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Our Top 7 FREE Google Tools for Real Estate Agent
Friday, August 13th, 2010If you hadn’t noticed, we’re big Google fans and we can’t help ourselves! There are just too many great things that Google has to offer, and yep, they all happen to be FREE! As Real Estate Virtual Assistants we’re constantly on the lookout for the next big thing in technology and we love to share tips that can make our clients’ lives easier, after all, we believe in the motto “Work Smarter, Not Harder”! If you think Google is just a search engine, we’re here to give you our top seven FREE Google tools for real estate agents that are sure to make you a huge fan of Google as well!
YouTube: YouTube is one of the leading website online today. In 2006 Google purchased YouTube which has proved to be a successful endeavor. Each day, the site receives over 2 billion views and on average each person spends 15 minutes a day on the site. Realtors have caught on to this trend as they can create Community webpages and embed the perfect community video. Also, uploading new listing videos to YouTube is a great way to showcase a home and gain huge exposure for your clients. Interested buyers can search YouTube for listings in their area, resulting in leads for you and buyers for your listing clients!
Google Docs: Google Docs allows you to upload files online to share with others and also allows restricted or full access from any computer. Posting your marketing or prelisting presentation on Google Docs will take the worry of files being too large to send through email or even having your personal laptop with you at all times. A key feature is that multiple users can have the same document open and Google Docs allows editing capability at the same time as well!
Google Analytics: In an age of seemingly abstract marketing tools such as building SEO, and Social Media sites in which you aren’t able to see any official stats, Google Analytics steps in. Easily track what people search for when they land on your site. Search the most used key words so that you can integrate them into your website or blog allowing for enhanced SEO. Customize your preferences to see only the data that interests you. Using Google Analytics allows you to see reports of the traffic to your website or blog.
Google Voice: As an agent, you’re constantly going from your office to your car to your home and you may find it a challenge to let people know where they can reach you! Google Voice will generate a phone number for you in which you can be reached no matter where you are! This phone number will ring through to your different phone numbers until you are reached; which is great for not missing those important calls! Google Voice also sets up a voicemail which can transcribe messages and send them directly to your inbox. This tool also offers free calls and texts anywhere in the US and Canada!
Google Translate: Do you find yourself in a metropolitan city with people relocating from all over the world? Easily reach these potential overseas buyers with a website that speaks their language! Google Translate can translate your website into any language! Generate links of your website in Spanish, Italian, French or any other language and post these links to your site. Potential client can click on that link and instantly see your entire site in their language; talk about impressive!
Google Calendar: This tool allows you and your real estate team (or heck, even your spouse) to create individual calendars and then share them to merge into one calendar. This allows agents to see their team members meetings or showing appointments as well as sharing what they have going on each week. Everyone can access the team calendar and when adding an appointment to their personal calendar; it will show up on the team calendar. This is ideal for avoiding scheduling conflicts while also bringing a cohesive feel to the team.
iGoogle: As an agent, time is a precious commodity and with all that’s vying for your attention, the last thing you want to do is spend your time jumping from website to website. The solution? iGoogle. This “landing page” allows you to create a personalized portal in which you can access your Facebook and Twitter accounts, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Calendar all from one page! How great would it be to upload a new listing video to YouTube and then check your Facebook business page along with Tweeting about your new listing all with the ease of staying in one place? You can also add RSS feeds which means you will be automatically updated each time your VA posts a new post to your blog! Customize your weather, sports updates or any other personal items that you would like on your page. Use iGoogle as your home page and each time you get online, you’ll see all the information you need at once!
I hope all, or at least a few of these tools have sparked an interest as something you would like to begin incorporating in your daily life! If you have any further questions or need help in setting up any of these FREE tools; let your Real Estate Virtual Assistant know! We’re here to help!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents and brokers nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Learn to Let Your Guard Down When Marketing Yourself
Friday, August 6th, 2010It’s not easy to be transparent. Allowing someone to see your strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures is tough, yet it seems that those are the relationships that are the truest and deepest in our lives. It’s a step of faith to be vulnerable and let others see the real you, but it’s a chance worth taking.
Now, before you start to think of this as a therapy session, this type of transparency actually does relate to your work! One of the things we as a team of Real Estate Virtual Assistants love to do is to bring you fresh and innovative ways to reach your clients, so here’s a new one! It’s bold. It’s daring. It takes you being completely vulnerable in order to draw in potential clients. It’s HomeThinking.
This company began on the understanding that transparency is the truest way to allow clients to see who you really are as an agent. HomeThinking is designed to empower buyers and sellers to make informed choices on agents in their area, and they love it! They’re able to see agents’ sales, the sale amount and the time it took them to complete the sale. Testimonials (agent reviews) from previous clients are also helpful in getting to know how the agent was to work with and their overall performance.
Sound interesting? Here’s how it works. Simply sign up for this FREE service! You can enter your bio and even upload listings to your account. Use your link for your website, email signature and/or on your blog so potential clients can gain easy access to your statistics and reviews!
Buyers and sellers are able to search for you specifically or for agents in their area. Agents are ranked by home sales and potential clients can even narrow down the search to price range and other features. Another bonus is that buyers and sellers can input either their home wish list or details about their home and Homethinking will generate a list of agents that are bested suited to list their property! Visit HomeThinking.com to see what else is available or to get started!
It may seem scary at first to be completely transparent, but as you’ll soon find out, it will pay off in the end! Dare to have confidence and you’ll find buyers and sellers will respond to this open and honest approach! If you have questions or want help setting this up; ask your real estate virtual assistant!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents and brokers nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Catch the Google Wave of the Future, or Sink!
Friday, July 30th, 2010You’ve got the idea of Facebook and Twitter. So what now? Say hello to Google Wave (sign in or sign up with any email address to check it out). Launched in May, this newer program has the potential to revolutionize the way you interact with leads and existing clients, and can be used as another powerful prospecting tool . Google Wave combines the concepts of Facebook and Twitter with Google Search, Google Docs, YouTube, E-Vite, and basically every form of discussion forum on the internet. The potential is truly unlimited.
Imagine running a Google search of public conversations and forums, easily accessible and in the same place. You can do that! How about starting a discussion of your own, and inviting your contacts via email? Sure. What about starting a discussion and posting it openly to the public to engage? Yes. Organize your Home Buyer Seminar and guest list and agenda, even host a home buyer seminar live online, cost-free!
Beyond networking, Google Wave will change and improve the way you work. Track tasks, troubleshoot and work in groups, embed Waves in your website, ask questions, answer questions, and much more. Sure, it is young and there are still processes to streamline and improve, but better to learn and grow with the program. Wouldn’t you love to be the one around the office with all the answers, rather than questions?
Google Wave is a game changer, and you’ll want to be ahead of the curve on this one. So, I know, you want to get started. There are so many possibilities, but as with all multi-functional, multi-purpose cool tools comes a bit of “how-to” to get your head around. Try starting here:
Don’t get overwhelmed and throw in the towel on this! You can find other suggested video’s provided by Google that will help you navigate the program. Still need help? Have questions? Ask your real estate virtual assistant to help you catch the wave!
Have a great weekend!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents and brokers nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Community Pages Could Take Your Website to the Top
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Every real estate agent wants more traffic to their website. The challenge is, many assume that having a website with the basic Home Buyer, Home Seller, Property Search, Featured Listings and About Me Pages is enough. When every agent has those same cookie cutter pages – what is to motivate people to come to YOUR site?
The answer? Community Pages.
When house hunting, the first thing a buyer does is get on the internet and Google “City, State Real Estate.” If your website does not have enough “City, State Real Estate” in its content, then you are not going to get clicked on by that potential buyer because your site will not show up on the first, second, or even third page of the Google search. In the world of Google, content is King.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a web site or web page in search engines via the un-paid or “organic” method. There are tons of tips and tricks to increase your SEO marketing, but many involve ways to “beat the system.”
The best way to increase your SEO is simply by using effective marketing methods, including key word rich (and relevant!) content. Instead of inundating your audience with keywords for the sake of having them on your webpage, actually provide your audience with information about those keywords (i.e. your community).
The solution is not to overwhelm your home page with your city keyword in every sentence, but to add new web pages within your site – ones that will actually be resourceful to the potential client (i.e. Community Web Pages) and picked up by the search engines.
You are a real estate agent. People trust that you know your community and one of the most important things that buyers are looking for is a thorough synopsis of their potential new neighborhood.
Where are the best places to eat? How accessible are basic amenities? What is something that is only available in your community? Is there something that the town is known for? What is the community’s personality? Is it family friendly or more of a young and up-and-coming neighborhood?
This is a perfect (on-going) project for your Real Estate Virtual Assistant. Armed with their creative writing skills and the internet at their fingertips, your Real Estate Virtual Assistant does not need to live in your community. In fact, they don’t even need to know anything about your community before beginning their research.
You may wonder why we’ve noted that this is an on-going project. Great question. The search engines love websites that are updated often. We recommend updating your website community pages every two weeks or at least once a month.
Soon enough, your website is not just your typical home buyer/home seller resource with canned advice. It is a rich center of information for any potential client. It has a web page on each community in your territory, each one touting a compilation of information that only your website can provide. Now that’s a web page worthy of a number one spot.
Have a great weekend!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents and brokers nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Measuring Your Social Media ROI
Friday, July 16th, 2010If you’ve gotten on the right track with social media and launched your Real Estate Blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube campaigns, you’re now thinking one thing, “how can I tell if this is working?”
If you aren’t measuring yo
ur success/ROI, you aren’t done. There is more to social media marketing than setting up accounts, running ads and adding friends.
You want to be sure your efforts are effective and that you’re “doing it right.” The time it takes you to execute your social media campaign, (or cost in most cases if you have hired someone to handle your social media) should be justified by leads, new business generation, referrals and increased brand awareness. As long as you are active in the social networking arena, you are succeeding in increasing brand awareness, but from here you’ll want to improve, strategize, and streamline your marketing plan in order to turn these Facebook users into clients. This can only be achieved by evaluating your efforts.
For example: If you have set up a pay-per-click advertisement on Facebook & received 30 hits on a $5.00 per day budget, you can begin to compare the success of different ad campaigns, and see what is most effective when it comes increasing brand awareness and getting hits to your website. Facebook makes it easy to evaluate the success of your ad campaigns and these charts should model the way you measure your overall social networking campaign. 
Social media marketing can result in more business even if you cannot see the clear path from your YouTube video to your lead/client. Rather than assigning credit only to proven and direct correlations from your social media efforts, compare your numbers to before began your social media campaign.
Don’t sweat the numbers too soon, this is not something black and white that will happen overnight. Social networking is not a math or science and becoming too fixated or obsessed with the facts and figures can derail your campaign, so be careful not to over-think it or abandon your initiatives. Sites like Facebook and Twitter are a casual, informal way to make new contacts, socialize within new circles and become a pillar in your community. While you can measure hits, analyze charts and track performance, it is still going to take your winning personality, expert advice and valuable contributions to become their friend & agent!
Talk with your Real Estate Virtual Assistant and begin planning your social media campaign. It is important to set goals and determine a budget upfront.
Have a great weekend!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents and brokers nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Agents, Just Give Up…
Friday, July 9th, 2010It’s oftentimes hard to break through to potential clients that you’re an agent who truly cares. Naturally, one of the main goals of an agent is to help clients buy or sell their home in the pursuit of getting a percentage of the sale. And that’s great – that’s your job! But there are many agents who also truly desire to HELP people find the right home or help with a sale for the betterment of their clients.
So, the issue arises of how you can break free from the pack of money-consumed agents to show that you have a sincere concern for your clients and their needs. The answer? Give up.
Be willing to give up your time, money and energy into the lives of your clients and the community.
Now, you may be thinking, “Oh, you mean ‘give back’ as in taking the time to give back to the community.” Nope. I mean give up. It seems similar, but the mindset can be completely different. Giving back is a trendy phrase that everyone wants to get in on. Hollywood is soaking in the spotlight of ‘giving back’ as camera crews follow stars to charity organizations or large fundraising events. But giving back implies that you’ve gotten something in the first place.
Giving up is a completely different mindset. It means giving up your time, money and energy no matter what you get out of it. Now that is a true test of caring! How would that type of focus translate to your clients or potential clients? Think about it.
Giving back and giving up may wear the same clothes, but how you go about it is something only you will know. An example of this is Philanthropy REALTORS®, based in Los Angeles, CA. This group commits to donate 10-25% of a home sale or buying transaction to their client’s charity of choice upon close of escrow. Imagine how meaningful that is to the client!
Here are other examples of “giving up”:
- Volunteer on a regular basis at your favorite charity. This doesn’t mean showing up once a year so you can check it off your list, but really digging in and getting involved.
- Take time to get to know your clients and their interests. If they are involved in the community in some way; offer to help! It may be that you join them in running a 5K to raise money for a local hospital or helping to turn a vacant lot into a park for the community.
- Highlight local non-profits on your website. This will help connect you with the community as well as connecting your audience with volunteer opportunities.
- Offer free advice! Hosting free seminars on buying or selling in your community will be a great way to reach out while allowing you to get to know people in the area.
I’m sure there are hundreds of other ways to get involved in your clients lives and as well as the life of your community! If you have any other ideas – feel free to share them here!
Have a great weekend!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!QR Codes: Use Mobile Technology to Market Your Business!
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Everyone is familiar with bar codes. They make retrieving information easy with a simple scan, helping businesses run smoothly and efficiently.
Wouldn’t it be great if this technology could be used to market your real estate business and connect with your clients? Well, now you can using QR Codes!
What Are QR Codes?
QR Codes are the latest and greatest emergence in mobile technologies, allowing you to transfer and link to information with a simple click of a cell phone camera. So what exactly are QR codes? QR-Codes are two dimensional barcodes, designed to have their contents decoded at a high speed. To put it simpler – think of them as a bar code that works like an online link.
The acronym QR is derived from the term Quick Response and that is just what these are!
How Do they Work?
Most mobile phones with a digital camera will work. The camera, along with decoding software, captures a picture of the QR Code and translates the information stored on that particular code.
This information can be a link to a website, contact information, MP3 file, a coupon, and much more.
Get Your Own QR Codes!
To get a list of decoding software/applications just do a quick Google Search for QR Code Generator and you’ll find a plethora of sites and widgets just waiting to create your QR Code. Here is a QR Code generator that we tried. You decide what type of information you want to store in your QR Code (Link, Contact information, Calendar Event, etc.), and then just add the information, click generate and there is your code! You can save the image and imprint it anywhere you want!
Using QR Codes to Benefit to Your Business…
Imagine a potential customer walking past your window and noticing the black and white image that resembles something out of the magic eye book.
They take a picture of it with their cell phone and are instantly connected to your website, or they can find your contact information automatically stored in their phone.
QR codes are simple to generate and can be imprinted on countless objects and marketing materials such as T-shirts, business cards, flyers, postcards, signs banners, and much much more.
ALERT, INNOVATIVE IDEA!!
If your office puts flyers in a store front window, make sure your flyers have a QR Code for that listing which will of course lead the potential buyer to the listing on your website! They may not want to go in to the office and chat, but you don’t want them to anyway…
You want them to visit the website for more information and call YOU!
It maybe too soon to tell how mainstream these QR Codes will become, but they are so simple to use why not stay ahead of the curve!
Your Real Estate Virtual Assistant can incorporate QR Codes into your flyers, postcards, newspaper ads and more!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, branding, website and logo design, listing marketing, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging and much more… Just ask!Facebook: Your Website’s Socialite Sibling
Friday, June 25th, 2010Imagine if you had a website that did more than just track traffic. Imagine if it allowed you to immediately see visitor responses.
Imagine if everyone could ask their questions directly on this site, and from there you could instantly find out who they are, where they live, and what they do.
Imagine if this website could link up with an unlimited number of neighborhood businesses, allowing you to easily cross-promote and mingle among your shared clientele.
Imagine if this website gave you the resources to reach out to the friends, family, and neighbors of your sphere of influence and expanding clientele.
Sound ahead of its time? You might be surprised to find it is already here.
The Facebook Fan Page is doing wonders for building the businesses of agents nationwide, if they are using it to its full potential.
Consider your Facebook page as the social sibling to your website. They aren’t in competition with one another, they are just different.
Appreciate the differences that Facebook has to offer, and you will benefit from it greatly!
Some agents set u
p a fan page and use it purely for the purpose of driving traffic directly to their website. Once users visit the faux-page, they are greeted by a link rather than a friendly and interactive wall.
Avoid this mistake! Facebook users, and the kind you want to attract, are not going to bite.
Users are on Facebook because they like Facebook. Fan pages that don’t function as an interactive page will be disregarded, considered “spammy,” or worse.
Include links to your website on the page, but don’t run the risk of irritating your visitors by only asking them to leave ‘The Book’. Your Facebook page has to provide some sort of incentive, irresistible offer or motivation for them to want to visit your website. If your fan page is full of stand-alone links to your website, you haven’t given anyone reason to be interested in your website. Consider Facebook your first impression, for many, it is.
Do you have a blog or a newsletter on your website? (If not, you should!) You might find you’ll get more “bites” by posting it creatively directly on Facebook, rather than a quick (and sales-pitchy!) “Check Out My Newsletter on My Website” post. Visitors are far more likely to “like” or comment on your page than they are to go to your website and submit their email address to receive your newsletter. If they like what you’re posting, they’ll “like” (become a fan) of your page, and that is much more accessible to them because once again, THEY LIKE FACEBOOK!
If you don’t have the time (or skill) to maintain your Facebook business page, consider hiring a Real Estate Virtual Assistant to help!!! With a weekly budget, a VA can help you build a social presence that will expose you to hundreds (even thousands) of potential home buyers and sellers!
Carrie Gable and the team at RealSupport, Inc. are our “VA Quick Tip” columnists offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, website and logo design, branding, lead generation, technical support, transaction management, social networking, blogging support and services, and much more… Just ask!Evaluating Your Social Prospecting
Monday, June 21st, 2010Social Prospecting is the use of a site like Facebook or Twitter for the purpose of meeting new people within your community and adding them to your sphere of influence by becoming their friend first, and real estate resource second. It is a soft sell approach. Restaurant recommendations and helping with gardening tips replace New Listing notices and Open House invitations.
So you log into your Facebook, eager to find new connections and new opportunities for Social Prospecting. So what are all these talking heads with open houses doing all over your home page?? Different agents may have different motivations for networking on Facebook, but if yours was to get out into your community and meet potential clients, it might be time to do some spring cleaning.
Don’t want to “un-friend” these connections? You don’t need to! Organize your Facebook friends by separating them into lists! From here you can control who has access to your profile information, status updates, photos and more. If you’d like to filter out some of the static, select the “hide” feature. This will disable selected users updates from appearing on your wall and allow you get back to interacting with local users and potential leads.
Tune into what THEY are talking about and participate in the conversation!
Sure its fun to talk shop and share information, but don’t fall into the agent to agent rut!
There is nothing wrong with networking with a few fellow agents, but if your efforts to dominate your local marketplace are being consumed by dominating or competing with other agents, you could be missing some great chances to connect with potential leads.
In addition, agent to agent talk will isolate our neighbors and new connections from joining the conversation.
You’ve been told this about your website, and the same holds true on Facebook: You cannot set up a page and wait for “them” to find you. Don’t forget to be proactive! 
Answer these three simple questions to evaluate YOUR Social Prospecting performance on Facebook:
1. How many non-agent local Facebook members do you friend request on a weekly basis?
2. How often do you “get outside of your page” and participate in conversation on other non-agent walls?
3. How often do you post local content such as events, festivals, school information, art exhibits and/or volunteer opportunities?
If your Facebook plan has gotten off course, or if you feel you’ve never had a solid plan, enlist the help of a savvy friend, family member, or real estate virtual assistant that can turn your Facebook into a lead-generating conversation pit for your community.
Carrie Gable of RealSupport, Inc. is our “VA Quick Tip” columnist offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, website and logo design, branding, lead generation, technical support, transaction management and more.Contact Carrie Visit us Online at RealSupportInc.com
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An Easy and Affordable Solution to Avoid Disaster
Sunday, June 13th, 2010Every year, 43% of computer users lose irreplaceable files. Making sure you are prepared and your entire computer is backed-up just got a whole lot easier.
The Crash:
About 3 years ago, my computer crashed. Thankfully my company server houses all my client files. My personal computer only had my emails and a ton of family photos, some as important as the first photos of my son and daughter. I had no back-up. For years I worked on my computer in denial, thinking nothing could happen and even if it did, the most important files (my client files) were saved on my company server which is being backed-up to a local back-up system.
While I had no loss of business due to my crash, the inconvenience of losing 8 years of family photos was painful. Not to mention every email was gone. I soon realized how much I referred to my past emails and this made it extremely difficult on me for a long time after the crash.
Lessons Learned and Contingency Plans Formed:
I learned my lesson and started backing-up my computer to a local back-up drive. Local meaning it was in my office. However, the fear of theft or disaster at my office has haunted me for months. However, online back-ups were expensive and cumbersome. With the amount of data that I needed back-up on my company server as well as my personal computer, it was virtually unaffordable.
Finally a Solution Online Back-up:
I’m sure there are many out there. As a disclosure, I’ve only tried one and my experience thus far has been so great, I see no need to try another. In addition, the affordability makes this service a no brainer. The online back-up service that I have found to be not only easy to run and install, but more affordable per year than my monthly Starbucks fix is Carbonite (http://www.Carbonite.com). For just $54 per YEAR (yes, I said YEAR), you can have an unlimited amount of data safely backed-up online. After the extremely easy set-up, this service will automatically back-up your new files or changes to your existing files without having to do anything!
Bottom Line:
Don’t be in denial! A crash will happen, it is only a matter of time! Local back-ups are great, but still do not protect you to the extent necessary. Online back-up is the ONLY way to go! Get it now! Whatever service you choose, just choose one!
Carrie Gable of RealSupport, Inc. is our “VA Quick Tip” columnist offering expertise in real estate marketing, technology and more. RealSupport’s office and team of 9 full-time staff members is located near Chicago, IL. Their successful team works virtually for many top real estate agents nationwide. Pioneers in the Real Estate Virtual Assistant industry, RealSupport offers marketing, website and logo design, branding, lead generation, technical support, transaction management and more.Contact Carrie Visit us Online at RealSupportInc.com
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