Real Estate Tools

Here is how faxing from your iPhone works: First of course my fellow Realtors you will the the eFax app. So go to iTunes and download it – sync it to your phone as usual. You will also need an eFax subscription – you can try eFax free for 30 days with this link. Once [...]

Web5Live – Review of my cloud tools! Many of you asked and I listened … Here is a quick review of the primary tools I am using to run my real estate business from the cloud. By cloud, I mean applications that are not running on my computer – they are browser based – accessed [...]

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This is a guest post from Eric Carvajal of AgentListServ Looking for an effective way to market your listings? Need more properties for your picky buyer? AgentListServ.com is an exclusive real estate marketing network created by real estate agents, for real estate agents. On this unique marketing platform, members share information about properties they “Have” [...]

Krisstina maintains that we are consumers too … … so give Google what it wants and we all win: In this video Krisstina expands on what social media means to her brokerage: This is good stuff guys – let us know if it resounded with your thoughts by clicking the Like button, Sharing or Commenting! [...]

It might be important to know right away .. … even if the comments are nice ones! Innovation never ceases to amaze me. Now we all have the ability to learn if someone posts a comment about us online, almost as soon as it was posted. It's all in an Apple app called Boxcar. A [...]

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A lot of real estate agents are just playing .. … with social media, just because it's a bright new shiny object. Problem is many don't really know what they are doing By setting goals and strategies you won't be fumbling around in the dark anymore. So here is the million dollar question you need [...]

Most real estate bloggers are guilty of … … falling for the next shiny object, adding all sorts of bells and whistles, gadgets and widgets to their blog. Unfortunately what you end up with after a while is a complete mishmash of clutter … … and we were just as guilty as the rest of [...]

Google has said about 20 percent of searches are NOW related to location … What this means is more and more consumers are increasingly accessing online content on their mobile devices.  Most of us are searching for things to do, visit, and eat while we are out around town. If your real estate site doesn't [...]

Facebook tagging – powerful stuff! You can tag friends in status updates as well as photo's and pages, but quite a few of us get this wrong. If you get it right the post appears on your friends wall – that's why its so powerful. The trick in actually getting this to work is a [...]

1964, before even fax machines … … electronic calculators and all the other stuff we take for granted. IBM had only recently made the Selectric electric typewriter available with it's interchangeable golf ball embedded with type. Which makes this guys predictions all the more amazing!     .

MLS & Realtor Boards Don't Get It! It is so frustrating to volunteer my time to sit on a "technology committee" that only exists to explore and present viable new technologies to the Realtor members when the leadership is so resistant to innovation. Last week was the pinnacle of frustration for me … our committee [...]

Cross posting real estate blog posts … on your WordPress blog and Facebook Fan page pays off big time on Google. Here is the proof: Long tail searches still work great for search engine optimization, despite the new and fairly intrusive Google “Instant” search – which you can turn off by the way. The trick [...]

Still Distracted? You are not alone! In part-1 of this post I told you that almost every single person I speak with asks me questions like: "Which technology should I be using?" Of course the old saying is: "Whichever one you will actually use!" While I agree that answer is very true, I also acknowledge [...]