MyDealBook.com Social Networking Site Launches to Bring Together Cross-Industry Real...

MyDealBook.com Social Networking Site Launches to Bring Together
Cross-Industry Real Estate Professionals
First site to Offer Full Set of Networking Tools for All Real Estate
Professions, Including Development, Brokerage, Finance, Investment, Appraisal,
Construction and Government

NEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- MyDealBook.com, the world's first website
to meet the specific needs of cross-industry real estate professionals,
launched today with more than 330,000 new members. The social media website
is the only site aimed at bringing together professionals from all real
estate-related industries, including 40 professions in areas such as
development, brokerage, finance, investment, appraisal, construction and
government. Cross-industry professionals from residential, commercial,
industrial, retail and office segments now have a central place for
networking, collaboration and business expansion.
The brainchild of Ryan Slack, PropertyShark.com's former CEO, and his
partners Mark Schacknies and Nima Negahban, MyDealBook.com addresses the
specific needs of real estate professionals. "The more generalist sites, such
as LinkedIn and Facebook, are not sufficient to meet the needs and growing
challenges of real estate professionals," said Slack, CEO of MyDealBook.com.
"We've taken the best of social networking and combined it with tools designed
to help our users' businesses."
Slack adds that while there are a few other websites aimed at real estate
business, these sites only provide blogs and forums aimed at residential real
estate agents and consumers. "In this challenging real estate environment, we
aim to help real estate professionals increase the number of market
opportunities that will allow them to accelerate their business," said Slack.
"MyDealBook.com is a business tool delivered through a social networking site.
Not only can members network with one another, they can use the site to manage
projects and deals with all professionals involved."
MyDealBook.com complements PropertyShark.com, the real estate data site
which incubated it, and has leveraged PropertyShark's established members of
330,000 users. PropertyShark provides detailed parcel-level property data and
the tools for members to make the most of that information.
MyDealBook.com's Features Specific to Needs of Real Estate Business
MyDealBook.com combines the best social networking techniques with
powerful tools specific to the needs of real estate professionals. Its
features are designed to help users expand professional networks, find new
business and manage projects. Features include user profiles, messaging,
networking and marketplace listings, as well as:
Deals -- features a unique deal management system that allows users to
post their professional activities to gain credibility, promotion for their
projects, seek funding, market properties and share files
Mini-feed -- provides users insight into the projects and deal flow within
their network
Events -- lists opportunities for real estate professionals to connect in
person, including networking mixers, speed networking, conferences, training,
site visits, fundraisers, sporting events, and more
Groups -- enables users to join or form their own groups for specific
purposes, such as organizing events, sharing deal information, collaborating,
forming company teams, office networks and investment clubs
Natural groups -- automatically groups users by company, profession,
location, educational institution, professional association, state licensing
and professional designation, to allow easy search and identification of
potential clients, business partners, or service providers
Services -- provides powerful tools to search and match users with
complementary business partners
Jobs -- provides its users with opportunities to find or advertise job
openings specific to the real estate industry. The Jobs feature is scheduled
for release in June
Specifications and Pricing
MyDealBook.com is now available, and membership is free. Premium
subscription services will be available in coming months to provide powerful
work tools such as: matchmaking referral services, VIP features and privileges
which raise a user's visibility on the site, e-mail contact tools and advanced
group/event tools, such as the ability for members to charge fees for events
or group membership.
MyDealBook.com will host its first two real estate mixers at Apartment 24
in San Francisco on June 3, at 6 p.m. (RSVP:
http://mydealbook.com/events/mdbsf) and at BLVD in New York City on June 10
(RSVP: http://mydealbook.com/events/mdbnyc) .
About MyDealBook.com
With over 330,000 professional members, MyDealBook.com is the only
professional networking site for the entire real estate ecosystem, including
architects, developers, investors, appraisers, publicists, attorneys, lenders
and 33 other distinct professions within the real estate industry. Members
manage their deals and projects, form groups, sign up for events and expand
their professional networks, all with the goal in mind of doing more and
better business. MyDealBook.com addresses the needs of all professional real
estate participants, especially in a down market, by providing opportunities
for self-marketing, deal advertisement, and locating investors/buyers.
Originally founded in May of 2007 by Mark Schacknies, a real estate
developer, and Nima Negahban, MyDealBook.com was acquired in March 2008 by MDB
LLC, a firm run by MyDealBook.com CEO Ryan Slack, who left PropertyShark.com
to lead the new company. MDB LLC is a marketing partner of PropertyShark.com
and leverages the existing user base of PropertyShark.com. MyDealBook.com is
headquartered in New York City.
Media Contacts:
Katie Reid/Corey Oiesen
Dovetail Public Relations
408.395.3600
MDB at dovetailpr.com

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Katie Reid or Corey Oiesen, both of Dovetail Public Relations,
+1-408-395-3600, MDB@dovetailpr.com, for MyDealBook.com