkshire’s largest Independent Estate Agencies.
Simon Blyth operates 5 agencies in Yorkshire, covering around 1800 square miles, including both urban and rural properties ranging from market towns to city centre.
Requirement:
This estate agency needed a website that could cope with a high volume of hits and provide comprehensive property and brochure information including floor plans to users at the click of a button.
- Able to handle high volume of traffic
- Ability to manage their own website content
- High levels of quality content and images which could be downloaded quickly
- Users of the website can operate their own account.
Solution:
Simon Blyth were looking for a company that would take the time to understand their estate agency company in order to develop a website to perfectly suit their needs. Arkom were able to offer Simon Blyth a solution, which would develop an on-going relationship between both parties to ensure the best technology and web design was used.
Arkom came up with the initial designs for the website based upon the fact that Simon Blyth are a traditional, family run estate egency that wanted to promote these values to their customers. The initial design concepts were well received because Simon Blyth could see that Arkom had listened and understood their needs, this gave them the confidence to proceed with the project.
Simon Blyth required a estate agency website that was user friendly and easy to operate. It needed to contain vast amounts of changing information on hundreds of properties at the click of a button.
To enable the estate agency to manage their own site — which is essential when dealing with a fluid market place and a huge number of individual products and vendors — Arkom developed a Content Management System. After a short period of training by Arkom, Simon Blyth now have the confidence to administer this.
The site now incorporates a password protected members facility which sends users property details as soon as relevant houses come on the market. The site is performing exceptionally well with 1 million property images being viewed by potential purchasers every month.
Benefits:
- Averages over 3 million hits per month — offering a greater market for sellers
- Over 3,300 searches were carried out on the property register every day — the equivalent of 46 full time members of staff!
- Over 3,700 property details were pulled up and displayed every day — equivalent of 11 full time members of staff.
- Over 1,000 potential purchasers register with the website each month.
- Simon Blyth are able to manage the content to reflect the daily changes
- The estate agency website has become their busiest branch!
- Business is now open 24/7
