| With all the nontraditional careers popping up | | | | and schedule an appointment. |
| these days, it's easy to forget some of the | | | | 2. Skip the office pit stop. For many a realtor, the |
| classic "out of the office" jobs that have been | | | | office is both friend and enemy. If you're spending |
| around for ages. Contractors will rarely have a | | | | a lot of time in the office, that means the real |
| typical day at work, while some salespeople will | | | | activity is scarce. If you're never in the office, |
| practically live out of a car during the work week. | | | | that could mean you need to get organized. When |
| Still, maybe no job is quite as free-form as that | | | | you take your organizational power to the road |
| of a real estate agent. | | | | with wireless internet, you'll waste less time in |
| Realtors really have to be everything at once: | | | | useless pit stops. |
| Counselor to a frustrated seller, motivator to a | | | | 3. Tell the story with video. Probably the biggest |
| wavering buyer and even social butterfly when | | | | jump in the latest wireless internet packages in |
| clients are starting to become scarce. Considering | | | | bandwidth. Everything seems to come back to |
| the way technology has advanced, realtors are | | | | bandwidth in internet matters, so the difference |
| one of the biggest beneficiaries of the | | | | comes with the power being displayed, even with |
| developments in cell phone and wireless internet | | | | mobile devices. A few still photos are a pleasure |
| devices. Years ago, these advances were thought | | | | for any buyer to receive, but a live video at the |
| impossible, and many old fashioned realtors may | | | | first showing? Now that's a valuable tool. |
| be resistant to change. However, those who can | | | | 4. Brief yourself instantly. The real estate industry |
| see ahead will know that mobile broadband is an | | | | is all about relationships: Starting them, fostering |
| extremely useful tool for any realtor. Here are | | | | them, maintaining them. When you can't place an |
| five ways it can boost your business. | | | | associate or a property, it seems like you're out |
| 1. Cross reference the properties. Sometimes a | | | | of the loop, a major crime in this business. Use |
| realtor can see so many properties that your | | | | your internet connection to regroup and brief |
| head will be ready to spin. Especially when you | | | | yourself in seconds. |
| have a customer with very specific needs, you | | | | 5. Make your car what it always could have been. |
| want to put everything into context as quickly as | | | | A realtor knows the value of being out in the field. |
| possible. If you are having trouble keeping track, | | | | With wireless internet there's never a question |
| take photos of the listings you see and compare | | | | that can't be answered, even pulled over at the |
| with other listings online before moving on. If you | | | | curb on the way to an appointment. It was |
| see a breakthrough, you can contact your client | | | | always dreamt about, but now it is possible. |