On Tuesday, June 1, the first Seabrook online town meeting was held in the form of a webinar. Casey Roloff, Seabrook’s founder and president, hosted the webinar and addressed many questions that you as Seabrook homeowners had previously submitted.

Casey went into detail on a lot of different areas: Seabrook’s financial standing, plans for amenities and new phases, as well as the latest marketing and PR efforts. He also gave his projections of Seabrook’s progress in 2010 and beyond.

But maybe one of the most interesting announcements made during the webinar was the introduction of the Homeowners Forum. Many of you have asked us for a place online where you can easily communicate with fellow Seabrook owners and neighbors and get to know each other. We believe this online forum will help you create a more organized community of homeowners at our beach town.

If you weren’t able to join us for the webinar, you can now view a recording of it at the Homeowners Forum. To register for the forum, just go to seabrookwa.com/owners/forum and click on register. After that, you are all set to go and you just need to login with your information.

As always, please let us know if there are any questions or comments. You can either use the comment section below, the homeowners forum, or just shoot us an email at ivo@seabrookwa.com and chrism@seabrookwa.com.

See you at the beach!

Thanks again to those of you who joined us for the Marketing webinar two weeks ago. In case you haven’t noticed, the webinar and an extended version of the PowerPoint presentation are now under the webinars tab in the navigation bar above. Ivo and I will continue to post helpful tips on how to build your home’s brand and maximize revenue in your cottage right here on the homeowner’s blog.

In addition to our recommendation of using Twitter and Facebook to expand the network of individuals familiar with your rental property, a very well received method of solidifying your home’s brand is the creation of a home video. In Focus Media Services has developed a special package for Seabrook homeowners, especially those living remotely, to easily create a video for your rental. Seabrook has successfully worked with In Focus on several video projects to further our brand and web presence. In Focus was extremely professional throughout the whole process and I personally recommend their services to anyone interested in creating a video of their home.

Please visit the Seabrook Homeowner Page on In Focus’ website for more information on the Seabrook package.

Once produced, in addition to uploading your video to several web-based video hosting sites such as Vimeo and YouTube, we will embed the video into your home’s property listing for convenient consumer access (see example here).

If you have any questions on the process, please don’t hesitate to reach us by commenting to this post or by emailing us at ChrisM@seabrookwa.com or Ivo@seabrookwa.com. In Focus is also very prompt at responding to email inquiries, so if you want it straight from the horse’s mouth, drop’em a line.

Best regards,

Chris Murphy