Controlling costs and understanding where your money goes is crucial to long-term prosperity. Expense reporting helps you get a grip on where little things are adding up and can illuminate future budgets. Unfortunately, detailed expense reporting is not only a major time drain… it’s deadly boring. For these reasons, most people bail on a tool [...]
Automated home valuation is arguably the next wave in streamlining and improving listing pricing and real estate investment analysis. Unfortunately, attempts in the past have often created unrealistic expectations with with homeowners (we’re giving you the side-eye, Zestimate). HouseCanary is a service which aims to deliver results above and beyond the norm. They seek to “utilize [...]
As readers of Tuesday Tactics know, we’re always on the lookout for platforms which promise to benefit both agents and homeowners. Recently we came across HomeLight, an interesting new company which provides buyers and sellers an “intelligent matching” system for finding the right agent. According to HomeLight, buyers and sellers sign-up, provide a little information about [...]
The lending process is often intimidating for buyers, especially those first-timers who have never looked for a loan larger than a used car. Comparison shopping for mortgages is important, though, as rates, fees, and terms can vary widely. So where can your clients streamline the lending process? Morty is an online mortgage comparison shopping platform designed [...]
Just like your wardrobe and your personal appearance, the car you drive as a real estate pro is an important part of your overall image. When you pull up in their driveway for a listing appointment, what do they see? If you drive them to see houses, what is their experience like? And let’s not [...]
Ready to ride the wave of cloud-based data and deep analytics to land more listings? First.io is a service designed to help you prioritize conversations, enrich your contact data, automate follow-up, all using cutting edge AI tech. The idea is pretty sophisticated: Leverage your existing network of contacts to create more leads. Using “over 700 external data [...]
One way to increase the odds you will reach your goals is to create a mental bond to a future version of yourself. The process can help connect you to the outcomes you want to achieve. Writing a letter to your future self is one way to do just this. Part visualization, part writing exercise, [...]
Here’s a handy new feature rolling out across Gmail’s popular email platform: confidential emails. It’s a sophisticated new feature which allows you to limit who and how people are able to use emails you send. From the Gmail documentation page on the feature: “You can send messages and attachments with Gmail’s confidential mode to help protect sensitive [...]
Pardon our bluntness, but conference calls suck. And the reason they suck nine times out of ten? Terrible conference call quality, interface, and ease-of-use. How many times have you had to cajole someone to download a special piece of software? Or what about cost? Some “premium” services are simply far too expensive for the handful [...]
Okay, we think we’ve found the absolute best new tool for managing the schedule for events, and it’s called “Sched.” Creating, managing, and publishing a complex calendar for an event is typically a nightmare. Often there are changes, and there is seldom a good way to keep attendees updated about changes in venue or schedule. [...]
