Many bloggers here are super geeks aka techy genuises. You know who you are. You can look away now. For those of you still looking, I'd like to share a tiny corner of my REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY TOOL KIT:
Contact Management: Agent Office is my contact management software of choice. It works well especially if you have a team. But what I use doesn't matter. Just use something. "How you gather, manage and use information to serve the needs of your customer will determine whether you win or lose in your business" - Bill Gates in "Business at the Speed of Thought". For a complete list of Real Estate Contact Management Programs, visit Gary Hall Online. This is not an advertisement for Gary - at least he's not paying me to say this. I think he is a great guy and he was very helpful to me when I was upgrading my Agent Office software.
CMA Program - I use Tool Kit CMA by Realty Tools. The CMA presentation is professional looking and pretty impressive for such an easy to use web based program.
Seller Communication - This is a cool little program. HomeFeedback.com. Seller's love it and agents really do give me feedback at a pretty high percentage of return.
Printing - I love Express Copy. L-O-V-E. $39 for 100 flyers. I don't want to be in the printing business so I order my printing online and usually have it the next day. And they are in California and I'm in Connecticut. I also use Color for Real Estate. This is a fun company with some creative stuff. Good prices, fast turnaround. They even have a secret handshake club.
Screen Capture - If you don't use Snag It, run don't walk to get it. Or just get out your credit card. NOW. This is one of my all time favorite programs.
File Organization - Some kids were born with artistic abilities. My sister was born beautiful. I was born organized. I'm moving to paperless with Paperport 11. I don't bother to scan. I just fax the stuff to "my magic fax number" at MaxEmail. It arrives as a PDF which I file in my perfectly organized Paperport files.
Online Backup - Carbonite is "non-stop, unlimited, automatic backup over the internet." UNLIMITED and CHEAP.
Marketing - The small town I live in is my niche. I have a neighborhood website from My Online Neighborhood. And I send a newspaper every 60 days to my whole town. Custom House Publishers makes it easy! I got a listing last year because the seller said he received my newspaper "every week". I like Agency Logic to do individual web sites for my listings like the one at 29 Sawmill Drive. Imprev produces some very professional flyers and I've also used HP Real Estate Marketing Assistant. And of course, there is the old standby, Microsoft Publisher. I've been using MSPub since the day it was born.
Photographs - I use the wonderful Flickr for online photo management and sharing. I get most of my photos, including the one here, at Istockphoto and at YotoPhoto. I keep it simple and use Microsoft Digital Image Suite for my photo enhancement.
That's just an itty bitty corner of my Technology Tool Kit. I'm working on a followup called "When you want to eat, technology is sweet". Stay tuned.
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For those expecting Carnac and seeing Linda, Carnac will return on March 1st. You have been providing him with plenty of fodder.