For REALTORS®, Being Proactive Is The Name of the Game

This week we talked about the importance of being proactive by incorporating the Boy Scout motto of “Be Prepared” into your everyday strategies. This basic idea helps you to keep thinking ahead and equipping yourself to overcome challenges that are thrown your way.

Read: Simplify Your Life With Forward Thinking

On Tuesday, we touched on the importance of using real estate technology along with a variety of other technologies that increase efficiency. Not all of them are complicated and some of the most simple are highly useful. Alerts and RSS feeds fall into this category and help you stay current with important real estate news, technology solutions, trends and information.

Read: Simple Yet Effective Technology: RSS Feeds ad Email Alerts

The social media post for this week dealt with the importance of using social media dashboards to optimize your network. These are programs that facilitate communication with potential clients, industry peers and influencers by allowing you to update several social media sites at once.

Read: Optimize Your Network With Social Media Dashboards

It’s important to emphasize being proactive because this attitude is a necessity for success in the real estate industry. People who think ahead and prepare themselves for challenging situations will overcome them much more easily and quickly. In today’s modern technological world, a big part of being proactive involves acquiring and using real estate technology designed to increase efficiency and productivity.

What steps do you take to be more proactive?