Posts by Kurtis Holsapple

As an owner of an online marketing tool that is always expanding its options and features, I am wondering what technology enhancements does to your listing fee.  We all know that in each brokerage there are those that “Get It” and those that don’t.  With all the great technology that I see being showcased on [...]

In 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 [...]

Read 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 [...]

For 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 [...]

If 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 [...]

Working 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 [...]

As 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. [...]

I 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 [...]

As 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 [...]

As 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 [...]

I’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, [...]

Most 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 [...]