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Should You Switch To Electronic Signatures?

Should You Switch To Electronic Signatures?

If you’ve never heard of electronic signatures, the concept is simple: instead of physically signing documents, you sign a document electronically by typing your name, clicking with your mouse, or a variety of other methods. Electronic signatures come in many forms, and you’ve likely already…

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Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile

Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile

Real Estate Businesses are Going Mobile Business applications for the Smartphone, Blackberry and iPhone are becoming more of a necessity for today’s Real Estate Industry Professional and Brokerage. Consumers are able to download these applications right from their portable/mobile phones and devices for FREE.  The…

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How WordPress MU Will Change the Online Real Estate Market

How WordPress MU Will Change the Online Real Estate Market

Wordpress MU is a multi-user blogging platform, allowing the webmaster to easily manage hundreds of thousands of blogs from a single WordPress installation… More and more Realtors, Homeowners, Appraisers, Loan Officers, Title Companies, and Mortgage Brokerages will be using this powerful application.

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Top 5 Free Android Apps for Agents

Top 5 Free Android Apps for Agents

I’ve been a ridiculous Iphone holdout, predominantly b/c my t-mobile bill is about half what it would be with ATT.  I tried to make the switch to an Android phone last year with the release of the G1, and took the clunky handset back after…

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How To Qualify and Remember More About Your Prospects [PDF Download]

How To Qualify and Remember More About Your Prospects [PDF Download]

When I call a prospective client for the first time I don’t use a script to qualify and understand what they’re looking for. Instead, I have a general idea of the things I need to know like number of bedrooms/bathrooms, location and where in the…

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Can Twitter Really Increase Your Real Estate Sales?

Can Twitter Really Increase Your Real Estate Sales?

Can anyone tell me why so many agents spend so many hours on Twitter? It seems a lot of agents are caught up in the Social Media hype these days and Twitter is high on their list.  Is the business they generate off Twitter predictable…

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Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Google Maps Street View Comes to Canada

Finally, Google’s Street View product comes to the streets of Canada. The other day Google added the streets of Canada to their street level photography project. You can see all of the cities/towns that have been included in their initial launch here. Interesting that Victoria…

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Bing Webmaster Tools – A Novice's First Impression

Bing Webmaster Tools – A Novice's First Impression

I’m relatively new to the SEO world, but I’m interested/excited to see what kind of competition Bing can bring to Google’s search dominance.  GOOG is no longer the cool, independent startup that we all loved a few years back, it’s now a cool, 800 lb gorilla.  At…

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Barcamp or Bored Camp?

Barcamp or Bored Camp?

I’ve been to 3 Real Estate Barcamps in the past year. Seattle, Portland, and then Seattle #2. This isn’t nearly as many as some of the vendors like our friends at Zillow or Altos have attended, but I feel like I have a feel for…

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Local Market Explorer v2 Beta Now Available

Local Market Explorer v2 Beta Now Available

The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you…

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