Paperless brokerages are now a reality. Going digital increases the organizational efficiency and the environmental sustainability of your brokerage. Despite the benefits of moving away from paper, you should ask yourself a few questions before investing in a new technology. Here are the top 4 things you should look into before going digital! 

          1. Does my paperless system provide a two-way sync with my back-office software?

Images communicate, draw attention and create interest. Images can keep people on your website if chosen correctly or lead people to leave your website. 

When choosing images for your website, it is important to choose images that are high quality, relevant, aligned with your brand, aesthetically pleasing and attention grabbing. 

So where can you get great images? Here are 5 ways we get images for lwolf.com. 

Although real estate and sports teams differ in many ways, your real estate team shares many of the same needs as your favourite professional sports team. Here are 5 benefits to getting a real estate accounting software for your team: 

It's not easy choosing the right technology partner for your brokerage. Your brokerage’s website, communication, accounting and ability to generate leads all depend on your technology. 

So how do you choose a technology partner? Here are 3 do’s and don’ts in choosing who to partner with in choosing your technology provider: 

Remember the days before smart phones? We had calculators, calendars, cameras, flashlights, mp3 players, GPS navigators, watches, pagers—do I need to go on?

Smart phones consolidated these and many other technologies into one device. Through this consolidation, smart phones brought us convenience, saved us money from having to buy multiple devices and most importantly, synchronized our technologies into one system.

VR videos now offer insight into listings that you've never had before. YouTube is introducing 'heat maps' for virtual reality videos that hit over 1,000 views (check out some more info here). For the first time, 360° VR video creators can see exactly what viewers are looking at. 

Still taping paper listings to your brokerage’s front window? We all know printers are a hassle and paper is wasteful, but here are 5 other advantages of leveraging digital display signs at your real estate brokerage:

1.  Convenience

Get live MLS updates without dealing with printers and tape. Have multiple branches? Display the same information across different offices. Digital signs allow you to save time by updating your listings' information with live automatic data. 

Our offices in Ontario and British Columbia will be closed on Monday, August 7th for the Civic Holiday. A reduced support crew will be available to handle your requests.

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