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Quick Start Guides are 3 or more pages in length and contain the essential information for getting started with a basic task-oriented approach to learning various modules within Paragon. Check back often as we continue to update and add new titles! All Quick-start Guides are provided in the PDF format for printing & viewing. If you do not have the PDF reader, you can download a copy for free directly by clicking the link provided below: |
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| NEW or Updated QUICK START GUIDES | Revision Date | |
| Slideshows | See how to setup Slideshows in Paragon. This Quick Start Guides walks you through the process of creating Slideshows that will play whether you are on-line or off-line. Slideshows will play for 30-days. | September 21, 2012 |
| Email Signatures | Save time updating your new contact information in your Automatic E-mail Notifications. Change your default Email Signature and all of your Automatic E-mail Notifications can have the same signature information. Email Signatures also allows you to have multiple signatures from which to choose when you send any E-mail out of Paragon. | October 11, 2012 |
| Automatic E-mail Recurrence | See how to send your automatic E-mail notifications whenever you want. You can select the days of the week and the interval between notifications to meet the needs of your clients. | January 18, 2013 |
| Team - Listing Input & Maintenance | See how to associate your listing inside your team. | May 10, 2013 |
| Client Connect - Agent Functionality | Learn how you can manage your clients' listings inside Client Connect. You can quickly move from one client to another while inside Client Connect. | June 18, 2013 |
| Getting Started | ||
| System Requirements and Browser Support | Information you need to know as you use Paragon on your computer. This information includes minimum computer requirements, browsers and browser settings for printers. | February 3, 2012 |
| Clearing Browser Cache | Clearing your browser's cache is one step in improving the operation of your computer as you use Paragon. | December 2, 2011 |
| Printer Settings and Configurations | Browser Page Settings so your 1 page search results report prints on 1 page. This guide includes printing and print page setup info. | October 7 2011 |
| Internet Explorer Recommended Settings | Follow this guide to setup your Internet Explorer | November 15, 2011 |
| Home Page | ||
| Navigation | Learn how to use the features and functions of Paragon's Home Page including the Market Monitor, action links in the footer, widgets and more. | November 17, 2011 |
| Contact Management | ||
| Contact Manager | Check out the new workflow and options found in contact manager. | September 20, 2011 |
| Add a Saved Search | * NEW * This Quick Start Guide shows you how to "Add a Saved Search" to your client while using the Contact Manager Wizard. It also shows how to modify the client associated Save Search. | September 20, 2011 |
| Automatic E-mail Recurrence | See how to send your automatic E-mail notifications whenever your want. You can select the days of the week and the interval between notifications to meet the needs of your clients. | January 18, 2013 |
| Auto Notification Options | How to set up Auto Notifications for Automatic E-mail Notification and Client Connect with Auto Notify based on a saved search. | July 3, 2012 |
| E-mail Opt-In Process | If your client has blocked E-mails sent to them from Paragon, this Quick Start Guide shows you how to begin the process of "Opting In" your client so they can again receive Paragon E-mails. | June 1, 2012 |
| Client Connect Customer Side | See what your prospects view when visiting Client Connect. | October 3, 2011 |
| Client Connect - Agent Functionality | Learn how you can manage your clients' listings inside Client Connect. You can quickly move from one client to another while inside Client Connect. | June 18, 2013 |
| Client Connect Preferences Wizard | The Client Connect Preferences Wizard helps you customize your webpage (Contact Information for you and your office; your Home Page Message; information links for your clients; what Client Connects events send you E-mail notices and picking your webpage banner). This Quick Start Guides explains each step of the process. | December 2, 2011 |
| Editor for Views & Reports | Learn how to edit your Client Connect Customer Views. | September 20, 2011 |
| Outlook Import | Learn how to Import your Contacts from Outlook to Paragon. | September 20, 2011 |
| Outlook Export | Learn how to export your contacts out of Paragon. | September 20, 2011 |
| Managing Groups | How to group like Contacts together. | September 20, 2011 |
| Reverse Prospecting | A Listing Agent's Marketing tool. Buyers' Agents remain the ONLY contact with the buyer. Use Buyers' Saved Searches to find matches for your listings and communicate ONLY with the Buyer's Agent. | September 20, 2011 |
| Property Search | ||
| Basic Search | Lean how to run a search and some of the new features included in this module | October 5, 2011 |
| Customize Searches | This document will help you learn how to customize your search. | October 6, 2011 |
| Saving Searches | Saving a search is very important and this document will show you how. | October 6, 2011 |
| Map Search | Interested in mapping? This document has all of the tools you need. | February 29, 2012 |
| Property History Search | Pull up historical property information based on the address. | November 23, 2011 |
| Hotsheet Search | See how to run a Hotsheet Search. | November 23, 2011 |
| Views & Reports | ||
| Reports | This Quick Start Guide is an overview of the function buttons above the reports, how to customize reports, how to E-mail/Print reports and more. | November 29, 2011 |
| Spreadsheet | This Quick Start Guide shows how to use Paragon listing results spreadsheets. Learn how to Filter, E-mail, Save, Print, Export (Excel), Customization and Actions (Driving Directions) and much more. | November 30, 2011 |
| Driving Directions | Learn the easy steps to create Driving Directions so you and/or your client can drive to the locations for an on-site visit of properties of interest. | November 23, 2011 |
| Slideshows | See how to setup Slideshows in Paragon. This Quick Start Guides walks you through the process of creating Slideshows that will play whether you are on-line or off-line. Slideshows will play for 30-days. | September 21, 2012 |
| Custom Report Editor | Learn how to customize or create your own custom reports. | November 20, 2011 |
| Listing Distribution | ||
| E-Mailing Listings | See how to send up to 5 different detail sheets in a single E-mail. | September 20, 2011 |
| CAN-SPAM Official Documentation | What is the CAN_SPAM Act of 2003? This Quick Start Guide is a Summary of Paragon's application. | December 2, 2011 |
| Printing | How to print search result reports out of Paragon using Print and Print+. | October 7, 2011 |
| Input Maintenance | ||
| Listings Overview | Introduction to Paragon's Listing Input and Maintenance. | September 20, 2011 |
| Listing Input | Learn how to enter a listing into Paragon. | September 20, 2011 |
| Adding a Tour and Open House | See how to simply add a Property Tour (real estate professionals) or an Open House for the general public. | September 20, 2011 |
| Mapping your Listings | Map your listing - as simple as pointing out on a map the location of your listing. | September 20, 2011 |
| Associated Docs | Checkout this guide on how to add documents to your listings. | September 20, 2011 |
| Listing Maintenance | This guide will walk you through on how to update your listings. | September 20, 2011 |
| Upload Listing Images | Upload a photo to your listing. | September 20, 2011 |
| Listing Photo Labels & Descriptions | Learn how to add labels and descriptions to each of your listing images. | August 19, 2011 |
| Team - Listing Input & Maintenance | See how to associate your listing inside your team. | May 10, 2013 |
| Preferences | ||
| User Preferences Overview | Paragon User Preferences sets up the "look and feel" and individual user functionality of Paragon. This overview will guide you through your preferences set up. | March 2, 2012 |
| Rich Text Editor | Editing E-Card, Resume's, Cover Letter's, etc. in Paragon. | September 20, 2011 |
| Client Connect Preferences Wizard | This Wizard helps you customize your Client Connect webpage content in a step-by-step process. | December 2, 2011 |
| CMA Preferences Wizard | This Wizard helps you set up the essential elements of your CMA along with its "look and feel" | September 20, 2011 |
| Client Connect Custom Reports | Create custom reports to use for your client connect website. | June 20, 2011 |
| Email Signatures | Save time updating your new contact information in your Automatic E-mail Notifications. Change your default Email Signature and all of your Automatic E-mail Notifications can have the same signature information. Email Signatures also allows you to have multiple signatures from which to choose when you send any E-mail out of Paragon. | October 11, 2012 |
| CMA |
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August 18, 2010 |
| Overview | See an overview of Paragon's CMA (Comparative Market Analysis). | August 18, 2010 |
| Step: 1 Subject Property | Everything you need to know about creating a Subject Property. | September 20, 2011 |
| Step: 2 Comparable Properties | Can't build a CMA without Comparable's. Learn more on how to add comparable's. | September 20, 2011 |
| Step: 3 Adjustments | Need to make an adjustment to comparable properties? This document has the details. | September 20, 2011 |
| Step: 4 Page Layout | Set up your page layout for your CMA and choose from five (5) new themes. | September 20, 2011 |
| Step: 5 Presentation Setup | Select the reports to use in your CMA. | Septebmer 20, 2011 |
| Step: 6 View Presentation | Generate your CMA and choose how to distribute it - E-mail or print. | September 20, 2011 |
| CMA Preferences Wizard | CMA Preferences Wizard assists your set up of your standard CMA settings. | September 20, 2011 |
| Financial Calculators | ||
| Calculators Overview | The Paragon Calculators have been updated, improving the returned data. For each calculator, there are three (3) tabs of results: Results, Graphs and Tables and a Help tab. | December 1, 2011 |
| Membership | ||
| Agent Mailing Labels | Create Mailing Labels for the Agents in your Market. | September 20, 2011 |
| Mobile | ||
| Mobile | Learn how to put the power of Paragon in the palm of your hand. | January 1, 2011 |
| Miscellaneous Guides | ||
| Statistical Reporting Graphs User Guide | This guide defines the calculations within the Graphs in the Statistical Reporting module. | January 27, 2012 |
| IDX Smartframing | A guide to setting up IDX SmartFraming, a website listing search tool. | September 20, 2011 |
| Mailing Labels | Need to create some mailing labels. Follow this guide to learn how. | September 20, 2011 |
| Export to Excel | Follow these simple steps to export listing data out of Paragon via a comma separated value spreadsheet. | September 20, 2011 |
| Rich Text Editor | These are the tools used to create E-mails, CMA reports, E-card, Default Message Body for Automatic E-mail Notification, etc. | September 20, 2011 |
| Financial Calculator | Utilize these calculators to help you with your daily tasks. | December 1, 2011 |
| Mobile | Learn how to put the power of Paragon in the palm of your hand. | January 1, 2011 |
| Email Signatures | Save time updating your new contact information in your Automatic E-mail Notifications. Change your default Email Signature and all of your Automatic E-mail Notifications can have the same signature information. Email Signatures also allows you to have multiple signatures from which to choose when you send any E-mail out of Paragon. | October 11, 2012 |
| Automatic E-mail Recurrence | See how to send your automatic E-mail notifications whenever your want. You can select the days of the week and the interval between notifications to meet the needs of your clients. | January 18, 2013 |