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Android Real Estate Applications
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Blackberry Real Estate Applications
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Contact Management Tools
Real Estate Coaching
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Design Tools
Real Estate Data
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Email Blast Services
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Online File Sharing
Free Stuff
Fulfillment
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IPhone Real Estate Applications
IDX Providers
IXACT
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Lead Qualification Services
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Mobile Marketing Services
Marketing Lists
Online Meeting Services
Real Estate Magazines
Mailing
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Outlook Add-Ons
Online File Sharing
Online Meeting Services
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Printing Services
Promotional Merchandise
Property Management Tools
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Real Estate Magazines
Real Estate Coaching
Real Estate Data
Real Estate News and Tips
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Tools
Single Property Websites
Social Networking Sites
Spam Blockers/Filters
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Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
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Video Email Service
Virtual Tours/Visual Tours
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Websites (Template Websites)
Website Enhancements
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Android Real Estate Applications
- Coldwell Banker - Whether you’re in the market for a new home, dreaming about a vacation place or just curious to see million dollar properties, the Coldwell Banker app gives you the ability to explore real estate anytime anywhere. © 2009 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.
- Zillow Real Estate - See Zestimate® home values, local real estate including homes for sale, rentals, and more. Use voice search, plus GPS, to search for homes as you talk, walk or drive.
- ZipRealty - Search active MLS listed homes in 5,000+ cities across the US.
- Idealista - The real estate portal idealista, enables to search for home through the phone. it’s particularly useful when you are walking and you want to know if there is some interesting property in the area. italy, spain and portugal.
- HotPads - Take your housing search on the road with HotPads map based housing search.
- Real Estate by Smarter Agent - Real Estate by Smarter Agent shows Homes for Sale & Apartments for Rent; includes prices, maps, photos and more. See Recently Sold home prices within the last 3 years.
- Financial Calculators - Personal finance application that allows the user to choose between three sub programs: real estate investment profit calculator, home buying calculator, and mortgage / refinance calculator. For the real estate investment profit and home buying calculators the user can save data into a database and later retrieve the data.
- Real Estate Dictionary - Real Estate Terms is a fully-featured flash card app that helps you learn the most important terms in real estate. Perfect if you're a realtor, going for your broker's exam, or just interested in real estate and property.
- Envoy (local info search- demographics, schools, etc) - Neighborhood Envoy Mobile enables eNeighborhoods Subscribers to quickly access local information for any neighborhood in the USA from their mobile devices. Information about schools, demographics, employment, housing, climate, local points of interest and more is available.
- Realtor.com - Find more homes for sale using your Android device with the REALTOR.com® Real Estate Search App - provided by the Number 1 site in real estate.
- Puluwai - Puluwai is an android application that allows you to quickly and easily browse real estate property listings in your area of interest. You can locate properties by either entering a location or by using GPS functions. It let you view photos of properties for sale, find properties on a map, contact the selling agent, and share interesting properties with your friends and family.
- Lowes Realtor - The Lowe’s Program for REALTORS® is a partnership between Lowe’s Home Improvement and the National Association of REALTORS®. Through this partnership (and through this app), REALTORS® can send free direct mail and email marketing materials to their clients.
- Realtor Action Center - Get the latest political news and headlines on issues affecting REALTORS®
- Realtor Listing Presentation - Create flash cards to help guide you though a presentation and win over perspective clients.
- PlacerTitleAgent - For Realtors, Mortgage Professionals or anyone thinking of buying or selling a home this app puts amazingly accurate good faith estimates and precision net sheets into the Android or your hand!
Blackberry Real Estate Applications
- Smarter Agent - Smarter Agent brings the real estate market to your BlackBerry - putting the information you need at your fingertips. Whether you’re buying, renting, selling or keeping an eye on the market, Smarter Agent provides three property search options in one powerful app.
- HomeRoamer - HomeRoamer helps you find a home for sale on your BlackBerry®. Currently, HomeRoamer only has listings in the Toronto and GTA, but we will be adding listings to the rest of Canada soon.
- ForRent.com - The ALL NEW For Rent BlackBerry® application is a GPS-sensitive apartment listing system featuring approximately 50,000 properties in over 190 markets in the United States. With detailed descriptions, floorplan descriptions with prices and diagrams, video tours and agent contact information, For Rent is the only multifamily apartment rental listing application you will need to find your new digs.
- BlackTrack Lite - BlackTrack provides real estate professionals with a complete log of phone/email activity with durations. These secure & private reports help you automatically keep track of all your communications. You can add notes or delete log items if you need to. Reports of a day s or week s activity are automaically emailed to one or two addresses of your choice. The key is that everythign is completely automatic.
- Remax Mobile - RE/MAX Mobile brings the New Jersey real estate market to your BlackBerry®! For the first time, you have access to all homes for sale in the Garden State anytime, anywhere. From the New Jersey suburbs outside NYC to shore homes along the coast, RE/MAX Mobile lets you search thousands of listings and compare home prices from the convenience of your BlackBerry.
- Midland Mobile - Midland BlackBerry® Mobile Property Price Chart allows users to have updated Hong Kong property market information via their BlackBerry mobile devices.
- Investment Property Calculator Australia - Save thousands of dollars for less than a cup of coffee! Have you ever wondered what it would cost you per week, per year, to own an investment property, how much capital gain you may get and how much net wealth you could make? If you are paying tax right now, would you like to know if your target property will help you reduce tax and how much benefit you’d receive to help you turn tax into assets? This simple to use calculator will help you with answers to these questions and much more.
- Monthly Payment Calculator - Monthly payment calculator. Suitable for mortgages, auto loans, home equity loans and other loans that need monthly payment calculations. Quickly calculate monthly payments, total payment and total interest.
- Philadelphia Real Estate - Find a townhome in Old City, see all homes for sale on the Main Line, check out how much condos are selling for in Center City or gaze at pictures of your dream house at the shore – all from your phone! Whether you’re buying, selling or just interested in the market, Philadelphia Real Estate by Smarter Agent brings the most comprehensive real estate data to your phone.
- Real Estate Back of the Envelope - Real Estate Back Of the Envelope (BOE) is a proforma model in your pocket, handling all types of real estate. Much more powerful than a simple mortgage calculator, BOE is a remarkably sophisticated yet portable financial analysis modeling tool for the commercial real estate investor and developer.
- Home Search - Real Estate search for Orange County, California: We provide search of property based on:- 1) your current location 2) location entered by you 3) MLS # search.
- Sandicor - Sandicor’s app puts the MLS in the palm of every member’s hand. This app was specifically designed to be used by Sandicor agents.
- Com Calculator - Com Calc is a small app to help Real Estate agents quickly determine their potential commission on a deal.
- JLR Mobile - JLR Mobile provides historical information on real estate transactions in the province of Quebec. You will also find municipal evaluations, demographic statistics, property details, owner information and a history of renovation permits. Please note that to use this application you must register at jlr.ca
- NYT Real Estate Search - Using the New York Times Real Estate Search shortcut you’ll gain quick access to search real estate listings to buy, sell or rent a house, apartment or condo in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, across the U.S. and around the world.
- Ontario Land Transfer Tax Calculator - Useful and User Friendly Land Transfer Tax Calculator for province Ontario of Canada. Very useful for Ontario Real Estate Agents, Home Buyers and Investors.
- SETCO Calculator - SETCO Services, L.L.C. Calculators - Cost and Refinance Calculators. Prefessional Title Services on the Beach and Online.
- SIR Mobile- The Sotheby’s International Realty brand unveils this initial version of SIR Mobile. Now you have access to search the most unique and extraordinary properties from coast to coast, right at your fingertips.
- ProxiHomes - ProxiHomes is a Singapore property portal specializing in property search for purchase, rest or sale of condos, hdb or private properties. Find your property on the MOVE right on your MOBILE PHONE.
- JAccountant - JAccountant is a very small java app (about 30k) that will calculate payments for loans and build amortization schedules. In addition, it will help you shop by calculating the merchandise price after a percent discount, and you can take an additional percent off.
- EstateOffice Mobile - With the real estate software estateOffice Mobile you can access your estateOffice CRM data at any time. No matter if you e.g. create notes or retrieve respectively edit data.
- EstateMobile Pro - With the real estate software estateOffice Mobile you can access your estateOffice CRM data at any time. No matter if you e.g. create notes or retrieve respectively edit data.
- Mah Sing - Incorporated since 1991 and listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia, Mah Sing Group Berhad is Malaysia’s leading developer at the forefront of building quality homes and prime commercial projects in strategic locations.
- Metroplots Real Estate - Metroplots mobile application can be used for keeping yourself updated on Indian Real Estate news & new residential project in Chennai.
- NARdiGras - The 2010 REALTORS® Conference & Expo – mobile application. This application will help you get around the 2010 Conference by letting you look up schedule and session information, exhibitors, local tours, restaurants and hotels. Be sure to use the “Sessions starting in 1 hr” feature to find out which session you should be in next.
- Neemio - Property sellers use Neemio to make their smartphones more useful. Neemio gives real estate sellers the ability to capture and publish images or video of properties with automatic distribution to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, WordPress and Blogger.
- PacUnionRE - Search for homes, condos, apartments that are for sale or for rent.
- PropertyGuys - Access PropertyGuys.com property search and seller features from your BlackBerry®. BUYERS: Find properties for sale nearby using your BlackBerry location services. SELLERS: Track traffic to your PropertyGuys.com listing anywhere with phone reception using your PropertyGuys.com account.
- Sitewise - Sitewise creates a demographic report that describes the people around your current location, for a circular, drive-time or neighborhood area.
- South Bay Construction Cost Reference Guide - The South Bay Construction Cost Reference Guide is the gold standard for quick commercial general construction estimating, to be used by Real Estate Brokers, Developers, Architects, Construction Managers, Facilities Managers, Property Managers, Engineers and City Planners. South Bay Construction covers the entire Bay Area - Monterey to Napa and the Pacific Coast to Sacramento.
- Surterre Properties - Find your next home…in seconds…with your mobile phone! Brought to you by Surterre Properties, Southern California’s luxury real estate leader, this free mobile phone app features an easy-to-use, GPS-based property search and works in fractions of a second.
- Zip-It Radon - Look up radon levels by zip code for Illinois. There are two data sets, Radon Detection Specialists in-house data and the data collected by the state of Illinois Radon Program.
Contact Management Tools
- IXACT Contact - With IXACT Contact’s powerful email marketing capabilities, you can send branded email communications that are personalized and fully graphical. There’s no limit to the size of your mass emails, or how many emails you can send in a month. You can create your own mass emails or leverage one of our many email templates including Just Listed/Just Sold e-Cards, Just Listed/Just Sold e-Flyers, and e-Newsletters. Sign up for a FREE 60 day trial courtesy of RealSupport. Enter the promo code RSU1!
- Top Producer - With their easy-to-use contact management system, no prospect falls through the cracks. Respond quickly with attractive emails, set next-call dates, and assign automated mail and email follow-up plans for new prospects and existing clients.
- Active Agent - Capture key real estate contact data and get one click access to follow-ups, campaigns and properties/transactions!
- REALeSELLER - Transforms Microsoft Outlook into a "genuine Real Estate software application"
and offers more than 250 new features.
- MoreSolds.com - MoreSolds includes hundreds of features plus optional snap-in modules, which allow agents to send automated email campaigns, send a custom branded monthly email newsletter, and send showing surveys to generate automated showing feedback on their listings.
- FollowUpBoss.com - Follow Up Boss takes all your leads and puts them in one simple place.
- AdWerxYou can customize an ad in minutes about a listing. It leverages the experience of the music industry. They promote real estate listings to the rest of the web. Takes your listing and puts it all sites except Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia (ZRT).
Helps reach a totally different audience.
- Agent Office – We looked into this one for one of my coaching clients because he wanted something that tied in with Outlook, as this one does. If you use Outlook, this might be for you.
- My Real Estate Tools –I really loved that you could customize and order mailers and they’d be sent directly from the system. You could also program drips for multiple years with one click.
- Sharper Agent - They have some pretty swanky marketing materials, and I understand that they have a nice CRM, but I haven’t tried it yet.
- Property Base - This is built by the Salesforce people. Salesforce is one of the most renowned CRMs in the sales industry. So, I’m thinking it’s gotta be good. (It’s pricy, though.)
- Wise AgentI just looked at Wise Agent again. Wise Agent prides itself on 24/7 customer support. This is good if you would work late!
- RealvolveThis is the one available to the agents in my office. We’ve uploaded our own workflows, emails, and letters because the system doesn’t come with any. The tie-in to social media is awesome and they have strong customer support.
- Referral MakerThis is Brian Buffini’s baby. It is focused on your sphere of influence primarily and sending out those monthly items of value that Buffini recommends as part of his coaching. If you are a Buffini believer, then this one is for you.
Design Tools
- Jackpratt.com - Screen printed and powder coated signs for real estate, oil and gas, and safety signs.
Email Blast Services
Free Stuff
- Free 411.com - Connects
callers for free to the business, government office or residence of their
choice. The trade-off for using 1-800-FREE-411: Callers must first listen
to a 12-second recorded pitch.
- Turn a PDF into a Word doc! - Convert your PDF files into Word documents with this free tool.
Fulfillment
iPhone Real Estate Applications
- TourNarrator - A very useful tool for real estate agents who want to manage their clients and properties much more effectively. Helps you take notes and get feedback from your clients.
- Zip Realty - A free real estate application for iPhone that provides you with the updated list of homes available for sale in various markets. It’s GPS enabled too.
- Zillow - One of the most comprehensive real estate apps for iPhone. It uses your iPhone’s GPS to find out more information about the houses around you. Great way to find homes to buy or rent.
- HotPads - Take your housing search on the road with HotPads map based housing search.
- BA II Plus Financial Calculator - If you are into finance or real estate, you are going to love using this calculator. Has everything you need to do some finance on the road.
- Dictionary of Real Estate Terms - New to real estate? Not sure what those technical terms mean? This app has got you covered.
- RECalc – Real Estate Mortgage Loan Calculator - A great tool for real estate pros or ordinary folks to calculate monthly payments and all other financial information.
- Mortgage Calculator - Another impressive mortgage calculator that lets you find out more about those small little details about your mortgage. Calculate your monthly rate, price per square foot, and even your amortization schedule easily with this app.
- iFinance Toolkit Pro - A great way to find out more about your progress when it comes to your financial investments. That includes figuring out your mortgage as well.
- Trulia Search - Trulia is one of the most innovative real estate web sites on the market, and now you can gain access to its latest listings on your iPhone with this free app.
- Agent Feedback - A simple app for real estate agents that helps them note down clients’ feedback and their impression on the houses they have seen.
- My Realty Pro - Another simple real estate iPhone app for agents that lets them keep track of their listings and leads.
- The Sniffer - It's a real estate evaluation tool that allows you to individually modify the variables in each deal and see how it effects your cash flow.
- DocuSign - Manage documents and get signatures with this app which is DocuSign’s iPhone app for those of you on the go. Esignatures are more accepted now in the industry than ever, don’t limit yourself to a computer or laptop, use your iPhone! Go ahead and start practicing now by saying, “oh you like this home? Sign here please!”
- RulerPhone - While on a show and a client says, “I don’t know if my six foot couch will fit here,” just whip out your iPhone, pull up RulerPhone and a credit card and take a picture of the space with a credit card in the shot and RulerPhone will tell you the measurements based on the credit card.
- Color Snap - This Sherwin Williams app lets you take a picture from a magazine or real life and select up to three colors from the image, producing the paint code. Real world example: you’re in a model home and the buyer loves the color of the walls and adores the couch. Snap a shot and immediately email them the paint code numbers. That’ll impress ‘em!
- Realtor.com - Is one of the top rated real estate apps on many user lists and is one of the most downloaded RE app in iTunes. Instantly access over 4 million homes for sale - more than any other real estate site in America. Harness the most robust search & mapping capabilities with: Area Highlighter, Nearby Homes for Sale & Open Houses, and Area Scout. Multiple photos, property details, open house information and pricing on nearly any home for sale - with most listings updated every 15 minutes. Sign in to access your saved searches and listings (automatically synchronized between the phone and your REALTOR.com® account). Create private notes & ratings for homes you like then send them to your family, friends and agent.
- Century 21 - I’ve been talking with the C21 folks and they just released their app that has the ability to geolocate wiki information and users can pull pics, school data, demographics, area history and more based on what zip code they’re in.
- Homes.com - Use this speedy application to search for your next home using your iPhone or iPod Touch. A touch or two on your screen creates a custom search of nearby homes for sale or rent. See detailed lists or search by maps, and quickly refine your search by price, property type, features and more.
- Twitter - Discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world with the official Twitter for iPhone app. Realtime search, Top Tweets, trending topics and maps show whats happening now everywhere and nearby. Tweet, send DMs, share photos, videos and links to your friends and the world. Don't have an account? Just sign up from the app!
- Facebook - Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.
- LinkedIn - LinkedIn for iPhone puts your professional network just a touch away. Walk into any interview or client meeting with the ability to look up the details and connect with over 85 million professionals worldwide. Get the latest updates and messages from your network and keep them up-to-date with your status in real-time.
- Active Rain - Access the Largest and Fastest growing Real Estate Network, and utilize the tools and resources available for your business. Browse blogs, access members, search people and information, watch video and much more. This application allows you to call, email, or contact anyone, anywhere when you're mobile with your iPhone.
- Craigslist - iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Craigsphone puts the popular online classifieds site Craigslist on your iPhone, complete with click-to-call, history, and mobile posting.
- TopProducer - The most powerful real estate business and lead management system is now on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Top Producer for iPhone gives you instant access to your Top Producer 8i® database on the road and puts your most critical business and contact information right at your fingertips.
IDX Providers
- Diverse Solutions - Diverse Solutions specializes in mapping MLS IDX solutions for real estate professionals across the country. Other services for real estate agents and brokers.
- Listingbook LLC - Provides complete, up-to-date real estate information, straight from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Search like an agent and make an informed decision when you know it all.
- PropertyMinder - Specializes in Real Estate Agent Websites, Design, Marketing, SEO, MLS search, IDX, CMA, and online tools for real estate professionals.
- Terradatum - Partnered with MLS cloud to provide Local Area Market Report showing median home prices and number of homes sold information for your MLS - FREE!.
- Vast - Find a Search millions of free classifieds listings.
- WolfNet Technologies - Real estate Internet technology pioneer and innovator. Services include IDX, map search, lead management, websites, intranets, custom applications and MLS data services.
- You Got Listings, Inc. - The online rental technology platform that allows you to Manage, Organize, and Connect. Real Estate Technology, Delivered.
- Zurple, Inc. - Services thousands of real estate agents in select markets nationwide.
- LPS Real Estate Group - A website that lives up to your brand - and the expectations of consumers. Technologies that are great for your agents - and your bottom line. All on one platform you can make your own.
Lead Qualification Services
- LeadQual - Provides a Patent Pending customer acquisition, lead response and lead qualification system that increases your Internet lead volume and lead conversion, while improving your customer satisfaction and the effectiveness of your sales organization.
- Market Leader/SOAR Solutions/HouseValues Inc. - Whether you're a broker or agent, prospects are the fuel for your success. All Market Leader solutions help you generate the prospects you need to grow your business.
- Onboard Informatics - Helps clients increase revenue by solving critical problems around attracting website visitors, keeping them engaged, converting visitors to leads and maintaining valuable contact with those leads.
Marketing Lists
Mobile Marketing Services
- DriveBuy Technologies - A leading provider of interactive mobile marketing solutions for the real estate industry including agents and brokers from Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Keller-Williams, Prudential, and RE/MAX. Empowering real estate professionals to leverage mobile technologies, DriveBuy provides instant and automated listing information to prospective buyers via SMS/text messaging and routes all leads directly to the agent. RealSupport clients will receive a 10% discount, use Promo Code REAL.
- MailChimp.com - Take your email marketing with you. Get insight on-the-go with our mobile applications, and let us automatically reformat your campaigns for subscribers reading on mobile devices.
- Awayfind.com - AwayFind is a powerful web application that finds your most important emails. When you receive an urgent message, AwayFind will notify you with a call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or delegate the message to someone you specify.
- Iris Mobile - Iris Mobile is here to help you build an integrated mobile campaign by reaching more of your target market. Move beyond targeting just smart phone users (23% of mobile users), and leverage our exclusive Rich Media Messaging platform to communicate with your customers regardless of carrier, handset or phone plan.
- Goomzee Corporation - Provides brokers and agents the mobile tools needed to strengthen their client relationships and improve productivity in and out of the office.
Mailing
Online File Sharing
- SugarSync.com - Allows you to backup & sync files, and share and access your data from PC, Mac & mobile phones anywhere, anytime.
- DropBox.com - Allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Free for up to 2GB of online storage.
- Instanet Solutions - Provides everything you need to manage your real estate business online and go paperless. We created the industry's first "single platform" that allows you to create, store and manage all your listing, sales and lease files online.
Online Meeting Services
- FuzeMeeting.com - A free web conferencing and online meeting software that allows desktop and screen sharing on Mac, PC, and iPhone.
- GotToMeeting.com - For easy and effective web conferencing and online meetings. Work with anyone, anywhere.
- Wiggio.com - It provides everything you need to work productively in your groups, without bogging you down with complexities, help menus and unnecessary features. Everyone will be able to use Wiggio, regardless of how tech-savvy your group members are. Communicate via group email, text, and voice messages. Host web meetings, conference calls and chartrooms. Keep shared calendars, store and edit files in one common folder, poll group, and keep track of group's tasks and resource.
Outlook Add-Ons
- REALeSELLER - Transforms Microsoft Outlook into a "genuine Real Estate software application"
and offers more than 250 new features.
- Xobni.com - Xobni is an Outlook plugin that helps you search and organize your inbox. Xobni's Outlook add in has powerful search, organization, and relationship features.
Printing Services
- ExpressCopy.com - Offers postcard marketing, direct mail advertising, brochures printing, business cards and other digital printing made fast.
- one2onemail.com -
Real Estate Postcards - Design and mail your pieces easily online while personalizing your direct mail pieces to each one of your recipients. You can design, upload your list, and mail easily with our online direct mail tools.
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Support and Fulfillment
Company
Promotional Merchandise
Property Management Tools
- iRealtyMananger - Provides rental property owners and managers a comprehensive suite of
online real estate software tools that streamlines the process of administering
day-to-day operations of properties of any size & type.
Real Estate Blogging Sites
- Active Rain - Real estate network that allows real estate agents, mortgage professionals and brokers to create a customized profile.
- Blogger.com - Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video.
- Wordpress.org - A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
- Posterous.com - Lets you post things online fast using email.
- Trulia.com - Real estate listing site that allows the user to post Trulia Blogs.
- Point2Agent - Real estate inventory management and template website with built in blogging which posts to your active site.
- Zillow for Pros Blog - Blogs that bring professionals their daily dose of real estate marketing tips, tricks, and strategies. Useful information is provided for pros managing real estate sales, rentals, or both.
Real Estate Coaching
- Isucceed.com - Real estate coaching, mentoring and online real estate training center.
- Property Source Network - Provides the tools, training and support you need to transform your business using the power of relationship marketing. Membership consists of some of the country's top-producing real estate professionals, as well as newer agents looking to begin their careers by following a proven system, with support of a Systems Coach to help them every step of the way.
- Birview Technologies, Inc. - BIRDVIEW has developed a proprietary Turnkey Internet Marketing System (T.I.M.S.) This system addresses all key aspects of succeeding on the Internet including: Internet Marketing, Website Design, Pipeline Management and On-going Consulting, Training & Education.
Real Estate Data
- RealComp Online - Provides first-rate real property industry news and information, data services, support, and instruction to customers.
- Google Analytics - Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you're more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.
- Realtor.com - Useful site for consumers and sellers to research homes in the area. Allows the listing agent to track amount of page views and interest in each property in an emailable or printable format to send to sellers
- Altos Research - Unlike other sources that take months to gather market data, Altos Research analyzes current real estate activity. Only Altos helps you get the up-to-date information you need. Today.
- MarketVideos - This site allows you to create market data videos that your clients can send via email or newsletter or add it to their website, facebook, twitter, instagram. Pretty cool concept and a nice differentiation for some agents to stand out amongst their competition. Check it out. If you use the promo code: chris, you can get a free trial until 7/4.
- Zillow Researching Tool - Find monthly research data from this site. You can compare research data on Zillow homes values, and metrics for specific levels of geography, and more!
Real Estate Magazines
Real Estate News and Tips
- Real Estate Tomato - The Real Estate Tomato is the most respected source for custom real estate blogsites and intense social media training, including Blogging and SEO.
- Inman.com - Inman News is the real estate industry's most authoritative source of market conditions, business trends, technology, real estate and financial news.
- BluePrint by Igetsales.com - The system allows you to increase the number of touches made in the same amount of time because of the simplicity, speed and effectiveness. It uses simple systems that keep you focused on what matters the most with your business - consistent, high impact, contact with your database.
- Patch.com - A community-specific website that is a great resource for local news, information and events.
Real Estate Single Property Website Services (www.1234Street.com)
- SinglePropertySites.com - It's FREE to use Single Property Sites for Listing Presentations! With SPS FREE-VIEW™, you'll impress sellers before you even meet them. The professional showcase features of Single Property Sites are all included to help you close deals and win listings.
- PowerSites (Agency Logic) - PowerSites are single property websites that are 100% dedicated to one listing. They impress both sellers AND buyers. Use our web-based tools to quickly and affordably create comprehensive showcase websites. PowerSites are just $50 each (with packages as low as $35 per site). No monthly fees!
- Website.com - Website.com is the pioneer in keyword tag-based online business directory service for website designing, hosting, development, domain name registration, online marketing, search engine optimizing, web solutions and other service providers in the website-related industries.
- GoDaddy.com - Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services. Go Daddy is currently the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in the world and is three times the size of its closest competitor.
- IPropertyWebsites.com - With iPropertyWebsites you can build a dedicated website to showcase every feature of your property. Includes a unique domain name, hosting for one year and unlimited support via phone and e-mail. No hidden fees or subscriptions. Create your first property site in minutes. No programming or HTML knowledge. All you need is a computer with internet access. Update your site design, menus and content instantly from your online account. Add custom pages, photos, videos and more!
Real Estate Website (Template Websites)
- Point2Agent - Point2Agent gives you a complete real estate website, the industry's leading listing syndication network to deliver a steady stream of prospects and built-in conversion tools to help turn prospects into clients.
- Advance Access - Loaded with hundreds of layouts and color schemes, specialized real estate content, a variety of community and school information, customizable real estate reports, and a state-of-the-art listings management system.
- Best Image/Number 1 Expert - An exclusive membership network available to top real estate agents.
- Web Agent
Solutions - They have a strong marketing background but focus on the more simple aspects of making websites.
- RealPro Systems - Offers premium-quality real estate websites designed specifically for real estate agents, with customized pages and unique branding.
- a la mode, inc. - A leading provider for appraisal software and appraiser websites, agent and REALTOR web sites, mortgage and loan web sites, inspector websites and real estate.
Search Engine Optimization
- Real Estate Keyword Tool - The Real Estate Keywords SEO tool was designed as a keyword discover tool to generate a custom list of keywords for optimizing real estate websites for Google and other search engines.
Search Tools
- Peepmail - A tool that allows you to discover business email addresses for users, even if their email address may not be publicly available or shared.
Social Networking Sites
- RealSupport's
Summary of Social Networking
- Linked In - They are a networking tool that helps you strengthen and extend your existing network of contacts.
- Meet Up - Helps groups of people with shared interests plan meetings and form offline clubs in local communities around the world.
- Active Rain - Real estate network that allows real estate agents, mortgage professionals and brokers create a customized profile.
- Tribe - Online community based in several cities throughout the US and in Canada. Users create a network of friends and join or create "tribes".
- Facebook - Similar to other social networking sites, Facebook connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
- Twitter - Is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages and updates.
- Recyber - Provides members with invaluable real estate cyberspace strategies and tips.
- Craigslist - Provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events.
- Klout.com - Identifies influence online by assigning Klout Scores. A Klout Score is a numerical representation of the size and strength of a person's sphere of influence on Twitter.
- Photosynth - Takes your photos, mashes them together and recreates a 3D scene out of them that anyone can view and move around in.
- Posterous.com - lets you post things online fast using email.
- Wildfireapp.com -Build and Launch Customized Campaigns. With Wildfire companies & agencies can easily build & launch social media marketing campaigns within minutes.
- Hashtags.org - Tracks the frequency that a hashtag is used on Twitter and provides details about the hashtag. You can find information pertaining to tags, users, trends and whatever else is available.
- Su.pr - With Su.pr by StumbleUpon you can now promote your best content on Twitter and Facebook with one click. Su.pr is an URL shortening service for online publishers, bloggers and regular StumbleUpon users that allows you to simultaneously syndicate your content to multiple social media websites.
- Geochirp.com - Twitter/Google Maps mashup which allows one to find Twitter users with similar interest in any particular geography around the world.
- Tweetbeep.com - Enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter.
- Slydial.com - Is a voice messaging service which connects you directly to someone's mobile voicemail.
Spam Blocker/Filter
- OnlyMyEmail.com
- They are awesome and only charge $3 per month. They STOP spam from
going into your inbox, but TO BE SAFE, they send you a daily log of all
the blocked emails. From that email, you can go to view the blocked email
if one is not spam. It is in list format so it is easy to view - takes 2
minutes per day!
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Video Email Service
Virtual Tour Services
- Here is a quick list of Virtual Tour providers, click
here to see more detail, a summary of each and pricing.
- CirclePix Virtual Tours,
(877) 390-6630
- HOMEpix.tv,
(678) 528-1740
- IPIX Virtual Tours,
(800) 336-7113, ext. 6557
- Obeo Tour Bronze, (800) 729-6236
- RealAdvantage Voyager
360, (866) 902-3600
- Real Tour Vision,
(866) 947-8687
- Real Biz 360 by TourBuilder, (888)732-5249,
ext. 81
- TourFactory,
(888) 458-3943
- Property Panorama by TourManager
2.0, (877) 299-6306
- VisualTour, (800) 873-0700,
ext. 230
- eHomeParade Virtual Tours,
(303) 963-1608
- Goldmail.com - (888)536-8883
Website Enhancements
- Zopim - Provides an online livechat software.
- VoicePad - VoicePad is an audio extension of your website, delivering property information 24-7 on your inventory, by phone (in both English and Spanish). VoicePad specializes in enhancing the initial sales interface with "consumer-preferred," automated consistency.
Widgets
- AddThis.com - AddThis is a free way to boost traffic back to your site by making it easier for visitors to share your content.
- WiseStamp.com - Brand your company emails! The #1 Email Signature Marketing tool for Google Apps.