4PM.ie – Authorised Reseller of Google Apps Premier Edition

4PM can help any company reduce IT costs and increase productivity, through enhanced collaboration, by implementing a painless switchover to Google Apps.

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 CRM for Lettings and Sales Management and Marketing

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 software CRM (Customer Relationship Management) 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 2010. 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 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.

First Phase Consultancy goes live!

4PM is delighted to announce that the new website for First Phase Consultancy has gone live. The website uses complex search algorithims to allow for multiple, independent search experiences, as the client has property offerings in markets from Ireland to Spain to Australia.

Visit the site at www.firstphaseconsultancy.com and enjoy the Flash animation, the depth of content and the seamless search. Email info@4pm.ie if you need a site that's as classy, rich and functional.

DublinProperty.com goes live!

An exciting new property portal for Dublin has just gone live! DublinProperty features a highly-detailed search interface, slick graphics and a whole new data layer to make property search as quick, easy and painless as possible.

Take a look at the site at www.DublinProperty.com, try a few searches and let us know what you think!

If you need a property website as good as this, call us on 01 497 7705 or email info@4pm.ie.

Tom Pollard goes live!

An exciting new website for Tom Pollard Properties in Clonmel has just gone live! 4PM has done extensive work on the site, creating a design that is modern, detailed and very fresh. We have also built a Daft data feed from scratch. This means that the staff at Tom Pollard can input their property details to Daft, then import the data to 4PM Property Drive, then syndicate the data to their own site and the dozen other property portals that we feed.

Time is money, so the 4PM property Drive solution can save literally hundreds of hours of repetitive work in a single year.

Check out the website at www.tompollard.com.

Find out more about 4PM Property Drive at http://www.4pm.ie/propertydrive.aspx

Stage Marketing à Dublin - 4PM Web Design & Developement

C'est à 4PM,leader dans la création de site internet immobilier en Irlande et spécialiste en Web to print, que j'ai eu l'occasion de réaliser mon stage de fin d'études.

Cette période de 6 mois fut très enrichissante tant d'un point de vue linguistique que professionnel.

Au sein de l'entreprise, j'ai pu travailler sur différentes thématiques en communication interne et externe ainsi que sur des actions marketing et plus particulièrement web marketing.

Dans les bureaux,l'ambiance est internationale et très sympathique. C'est vraiment agréable de travailler dans de telles conditions.

Quant à Dublin, c'est une ville conviviale et cosmopolite où l'on ne s'ennuie pas!

Toutes les conditions étaient donc réunies pour faire de ce stage, une très belle expérience.

Quentin Viault

Signspire Photo Signboards - Because every enquiry counts when trying to sell or let a property

The property business has never been more competitive or challenging. Anything that gives properties an edge can make a real difference to selling or letting prospects. Signspire is a new and innovative Irish solution for estate agents that allows them to design attractive signage over the web - quickly, efficiently and at very low cost. Signspire will be officially launched at the IPAV conference in Killarney, 08.05.09.

Signspire helps to sell and let property more quickly, by attracting consumer interest with high impact picture signs that cost just €10 to design. Print-ready PDFs can then be supplied to any chosen printer - no messing, no mistakes, no delays. Complete control at every stage.

Cormac Kennedy, Director of Signspire says: “With Signspire, estate agents can move their marketing to a new level with real estate signs that include high quality pictures of the property they are selling or renting. Turn a static sign into a high quality, eye catching street brochure and make properties stand out. Signspire signs will help them to generate enquiries and differentiate themselves from the competition.

“Research from the Australian property market has shown that signs with colour photos to promote the property have an enquiry rate up to 30% higher than those without photos.”

John Kennedy, Director, says: “Signspire makes it so easy to create higher quality and cheaper signboards with stunning photos to really show off properties. Before Signspire, the cost of engaging a designer and going back and forth with proofs slowed down the process and added to costs. Now, Signspire enables anyone to create and send a design to their sign printer and for them to give a better price on printing as there is no management or designing involved.

“In today’s market, you might have only seconds to convert a passer-by into a genuine prospect. With Signspire signage, you have a real edge over your competitors.”

Find out more at www.signspire.com or call 01 497 7705 for more details.

4PM, Ireland’s leading creator of web-to-print applications, looks forward to helping our clients make inspiring property signs and taking their property marketing to the next level. We also plan to capture the market for online property sign design in the UK and other export markets. Signspire is truly an Irish solution to a global problem.

Contact Cormac Kennedy on 087 934 4852 or John Kennedy on 086 246 2716. www.4pm.ie.