How to Prepare Your Clients for a Natural Disaster

After selling a new home, you encourage your clients to care for their new investments. You might suggest that they buy security systems and ensure they have the right homeowners insurance. But what about preparing for natural disasters? This is a growing concern for homeowners, especially with coastal flood-prone properties.   From floods and earthquakesContinue reading “How to Prepare Your Clients for a Natural Disaster”

Building a Powerful Lead Generation Machine that Converts

You often hear about powerful lead generation, and how to generate “more, more, more.” But generating leads is just the very beginning. A large database is only as valuable as the agent’s abilities to convert. Meaning, without the proper tools, and without a skilled agent – all of those leads are going to convert somewhereContinue reading “Building a Powerful Lead Generation Machine that Converts”

5 Must-have CRM Integrations to Optimize your Real Estate Business

Just a friendly reminder when it comes to CRMs: Buyer beware of the “complete CRM.” Unfortunately this is usually code for a company trying to create a beast-of-a-system from scratch. (And typically not succeeding.) Instead, you should look for a system that has CRM integrations with other best-of-breed solutions. That way you can integrate allContinue reading “5 Must-have CRM Integrations to Optimize your Real Estate Business”

Top 5 Ways to Use Alexa for Your Real Estate Business

There is a lot of buzz around voice assistants and what robots can do for businesses in 2018. What could it mean for real estate? How much can Alexa (Amazon Echo) really do?   The tech is still very new. Will it completely transform the way you run your business, or even eliminate the needContinue reading “Top 5 Ways to Use Alexa for Your Real Estate Business”

Top Takeaways from Inman Connect San Francisco

They say that successful people never stop learning. And Inman Connect was a perfect example of this – agents, brokers, and innovators sharing their expertise and taking feverish notes. If you weren’t able to attend (or were and just want a refresher), we’ve got a quick recap of some highlights.   Here are a fewContinue reading “Top Takeaways from Inman Connect San Francisco”

Have Multiple Systems For Managing Leads? Here’s How To Simplify

“This is my favorite system for transaction management, but it doesn’t work with my CRM, so here’s my workaround…”   “I prefer to use this dialer, but it doesn’t integrate with my system, so I take notes on my calls and attempts and input them manually later…” Whether it’s transaction management, dialers, or another solutionContinue reading “Have Multiple Systems For Managing Leads? Here’s How To Simplify”

Are CRMs Worth the Investment?

If there’s one major theme in the real estate industry right now, it’s technology. With new tech companies popping up left and right, the consensus among most brokerages is to embrace it. But before you move forward with a CRM for your business, consider the investment that you’re making and whether or not it’s worthContinue reading “Are CRMs Worth the Investment?”

What Should I Share on Social Media?

We’ve all been there: desperate to drum up some content for our social media pages, or knowing you should be sharing something, but avoiding it altogether. Whether you’re scared of sharing the wrong thing, or drawing a blank on content altogether, we’ve got you covered. After years of helping our clients boost their brands throughContinue reading “What Should I Share on Social Media?”

5 Steps to Hiring Your Own Real Estate Team

There’s a reason that superheroes tend to team up to fight the villains: It’s easier and more effective to take on big goals together than to go at it alone. If you have a real estate business and are starting to find yourself overrun with leads and administrative tasks, it’s time to bring people aboard.Continue reading “5 Steps to Hiring Your Own Real Estate Team”

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