Over 80 Apps for Real Estate Agents for iPad

Apps for Real Estate Agents Screen Shot

Apps for Real Estate Agents Screen Shot           Thousands of Agents went out and bought iPads. Then the market was flooded with Apps. At the same time we were confronted with how are we going to connect our contracts, use PDF, Word, our contacts from other programs and actually work on this, iPad was a new language of connecting. The good news is once you start to dive in and understand the lingo it all starts to come together. With Apps like Dropbox and CloudOn you can seamlessly move your contracts from your computer to your iPad and edit word, Excel and PowerPoint!

Learning to create folders is easy, simply drag and drop on icon and hold over another. Once you do that then name it. Put Social with Social. Video with Video, Business with Business etc…. Once you do this you will feel so much better. Just like we tell our sellers to clean up the clutter… Time to clean up the clutter on your iPad. Below are some great Apps and programs. DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT go to the App store and download them all. I call that “Shiny Object Syndrome”

Check them out see what is missing in your everyday flow. What would  help improve on what you are doing and help lighten your load. For goodness sake don’t add to your work load!

Realtors
Trulia for Agents
Realtor.com – Real Estate Search
MRIS Homes
Cartavi
Zillow Mortgage Calculator

Social
Facebook
Twitter
Twitterrific for Twitter
Linkedin
Foursquare

Photos
Panorama Free
Pixeet 360
Photoshop Express
Instagram
Instatext
Skitch
Contacts
Contact Capture
DejaOffice
Top Producer Mobile
Plaxo
CamcardHD

Video
Videolicious
Keek
Tout
iMovie
Wifi
Wi-Fi Finder

Phone
Phonetrait
GeniusDialer
Contacts Journal
JustRemindIt: Voice Call & SMS Reminders

Ideas/Notes/Thought
PaperPort Notes
Awesome Note HD Lite
Drafts
Phraseology
Idea Flight
iThoughtHD

Content for Social Media
Zite
Google Curents
Houzz

Phone
Google Voice
YouMail Visual Voicemail
Talkatone

Calculators
Commission Calculator QLD
calcmoolater

GPS
Waze
Glympse

Expenses
Shoeboxed Receipt Tracker and Receipt Reader
Expensify

Floorplans
MagicPlan

Home Staging
iHandy Level Free
Photo Measures Lite
ColorSnap

Flashlight
Flashlight

Open Houses
Open House Pro

e-Signature
DocuSign
SignEasy
signMyPad

Fax
Fax Burner
MyFax
RingCentral
eFax

Cloud/Contracts/Programs
DropBox
Box for iPhone and iPad
zipForm 6
SureClose
365 Holiday Calendar
Paperless
CloudOn
Google Drive
iAnnotate
Pdf Splicer
Evernote

Video Email
MailVU Video Mail
Eyejot Video Mail

Events
Occasions: Birthdays & More!
Eventbrite

Text Message
GroupMe
Text’nDrive

Screensharing & Remote Access
Join Me
Remote Desktop
PocketCloud Remote Desktop

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Friends or Aquaintence? Facebook is here to help you decide

FB Friend-Aquant

Friend?  Acquaintance? 

The Acquaintance List may solve newsfeed clutter and Facebook is here to help!

Facebook has updated yet another List tool .

Facebook has announced a tool to make it easier for you to add friends to your Acquaintances list. If you add someone to the “Acquaintances” list they will not be unfriended. Don’t worry they will have no way of knowing they have been put on the “list” but you will see fewer of their posts in your news feed. You will start seeing Facebook recommend groups of people that could be added to your Acquaintances list based on your lack of interaction with them.

Friends can be on multiple lists. If you have them on your list of friends from High School and also add them to your acquaintance list what happens?  When you go to your HS list you will find their updates. However in your daily New Feed you will see less content. This is good for that person you hardly know that posts 8 times a day.

Facebook engineer Jonathan Coens wrote in a blog post about the new feature:

If you are reading this and saying I don’t have lists.. UGH!!!!!!!  In September of last year, Facebook launched “Smart Lists,” which automatically created friend lists for you based on information from your profile, work place, schools attended, where you live etc…. You can then from the same location create your own lists.


What do you think of the new feature? Will you use it? I already started.

 

Let’s Chat about Video

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Lets start with a list of Cliche’s

  •  ”Just Do it” 
  • “Do it Afraid”
  • “Get Ahead of the Competition”
  • “Does this picture/video make me look fat”  Probably not & who cares they are going to meet you anyway! Be your wonderful awesome personable self!!
  • “I don’t know what to say” YOU TALK ALL DAY LONG!
  • “I get nervous in front of a camera” This is not the evening news this is in your house, at the office, alone, you can do over, chill, relax make it fun. Quick being OLD. Think like a kid.

You can do all different kinds of video, you don’t even have to talk. Check out this video by Cari Knapp

 

 
What topics? You can’t compete with the BIG DOGS for SEO on Miami Homes for Sale. Step outside the box!
Share about a neighborhood, places to go, things to do, spotlight a neighbor, video testimonial (3rd party affirmation thumbs up). Don’t do an all about you video, add value to the customer. Educate them on distressed properties.
 
Oh yea KISS, Keep it Simple & Short. Our attention spans, not too long.  I am glad you are still reading :) . Now Go make a Video and tune in next time for Youtube, taging and posting your video!
 
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How’s Facebook Working for You?

New fun Chat insert

So how is Facebook working for you?
Timelines, Friends Lists, Walls, Tags it’s a whole new language. That’s because Facebook is almost as big as the 2nd largest country in the world it needs one. If you think about it, the comprehension of how to navigate it is global and spans every culture and language that participates. That is INSANE!

Now I know some of you are tempted to do this. You can ignore it but it might run you over, or you can get in there with the crowd. You can determine the pace, walk, run or you can choose to master it. I would suggest that if you ignore it you may find one day that you are holding on to your pager waiting for it to go off, so to speak. That doesn’t mean you live on it. It means you learn to understand it place.

Drum Roll………………..  Coming January 2012 for the first time Real Dynamic Agents-Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty will open only 1 workshop per month to any Realtor in JAX and that’s $ocial $erious. Seats will be limited. You will be able to register on http://www.realdynamicagents.com/. Keep your ears to the ground and tell someone you love :)

Now here is a fun freebie just well, I don’t know so you can mess with your teenager and show them you know more than they do.  There is a fun new feature for chat.

You can insert anyone’s picture in a conversation by placing double brackets around their username for Facebook.
Mine is  ie https://www.facebook.com/#!/TeamKnapp

Here’s how:

1. Start your chat

2. When you’d like to refer to a friend or, say, Kim Knapp you put their profile id (either their name or a string of numbers for those users who haven’t claimed their choice URL) into double brackets. So, that would be [[teamknapp]] for a picture of me, [[zuck]] for Mark Zuckerberg and son on.

3. Impress your friends on Facebook chat with this cool new gimmick

In the meantime watch out for www.Realdynamicagents.com and stay connected

New Year!

Peace out and Stay Real!

All Roads lead to Rome

Social Sharing from your Blog

I am sitting here at my computer working on the topic, social networking. I got to a specific slide and I decided to call it “All Roads Lead to Rome”.  You are probably wondering what in the world is she talking about. When you post video or a link, share a Blog or a property that you have where does that information originate from. If someone clicks on it where does it lead?

1.If a friend of theirs decides they like and and reposts it, are you then gone? Or if you originated the content then you go with it and it leads back to you. let me explain.

2.You find an interetsing video on Youtube, you post it and say, “this is a great video you should watch it.” If a friend reposts this link there is no connection to you.

3.You find an interesting video on Youtube,  insert it in your Blog, talk about why you like the video. Go to your Blog site as a consumer would, click on the Blog Title, scroll to the bottom and click on the sharing social icon of choice, share. Now it links bak to you

Social Sharing from your Blog

 


If you have a listing, suggest to your seller to go to your site, or Realtor.com, your Youtube channel, whichever one works for you and social share their home, let their friends know, “hey my house is for sale”

The point is we work so hard on all of the marketing we do, lets make sure that when we get it out there and spend time riding the social wave,we  don’t waste time or our money. If social networking is what you are in to then as often as you can you want all roads to lead back to YOU.

If this was useful, give me a shout out. Thanks for stopping by Real Dynamic Agents

 

Facebook- Private Post in your Status Updates

FB Private Posting

Ever have a status update/post that you wish you could put out to specific people. This can be very handy as your friend list gets bigger and more diverse. To really take full advantage of this you need to create friend lists ie High Schools, Work, Church, Family etc.. You may have cross over and have some folks that are in more than one group.

You can select specific friend lists to see your status (relevant for work, special interest groups, etc.) or even individual people by name, which is useful for anyone organizing a surprise party.

To take advantage of these options, click the padlock icon just below your “what’s on your mind” box on your wall and a drop down menu should appear. Selecting “customize” will bring up more options such as “make this visible to” and “hide from” with the option to make your selection a default.

FB Private Posting

 

I did this today when I directed folks on my personal FB to this blog. Good luck and Happy Posting!!!!

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Kim Knapp

Director of Career Development

Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realty 904-269-7117

Get your Social Groove On!

If you are between the ages of 18 and 34 “they” say the first thing you do is check your Facebook. If you are between 35-45 that is probably the second thing you do, over 50 it may not be the first but it very well may be on the morning list. That being said if your business plan involves socially connecting with people will you be there?

I have talked and trained with many agents who say I go in the room called FB, but I don’t feel like I have anything to say. I really don’t think, “I had lunch with Linda” is going to enhance my connections. I agree probably having lunch with Linda is not a big conversation mover. You have to look at Twitter & FB like a Cocktail party with or without adult beverages. How do you start a conversation? How about, “Linda and I had lunch at the Crab Shack for the first time, anyone else ever been there?”  The point is to have a conversation with your social connections not to talk at people.

Posting your status is one side of socially connecting.  There is your engaging with your friends on the other. I have had some people say, “my friend or customer posted a picture of their grandchild and already 20 people said how cute they were. Isn’t it too much for me to pile on and say how cute they are too?” You are at a party someone pulls out a picture of their adorable grandbaby, everyone says “how cute” but you remain silent as not to pile on. Hmmmm… See the logic  Was that a light bulb moment?

People want to engage that is why Facebook is approaching being
equal to the 2nd largest country in the WORLD.

Need help with making sure you post, don’t have time to post, don’t want to login to all these sites check out Hootsuite, Tweetdeck and for content help Socialmadesimple. I am love SocialMadeSimple because they supply content. More on that another day.

This was the intro stay tuned- Follow and subsribe for more info on being socially RAD
Go connect, start a conversation, make friends and REMEMBER ALWAYS BE GENUINE

 Kim Knapp  Let’s Socially Connect