Choosing the Best Cloud Drive for Your Real Estate Business

When news first started circulating about the mysterious "cloud" and how it would change our personal computing way of life, the actual benefits might not have been exactly clear to the average user. Then, the first time you lost some important files and then were able to recover them because they had automatically been saving themselves somewhere, it was truly exciting. I myself lost a few song files recently when my iPod crashed and found them a few days later hanging out on Google Music, where they'd been uploaded six months before.

Now that news of Google Drive has been leaked and finally announced, real estate agents have a lot of choices of which cloud-based storage services to use. Not only do these programs save your important files, they enable you to send and share files that had once been too large for email. Ideal when it comes to sending photo galleries and home-tour videos to clients. So, why is Google Drive getting all the buzz right now? It's offering 5 GB of free storage and allows you to manage and share all your Google files.

Our content partner AGBeat has published a nice and comprehensive article on the launch of Drive, including a graphic from PCWorld comparing your options:

As you can see, Google is not the only provider offering 5 GB of free storage. The difference, however, is the pricing scale if you want to increase your storage, which you most definitely will. And as for which one is best for real estate, I think the answer would depend on which products you're using already. Do you use Google Docs for sharing documents? Do the other agents in your organization use a company-based system? These are all things to ponder, but settling on the one that's easiest for you and our clients is always the best option.

Which service works best for you? Tell us in the comments section below!

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