Being a real estate agent is like running a business on your own, you need to juggle multiple different things at once. That’s, MIEA MLS team has decided to come up with a comprehensive list of useful tech tools to help you simplify your workload and most importantly increase your productivity.
Here you go:
1. Canva – Professional Visual Generator
Canva is an online design tool that allows everyone to create marketing material easily. The simple user interface, drag and drop feature, millions of photographs, fonts and graphics enable you to generate professional visual material that catch user eyeball in a few clicks.
For real estate agents, you can easily use their real estate flyer templates, real estate postcard templates, real estate brochure templates and social media graphics just to name a few.
2. Google Suite – Your Office in the Cloud
Google Suite is your office in the cloud. As an estate agents, you can utilize most of their features, e.g. Gmail, Google Drive (online storage), Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides (presentations), Google Keep (notes and checklists) and Hangouts (video conferences).
3. Trello – Task Management
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Trello is a collaborative task management tool that allows you to organise your tasks into boards. We encourage to use this to track your sales funnel as you can create different lists for different stages of the project and drag and drop Trello cards under the different lists as needed.
You can invite members into your board to allow everyone is in sync via one glance! Under each card, you can add comments, create checklists, add labels and due dates, upload attachments and start discussions.
Here are two ready-made Trello boards for real estate agents you can use immediately 🙂
4. Buffer – Social Media Management
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Buffer is a software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in social networks, by providing the means for a user to schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Instagram Stories, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, as well as analyze their results and engage with their community.
You just need to prepare the content once and let Buffer publish to all platforms at one go 🙂
5. Slack – Internal Chat and Collaboration
Think of Slack as a virtual office where you can share files, communicate, search through information archives and collaborate with other colleagues, even if you’re out of the office.
Within the Slack workspace, you can create different public or private channels to discuss specific topics (e.g. #rentrollgrowth, #inspections, #propertymanagement) or send direct messages to specific members of your workplace. It makes communication among team members easy
6. DocuSign – Electronic Signature Service
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DocuSign is an electronic signature service that accelerates transactions as documents are securely managed and stored in the cloud. This means that they can be signed from anywhere, at anytime and on any device.
Not only does this reduce paperwork but it can also dramatically reduce contract reworking due to illegible handwriting and missed signatures. For real estate agents like yourself, this can mean more deals in less time!
7. Zoom – Video Conference Tool
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Zoom is a video conferencing tool which offers stable connection for online meeting and webinar. Its free version allows a user to do online meeting up to 40 minutes with a maximum 100 concurrent participants and it’s unlimited for 1v1 calls.
It’s a good tool especially during a pandemic outbreak where most of the users are working from home. However, there are security concerns raised by several parties, remember to always keep an eye on news so that you are prepared if there is any issues threatening your account.Additionally, Streak is highly customisable for your needs. You can create different message templates, save deal views, adjust commission formulas and customise columns.
8. Animoto – Real Estate and Marketing Videos
Animoto makes creating property listing videos, slideshow videos, testimonial videos and marketing videos a breeze with its pre-built storyboards, growing library of music and drag and drop interface.
You just need to upload your video clips or images and drag and drop them in place to create a polished real estate video in a matter of minutes. Once it’s ready, you can published to all channels via Buffer.
9. Mailchimp – Send Newsletters and Create Ads
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Mailchimp is a useful email marketing software that allows you to build beautiful real estate emails and newsletters without the need for a designer or developer.
Build your own email list and keep your clients posted on latest property info, remember to create segmentation to create a more personalized email
10. MIEA MLS – Agent to Agent Co-Agency Platform
The last tech tool that is MIEA MLS. It is a digital platform established for licensed real estate agents to list exclusives properties for sale and rent in Malaysia.
MIEA MLS allows real estate agents to view one another’s listings of exclusives properties with the goal of promoting co-agency sales.
Thru this platform, both the listing and selling real estate agents benefit by having access to a better product thru exclusive listings and a faster sales process via co-agency collaboration.
To recap…
Here are the top 10 tech tools that every real estate agent needs:
1. Canva – DIY Marketing Collateral
2. Google Suite – Your Office in the Cloud
3. Trello – Task Management
4. Buffer – Social Media Management
5. Slack – Internal Chat and Collaboration
6. DocuSign – Electronic Signature Service
7. Zoom -Video Conferencing Tool
8. Animoto – Real Estate and Marketing Videos
9. Mailchimp – Send Newsletters and Create Ads
10. MIEA MLS – Agent to Agent Co-Agency Platform