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Best of the Web 2013: Apps

December 18 2013

Guest contributor Melissa Dittmann Tracey of REALTOR®Mag says:

global manFor content marketing

Flipboard. Repurpose news articles, blog posts, Facebook posts, tweets, and more into a digital magazine you can share with your contacts. Better yet, if you're an agent with killer content on your site, create an online real estate magazine with your original posts to share your marketing awesomeness.

For e-signatures

DocuSign. There's a reason millions of contracts have been written and signed by 40 million account holders in 188 countries using DocuSign's mobile and desktop platforms. This REALTOR Benefits® partner is as close to a global standard as it gets.

To get your listings seen

Realtor.com®. The version 5.0 update of realtor.com®'s app is all about the listing photos. House hunters will now see larger, higher-resolution images, and an added photo gallery tab will allow viewers to see the pictures without leaving the search results. Other new features: You can share listings to social networks and draw a custom search area right on the map.

For cloud storage and file sharing

Dropbox. The cloud will change your life. No more stopped-up e-mails due to sending large attachments. Share folders with clients or teams to exchange documents, listing photos, and other information. Create business folders to store forms and contracts to use on any device on the fly. Free for up to 18 GB storage.

For brain-dumping

Evernote. It's the digital form of the "little yellow notepad" for agents, a place for business creativity in the 21st century. The sky's the limit with this app: Snap a photo, clip entire Web pages, record audio of meetings, store files, save receipts, and scan contracts. Use it as a notebook. Use it as a business library. Use it as a collaboration tool to share ideas with clients during showings. Connect it to all your devices.

Evernote Hello. This is a great way to collect contacts. Enter information manually or scan business cards. Connect via your social networks. It's especially useful when you're at a networking event or conference.

To manage client/customer relations

Highrise. Tailor-made for teams, Highrise provides a central location to share client communication, track contractors and vendors, receive updates on what salespeople are working on, schedule meetings and sales calls, and more.

Insightly. If you're an individual practitioner and Google Apps user (Gmail, Drive, Docs, and so on), you'll love Insightly's integration feature. You'll gain all the features of great CRM software while also being able to save e-mail with one click, sync contacts, browse your Google Drive files, and sync your Google calendar.

For listing presentations

Prezi. This isn't the same old PowerPoint presentation. Prezi is customizable presentation software that helps you tell a story through movie-like transitions rather than slides. Melanie Cameron, team leader of the Cameron Team with Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage in Wilmington, N.C., uses Prezi for listing presentations on her iPad. "When she needs a change made, I can do it at my computer and it will automatically update on her iPad," says Meghan Riley, team administrator.

To view the original article, visit REALTOR®Mag.