A History & Partial Listing of Contact Management Tools in Real Estate – Part 2 of 3

What else is out there? In the RES (Real Estate Specific) arena, there are 2 programs that are based inFileMaker, which is a highly respected database platform.  Agent Business Builder is one of them, that started in 1995, and has a fairly significant user base as a result. Then there is REST, a relative newcomer with what I think to […]

A History & Partial Listing of Contact Management Tools in Real Estate – Part 1 of 3

This article is an ongoing work-in-progress on my site – click here! They’re coming out of the woodwork! It all started back in the mid ’80’s with Howard & Friends. I know many of you loved it, but waiting for “Blinky to gather my contacts” was a tad too silly for this transplant from computer operations […]

Transaction Management Platforms

It is inevitable that Online Transaction Management Platforms will be pervasive in the Real Estate industry at some point in the relatively near future. I’ve heard numbers from agents saying that it saves them 30% of their time per transaction. It saves agents, ancillary service providers, and consumers, time. That said, more players are jumping […]

Now affiliated with Top Producer & seven others

I’ve been getting very good feedback for some time now, from my sphere of influence, list-servs, forums, and many others. That’s one of the many reasons I am now affiliated with Top Producer. I’ve been advising people that call me about Contact Management solutions to take a look at TP too many times in the last year […]

“Stressed out? Get Organized with WorkFlows”

One of my other posts about combining activities in plans, prompted me to expand on that topic and go a little further.  The result is the following post.  Some of it is a repeat, but most is not. There are a fair number of ‘Agent Productivity’ software programs and services available that enable the user […]

Agent Office vs. Top Producer – Your opinion please?

Disclosure. I am a reseller for Agent Office.  I am currently working on affiliating with TP, as I believe it can be a more appropriate choice, depending upon one’s needs. That said, those of you that know me and my site, know that I am a reseller for several other CRM tools, and make a list of yet many others readily […]