Why do so many people bounce off your website? How can you corral those browsers into warm leads? BirdSeed is a platform designed to provide you a “one button” solution for engaging and warming up web visitors. BirdSeed’s premise is you need more than one or two engagement options in order to convert leads. For example, “many [...]
Add another firm to the list of tech-based startups hungry to revolutionize the traditional home buying and selling experience: Reali.com. According to L.A.’s “The Real Deal,” Reali “uses artificial intelligence and big data to help facilitate the process of buying and selling a home, a process its founders say can be handled entirely from an app on [...]
Want to give yourself an instant competitive advantage? Looking for a way to increase the pool of potential leads? Consider learning a second language. There are lots of non-English speaking clients around the world who would love to own a property in the U.S. If you can’t communicate with them, you have zero chance of [...]
In our perpetual quest to keep agents informed about disruptors in the real estate space, we bring you news of “Knock,” a startup which (according to HousingWire) makes “selling your old house and buying a new one is just as easy as trading in your old car for a new one.” Forbes reports, “The deal [...]
The web is an ever-changing place. Content appears and disappears all the time. Have you ever wanted to track down an article later, only to find it’s been placed behind an annoying pay-wall? Have you tried to print information for your clients only to have it come out in a stack of fifty jumbled pages? [...]
Did you know Google manipulates your search results based on your personal data? Are you like most Americans who don’t realize Facebook owns WhatsApp and Google owns Waze? Your search queries, browsing history, and even GPS information is routinely harvested by companies providing you with all of those “free” services. “So what?” you might say. “I have [...]
You probably don’t fully realize how much time you lose to social media, frivolous apps, and online shopping. In a world where companies make money by keeping you distracted, there’s real power in reclaiming your time and protecting your focus. Freedom is an app which enables you block websites, apps, and other distractions across all of [...]
Following up on this week’s Scott’s Thoughts, we wanted to share a few journaling apps we recommend for a variety of device platforms and “journaling styles.” While there’s nothing wrong with keeping a paper notebook for your private reflections, there are some benefits to software-based journaling: 1. Protection from prying eyes 2. Backups in the [...]
Photo retouching used to be an expensive, time-consuming process which seldom made it practical for agents dealing with a large number of listings. While you might have had paid to have your headshot refined back in the day, there was no way you could budget for transforming subpar property pics. Then came along Photoshop, and [...]
Ah, your MLS. Isn’t it a joy to use? Doesn’t its search work just like Google? Don’t the reports it generates seem modern and appealing? Isn’t it easy to instantly share listings with others, just like you might a funny cat video on Facebook? No, you say? Of course not. Because most MLS look and behave [...]
