This post is cross-posted with what I’ve posted on the McLean Tech Blog site, so for some of you this is a repeat. For the rest of you – these are some of the free or almost-free tools I’ve found useful to use for real estate. Of course, this list will be added to and changed, but for now these are the primaries:
| Website | What does it do? | |
| www.LinkedIn.com | Professional social network | |
| www.Facebook.com | Social network with 400 million members | |
| www.Twitter.com | Micro-blogging/messaging community | |
| www.DropBox.com | Online backup and storage system | |
| www.SugarSync.com | Online backup and storage system | |
| www.Gmail.com | Unlimited email with easy search | |
| www.Google.com/Voice | Voicemail w/ email forwarding & text translation | |
| www.Google.com/Alerts | Email alerts from Google search parameters | |
| www.GoogleMaps.com | Maps (computer and handheld) | |
| https://Adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal | Find keywords for your SEO | |
| www.YouTube.com | Record and share videos | |
| www.Firefox.com or www.Google.com/Chrome | Free alternatives to Internet Explorer | |
| www.Wordpress.com | Blogging platform (see also www.wordpress.org) | |
| www.Posterous.com | Blogging platform, ideal for photos
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| www.Flickr.com | Photo-publishing and sharing site (look for Creative Commons Flickr) | |
| www.picnik.com | Free online photo-editing | |
| www.pixlr.com | Free online photo-editing | |
| www.MailChimp.com | Constant Contact, but free up to a point | |
| www.EverNote.com | Take notes from anywhere, store in one place | |
| www.postlets.com | Listing posting & syndication (great for CraigsList!) | |
| http://vyoo.it/ | Make your listing mobile-friendly | |
| http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ | Screen-capture, basic video capture | |
| http://www.eyejot.com | Send quick video emails | |
| http://www.animoto.com | Create easy virtual tours | |
| http://join.me/ | Free screen-sharing | |
| http://bit.ly or http://goo.gl | URL Shorteners/Trackers | |
| http://bridgeurl.com | Combine URLS for easy sharing | |
| http://avg.com | Free Anti-Virus Protection | |
| http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/ | Free Image Resizing | |
| www.cutepdf.com | Create .pdf files for free | |
| http://xpenser.com/ OR http://www.mint.com/ | Free expense tracking | |
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Great list … I’m in the land and commercial real estate biz in Frederick, MD … a lot more links here than I was aware of … but one that I did not see is Bing.com maps … they have a great “Bird’s eye” view that we use a lot in our brochures. Also have used a few email marketing vendors … really like iContact. Thanks for the post!
Rocky, thanks so much for your comment! It’s hard to get a truly comprehensive list of everything that’s out there, but you’re absolutely right – I love Bing maps too! I’ve used them with figuring out land prospects for builders and placement of residential homes before with the same “Bird’s eye” view you mentioned. As for email marketing, I’ve heard about AWeber and have seen people talk about iContact, but haven’t explored them further. Guess it’s time for me to do so! Thanks for the suggestions!