Realestate Startups: 5 Free Online Tools You Must Check Out!

If you are a real estate start up firm, this is a blog post written just for you. As you go through your average working day, you often find yourself confused about simple tasks like image editing, customer follow ups, team management, task management, social media actions, email related functions and much more. Needless to say that time and money are two luxuries that you simply don't have. As a bunch of real estate professionals struggling through a start up phase ourselves, we understand all of that.

So here is a list of the 5 online tools that can considerably ease your life while making you look much better than your competition. And hold your breath, for they are absolutely free!

#1. Photo Editing - Picmonkey

If you are seeking a free online photo editor to edit photos, add effects and frames, add your real estate firm's logo or just about anything else, look no beyond picmonkey. You can also use this great online platform to create custom collages and loads of other stuff without even typing in your email. Few things on the internet can compare with this free service. 

#2. Free Website Building - Weebly

If you are serious about your real estate business today, you must have a great looking website. Try weebly. It is an intuitive and free tool that can help you create an awesome website design within hours. Basic understanding of computer operations and a penchant for new programs is all that you need to get your unique website up and running on your domain (like AA batteries, not included). 

#3. Task Management - Remember The Milk

Rogered with tasks? Remember The Milk essentially functions as your all-in-one task manager, electronic calendar and to-do list. Aside from allowing you to share and split tasks with other people, the application can be integrated with GMail, too. What more could you ask for? Oh and we almost forgot, its available for your android and apple devices too so finally, you can put that i-pad to some good use. :) 

#4. Everything you need in one box? - Bitrix24

This is what AJ Kumar of Forbes has to say about Bitrix - "For some reason, Bitrix24 isn’t widely known — and I think that’s a shame. The program combines a social intranet system with CRM tools that include contact tracking, sales funnel management, messaging, activity planning and calendars, all of which enable your team to quickly manage important pieces of information from within a central program." 

If your real estate start up has less than 12 employees, Bitrix24 is free and is a tool that can unite your entire firm (or you and a network of another 11 brokers or agents) seamlessly and give you a front row seat of the show. Please explore this. It has almost unlimited possibilities for you. Plus, its easy as hell to use.

#5. Social Media and Electronic Communication Management - IFTTT

With IFTTT, you set up “recipes” to assist you with task automation. For a recipe to work, you have to have a channel, a trigger and an action. Examples of channels are Facebook, e-mail, Evernote, LinkedIn, just to mention a few.

For example, if you’re tagged in a residential project's update photo on Facebook, you can create a recipe that would automatically download the image into Dropbox. Get there and create your first recipe.

For success. Cheers!

The IREFD Team