An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. Home Shopping During Winter: What You Need to Know (5 minute read) Why it matters: Winter is a fine [...]
In a world where we so often skip from headline to headline, it can be refreshing and engaging to explore long-form journalism. These longer pieces (typically over 3,000 words) can give us deeper insight and a richer picture of a complex issue or public figure. Unfortunately, they take much longer to read. This is definitely [...]
The days of paper to-do and shopping lists is so 1999. Now there are a myriad of apps out there to help you organize lists and reminders. One of the best out there is Out of Milk, an app which consolidates grocery, to-do, and shopping lists in a single interface. One of the most popular features [...]
Flyers, presentations, Facebook covers, blog graphics, business cards, posters, invitations… they all require some level of design skill. While expensive design software packages have gotten cheaper, they haven’t come with the ability to design great looking material. Canva is a free online tool designed to help you quickly create gorgeous graphics for a wide range of [...]
Ever find your fingers automatically typing the address of certain websites every time you open a browser window? Odds are your mind has been hijacked to check and re-check social media. According to Global Web Index, people are spending an average of over 2 hours per day on social media. Imagine how much you could accomplish if you [...]
Edward Snowden has developed an app which he hopes will help everyday citizens use the technology inside of smartphones to help catch snoops. The app is called “Haven.” As reported by The Verge: “Installed on a cheap burner Android device, Haven sends notifications to your personal, main phone in the event that your laptop has been [...]
Here’s an interesting app you may want to try if you find yourself frequently in the position of having to share keys or provide copies in person. KeyMe allows you to save, copy, and share your existing keys via its app. You can have copies of keys mailed, or have keys instantly duplicated at one [...]
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need to add a few more, especially when you’re adding photos to your social media feeds. Phonto is a simple app which lets you quickly add text to your photos, right from your smartphone. What makes Phonto so great is that its design tools [...]
Ask any teacher of the smartphone age the #1 problem they see in class, and it’s likely to be student distraction. No longer content to stare out the window, the bored or inattentive student can quickly turn to the addictive little entertainment machine in their pocket. One app is looking to gamify student attention by [...]
Admit it: You’d probably send more personalized greeting cards to friends and clients if you could skip buying them and mailing them. It seems like a small thing to do, but when you’re jammed with back-to-back meetings and have to follow-up with active deals in the pipeline, a trip to the greeting card store is [...]
