Primary marketHot New Tools Realtors Use to Save Time And Have More Fun
How many monthly hours do you spend on the web typing in usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, etc? Or wrangling with printers, or mailers about postal pieces? Here is some software that will definitely save you time, if not your sanity.
A Form-Filler-Outer (Free or Paid-For)
Most people spend an hour or so a month typing contact info, credit card numbers, usernames, passwords, etc. into empty boxes on the web. Yes, Windows®, or one of the free toolbars, will fill in some of them for you, but usually you need a more complete "fill-in" service than these limited built-in ones.
You can"t go wrong with Roboform, a one-click web form filler and password manager. There"s a free version as well as a paid pro-version. You should, at the very, least try the free version for 30 days.
This handy utility fills in virtually everything you ever come across on the web with just a single click. It will even SUBMIT the form for you after it fills it out, if you choose.
Here"s what Roboform says it does:
Autosaves passwords in browser
Autofills passwords to login form
Will click "login" button for you
Fills personal info into online forms
Fills in bank card numbers
Saves offline passwords and notes
Generates secure random passwords
Encrypt passwords and personal data using 3-DES
All personal info is stored on your computer only
You can take RoboForm with you on a USB disk for ultimate portability
Sync your passwords and notes to Palm or Pocket PC devices
Backup and restore, or print your passwords
Both my Realtor wife and I use Roboform and love the time it saves us. There"s a free trial version, and afterwards you might want to buy the Pro version, which remembers an unlimited amount of bankcard numbers, passwords, usernames, etc. instead of the slightly limited amount with the free version. Try it... you"ll never go back to manually filling out forms again.
Design and Print Your Own Great Marketing Materials
If you have a good printer, you"ll bless yourself for using "Design and Print -- Business Edition." It lets you easily create brochures, newsletters, letterhead, business cards, post cards, farming materials, greeting cards, labels, envelopes, and much more. It has over 1,000 fonts, over 1,800 professionally designed layouts, 2.6 million photos and images, and it works with Avery Paper Direct® and more.
My wife saves tons of money using this software, making her yard-sign flyers, farming tools, drip mailing pieces, and more on our new HP 8150 printer. I use Design and Print to dazzle my friends with cozy family montages of pictures, holiday greeting cards, postcards, and jokes, embellished with cleverly relevant artwork taken from the program.
Other features: Customize pieces by adding your company logo or local scenery. Create mailings in minutes with the built-in address book. Save your design as a jpeg file and email to your entire contact list. It lets YOU (yes, even you) create professional looking materials that will WOW your clients and peers alike.
There"s no free version of this software, but it"s only $39.95 from Avanquestusa.com.
Combine Design and Print With "MyMailList" for Integrated Mail Handling
Once we"ve created our printed pieces, we use MyMailList Deluxe to manage the mailing of them, and to keep our address book organized and up to date. Since Design and Print and MyMailList are both from the same manufacturer, they integrate nicely, unlike so many other products we"ve tried, where each one is from a different source.
Here"s what MyMailList offers:
Manages contact records
Prints labels, envelopes and post cards
Creates address books and form letters
Adds Zip+4 codes
Inserts USPS barcodes
Presorts for bulk mailings
Imports database files
Sends personalized email
Supports Avery®, NEBS® and other third-party labels
Best of all, both of the two above products are quite easy to use, which isn"t the case with many similar products. We"d be lost without either of them.