4 Game-Changing Productivity Tips
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March 12, 2018 | comments
How Real Estate Pros Make the Most of Their Time
Time is money, and if you’re running a top-producing real estate team, productivity is a critical measure to creating the best home buying and selling experience. Increased productivity often leads to improvements in many other areas through a trickle-down effect, which frees time for you to close more deals.
See our four tips to get you and your team on the way to a more productive 2018:
1. Go Mobile
Cell phones are no longer only for calls, emails and texts. If you are a real estate agent, you should be able to get deals done from the palm of your hand. Dotloop offers a free mobile app that can give you access to your information on-the-go. Push notifications from the app will alert you the moment you have an update on a lead or a deal in progress. With these tools readily available at your fingertips and in your pocket, you’ll always feel up to speed on the status of your deals.
Mobile is transforming how real estate professionals work, and thankfully making it easier than ever to stay on top of moving items.
2. Delegate, Delegate, Delegate!
When we’re used to spending two hours a day or more on admin tasks, it’s easy to forget how much an office administrator can lighten your load. From tasks like managing client communications to filing paperwork or maintaining a social media presence, delegating work can help you save time and energy and free you to focus on other priorities. Products like dotloop for Teams and Business+ make it easier than ever for admins to navigate and transact for agents, making teams much more productive.
If you’re looking to hire an administrator, check out our blog post Hiring the Right Admin for Your Real Estate Brokerage.
3. Make the Most of Your Down Time
The real estate industry offers both peak and down time. Leveraging that down time to your advantage is one of the simplest ways to become more productive. Here are a few tips to get you started:
Sign Up for Newsletters: Newsletters from media outlets like HousingWire and Inman can keep you updated on the latest housing and industry trends without much effort on your part.
Monitor Daily Tasks: In order to be more conscientious of where your time goes throughout the day, keep track of the time you’re spending on daily tasks. Understanding how long you spend on data entry or copy creation for advertisements will help you plan your day more efficiently.
Develop Templates: You can greatly reduce the time you would spend writing emails and social posts just by developing templates. If you often find yourself sending follow-up emails to clients after an open house, try creating a draft note ahead of time with select areas highlighted to add personalization following each of these events.
4. Take Advantage of Integrations
If you already use the dotloop app, you’re familiar with all the ways it makes your real estate transactions easier. However, you may not be aware of all the real estate apps with which dotloop has integrated to improve other areas of your work.
On a mission to streamline the process for brokers and agents and create a more collaborative real estate ecosystem, dotloop has partnered with many companies to create added functionality and features with a single click. Automatic data sync between these lead gen, CRM, marketing and accounting applications prevents the arduous task of having to reenter data you spent hours on the day before. Dotloop’s integration also allows you to begin a transaction from within another application you’re currently using.
Take advantage of these integrations available to you – they save precious time and offer you the opportunity to spend more time seeking leads.
