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Avoid Blah-Blah Conversation With This Voicemail Cloaking Device

Avoid Blah-Blah Conversation With This Voicemail Cloaking Device

Please Dear Lord, Don’t Let Them Pick Up, So I Can Leave A Voice Mail and Make A Quick Get Away. You know those times when you have to return a phone call, share an update, remind someone about something?  And those times where there’s no getting around it, you have to make the call and deliver your message, but ...

Ken Brand | 2010/10/04  | 34 Comments How to

New Realtor.com iPhone App

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.  ...

Ines Hegedus-Garcia | 2010/01/12  | 39 Comments Product Review

Desktop Analytics – Polaris

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 ...

Matthew Rathbun | 2009/05/17  | 2 Comments Product Review

Windows Live Writer: Making Writing Easier

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 ...

Matthew Rathbun | 2009/05/03  | 15 Comments Product Review

Are You On Track?

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 ...

Vicki Moore | 2009/04/14  | 12 Comments Product Review

AG Demographic Study – Knowing the Audience

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 ...

Benn Rosales | 2009/01/06  | 1 Comment How to

A Question = Great Input on Contact Management Software

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 ...

Amy Chorew | 2008/12/27  | 27 Comments Product Review

Mike Ferry Fan Club

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 ...

Russell Shaw | 2008/12/16  | 46 Comments Product Review

Shift Happens. Read This Book.

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 ...

Russell Shaw | 2008/12/02  | 11 Comments Coaching

Dwellicious – Bookmark Property Listings Socially

Dwellicious – Bookmark Property Listings Socially

Organize, Share, Discuss, Dwellicious At first glance, we had the impression that Dwellicious was a content bookmarker like Digg, but we were delightfully surprised to learn we were wrong on a massive scale. Dwellicious is a property listings bookmarking site that allows not only agents, but home buyers and sellers to bookmark properties and share them and their thoughts with ...

Benn Rosales | 2008/11/24  | 30 Comments Highlights

HouseFront Mobile Info Tool

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 ...

Brad Nix | 2008/10/04  | 8 Comments Product Review

N-Play Launches Beta Site

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 ...

Jay Thompson | 2008/07/14  | 16 Comments Product Review