AG Product Review Beat
New Realtor.com iPhone App
Realtor.com launched their new iPhone application and gave a few of us the chance to play with it and tear it to pieces before the launch (maybe they didn’t quite put it that way, but it’s the way I’m approaching it). When I first open these new apps, I always think of the intent and this one is pretty obvious. ...
Desktop Analytics – Polaris
Keeping Track I’m a big fan of keeping a pulse on the health of my blogs and sites. Polaris has released a desktop application that allows you to keep track of your Google Analytics, on your desktop. The free version only allows monitoring from one account, while the $15/year version will allow multiple accounts. The system features are very easy ...
Windows Live Writer: Making Writing Easier
Time Saver I’ve recently become a huge fan of Microsoft’s free tool, the Windows Live Writer. It has awesome functionality and ease-of-use. Live Writer is a tool to allow desktop publishing to various blog platforms. It’s worked effortlessly with WordPress. I know that there are some purist out there, who love to log into the WordPress and mess with the ...
Are You On Track?
The Plan About this time of year, I have to remind myself that I had spent a lot of time creating a plan. I made a schedule – and oh, yeah, I’m supposed to be following it. The First Fail One of my favorite things is to send cards to my clients. My favorite is calling and singing happy birthday ...
AG Demographic Study – Knowing the Audience
Thinking Differently We write and speak a lot on the importance of knowing your online audience when it comes to your online activities. We’ve been combing the internet for sometime looking for options that would allow agents to operate simple studies on their websites to better know just who they’re reaching with their efforts. The uses for these studies are ...
A Question = Great Input on Contact Management Software
The other day, a client of mine asked this in an email: “Quick question: Which real-estate specific contact management software do you believe is best if the agent wants the “cadillac” of online marketing resource options?—or perhaps the top two programs?” Instead of just answering my thoughts I posted this as a discussion on the National Association of REALTORS Group ...
Mike Ferry Fan Club
I’ve posted about Mike Ferry before. I have seldom had nice things to say about him. This time will be no exception. It isn’t that I think he charges too much for what he delivers – because I don’t. I believe any service provider should be free to charge whatever he wants to charge and that his potential customers should ...
Shift Happens. Read This Book.
This is the book I am telling all of my friends in the real estate business to get and read. It is so well researched that those of you who like statistics will be impressed just with some of the stats. Those who may have hit a rough patch and found their business in a bit of a skid will ...
HouseFront Mobile Info Tool
You’re out and about all the time, you drive the town and the neighborhoods as you work your market. You see a house that’s for sale by owner or notice a vacant property and want to know more about it. You use to write down the address and go back to the office to look up details. Maybe you even ...
N-Play Launches Beta Site
Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together Online N-Play, “a real estate service company focused on bringing home buyers and sellers together online” released a beta launch this morning. From the press release: The company is the first to connect buyers, sellers and agents through secure submission, ranking and evaluation of offers online, directly from the listing display. N-Play is currently undertaking ...















