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Brokers Win With High Tech and High Touch

Brokers Win With High Tech and High Touch

Technology has changed the entire real estate process, from listing to close. Trulia, Zillow and others brought listings online and made them easily accessible. Other collaboration tools have digitized the often-cumbersome transaction process, allowing customers and agents to collaborate seamlessly and virtually via the device of their choice….

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Flyers – Print them yourself or have them printed?

Flyers – Print them yourself or have them printed?

This may be a bit of a departure from the typical post here at at Geek Estate. Sure, most of the time we’re talking about things like marketing, web hosting, IDX, syndication, how the internet affects real estate agents, CRM, mobile apps, etc.  So what am…

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How DocuSign Helped Me Make $35,977 While On Vacation

How DocuSign Helped Me Make $35,977 While On Vacation

Being a creative person with a hyperactive imagination, I find myself playing “what if” games fairly often, and I thought the Geek Estate crowd would be interested to hear about my latest episode.  I found myself asking the following question, “If I had to give up…

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iPad to Big Screen TV

iPad to Big Screen TV

Imagine spending an hour with your clients flipping through listing photos on your iPad — but the results displaying on a huge 42 inch (or larger) television mounted on your office wall. Or even using a projector. No more huddling around an iPad. That day…

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Final Reminder: Enter to Win a 30 Gigabyte SugarSync Account

Final Reminder: Enter to Win a 30 Gigabyte SugarSync Account

You’ve got one day left to win a 30 gigabyte SugarSync account — just sign up to receive email updates from Geek Estate. That’s all there is to it. 3 random winners will be drawn tomorrow, September 15th, 2011. Enter for your chance to win…

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Reminder: Qualify for the Free 30 Gigabyte SugarSync Accounts Giveaway by September 15th

Reminder: Qualify for the Free 30 Gigabyte SugarSync Accounts Giveaway by September 15th

A gentle reminder that you have ONLY 8 days left to qualify for the 30 gigabyte SugarSync giveaway we’re running right now. Each free account is valued at $49.99 over the course of the next 12 months. Not convinced of the value? Here are a…

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A Free Giveaway for 3 Lucky Geek Estate Readers – a 30 Gigabyte SugarSync

A Free Giveaway for 3 Lucky Geek Estate Readers – a 30 Gigabyte SugarSync

We have a giveaway for 3 lucky Geek Estate Readers — a FREE 30 Gigabyte SugarSync account. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SugarSync, it’s your personal cloud to back up all your music, photos, documents, and videos across all your various devices….

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The Three Best Laptops For Real Estate Agents For 2011

The Three Best Laptops For Real Estate Agents For 2011

Real estate agents tend to spend most of their time outside of the office, in cars, and showing homes to clients, therefore they need devices that are portable and advanced, such as smart phones, to manage lists and email streams.

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iPad App Review: SignMyPad

iPad App Review: SignMyPad

SignMyPad is a new iPad app that lets you sign and fill out pdfs right from your iPad. If you’re like me, you chafe every time you need to print out a form, fill it out and sign it, scan it, then discard the original…

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Does Google Docs make MS Office obsolete?

Does Google Docs make MS Office obsolete?

The Google domination of all things online continues, as they announced that you can now open and edit all Microsoft® Word files that you receive as attachments in Gmail. From the Google blog: “You can now view them with a single click — no need…

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