October 24 2014
This post comes to us from the Market Leader blog:
As a real estate agent, you should be spending time calling prospects, meeting with clients, and showing properties. You shouldn't be spending a ton of time scouring the internet for cool tools, apps and gadgets to help you be more productive. That's my job!
Every so often, we'll be checking back in with the latest tools and tech tips for successful and struggling real estate agents alike. Here are some fantastic recent innovations that can help you focus, stay on track, and make you look like an expert.
How many times have you been working in a new area – or even in your own – and gotten stumped by a question about the neighborhood? Hyperlocal data has historically been tricky to obtain, until recently.
Sitegeist is a free smartphone app that provides important information about the area you're standing in right now – facts that clients and prospects want to know. For example, a few taps and swipes on Sitegeist can tell you:
From the folks at HomeFinder.com, Open Home Pro is a free tablet app that helps agents more effectively and elegantly capture contact info at open houses. The app was originally developed for iPads in 2010, and was quite well received, and this summer the company released a version for Android tablets as well.
Open Home Pro gives agents the opportunity to:
Looking for a tablet designed to meet the needs of busy road-warrior real estate agents? The new Dell Venue tablet provides a great alternative to an iPad, with an attractive price tag. It comes in two sizes, an 11-inch or 8-inch screen.
Consulting firm Prowess Consulting recently looked at how real estate agents spend time and use (or misuse) technology. They wrote a white paper on the subject, commissioned by Intel, which makes processors for the Dell tablets. Here's what they found:
The report, though written in favor of the Dell tablet since it was paid for by Intel, finds that the Dell Venue offers some great benefits to users for selected real estate agent activities. For example, the Venue provides simple and powerful photo editing and tweaking capabilities – making it easy for agents to take photos of a house and then do some photo processing, fine-tuning and uploading right from the front seat of a car.
All systems involve tradeoffs. You can also make changes to soup up an iPad. But that takes time, probably better spent prospecting and selling. Consider the Dell Venue 8 for your next tablet purchase, as it offers great features for agents, right out of the box.