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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CAMBRIDGE,
MA - March 27, 2002:
WebCTel and Landmark Realty to Launch Boston's Largest
Real Estate Portal: BostonRealEstate.com
BostonRealEstate.com (BRE) has been established to be
the quintessential real estate resource for Massachusetts.
The mission of BostonRealEstate.com is to provide a full-service
and intuitive site, focused on connecting the real estate
consumer to the real estate industry. The site features
residential and commercial, office space and retail space,
while it aims to connect buyers, sellers, brokers, contractors,
and vendors throughout the state.
"Since meeting with John Cator and the staff at WebCTel
three years ago, I have found this company to be highly
responsive and adaptive to my needs. Initially WebCTel
networked my office and has on countless occasions come
to my aid when our computers went down or had trouble,
no matter what time or day of the week."
"Out of that mutual trust and respect the concept of BostonRealEstate.com
was developed. With my 27 years of Real Estate experience
and John Cator's extensive knowledge of building websites
and the infrastructure that keeps them running, we are
about to launch a Real Estate Web Portal for the Massachusetts's
community. The site will provide both consumers and Real
Estate Practitioners, as well as the vendors who provide
real estate services, a new platform to add to their marketing
components that will be cost effective and even have the
ability to reduce other areas of marketing costs, " said
David Krock, president and founder of BostonRealEstate.com
WebCTel developed an extensive infrastructure to carry
out the Boston Real Estate.com mission of connecting buyers,
sellers, brokers, builders, and vendors throughout Massachusetts.
The back-end tools and databases were customized to fit
the services and portal features to make the site fully
equipped with all the "bells and whistles."
WebCTel dedicated itself to building the right infrastructure
and technology for supporting the site's mission, including:
customized templates for creating intranet sites for subscribing
brokers, a massive database for adding and updating real
estate listings, specialized services for agents and brokers,
and calculation of financial and mortgage quotations.
Add-ons will include online consumer and business credit
reports as well as links to lending institutions and mortgage
companies. BRE plans to partner with a record service
company to feature residential stats. .
Remarkably, WebCTel was putting the finishing touches
on the design of this portal while orchestrating the successful
Memphis in May International Festival site launch as well.
http://www.MemphisInMay.org
The team has been so successful with these two portals
that their confidence level has indeed been fortified
and they are poised to take on greater opportunities.
The firm is in the midst of fundraising efforts. Recently,
WebCTel's Senior Executive Vice President, Adrienne Benton,
attended the Dream Makers Forum in Naples, Florida hosted
by Northern Trust Bank of Chicago to present their private
equity investment goals. firm is seeking to increase sales
and further development of their propriety software solutions,
as well as expand their Solar-Powered hosting capacity.
WebCTel was able to generate sales revenue of a half-million
dollars in FY 2001. The company plans to obtain seed monies
for hiring a new CTO, securing a full-time sales staff,
and purchasing equipment to enhance the solar technology
capabilities for its environmentally friendly hosting
solutions.
To increase visibility, WebCTel was also featured in the
March 2002 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine's article
"One Size Does not Fit All" by Holly Agguire: page 80.
March 27, 2002
About WebCTel:
CEO Johnny Cator founded the WebCTel concept in 1997.
WebCTel, Inc. was incorporated in November 2000. The Cambridge,
MA-based Software Infrastructure Service Provider, offers
an array of server side & web-based applications that
customize software solutions for OEMs and clients seeking
web design, hosting and email services. Locally, WebCTel's
clients have included: Fleet Bank, Boston Bank of Commerce,
Primary Group, Bryer Architects, Network Plus, Urban League
of Eastern Massachusetts, eDial, Landmark Real Estate,
and Long Bay Management Company. The company is also poised
to do business on the West Coast, and is negotiating with
a major disaster recovery and data protection company
to build Oracle database modules for their finance division.
WebCTel also prides itself on being one of only two environmentally
conscious firms offering web site and email hosting services
fueled by solar-power. Being socially committed as well,
WebCTel has established a collaborative relationship with
the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (ULEM), a job
development organization with branches nationwide. Initially,
WebCTel was contracted to support the Urban League's internal
and web-based application development needs. In recent
months, WebCTel developed the curriculum, and provided
educational training for the ULEM "Managing Your Web Future"
program: Seven modules in15 courses that trained urban
residents in web programming and gave them hands on experience
with web development.
For WebCTel, growing a successful, environmentally responsible
software company and supporting the community just makes
good business sense!
For more information contact: Rochelle O'Neal Thorpe,
Director of Marketing Telephone: (617) 876-1786 Email:
Rothorpe@webctel.com
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