A History & Partial Listing of Contact Management Tools in Real Estate - Part 2 of 3 - 04/24/07 02:20 PM
What else is out there? In the RES (Real Estate Specific) arena, there are 2 programs that are based in FileMaker, which is a highly respected database platform.  Agent Business Builder is one of them, that started in 1995, and has a fairly significant user base as a result. Then there is REST, a relative newcomer with what I think to be some very good potential. Based in Filemaker, these two have some flexibility with respect to report generation, using a readily available group of programmers as a third party to generate them for you. Another interesting thing about them is that they … (11 comments)

A History & Partial Listing of Contact Management Tools in Real Estate - Part 1 of 3 - 04/09/07 03:04 PM
This article is an ongoing work-in-progress on my site - click here!
They're coming out of the woodwork! It all started back in the mid '80's with Howard & Friends. I know many of you loved it, but waiting for "Blinky to gather my contacts" was a tad too silly for this transplant from computer operations to Real Estate guy...
During Howard & Friends tenuous tenure, another Real Estate Specific (RES) program came out called, interestingly enough, RES - Real Estate Specialist. I loved that program, but it never made it to Windows. As reticent as agents are now to invest the … (18 comments)

Learning to use your CRM software - 04/04/07 10:33 AM
First let me say that I sympathize with your situation. I cannot however, agree with your sentiments. I'm sorry, but I feel compelled to do a bit of a 'rant'.  I will no doubt get flak for it, but I know there are people that have made the time to learn these programs, that will understand and agree with what I am saying. It is not my intention to pick on this particular person(their comments in bold), but rather these same sentiments expressed all too often, by many agents.
Please understand that although I am a reseller for Top Producer, I am also … (6 comments)