Get ready for the most innovative, useful and must-have tools for your real estate business. Here is a great list of tools to give you that blue goose factor we have all been talking about.

Pixenate.com
Agents take a lot of photos and as you know they don’t always come out picture perfect. Maybe you forgot to remove the trash receptacle in front of the house or you decide that the photo may look better in black and white.

Whatever the case, you used to need the proper photo editing software and the know-how. Not anymore. Online software is screaming in popularity most often because it is free and easy to use. Pixenate will allow you to edit your photos without a registration process and then download the newly edited photo back onto your computer. You can easily choose to enhance, crop, remove red-eye, change color, contrast, rotate and much more.

Businessitonline.com
If you are part of a small real estate team, listen up! You need an effective and inexpensive way to share information, manage your contacts, host your accounting, and create calendars. For such a cohesive program, it must cost a lot, right? Nope. It’s free. Just register and they will take care of the rest.

Xpressdocs
The leader in on-demand printing for real estate professionals offers excellent quality for just listed and just sold postcards, brochures, flyers and business cards all with 24-hour turnaround. With an easy to use site you can either have all of your materials sent to you overnight with no shipping charges or upload your own mailing list and they will mail them out to you.

Floorplanonline.com
We all know that the average home seeker wants to see multiple photos of a property before they are more likely to give you a call about it. Floor Plan Online takes it three steps further by allowing an agent to position each of the photos within a floor plan, create a PDF brochure, create a slideshow all while hosting it on your own vanity domain name (i.e. Myhomeaddress.com). This service is unbelievably easy to use and priced ridiculously low making it a no brainer for agents to incorporate it into their business plan.

Neevia
If you are ever in a bind a need to create a PDF file from one of your documents. Use Neevia. For those of you with an Apple computer, you don’t need this. For you PC people, simply upload your file, choose to encrypt it or add a watermark and let the site take care of the rest.

Earth Class Mail
If you are tired of telling people that you or your business has changed addresses or maybe you travel often and can’t always get to your home mailbox. Earth Class Mail allows you to check your USPS mail just like your email.
It’s a simple yet unique concept. Choose the address in which you will hand out to businesses, friends family etc. Choose a plan starting as low as $12.95/month. Once mail is received they will scan in the outside of the envelope and you will have an email box of your USPS mail. You can choose to have the company open the mail for you and they will scan in all of the documents or they will ship the mail you would like directly to you.

Realestateshows.com
If you are like me, there are times when the professionals can do their work and there are times when I want the control in my own hands. Realestateshows.com allows you to rip the control from their hands and embarrass them with an incredible final looking product. Think of it as a professional video editing suite all housed online. Ideas for use include making a “we just moved” video for your clients, showcase homes you’ve sold on your website and highlight local attractions on your blog. Here’s the great part, you do not have to be a tech genius to know how to use this site. Nothing beats a good resource which is why it is worth bringing this company within your business model. They produce an eye-catching and informative blog that will keep you at the top of your game. You do, however, need to know how to type in a URL, www.realestateshows.com.

Matthew S. Gosselin is the author of My Blue Goose, Exploiting The Wow Factor In Real Estate Marketing. The book can be purchased on MyBlueGoose.com or Amazon