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Quickly sharing your documents online
Dear Real Innovate Agents Do you need an easier way of working with documents? You already know RELAY is the quick, easy way to store documents online, but there are a number of ways to share these documents. Here are some quick tips that might help your business. Join our live trainings to learn how to use today’s real estate technology to increase your communication and successfully cultivate buyer and sellertrust.
Tip of the Month: Speed up the Document Sharing
Whether you need a quick signature on a new purchase agreement, or are just looking to speed up document uploads, here are three tips to make it happen:1. Make a Folder. Find some space in your documents folder, or on your desktop, and make a folder called “For RELAY”. As you go through your day, put all documents, contracts, and emails that do not need immediate action into this folder. Set aside one hour at the end of the day to go through these documents and add them to RELAY. This really speeds up the time you spend on RELAY, and it also helps to remind you of tasks that may have been interrupted throughout the day. 2. Share documents without a username or password using the Public Documents If you want a quick and easy way to share disclosures or other RELAY documents online without having someone create a username and password, turn to the Public Documents. Click the Public Documents button (located in a property file under the Documents Tab), and click “Make Public” to get a link you can share with anyone. Add documents to this page from your transaction file by clicking the red X under the “Public” column and turning it into a clear eye. You can also make the documents private again at any time by clicking on the clear eye, turning it back into a red x. When they are ready, use the buyer and seller training at www.rebt.com/clients/demo to introduce your buyer or seller to online real estate. 3. E-Mail or fax documents without leaving RELAY Do you want to share a document with someone else? Check the empty box next to the file on your document list, and select “Send” from the drop-down “With Selected…” menu. Now you can send these documents as an attachment, as a fax, or as a link to users who are already part of your transaction. Tip: Click on the orange address book next to TO: or CC: in order to use your saved contacts to fill out the email address or fax number.
RELAY Recorded Trainings:
Available 24/7 for your convenience! View or review our recorded trainings at any time. BEGINNING RELAY TRAINING MOVIE ADVANCED RELAY TRAINING MOVIE BROKER RELAY TRAINING MOVIE BUYER & SELLER RELAY TRAINING MOVIE
Beginning RELAY Training
Highlights: Signing up for RELAY; start a transaction; add a property photo; use an electronic checklist; adding your client to RELAY. Best for: Agents, Transaction Coordinators, first time users. Available Classes: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/874710857 Tue, Jul 28, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/970336513 Tue, Aug 11, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/779380993
Advanced RELAY Training
Highlights: Adding Service Providers, Public pages and marketing, Creating a transaction CD, Site Administration, Contacts and Checklist Templates. Best for: Site Administrators, Agents, Transaction Coordinators, Assistants Available Classes: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/161994929 Thu, Aug 6, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/189454193
RELAY BROKER TRAINING
Highlights: Setting up and managing your RELAY online office. Contains highlights from beginning and advanced training, and an overview of the 2 month broker implementation plan. Best for: Brokers, Transaction Coordinators, Office Managers. Available Classes: Wed, Jul 15, 2009 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PACIFIC TIME https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/492963401
Highlights: Learn how to train others to use RELAY. New, interactive training and renewal format, only $149 Best for: Trainers, Agents, Service Providers, Office Managers, Transaction Coordinators Available Classes: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM PACIFIC TIME
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We have just become a part of the AT&T Affiliation Network. All agents and employees of Real Innovate Realty will now recieve 8% off of their monthly AT&T wireless phone bill. Other benefits include automatic rebates deducted in corporate retail stores when purchasing new phones and exclusive offers on various AT&T products. To view more information Click Here.
We are always striving to provide our agents with savings on their business expenses.
Viral Marketing via Facebook Connect
You may have seen the popular application Facebook Connect on websites such as CNN.com.What this valuable application does, is allows users of a paticular website the ability to login to the site using their facebook username and password. While the news is reporting, users have the ability to communicate with their facebook friends on the CNN website. Its as if they were watching the news together in the same room. These discussions and comments will be posted on their facebook page for all of their friends to see when they happen to login and check up on their facebook account.
The power of the application comes in the form of viral marketing. You say something once and its published for all of your friends to see it.
This is greatly beneficial to the owner of the site that is being discussed. Now imagine how this can work for the real estate industry. You have Facebook Connect on your website or blog. A user logs into your site to view properties using your idx solution. That user logs into your site with their facebook username and password. They search your site, look up some properties, find some that the like. They then mark their favorite properties from their search.
Now a couple of very important things just happened for the user and for you. The user has now just shared some of their favorite properties with their facebook friends, who will have the ability to share comments on the properties that were marked. Your website and yourself as the real estate professional have just been shared with the users facebook community.
Do you see how the power of this application can benefit a real estate website and the power of the marketing potentional? A user searching for properties on your website is common. However, now thier search has the power to become public to that persons 300+ friends and along with that comes indirect marketing for yourself as the real estate professional. The more people that know that you are the real estate professional, the better. This application has the power to do just that.
Real Innovate Webinar Notes: 10 Ways To Save The Enviornment While Saving 50% on Business Expenses
Real Innovate Realty has just completed a 3 week free webinar series discussing Technology, Marketing, and Overhead Expenses. We are very pleased with the successful outcome. We have had several very positive comments in regards to the content discussed in these webinars. We will be conducting future webinar series, so please make sure that you are on our email list to learn about the upcoming discussions.
We have made the notes and video recordings of these sessions available to anyone who is interested. Please click on the links below to access these.
Session 1 notes - 10 Ways to Save the Enviornment and Save on Technology
Session 2 notes – 10 Ways to Save the Enviorment and Save on Marketing
Session 3 notes – 10 Ways to Save the Enviorment and Save on Overhead
Session 2 Video Recording (Not Available)
Consumers follow agents, not brands (Real Innovate Take)
There was a very interesting article writtin today on Inman News, Consumers follow agents, not brands. For most people, when deciding on a real estate agent there are several factors in mind. Obviously, brand will play into the subconcious mind when making a decision. But when it really comes down to it, wether that person was working for Century 21, Prudential, Keller Williams, RE/MAX, or Real Innovate Reallty, in the end the brand is a very small fraction of the decision.
The agent will ultimatly showcase his/her brand (Themself). How does that agent present themself, online, on paper, over the phone? How does their professionalism compare to the competition.?Are their skills, technology solutions, and experiense displayed online or in a fashion so that a stranger can find out about that person?
There are several methods of advertising oneself and getting their own name recognition out there. With all of the advances of the social media, technology geared towards real estate, the possiblilities of distribution of content, etc.. will be what makes the agent known and showcases their abilities, experience, and ambitions.
When deciding on which Real Estate Company to affiliate yourself with, one should ask themselves several questions.
- What type of experience does the broker have?
- What type of solutions and support does this new office have?
- What are the commission structures?
- Where is my money really going? – Find out – you may be surprised.
- How technologically advanced is this company?
- Is this company actively pursuing new trends in marketing, technology, and support?
These are just a few questions – you would be surprised when comparing the answers of several different companies and offices. Its just as easy for a broker to open up a Century 21 franchise or a RE/Max franchise. When making a decision on a company, just like the title of the inman article reads Consumers Follow Agents, Not Brands, – Agents should title their search “Agents Follow Brokers, Not Brands.”
