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MLM for Brokers – The Technology Your Agents Want and Need

Do your agents have the tools they need to ensure the success of their real estate career – and your business? Forty-five percent of agents are looking for more technology tools from their brokers – tools that offer an edge in today’s tech-driven world. In this month’s real estate business tips, we’ll discuss an easy and affordable way to incorporate these features into your brokerage services with MLM for Brokers.

What is it?
Think of our system as “property management autopilot.” When used in conjunction with Listings Unlimited, this turnkey system can take listings from the MLS or an XML feed, quickly generating amazing marketing collateral for agents, further adding automation to the real estate sales process with the latest tools and technology on the market.

Giving agents the tech they crave:

Collateral to-go
From print to web-ready PDF & HTML flyers to our amazing YouTube video-builder.

Sharing tools
Agents can easily add agent or listing websites to any social network with fast and simple listing syndication, or take advantage of our exclusive Facebook App for easy wall posting to business pages and addition of links to personal business and property sites.

Smart Lead Capture
The ultimate in modern technology, Smart Lead Capture takes advantage of the smartphone explosion. A complete mobile lead capture platform, this tool allows agents to snag clients fast with a “text for more information” feature, inclusive of auto-responders and lead alerts for the fast, real-time follow-ups that mean the difference between a sale and a lost customer in today’s information on-demand mobile market.

This technology only touches the surface of the many products available to your tech-starved agents through Properties Online services. For brokerages looking to take – and keep – their agents and firm on top in the coming years, heeding tech-driven real estate business tips will be key to success. Open a new door to your real estate selling future. Contact Properties Online today.

Setting Goals for Your Real Estate Business

Maintaining business momentum and achieving new successes – your real estate business needs both. Setting goals for your real estate business is a simple but effective way to keep you on track, capitalize on the wins you’ve made, and strive for more – more leads, more clients, more listings, more home sales, more income. You set the goals. Let your ambition lead the way. Your goals will help you to measure your progress.

Whether your goals are short or long-term, you’re chances of reaching them increase when you name them and specify a plan of action, in writing. Your motivation, which probably lags from time to time like mine, can be given a major boost with some careful goal planning. It’s a great way to get inspired.

Check in with yourself on a schedule – daily, weekly, monthly, whatever suits you – and see how your goals are tracking with the specific action steps you laid out when you wrote them down. This will highlight any roadblocks and provide great motivation as you start to see things moving along.

Try not to get stuck if things don’t go exactly to plan. Successful business people – real estate agents, brokers and others – all share the ability to be flexible and quick to respond to change. The ability to be agile will aid your goal setting tremendously.

Not sure where to start with your own goal setting? Well, NAR statistics tell us that both home buyers and sellers wish the agents they worked with were quicker to respond to their queries. Seventy-seven percent of sellers expect a response from their agent within 30 minutes and 88% of buyers expect a response from their agent within 1 hour. But the vast majority of agents don’t live up to that expectation. Do you? If not, there’s your first goal!

Technology can be a huge enabler of your goals. For instance, investment in mobile technologies can dramatically increase your response time, and automated systems can reduce or eliminate a lot of the demand and hassle involved.

Then there are actual goal setting and tracking software programs you can use online.

Declare-it will assist you in creating, tracking and being held accountable to your goals, and develop a support system.

Goalgenius.com is a rewards-based system that provides a complete and comprehensive system designed to keep you motivated and organized so that you achieve your most important goals.

Goal-buddy.com is a free online tool that helps you set your goals, manage your tasks, build new habits and stay accountable.

Goalenforcer.com promises to help you set your goals, plan faster and accomplish more.

Good luck!