Have you ever needed to come up with a floor plan in a hurry? Or, maybe you needed to come up with a room’s dimensions. If that’s the case, then you’ll appreciate what European startup Locometric has done for the iPhone. It’s called RoomScan and is only available for iOS devices. By simply starting the…
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On three different occasions this week I was contacted by people who were in a near panic because their technology was mis-behaving. In each case I determined that a simple fix would solve their problem and get them back to work. What was the simple fix you ask? It’s called rebooting! This technique needs to…
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Established in 2006 as a social site for college students to mingle, Facebook has since gone to on attract millions upon millions of users of all ages worldwide, making it one the most popular sites ever in Internet history. Facebook users flock to the site for a variety of reasons, such as online games, photo…
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With all the online choices that consumers have today it’s difficult to get them to pay attention to our web offerings. So, having a tool that doubles as an online business card, brochure, social sharing device and much more seems like a good idea. Especially when such a tool is free! Please check out http://www.SavvyCard.com…
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Have you ever wanted to take an image and add some text to it? Or use cool filters like Black & white, blur, sepia, or sunrise? If so, I found a great free tool to help you do that. It’s a Chrome browser extension that let’s you take any image from your computer, or a…
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Long time readers know that I am a big believer in Apple products, and have pretty well equipped my immediate family (and myself) with iPads, iPhones, iMacs and even a MacBook Pro. There are lots of advantages to having my computing platform on the Apple “standard” and only a few “disadvantages”. I have quotes around…
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You know that mobile is the current must have technology right? If you don’t, you might want to read some of the posts that I have written about it in the past, and get yourself up to speed. (Click here to see a list of articles about mobile marketing for real estate agents) What I…
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Many agents ask me if there is any real value in spending time with social media sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. My answer is always a qualified yes because if the questioner is capable of doing a few tasks (that most won’t do) then the sites become valuable sources of new leads. If person asking…
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Are you sending out email newsletters to your database? If so, how’s that working out for you? If you are like most people who do that, your results have been less than stellar. Part of the reason why you may not be getting responses to your newsletter is that they are not getting opened in…
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The National Association of REALTORS® “2013 PROFILE OF HOME BUYERS AND SELLERS” became available at the recent Expo in San Francisco last November. In fact, this publication makes its debut every year at the Convention and Expo and because of that I eagerly look forward to the convention each year. (I rarely actually go, but…
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