Palm Coast, Fla. REALTOR® Wins Porsche Boxster From a la mode

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. — a la mode, a leading developer of desktop, mobile and web tools for real estate professionals, has announced Nathan Gilliam of Palm Coast, Fla. as the winner of the company's Porsche Boxster convertible giveaway at the National Association of REALTORS® 2005 Conference and Expo.

More than 12,000 real estate agents registered to win the sleek sports car, which was on display at a la mode's booth at the NAR Conference in San Francisco October 28-31.

Gilliam, president/broker of Resident Real Estate Network, purchased his Agent XSite in September. He admits that when he received the call that he'd won the Porsche, he immediately thought it was a prank. "I'm generally not a gullible person and I've never won anything substantial before, so I was very skeptical at first," he said.

Even though he was a technology consultant for seven years before he became a REALTOR®, Gilliam purchased his XSite because it would save him more time and money than if he designed his own website from scratch. "By having a well-designed front-end to my website ready to go ‘out of the box' for a reasonable cost, I'm able to spend my time more productively on selling real estate and other development efforts."

Gilliam started Resident Real Estate Network because he had a lot of ideas of how to leverage technology to do business. "I always try to stay on the leading edge by automating processes cost effectively to provide outstanding value and service for my customers. Since the continued integration and leverage of technology in the industry is the future, I coined our company slogan ‘The Future of Real Estate.' AgentXSites has become an important component of this vision because it allowed me to more easily put a web-centric focus on my business," he said.

Like the Porsche, a la mode's Agent XSites – customizable websites – deliver a truly professional image backed by unmatched performance. XSites were built to be easy to use, yet come equipped with high-end tools that allow agents to set themselves apart from their competition and win more listings, including multimedia presentation, automatic IDX connection, Google Earth™ aerial mapping technology, multilingual content and much more.

XSites have one annual fee – no set up, hosting or monthly fees – with features and updates added at no additional cost throughout the year. In fact, in October, a la mode became the first company to offer free podcasting technology to its customers. a la mode customers can now podcast information on homes for sale to customers with iPods, portable MP3 players, and personal computers. And every a la mode product comes with a risk free 100-day money back guarantee.

"This is the third year we've held a drawing for a high-end sports car." said Rusty Lindquist, a la mode's Vice President for Agent Products. "These are top of the line vehicles that boast superior image and performance, and that's the message that reverberates through everything we do. In previous years REALTORS® stopped by to see the car. This year, the car was secondary. I think that's because agents have felt the impact of that focus. They know our products let them back up a truly professional image with truly superior performance.

"In just over two years a la mode has become the dominant provider of business development technology for agents – XSites are the Porsche of customizable agent websites," Lindquist added.

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About a la mode

Founded in 1985, a la mode develops desktop tools, mobile tools, web sites for real estate professionals, mortgage brokers, and appraisers. a la mode's flagship product, WinTOTAL form-filling software for appraisers leads the residential appraisal industry. a la mode's Mercury Network, a vendor management platform for lenders, provides the most experienced local appraisers in an HVCC-compliant, easy-to-use loan ordering and management application. a la mode's mission-critical products are used by hundreds of thousands of appraisers, agents, inspectors, and lending professionals to complete the nation's real estate transactions. The company's state-of-the-art offices are located in Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, and Washington, DC. To learn more, visit www.alamode.com.