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5 Essential Online Software Tools for Real Estate Agents

If you want to be a successful real estate agent, you need to be tech-savvy

Technology has made it easier than ever to excel in the real estate market. All you need to do is find the right tools for real estate agents, then you'll see your productivity and sales skyrocket. 

Whether you want a better way to market yourself online or want to improve the way you communicate with clients, there's a tool out there that can help you. Here's our list of 5 must-have tools for every aspiring realtor.

1. REDx+ Storm Dialer 

Cold calling can be an intimidating and daunting task if you aren't prepared for it. In order for cold calling to work you need to be able to call a lot of people each day, and doing that by hand can take up too much time.

REDx+Storm Dialer can help make cold calling a breeze.

Instead of dealing with hang-ups, wrong numbers, and voicemails, this system can help ensure that you're about to talk to a person before you pick up any call.

2. Canva 

Social media is very important in real estate marketing. You can post listings on your profiles, share real estate buying and selling tips for re-shares, and reach a lot of people at once. 

People are very visual, and if you want to attract the right people you're going to need to make sure that all of your social posts are interesting and look fantastic.

Canva helps take the guesswork out of graphic design can help you make beautiful templates and images you can post on social media.

The 100% online tool comes with a lot of preloaded graphics, fonts, and backgrounds that make designing online collateral a breeze. 

3. Showing Suite 

Showing a home can get complicated. You end up juggling multiple schedules (including your own), need to remember important logistic information like key codes and key locations, and may need to reschedule a show last minute.

Using a simple tool like Showing Suite can do more than just help you schedule showings. You can also have one place to compile important customer feedback.

The reporting tool the software comes with can also come in very handy when you're talking to sellers. You can create beautiful and easy to read reports that give a simple rundown of the most important information during each home showing.

4. DocuSign

It's getting harder and harder to meet face to face, especially when you're only meeting to get a single signature on a document. 

DocuSign is an electronic signature service that makes it easy for clients to sign documents anywhere at any time.

The documents will be securely managed and stored in a cloud server, so you won't have to worry about security issues. It's also a very environmentally friendly way to process paperwork.

5. Revaluate 

If you want to find a way to harness the power of machine learning and predictive analytics, Revaluate is the software tool for you.

Revaluate helps agents and brokers by identifying homeowners that are likely to move in the very near future. 

The software works by evaluating a lot of demographic, consumer, and social media data to make predictions around buying.

Going Beyond Tools for Real Estate Agents

There are plenty of tools for real estate agents available, you just need to learn how to use the right ones. If you use the tools in this post, you'll be sure to see an improvement in sales in no time.

Now that we've covered tools, let's look ahead to the real estate market in 2020.