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Who needs a local desktop anymore?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008In a world that is rapidly filling up with internet access points, that question might be more and more realistic. Introducing Ulteo.com, a complete online desktop with the tools to do most day to day work. I urge you to take a look at this, and see what you think. True, working […]
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Online marketing, “The worst idea ever”
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Read this article from Yahoo Real Estate as to why they are pulling the plug on everything that has to do with online real estate. Quote:
“With the lack of face to face business taking place today, we have decided to help out those that never got sidetracked with all this fancy technology. Good […]
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What is your home’s Walk Score?
Friday, March 21st, 2008For any agents out there working with buyers, especially for those that are looking to buy in the city, here is a great website to build the value of the area you are showing. It’s called WalkScore.com and it is a pretty cool site. Living in Portland, OR, I wasn’t too surprised to find that […]
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Live near the Portland, OR area?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008If you live near the Portland, OR area, and you read this blog, chances are you should think about attending this event. All the tech savvy Real Estate people from the Portland Metro area are going to get together for a few drinks, some talking and absolutely NO shameless self promotion. Hosted by […]
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Top Producer - 8i Improvements over 7i and still boring websites
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Working with agents in the Portland, OR area, I run into many different contact management systems, but keep running into Top Producer. Just about every agent using this system is using version 7i, and with it’s quirks and annoyances, it seems to be doing a pretty good job of providing agents what they need […]
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Another Web Tool - Splashup
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008As I continue to find new tools online, I will write about them here if they are applicable to the real estate business. With as much real estate photography talk as is going on here, I though I should share this great tool. Toady I will be writing about the website Splashup.com. […]
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Save the planet, be more geeky.
Sunday, January 6th, 2008I know a few agents in the Portland area that are working to save the environment and cut paperwork by using a new service called DocuSign. We can all do our part in 2008 for our planet, and I think that online document signing could be a great first step. The legalities of […]
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2007, a bad year for OS upgrades?
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007As a nerd, I like to check out the end of the year lists that most companies put out. You can find thousands just by typing “Best of 2007″ in Google and waste a couple of days getting feedback from everyone. One list I thought people should take a look at is straight […]
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Feed generation annoyances
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007As a web developer, I have the fun of creating feeds for different agents to use as a means to get their listings onto some of the bigger listing web sites (Trulia, Zillow, formerly edgeio, Vast, etc.). All of these sites have different specifications as to how to format the feed but a few […]
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EurekaWare, Real Estate Agent software working with Outlook 2003
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I’m sure most everyone is already familiar with Top Producer. If not, it is basically THE tool for agents to manage their contacts, set up action plans, and anything else you would need to do on a day to day basis. For anyone who doesn’t know how it runs on a technical level, […]
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A Helpful tool for all those trying to learn HTML or CSS
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Most agents have a website that is maintained by some agency. These vary from very boring templates where you have very little control, to sites that give you a wide range of control over every aspect of the site. The problem I have seen most with agents adding content to their websites is […]
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How to use RSS to drive more traffic to your site, getting you more leads and more business
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Do you know what a stealth site is? Putting it simply, this is an unbranded, simple web page that you use to draw traffic to your site, or to generate leads. Many agents have multiple stealth sites that they maintain on a regular basis. I am here to show you how you […]
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