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Are you using Google+ hangouts for your business? Seriously, when I first heard about this new tool I thought to myself, yeah, just what we need, another social media option. From Vimeo, to Hulu to YouTube, to Facebook and a whole host of other options, did we really need another way to share content with our followers?
Well known industry news website Inman News conducted a survey called “Diving into the Mind of Today’s ‘Free Agent’”. Directed towards real estate professionals, over 80 questions covered topics such as agents’ earnings, time spent working on various activities, and amount spent on technology and marketing.
Home shopping is no longer confined to desktops or laptops and real estate agents who don’t get the mobile movement will be thumb-typed right out of business. Instead, today’s unwired home shoppers are using mobile devices to do everything from browsing for housing via GPS to streaming videos of homes for sale.
Will real estate based technology replace the human touch? Does it matter? Waypoint Real Estate Group is harnessing technology to purchase homes – thousands of them at the rate of about five to seven every day – and that same technology is being used to keep track of them. Current real estate conditions across the [...]
Real estate technology does more these days than simply list a home for sale on a realtor’s website. Now, homeowners can take part in the fun too!
As promised, RealtyBizNews is updating our readers about the new website, LeaseRunner.com – a web based application designed exclusively for the management of rental properties. Everything, from the lease application all the way to collecting rents is done online, much of it automated
Although development for the online pin board known as Pinterest originally started in 2009, the site is only just now starting to gain momentum among the general public. If you’re still unfamiliar with Pinterest and how it works, users are able to display and share their favorite images and items with friends and followers by [...]
If you’re as old as I am (let’s just say I’m no “spring chicken”) chances are pretty good that you can remember a time when a fax machine was the fastest way to do business. A time when the ‘net’ and all of the accoutrements attached to it – computer, website, smart phone, iPad, social media, etc. were the stuff of science fiction. Perhaps you also remember when it was NOT a good thing to be known as a ‘geek’ or a ‘nerd’.
