HomeGauge News Alert August 2017

SEO Builder | HGC Update | This & Thats | Training | RE Shows | Conferences | Final Thoughts


Wake up your website

HomeGauge can wake up your website

It's past noon... get your lazy website out of bed!

It takes more than just a brochure website to really get noticed online these days. Our dedicated team of website developers and SEO specialists can prime your website and help build it up for higher rankings. You may have heard of our successful SEO Primer, which over a period of 6 months takes the most important steps of setting up your website for long-term success. Many of our hosting customers have had great success with this program and have asked for more. So, now we have more. The next step is our brand new SEO Builder. With the building blocks in place from our SEO Primer, the SEO Builder takes websites to the next level with custom blogging, shared links to your company's Facebook page, and more. Everyone used to say, "Content is King on the Internet!" Well guess what? It still is. Your website is the new yellow page phone book ad and it needs professional service and custom content that's regularly updated. Rates are as low as $150 a month and include our Managed Hosting, where we become your website manager. We promise you will not get similar service elsewhere for anywhere near the price we offer. We do it because we are in it for the long haul. We will update your website continually and do the nerdy work for you. My dad always said, "Let a plumber do what a plumber does and you do what you do best." So take my dad's advice and let us manage your website with HomeGauge's SEO Primer and SEO Builder! For more information, call us at (828) 254-2030 or email us at hostingsupport@homegauge.com. You can also learn more about these programs at our upcoming class in September (see below).

Curious about getting a website built by HomeGauge? Check out some sample websites below:

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Smarter. Better. Faster.

Our new HomeGauge Companion app for Android is hands down the smartest update yet! It has different background colors for better inside/outside viewing and you can download online appointments directly to your mobile device to start up your reports! Its faster interface lets you move from one inspection item to another super fast! Nothing compares to it — you just have to try it out!

Try it for free. It's available at the Google Play store (search for HomeGauge).

HG Companion 5.2 Update Overview



Some this and thats

Hey Florida!

We just added the commercial 3 stories or more Florida wind mitigation form... for free! This form will be available in our next software update, but if you can't wait, you can download it now.

Appointment Manager update

New: Schedule your time off using the new online Appointment Manager. Now you can block off an unavailable time slot fast and easy. You deserve a break today! Haven't used the Appointment Manager yet? Check out our recent webinar.

Sign up for the next free webinar

Our next free webinar is taking place Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 1pm ET. Bethany will be covering the Basics of Using HomeGauge Software. Sign up and reserve your spot today. Can't attend? No problem. View all our past webinars on our YouTube Channel.



HomeGauge Training
Come to our 3-day training at the end of September

We will feed you vittles and show you North Carolina hospitality. Come to eat and learn — it's tax deductible too! Come to our next 3-day HomeGauge training class on September 27-29, 2017 in Asheville, NC to learn how to cut down on your report writing time and explore all the features of HomeGauge 5.2! In addition, we'll go over the latest 5.2 updates to the Android version of HG Companion and many features of the HomeGauge Services.

Call and reserve your seat today. Cost for the class is $300 for the first attendee, $200 for each additional (multi-inspector firms only). Call (828) 254-2030 to reserve your spot today before it sells out.

Live Training Details



HomeGauge Promoting HG Inspectors
HomeGauge is promoting HomeGauge inspectors

HomeGauge is spending thousands promoting our HomeGauge inspectors at real estate shows! How many other home inspection software companies do that? (Answer: None.) This fall we will be giving away a Ring doorbell or two while showing real estate agents our new patent pending Create Request List™ (CRL™) feature! After we show them how we can save them an hour or more per report, reduce liability through documentation, and control the buyer's expectations, we'll tell them that they can only get this when they use an inspector who uses HomeGauge! We will be attending several real estate shows across the country and promoting you and CRL™!

You can promote your services by using your custom CRL™ link! Go to the page below on your HomeGauge.com Dashboard to get your custom CRL™ marketing link and to read more information about CRL™.

Get your custom CRL™ Marketing Link (login required)



Tradeshows everywhere!

Meet our staff in person at any of these fine shows! Gifts of cake and beer are always appreciated.

Southeastern Home Inspectors Conference - Atlanta, GA
September 8-10, 2017
Conference Details

ASHI New England Chapter - Randolph, MA
September 11-12
Conference Details

FABI Conference - Fort Lauderdale, FL
September 16-17, 2017
Conference Details

InterNACHI/TPREIA Convention 2017 - Bryan, TX
September 21-23, 2017
Conference Details

KREIA Fall Convention 2017 - Frankfort, KY
September 22-23
Conference Details

TAREI 2017 Fall Conference - Grapevine, TX
October 20-21
Conference Details



Final Thoughts
Final thoughts

Stay tuned — HomeGauge has more unique features coming soon that the industry has never seen before! We were the first in the industry to upload reports! Remember when that wasn't a thing? We were the first to provide real html (not the fake html where they convert their pdf to inflexible html)! We were the first to empower you with video clips in the report! We were the first to help real estate professionals create lists for their repair addendums with Create Request List™. It's funny how it all seems so obvious now. HomeGauge leads while the others copy. Choose HomeGauge for your home inspection reports and delivery service to get more business! When you succeed, we succeed too.




Until next time,
Russell Buchanan
HomeGauge, President
russell@HomeGauge.com
828-254-2030