RealBird – a division of DonationChannel Inc. - adds InfoUSA yellow page directory to its RealBird™ aerial maps Viewer for real estate agents.

DonationChannel Inc. and InfoUSA Inc. announced today the addition of InfoUSA’s Yellow Pages content to the increasingly popular RealBird Enhanced Viewer, a web based aerial maps viewer and GIS tool targeted for real estate agents and brokers.

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 2004

DonationChannel Inc. and InfoUSA Inc. announced today the addition of InfoUSA’s Yellow Pages content to the increasingly popular RealBird Enhanced Viewer, a web based aerial maps viewer and GIS tool targeted for real estate agents and brokers. Also part of the agreement is an affiliation allowing DonationChannel to resell InfoUSA sales leads lists to its Realbird member agents.

The Enhanced RealBird Viewer costs only $100/year and has these features:

•     MANUAL LINKING TO FEATURED PROPERTY LISTINGS: Agents can link their listings to their own branded aerial maps with full zoom and pan controls
•     ON-THE-FLY linking of Agent’s Featured Listings and IDX listings
•     EMBEDDED SCHOOLS DATABASE WITH AUTOMATIC GOOGLE® LINKS to school info. At a click, clients can display the location of local schools, then click on the hotspots and see detailed information via Google queries.
•     EMBEDDED USGS LANDMARKS DATABASE: churches, parks, shopping areas, etc.
•     CRYSTAL CLEAR COLOR, 0.25 M ZOOM LEVEL, AERIAL AND TOPO MAPS in selected urban locations (black and white elsewhere). The enlarged map viewer (600x400 pixels) uses the latest USGS aerial map databases. All USGS maps are included free of charge.
•     OWN subdomain name for each user, like http://seattlehome.realbird.com
•     Integrated Yellow InfoUSA pages
•     Integrated Census county demographics
•     Parcel overlay in selected counties
•     Built-in lead collector

“Having yellow pages capability in our Enhanced Viewer takes its usefulness for homebuyers one step further” said Gabriel Gross, President of DonationChannel, Inc. “When you are looking for a home, it is of course very useful to get a feel for the neighborhood and what commerce facilities are available in the vicinity. InfoUSA’s Yellow Pages is the most complete and accurate national source for such information and we are very happy to be able to offer it in our Viewer.”

David Schajatovic, Vice President for Directory Assistance Services for InfoUSA said: “We see the RealBird Enhanced Aerial Maps Viewer as an increasingly valuable ‘microchannel’ marketing tool complementing our popular corporate website. Realbird Viewers are used by real estate agents on their websites and attached to listings of homes for sale to make the listings more informative, and so this is a win-win-win for us, the agents and the home buying public.”

About infoUSA

infoUSA (http://www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites.. Nearly 3 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500.

About DonationChannel

DonationChannel Inc. (http://www.donationchannel.org) is based in Redwood City, CA and provides a way for real estate related professionals to donate a percentage of their future real estate transactions to schools of their choice. In return, they gain the ability to promote themselves to their community with the "DonationChannel Seal of Contribution to the Community”. DonationChannel now also provides the “Realbird” (http://www.realbird.com) service, for customized aerial maps with full US coverage allowing zoom and pan, landmarks filtering, etc. These aerial maps can be easily integrated to any real estate website to make it more appealing to clients. Launched in the spring of this year, several thousand agents have already signed up to use the RealBird Services. Please visit http://www.realbird.com or email to info@realbird.com or call (866) 551-2934 for details.

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