Agent Tools Page 2

Tools for your Web Site:

Animated Avatars - Animated characters to help people around on your Web site. Also see Digital Curiosity & Reallusion in this section.

Audio - Soundnails - For all of you that are playing with adding Audio to your website? It's 10 bucks for their "Easy" version. It converts, creates & packs your audio inside a little sound player, similar to a 'thumbnail' image, thus the name. Its a simple copy/paste to add the code to your pages.

Automatic Enkoder Form - Posting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an Inbox full of unsolicited email advertisements. The Enkoder protects email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people.

Browser Cam - Find out what your site looks like in many different browsers

Copyscape - Find out if anyone is copying your Web sites content - very cool!

Digital Curiosity - Various cutting edge tools for your site, such as flash lip-synching and text to speech.

EchoEcho.Com - Hard to believe there could be a more comprehensive web site with links & tutorials to build your web site!

Free Reports - Gooder Group - offer free reports and other things on your site to capture those e-mail addresses!

Front Look - Add-on to Front Page

Gifbot - Speed up your Web site! Fat graphics are the leading cause of long download times. GIFBot will slim your graphics without loss of image quality.

Hitslink - track 100's of real time Web site statistics

Internet.Com - If your content page is loaded directly (not in frames) the page is reloaded in your frames. And to the aid of webmasters everywhere, this script also foils other sites loading your content page in their frames. Visitors are notified of the bandwidth theft then are sent to the page on your site (if used with our Dynamic Frameset script) or back to your main page.

Internet Seer - FREE -Monitors your site & e-mails you to let know when it goes down

Links Directory Script

Live Assistance - your on-line customers can talk to an actual person who can answer their questions and relay messages

LiveHelper - you can make yourself available by chat or voice from your web site

Master.Com - FREE Searchbutton search engine for your web site

Net Mechanic - this service will check your site for broken links, how your site appears on different browsers, and more

NetMon - Do you know if your server is up? They'll monitor it for you.

Reallusion - Facial animation & lip-synch software. Also see Digital Curiosity & Animated Avatars.

Response-O-Matic - Create an "input" form for your web site, that captures e-mail addresses, whether they fill it in or not!

Searchbutton.com - FREE "Search Button" search engine for your site

SevenTwentyFour - This fee service checks your site for dead links.

Trillian - Trillian is everything you need for instant messaging. Connect to ICQ^®, AOL Instant Messenger^(SM), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and IRC in a single, sleek and slim interface

Web Robots Page

ALSO SEE HTML

Miscellaneous Tools:

Area codes, zip codes, etc

Governmental/Institutional Information:

PA State Licensing - Want to look up any PA agents record?

Polley Associates has over 200 links to all kinds of real estate related governmental & institutional sites, as well as a "plethora" of other information!

Articles on Technology in Real Estate:

Technology Tools--Prioritize them! - ARTICLE

Books:

HUD Homes for sale - FIRST TIME EVER! A Consumer Book About HUD Homes. A complete and authoritative resource in layman’s terms about HUD Homes For Sale – explaining the process from start to finish, one step at a time.

LeadBoosterClub - Resources for Real Estate Agent who want more leads.

Real Estate Technology Guide - Written by none other than the three amigos at Internet Crusade. A must have!

RECampus - A Real Estate book store

Totally Non Technical Guide to Having a Successful Web Site

Software:

AdWriter - software that makes creating ads for Real Estate easier, faster and more intuitive

Audit Your Software! - This FREE download from Belarc takes a snapshot of all the software on your computer and puts in a browser window that you can print, and know what you have for later reference in case of an emergency.

Catalogue - Real Estate Specific software catalogue & discounts

Clip Cache Plus - (maintains a list of everything I copy & paste, user chooses how far back

Click Yes - FREE - Automatically "clicks yes" when that annoying Outlook prompt comes up telling you someone is trying to access your Outlook address book and send an e-mail. Especially useful for Agent Office users!

Dreamweaver free trial download

End it all - FREE - shut down all your unnecessary applications with one click! Once you get to this page, look for free download of End It All.

Eudora - e-mail software - lots of people like it! Many people use it because it doesn't get targeted by virus creators like Microsoft Outlook & Outlook Express do.

Express Click Yes - FREE - a tiny program that runs in the system tray and automatically clicks the Yes button for the Outlook security prompt, that asks you to confirm mail sending from third party applications or access to Outlook's address book.
Floor Plan Software

Free Software Tools - FREE - just what it says for home & office!

Front Look - Add-on to Front Page

FTP Data Transfer software from Global scape

Gator - Oops - Is it/was it "Spyware?" SEE "ROBOFORM" below!

GoToMyPC - share your PC's online, visit your home PC from your office PC - see VNC

Grinning Shark - software allows you to strip "Read Receipt Requests" from your e-mail, so you don't have to click to get rid of it...and other things.

Hi Software - software to help you get your search engine ranking higher

Palm Pilot - Contact Managers - Desktop Set

Links Directory Script

Onfolio - The program works with IE, acting as a "Favorites on steriods" You can build folders and save links or EVEN entire websites for future reference.The coolest thing about it is you can build reports from the information you have saved. Everything from a small snipet to a link even the entire site, including author, keywords and capture date. It organizes links, PDF's, MS Word Docs and files.

Open Office - FREE software that is comparable to MS Office Suite

Outlook - Solutions Center

Password Recovery - FREE - Allows you read passwords that normally look like "*******"

Pegasus - FREE email software

Pop-up Stopper - Careful - some sites won't let you use them if you disable pop-ups!

PrintKey Pro - PrintKey-Pro is a system tray-based program that can capture
your screen or any part of it with the press of the PrintScrn key (or any other key you configure).

Property Automation - property management software

Real Estate Shareware

Realty Juggler - lets you track all of the things that are specific to real estate using a Palm PDA. You can synchronize your contacts and appointments with Outlook plus you have the portability of PDA data with the added attraction of all of that extra information that's real estate specific being available on your PDA.

Re-Name - a tool for mass-renaming many files.

RoboForm - Autofill Web forms, logons, and passwords with one click. I used Gator, which turned out to be spyware. I've been using this for a couple years now and it's wunnerful!

Snag-It - Screen capture software

Utilities - FREE Utility software - 46 great freebees

Zoomerang - Create surveys & get feedback. It's fast, easy & free.

Contact Management Software - Real Estate Specific:

ARTICLE - Online Agent/Agent 2000 vs. Top Producer

Residential:

ACTive Agent - Real Estate Specific add-on for ACT

Agent Business Builder

also branded as "RE/MAX Agent 2000", Realty Executive's

"Executive Agent", C21 Power Pack

ALWAYS BEEN MY PERSONAL FAVORITE - To order just click HERE

Want to take your Agent Office software online? eServerAgent allows you and your team to access Agent Office/Agent 2000 through an online database. With the service comes hosting for Outlook, AND you can synch your Palm or download to your laptop too! Oh - and if you have a MAC - It will work!

Have Online Agent-RE/MAX Agent 2000-Executive Agent-Royal LePage Online Agent?

CHECK THIS OUT!

Goldmine has a Real Estate Specific Template, see contact managers below

Intelitouch - Online contact manager, organizer, MLS organizer, scheduler, etc.

Mark-It Systems

Prep Software - Homes.com has discontinued support.

Top Producer

Link to TP Field definitions in their order - careful, after #60, they're off by one!

Another link to help with importing files

Commercial:

Real Estate Assistant

Contact Management Software - Not Real Estate Specific:

Act

AdvantageXi - (Mark-It Systems)

Goldmine & Support for it (DJ-Hunt)

Lead Commander

Maximizer

SmallBizCRM - Quite a smorgasbord of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solutions! "Small Business CRM & Contact Management Software Resource Center"

Outlook:

Active Agent - for Outlook

EurekaWare - Real Estate add-on

Outlook - Solutions Center

RealeSeller

RETracker

Respond - for Outlook - Pat Zaby's "Marketing with Microsoft Office"

Tookie Tracks - transaction and contact manager for Real Estate Agents. Integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Outlook, and uses your existing Contacts.

Vaita - Outlook network synching freeware

Web Positioning:

Sizzling Positioning - Web Positioning at it's best! I was fortunate to be made aware of them from the beginning. I am now getting rave reviews!

The last client I recommended to them bought a site from Sizzling Studios, and then bought Web positioning from Sandy at Sizzling Positioning, and is crowing about 22 transactions over the summer, directly from his new site! The best part is that he is in a very Web-competitive market in Philadelphia! If you want immediate results, for the short-term, you go the pay-par-click route - very expensive. If you want long-term, lasting, results, at a significant cost reduction, you go with optimization. That's Sizzling Positioning!

A RTICLE - Search Engine Marketing 101

Analog - FREE - Checks your keyword saturation

EasyHost - cool site for domain names

Good Keywords - A users comments - "Free website to check the search results for keywords. It seems easy to use and gave me some good ideas."

Guest book links - Result of an Alta Vista search. Links to other web sites are part of the criteria that some of the search engines use to determine your web sites ranking. It's termed 'popularity" with them. Registering your site on other sites guest books can improve popularity.

Engine Ready - keyword miner, analyze keywords

Fundamentals - of search engine optimization, courtesy of Net Mechanic

Hi Software - software to help you get your search engine ranking higher

Hitslink - Website Statistics and Web Analytics

Hometeam 2000 - Online Real Estate Marketing

Keyword Generation - Gives you suggestions specific to a search engine

Keyword Miner - FREE keyword optimization software

Link Popularity Check - In some search engines, just key in "links:yourdomain", and it will list the pages that have links coming back to your site.

Link Popularity Check - Market Leap

Link Popularity Check - LinkPopularity.com

Link Popularity Check - LinkPopularityCheck.com

Net Mechanic - Submits your site to 100 search engines for $9.99

NetSol - Whois who owns this website? Who Do I contact for FTP access?

Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool

Pay Per Click Help & Pay Per Click Search Engines - reviews of the top search engines with links and details on pricing

Ranking Town - When you have already optimized your website for search engines, the next step is to monitor your results. If you do not know where you stand in search engines, you do not know how to tweak your sites and change marketing approaches in order to improve your ranking further.

Submit Wolf Pro - Website submission to over 3500 Search engines and Directories

Totally Non-Technical Guide to Search Engine Optimizaton

Webmasters Toolkit - online search engine help

Web Position Gold - analyze web sites for search engines

Web Positoning.Com

Word Tracker - analyze key words

Fax on Demand Services(IVR):

Ad Trakker

Arch Telecom

ART

Your Competitive Advantage - "I have made a special arrangement with Proquest Technologies to include my friends in an exclusive real estate marketing course being offered." Gary

Prospecting:

DoNotCall.Gov - Register yourself on the DNC list here.

Greeting Cards Online:

Blue Mountain Greetings - Free personalized online greeting cards sent via e-mail

Graphic Art for Web Sites:

Dave Campiti - There is a studio of phenomenal artists who creates internet ready graphics for a reasonable fee. This gentleman represents them. E-mail him by clicking on his name.

GotLogos.com - They'll design a logo for you for only $25! Keep in mind that their normal logo is for use only on the web. Printing it larger than it appears on the web requires a different approach and should be discussed.

Services. miscellaneous:

Free-lance help - You simply post your project here, and service providers bid to do the work. I have heard consistent rave reviews about this site!

IDX/IDD/Broker Reciprocity/VOW:

Articles & Opinions Courtesy of Internet Crusade

Advanced Web Group - Web designer specializing in IDX & VOW Web sites

Broker Reciprocity - Lots of explanatory information, including sample broker sites

InterRealty - solution is designed to be resale through the board. Can be VERY cost effect for member or can be a profit center for the board.

In speaking with TReND MLS, and some of WolfNet's users, they offer one of the better solutions for IDX/Reciprocity-enabling your Web site. More info...

NAR EDD Proposals

Realty IDX

REBR Central

RETS - Real Estate Transaction Standard

SEI Systems

Your MLS Search

Transaction Management Platforms:

SettlementRoom is getting the most positive reviews in the list-servs I'm on. People that have used others, have "settled" on this one! - Gary

If you manage or provide services for real estate listings & transactions, SettlementRoom makes web-based software which will impress your clients with online status reports, while simultaneously managing, tracking, and archiving your entire business process.

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Discounted! 10% more free transaction when you order through me!

Find out much more here...

RELAY - NAR sponsors this one.

Real Estate Business Resources - Transaction Management Platform, and more.

Transaction Point - Same company as Agent Office, which you can do a one-time push of data from to this.

PDA's:

ApCalc - I recently saw someone say that out of all the financial calculators for Palms, this one was the best.

AvantGo - communications assistant for web while mobile

Banc Software - Currency Calculator

Blue Nomad - Backup your Palm

Commission & Sales Tracker

Dataviz $30 - assist in tackling longer text on the Palm than the 150 character memo pad limit (compatible with PDF, Word, Excel, WP and Quattro Pro

Financial Consultant - Real Estate finance software for your Palm - $29.95

Flash Pack/FlashPro - ($18.95) - allows you to use flash memory on your Palm's organizer's chip that is left free by the basic Palm software (about an extra 800 kb)

Forms To Go - There is no need to specially format your desktop files for the handheld because Documents To Go does it for you. Simply drag your files into the desktop application and the next time you synchronize, those files will be moved to the handheld. Handheld files retain formatting such as bold, italics, underlines, justifications, indentations, auto bulleting & numbering - even tables!

GPS Software

Landware.Com - Innovative software and accessories for handheld devices

Loan Wizard - Financial calculator with storage of prospect scenarios and more - 30 free download trial & then $24.00

Lock Box inventory & Code Tracker

Mapopolis - Take a wild guess!

Palm.Com - Yup - It's the Palm site!

Palm Gear - WOW - lot's of "stuff" for palm's

Palm Power Magazine

PDA Buzz - Top PDA & Handheld PC News

Pocket Real Estate - Pocket Real Estate is a software application for handheld computers running the Palm OS that provides you access to MLS anytime, anywhere!

Smallware.Com - Games for your Palm

Top 100 Palm Pilot Sites

Twilight Edge Software - Shareware for Palms

ZDNet - Palm OS Downloads

Children - miscellaneous:

L Lemon O'Pea - a book to help children deal with moving to a new home

Peach Pod - great kids site!

HTML:

Form Site - Build HTML forms

HTML Compendium

HTML Goodies - tons of information related to HTML & building a web site.

HTML Writers Guild