[{"author":"RentSpree","title":"Real Estate Hashtags for 2021","excerpt":"A hashtag is an extra phrase that you can add to your social media posts. A hashtag is usually written with a hash symbol followed by any additional keyword that you want to add. The feature helps people to track exciting and relevant topics.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-hashtags-","image":"<img alt=\"cell phone user liking and loving social media posts\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/rentspreerealestatehashtags_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":null,"content":[""],"publishDate":"2021-02-25T16:08:26","terms":["Marketing","Partner Blog","Social Media"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How Email Opt-Ins Increase Open Rates and Engagement","excerpt":"Real estate is a profession where your email reputation is critical, which is why Wise Agent works hard to ensure you maintain a positive one. We are continually making updates, so your emails are going to people who want to read them, and in turn, you retain a sparkly clean email reputation.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-email-opt-ins","image":"<img alt=\"mouse pointer clicking button with blurred computer screen background\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/EmailOptIn_BlogImage-01.png\" style=\"width: 1600px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Real estate is a profession where your works hard to ensure you maintain a positive one. We are continually making updates, so your emails are going to people who want to read them, and in turn, you retain a sparkly clean email reputation.","content":["<span>Real estate is a profession where your <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/maintaining-a-positive-email-reputation\">email reputation</a> is critical, which is why <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/\">Wise Agent</a> works hard to ensure you maintain a positive one. We are continually making updates, so your emails are going to people who want to read them, and in turn, you retain a sparkly clean email reputation.</span>"],"publishDate":"2021-02-09T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Email","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails","Opt-In"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent's Contact Summary Pages for Simplified Real Estate Contact Management","excerpt":"Contact management is the lifeline of your business which is why you need to have easy access to all of your clients and their information. Wise Agent designed the contact summary page to keep all of the information about your clients and leads in one place. The more detailed your database is, the easier it will be to spark up conversations with your contacts. Wise Agent gives you the ability to access all of this information from one place within your CRM. This will save you the hassle of digging through pages of information to find what you are looking for. The contact summary page has more functionality than any other feature in Wise Agent, so let’s break down exactly what you can do here.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/Wise-Agent-CRMs-Contact-Summary-Pages","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/CSBlog_CoverImage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Contact management is the lifeline of your business which is why you need to have easy access to all of your clients and their information. Wise Agent designed the contact summary page to keep all of the information about your clients and leads in one place. The more detailed your database is, the easier it will be to spark up conversations with your contacts. Wise Agent gives you the ability to access all of this information from one place within your CRM. This will save you the hassle of digging through pages of information to find what you are looking for. The contact summary page has more functionality than any other feature in Wise Agent, so let’s break down exactly what you can do here. ","content":["<span>Contact management is the lifeline of your business which is why you need to have easy access to all of your clients and their information. Wise Agent designed the contact summary page to keep all of the information about your clients and leads in one place. The more detailed your database is, the easier it will be to spark up conversations with your contacts. Wise Agent gives you the ability to access all of this information from one place within your CRM. This will save you the hassle of digging through pages of information to find what you are looking for. The contact summary page has more functionality than any other feature in Wise Agent, so let’s break down exactly what you can do here. </span>"],"publishDate":"2021-01-29T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"2021 Rental Market Trends","excerpt":"With 2021 upon us, it is time to look at some of the trends expected with the new year. Below are some of the rental market trends forecasted for renters and property owners, and managers.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/2021-rental-market-trends","image":"<img alt=\"trend chart showing an increase in rentals\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/RentspreeBlog1_image-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"2020 was a challenging year for property owners. The coronavirus pandemic forced many people to move to cut costs, and the rental property prices in major cities dropped to an all-time low as employees switched to working from home.","content":["<span>2020 was a challenging year for property owners. The coronavirus pandemic forced many people to move to cut costs, and the rental property prices in major cities dropped to an all-time low as employees switched to working from home.</span>"],"publishDate":"2021-01-25T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Partner Blog","RentSpree"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"YouTube for Real Estate Agents","excerpt":"Getting started with YouTube can be as easy as having a smartphone and access to reliable internet. A common misconception is that you have to have the latest editing software, expensive cameras, and top of the line technology. That isn’t the case, however. Smartphone cameras have come a long way, and you can really film and edit everything right there in the palm of your hand. YouTube is free to anyone with a Gmail account, so there’s no reason you can’t get started today with growing your YouTube channel!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/youtube-for-real-estate-agents","image":"<img alt=\"business woman next to mobile phone with youtube logo and headphones on laptop\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/YouTubeforRE_Blogimage-01(1).png\" style=\"width: 1600px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"As the second most used social media platform globally, YouTube is one of the most powerful marketing tools you can implement into your business plan. YouTube serves primarily as an educational tool. Shawn Malkou, a mortgage loan officer and YouTuber with over 73,000 subscribers, says that YouTube is all about shelf life. With Instagram and Facebook, most of your video views will come immediately, but with YouTube, the views trickle in over months and even years, which keeps leads streaming in.","content":["<span>As the second most used social media platform globally, YouTube is one of the most powerful marketing tools you can implement into your business plan. YouTube serves primarily as an educational tool. Shawn Malkou, a mortgage loan officer and YouTuber with over 73,000 subscribers, says that YouTube is all about shelf life. With Instagram and Facebook, most of your video views will come immediately, but with YouTube, the views trickle in over months and even years, which keeps leads streaming in.</span>"],"publishDate":"2021-01-19T00:00:00","terms":["Branding","Marketing","Social Media","Video","YouTube"]},{"author":"Wise Agent Staff","title":"The Best CRM for Real Estate in 2021","excerpt":"Real Estate agent, Brandon Wise, founded Wise Agent in 2002. After searching for software that had everything he needed and coming up empty-handed, he decided to create his own. What started as a personal project became something much more. Almost 20 years later, Wise Agent is dedicated to innovating and developing the best CRM in the real estate industry. Our goal is to help real estate agents excel their business to the next level while saving them time and money. Discover the best real estate CRM of 2021 built by agents, for agents. You can rest assured you're using the best technology to help you run your business.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/the-best-crm-for-real-estate-in-2021","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent software on multiple devices five start review\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WAOverviewBlog_Cover-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"As a real estate agent, CRM software can be vital to your success. CRM stands for customer relationship management software and does exactly that; helps you manage your clients and leads. It can be overwhelming trying to juggle everything that comes with running a business and still having time for yourself and your family. A CRM helps you stay organized and on track, so nothing falls through the cracks. According to, using a CRM can shorten the sales cycle on average 8 to 14 percent. ","content":["<span>As a real estate agent, CRM software can be vital to your success. CRM stands for customer relationship management software and does exactly that; helps you manage your clients and leads. It can be overwhelming trying to juggle everything that comes with running a business and still having time for yourself and your family. A CRM helps you stay organized and on track, so nothing falls through the cracks. According to<a href=\"https://nucleusresearch.com/research/single/data-accessibility-for-sales-teams-shortens-the-sales-cycle/\"> Nucleus Research</a>, using a CRM can shorten the sales cycle on average 8 to 14 percent. </span>"],"publishDate":"2021-01-05T00:00:00","terms":["Branding","Main Menu","Partner Integrations","CMA","SMS text","Wise Agent","Leads","Real Estate","Real Estate Agent","Email","Relationship Management","Landing Pages","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails","Mail Chimp","Integrations","Calendar","Google Suite","Property Flyers","Transaction Management","Transaction Checklist","Transactions","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Call List","New Feature","Buyer Search Criteria","Gmail","Lead Enhancements","Equifax","Lead Accelerator"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Own the Neighborhood with Cole Information and Wise Agent","excerpt":"Move beyond the MLS with Wise Agent’s Cole Information integration. Cole provides neighborhood data and advanced custom searches allowing agents to “own the neighborhoods” they want to work in.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/own-the-neighborhood-with-cole-information-and-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"import cole leads into wise agent contact list\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/blogimage_colerealty-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Move beyond the MLS with Wise Agent’s integration. Cole provides neighborhood data and advanced custom searches allowing agents to “own the neighborhoods” they want to work in.","content":["<span>Move beyond the MLS with Wise Agent’s<a href=\"https://partner.coleinformation.com/wiseagent\"> Cole Information</a> integration. Cole provides neighborhood data and advanced custom searches allowing agents to “own the neighborhoods” they want to work in.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-12-23T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Integrations","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Cole Realty Resource"]},{"author":"Wise Agent Staff","title":"Wise Agent CRM's Real Estate Team Solutions","excerpt":"At Wise Agent, we focus on making our CRM team-friendly! The CRM that’s great for yourself is even better with a real estate team, no matter how your team is structured.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crms-real-estate-team-solutions","image":"<img alt=\"business team staying connected in multiple locations\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/DripFive_teams-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Teams can be hugely beneficial in the real estate industry. There are more opportunities to learn from","content":["<span>Teams can be hugely beneficial in the real estate industry. There are more opportunities to learn from</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-12-16T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Team Solutions"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Maintaining a Positive Email Reputation","excerpt":"Email marketing is a necessary tool for your business to thrive in today’s digital world. With so many companies utilizing email as their go-to communication, it is essential to hold a positive email reputation. What is an email reputation, and how do you make sure you have a positive reputation? Your reputation is a score that service providers assign to you. A higher score means a greater chance for your email to make it to the inbox. How to get that high score is a little more complicated, though.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/maintaining-a-positive-email-reputation","image":"<img alt=\"typing on laptop with email icon and multiple contact icons gmail inbox with thumbs up and stars\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/dripseven_emailreputation-01.png\" />","description":"Email marketing is a necessary tool for your business to thrive in today’s digital world. With so many companies utilizing email","content":["<span>Email marketing is a necessary tool for your business to thrive in today’s digital world. With so many companies utilizing email</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-12-08T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Wise Agent","Leads","Email","Marketing","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Mail Chimp","Contact Management","Contact List","Opt-In","Automate"]},{"author":"Wise Agent Staff","title":"5 Goals to Crush Email Marketing in 2021","excerpt":"In today’s digital age, where there are always new tools and technology releasing, you may be going into the new year wondering if e-mail is as beneficial as it once was. We are here to tell you that it is. According to a 2019 Litmus study, for every dollar spent on e-mail marketing, brands see an average return of $42. E-mail is one of the most lucrative marketing tools if you’re using it correctly. As someone who depends on marketing to run their business, make sure you stay ahead of the trends.v","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-goals-to-crush-email-marketing-in-2021","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Emailmarketing_BlogImage-01.png\" />","description":"In today’s digital age, where there are always new tools and technology releasing, you may be going into the new year wondering if e-mail is as beneficial as it once was. We are here to tell you that it is.","content":["<span>In today’s digital age, where there are always new tools and technology releasing, you may be going into the new year wondering if e-mail is as beneficial as it once was. We are here to tell you that it is.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-12-02T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Wise Agent","Email","CTA","Lead Management","Automated Emails","Mail Chimp","Contact Management","Gmail","Automate","AB Testing"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"LinkedIn for Real Estate Agents","excerpt":"You don’t have to combat the crowds of uninterested bystanders because LinkedIn is a platform created for professionals, so you should be taking full advantage of all it has to offer.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/linkedin-for-real-estate-agents","image":"<img alt=\"linkedin 3d logos in a pile and flat design of linkedin newsfeed\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/LinkedIn_BlogImage-01.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 300px;\" />","description":"Social media is a valuable tool for real estate professionals. However, if you aren’t on LinkedIn, you are missing out on a huge opportunity.","content":["<span>Social media is a valuable tool for real estate professionals. However, if you aren’t on LinkedIn, you are missing out on a huge opportunity.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","terms":["Branding","Wise Agent","Leads","Marketing","Social Media","LinkedIn"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Managing Your Leads Through the Holidays","excerpt":"Working in the real estate industry during the holiday season typically means a lull in business, but what if you could take advantage of this slow time to get ready for the upcoming year and maintain your leads? The holidays don’t have to mean a slow season. Keep reading to hear some tips on maintaining your leads and taking advantage of the holiday season instead of dreading it.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/managing-your-leads-through-the-holidays","image":"<img alt=\"woman with reindeer antler headband and coffee at desk using wise agent\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/manageleadsthroughtheholiday_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Working in the real estate industry during the holiday season typically means a lull in business","content":["<span>Working in the real estate industry during the holiday season typically means a lull in business</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-11-18T00:00:00","terms":["Holiday","Wise Agent","Leads","Email","Marketing","Lead","Landing Pages","Lead Management","How to","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Property Flyers","Post Cards","Newsletters","Social Media","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Call List","Video","Lead Enhancements","Lead Accelerator","Automate","Lead Capture","Lead Rule","Holidays"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Social Media Fails All Real Estate Agents Make (And How to Avoid Them)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/social-media-fails-all-real-estate-agents-make-and-how-to-avoid-them","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/socialmediamistakes-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Social media has become a key asset in business growth and development, which isn’t surprising with 3.5 billion daily users. Over half of these users not only use social media for entertainment, but they are also using it to research products and services. ","content":["<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Social media has become a key asset in business growth and development, which isn’t surprising with 3.5 billion daily users. Over half of these users not only use social media for entertainment, but they are also using it to research products and services. </span>","<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It’s clear that social media needs to be part of your marketing strategy, but are you utilizing it to the best of your ability? Did you know that there are some things you may be doing on your social media to turn away potential customers? </span>","<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Have no fear! We are here to help you identify those no-no’s and make sure you avoid them in the future. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-10-20T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent Staff","title":"Automated Lead Distribution with Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"With your Lead Management in Wise Agent, you’ll be able to set up rules that trigger automated actions when any real estate leads come in from your lead sources. These rules can be made for each independent source that you receive real estate leads from, and can vary between lead sources. Setting up how you’d like to distribute real estate leads to team members will be one of the automated actions you can set up with your source’s lead rules.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/Automated-Lead-Distribution-with-Wise-Agent-CRM","image":"<img alt=\"woman holding laptop with wise agent lead rule window\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/DistributingLeads_BlogImage1-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"With your , you’ll be able to set up rules that trigger automated actions when any real estate leads come in from your lead sources. These rules can be made for each independent source that you receive real estate leads from, and can vary between lead sources. Setting up how you’d like to distribute real estate leads to team members will be one of the automated actions you can set up with your source’s lead rules.","content":["<span>With your <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/lead-management-made-simple-save-time\">Lead Management in Wise Agent</a>, you’ll be able to set up rules that trigger automated actions when any real estate leads come in from your lead sources. These rules can be made for each independent source that you receive real estate leads from, and can vary between lead sources. Setting up how you’d like to distribute real estate leads to team members will be one of the automated actions you can set up with your source’s lead rules.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-10-19T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Email","Lead","Lead Management","Share Leads","Team Solutions","Lead Enhancements","Lead Rule"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"New Options for your Real Estate Mailings from the Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/new-options-for-your-real-estate-mailings-from-the-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/MailingLabels_BlogImage-01(1).png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"","content":["<span><strong>You can now create mailing labels in either of the most popular sizes - Avery 5160 OR Avery 15663.</strong></span>","<span>Marketing to your database via “snail mail” is <strong>quick and easy</strong>.</span>","<span>Let us know what else you’d like to see added to Wise Agent - <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/contact.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact WiseAgent\">we love to hear from you</a>. <strong>Until then, happy sticking!</strong></span>"],"publishDate":"2020-10-15T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"FAQ: How to Add a Letter in Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/faq-how-to-add-a-letter-in-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/AddALetterInWACRM.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Plus, our letters are not just a couple of sentences like most pre-written letters; they are a full years worth of letters that can easily be added to an .","content":["<span>Plus, our letters are not just a couple of sentences like most pre-written letters; they are a full years worth of letters that can easily be added to an <a href=\"https://youtu.be/JpI6gyylKK0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Drip Marketing Tutorial\">automatic drip campaign</a>.</span>","<span>Please make sure to proofread your letters before saving them to your letter list, you may need to enter a company name, phone number, etc. - when finished, click the "Add to My Letters" button. That’s it! Now you can print, email, or create a drip-campaign from the Letters you’ve added.</span>","<span>If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/contact.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact WiseAgent\">contact our 24/7 support team</a> for a fast and friendly response!</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-10-15T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent is Now Integrated with Real Estate Marketing Platform Ylopo","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-is-now-integrated-with-real-estate-marketing-platform-ylopo","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ylopointegration-01.png\" style=\"width: 1000px; height: 606px;\" />","description":"Here at Wise Agent, we are proud of our long history of deep partnerships with other top technology companies. We understand that there are many other technology systems you use for your success and anytime it makes sense, we want you to be able to access and use that other technology in one place - your CRM. We’re excited to introduce another powerful integration, this time with Ylopo.","content":["<span>Here at Wise Agent, we are proud of our long history of deep partnerships with other top technology companies. We understand that there are many other technology systems you use for your success and anytime it makes sense, we want you to be able to access and use that other technology in one place - your CRM. We’re excited to introduce another powerful integration, this time with Ylopo.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-09-16T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How to Start Sending Better Emails With Our RSS Feed Tool","excerpt":"Working in the real estate industry, you know how close you end up getting with your clients. You have to know them on a personal level to be able to assist in the home buying or selling process, which helps you form a deep bond. You also don't want to drop off the radar after you close the deal. You want to stay in constant contact, so they think of you first next time they have a project, and so they will refer family and friends to you.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-start-sending-better-emails-with-our-rss-feed-tool","image":"<img alt=\"Stay In Touch laptop notebook plant and coffee cup on blue desk\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51494\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Copy%20of%20Stay%20In%20Touch.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 300px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"Stay In Touch laptop notebook plant and coffee cup on blue desk\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51494\" src=\"/images/blog/Copy%20of%20Stay%20In%20Touch.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 300px;\" /></span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out some of these RSS feeds you can add to get started right now!</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https://rss.com/popular-rss-feeds/</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-09-01T00:00:00","terms":["Blog","Email","Marketing","RSS Feed","Blogs"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How To Make Social Media Stories For Your Real Estate Business","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-make-social-media-stories-for-your-real-estate-business","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/BlogSocialMediaStories-01.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 485px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><strong>How To Make Social Media Stories For Your Real Estate Business</strong></span>","<span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Are you utilizing your social media platforms to the best of your ability for your real estate business? How are you using your social media story feature? Though they are similar, there is a difference between going live and having a story. The story feature has photos and videos that can be pre-recorded, and last up to 24 hours on your feed. A live is where you live stream with your audience in real-time. The platform will notify your followers when you go live. Your followers are then able to join your live, ask you questions, and interact with you. </span>","<span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Taking advantage of either of these features will instantly put you in front of your audience! You have the potential to reach thousands of people with a quick short video clip! According to a study by Statista in 2019, “Daily active Instagram Story users increased from 150 million in January 2017 to 500 million daily active stories worldwide in January 2019!” They also stated that “63% of people ages 18-34 are watching live-streaming content regularly.” Don’t underestimate the power of this feature! Here are our top tips for you to get started utilizing these features. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-08-10T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Share Content, Leads, and More to Your Brokerage or Team With Wise Agent","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/share-content-leads-and-more-to-your-brokerage-or-team-with-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Copy%20of%20Share%20Content%20with%20Promo%20Codes.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Giving your Team Members the tools and content they need to stay on brand and engage new leads can be a hefty task all on its own.","content":["<span>Giving your Team Members the tools and content they need to stay on brand and engage new leads can be a hefty task all on its own.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-06-23T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Automate Your Repeating Emails with Wise Agent","excerpt":"Our users have been requesting this feature for a while and we are happy to deliver it! Now you can send repeating emails automatically through the contact summary page!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/automate-your-repeating-emails-with-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"repeating email icon calendar wise agent crm logo\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Repeating%20Emails%20(3).png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Our users have been requesting this feature for a while and we are happy to deliver it! Now you can send repeating emails automatically through the contact summary page!","content":["<span>Our users have been requesting this feature for a while and we are happy to deliver it! Now you can send repeating emails automatically through the contact summary page!</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-06-10T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Email","Marketing","Relationship Management","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Seamlessly Sync Wise Agent CRM with Your Google Suite","excerpt":"Having total access to your Wise Agent contacts and calendar events is a must! Especially for agents who are always on the go. Wise Agent’s integration with Google allows you to connect your Wise Agent calendar and contacts seamlessly with your phone.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/seamlessly-sync-wise-agent-crm-with-your-google-suite","image":"<img alt=\"Google Suite in Wise Agent in conversations of contact summary page\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/gmailconversations_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Having total access to your Wise Agent contacts and calendar events is a must! Especially for agents who are always on the go. Wise Agent’s integration with Google allows you to connect your Wise Agent calendar and contacts seamlessly with your phone. ","content":["<span>Having total access to your Wise Agent contacts and calendar events is a must! Especially for agents who are always on the go. Wise Agent’s integration with Google allows you to connect your Wise Agent calendar and contacts seamlessly with your phone. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Email","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Google Suite"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Complete Overview of Wise Agent [Best Real Estate CRM 2020]","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/complete-overview-of-wise-agent-best-real-estate-crm-2020","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_OverviewBlogCover.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Wise Agent was founded in 2002 with a mission dedicated to innovating and developing the best CRM in the real estate industry, backed up with amazing customer support to give our members one platform to run and organize every aspect of their business.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent was founded in 2002 with a mission dedicated to innovating and developing the best CRM in the real estate industry, backed up with amazing customer support to give our members one platform to run and organize every aspect of their business.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We value building deep, long-lasting partner relationships to integrate other technologies into our real estate sales CRM system.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We strive to continually enhance our platform and increase the productivity of our customers.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"5 Ways To Integrate Call-To-Action Buttons In Your Real Estate Emails","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-ways-to-integrate-call-to-action-buttons-in-your-real-estate-emails","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/5%20Ways%20To%20Integrate%20CTA%20Buttons%20In%20Your%20Real%20Estate%20Emails.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Even the most well thought out and beautiful marketing emails will fall flat unless you include a proper CTA or Call-To-Action. Including a Call-To-Action tells your clients the action that you’d like them to take next. A CTA is a chance to motivate your audience to take steps towards becoming a client. Most importantly, many people depend on that button at the end of the page to take the next step.","content":["<span>Even the most well thought out and beautiful marketing emails will fall flat unless you include a proper CTA or Call-To-Action. Including a Call-To-Action tells your clients the action that you’d like them to take next. A CTA is a chance to motivate your audience to take steps towards becoming a client. Most importantly, many people depend on that button at the end of the page to take the next step.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-05-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How To Promote A Virtual Open House With Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-promote-a-virtual-open-house-with-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/virtual%20open%20house%20blog%20image.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Virtual Open Houses offer a safe way for homebuyers to actively participate in a home search during a quarantine. Many Real Estate Agents have turned to this method to continue showing homes during the uncertainty and restrictions of the COVD-19 pandemic. However, Hosting a Virtual Open House is not just a skill you’ll use during the pandemic and never need again. It’s another tool in your marketing strategy to amplify your reach and promote your listings.","content":["<span>Virtual Open Houses offer a safe way for homebuyers to actively participate in a home search during a quarantine. Many Real Estate Agents have turned to this method to continue showing homes during the uncertainty and restrictions of the COVD-19 pandemic. However, Hosting a Virtual Open House is not just a skill you’ll use during the pandemic and never need again. It’s another tool in your marketing strategy to amplify your reach and promote your listings.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-05-05T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":" 7 Things Real Estate Agents Should Be Doing In Their CRM During Coronavirus (COVID-19) Quarantine","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/-7-things-real-estate-agents-should-be-doing-in-their-crm-during-coronavirus-(covid-19)-quarantine","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/COVIDBlogImage-02.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"As we learn to navigate these unprecedented times there are many things real estate agents and brokers should be working on in order to be positioned for success as soon as the world opens back up for business.","content":["<span>As we learn to navigate these unprecedented times there are many things real estate agents and brokers should be working on in order to be positioned for success as soon as the world opens back up for business.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Track All of Your Client’s Important Dates In Wise Agent","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/track-all-of-your-clients-important-dates-in-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ImportantDates2.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Building relationships is the key ingredient to any Real Estate Professionals’ success. Going the extra mile by remembering important dates to each of your clients can go a long way to showing that you truly care.","content":["<span>Building relationships is the key ingredient to any Real Estate Professionals’ success. Going the extra mile by remembering important dates to each of your clients can go a long way to showing that you truly care.</span>","<span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/CustomDate_Modal.png\" style=\"width: 80%;\" /></span>","<span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/ImportantDates_ContactSummary.png\" style=\"width: 80%;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Content to Guide Your Real Estate Clients Through COVID-19","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/content-to-guide-your-real-estate-clients-through-covid-19","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Copy%20of%205Out-Of-The-Box.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Amid all of the uncertainty in the world right now, there are more and more questions and few certain answers. What will happen in a month? Six months? What will be the status of the economy, the rate of unemployment? When will things go back to normal?","content":["<span>Amid all of the uncertainty in the world right now, there are more and more questions and few certain answers. What will happen in a month? Six months? What will be the status of the economy, the rate of unemployment? When will things go back to normal?</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-03-30T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"The Ultimate Guide to Creating Real Estate Flyers","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-creating-real-estate-flyers","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/FloatingFlyers.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"As a real estate agent, you’re always looking for ways to reach prospective buyers and grow your business. While many agents turn to digital tactics like social media or email, real estate flyers still remain an important strategy for any real estate marketing campaign. ","content":["<span>As a real estate agent, you’re always looking for ways to reach prospective buyers and grow your business. While many agents turn to digital tactics like social media or email, real estate flyers still remain an important strategy for any real estate marketing campaign. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-03-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Brand Your Emails With Wise Agent Today!","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/brand-your-emails-with-wise-agent-today","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/BrandedEmailSignature.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Emails are one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with your database. You want them to be attractive and professional, and Wise Agent’s got you covered! Email branding is easy to build in your Wise Agent account. Email Branding is what is often referred to as an email signature, it includes your agent photo, contact information and logo. Every email or newsletter should be “branded” with your Agent information. Let’s learn how to brand them with Wise Agent.","content":["<span>Emails are one of the easiest ways to stay in touch with your database. You want them to be attractive and professional, and Wise Agent’s got you covered! Email branding is easy to build in your Wise Agent account. Email Branding is what is often referred to as an email signature, it includes your agent photo, contact information and logo. Every email or newsletter should be “branded” with your Agent information. Let’s learn how to brand them with Wise Agent.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-02-04T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Create Eye-Catching Real Estate Flyers with Wise Agent CRM ","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/create-eye-catching-real-estate-flyers-with-wise-agent-crm-","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Property%20Flyers.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"It’s time to start making eye-catching, professional Real Estate flyers in the same place where you already spend your time - Your CRM! Wise Agent CRM has gotten a fresh new update to the Property Flyers tool, including a large library of modern real estate flyer templates. ","content":["<span>It’s time to start making eye-catching, professional Real Estate flyers in the same place where you already spend your time - Your CRM! Wise Agent CRM has gotten a fresh new update to the Property Flyers tool, including a large library of modern real estate flyer templates. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-01-29T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Warning Signs Your CRM Isn’t Working For You Anymore","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-warning-signs-your-crm-isnt-working-for-you-anymore","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4WarningSigns.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Your CRM should be one of the most valuable tools you use in your real estate business —from recording notes from phone conversations to valuing leads, you should be utilizing all that your CRM has to offer you on a daily basis. If you find that your CRM is overwhelming and causing you more stress than it is benefitting you, then you may need to reconsider the CRM you are currently using. Here are a few warning signs your CRM isn’t working for you anymore and that it may be time to explore other CRM systems.","content":["<span>Your CRM should be one of the most valuable tools you use in your real estate business —from recording notes from phone conversations to valuing leads, you should be utilizing all that your CRM has to offer you on a daily basis. If you find that your CRM is overwhelming and causing you more stress than it is benefitting you, then you may need to reconsider the CRM you are currently using. Here are a few warning signs your CRM isn’t working for you anymore and that it may be time to explore other CRM systems.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-01-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Get Your Real Estate Business Organized in the New Year with These 4 Tips","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/get-your-real-estate-business-organized-in-the-new-year-with-these-4-tips","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/GetYourRealEstateBusinessOrganized.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"A new year, a fresh start and plenty of opportunities await you and your real estate business in 2020. Make sure you are off to a successful start by organizing your business and ensuring that you will be efficient and ready to expand your real estate clientele. Get your real estate business organized in the New Year with these four tips.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new year, a fresh start and plenty of opportunities await you and your real estate business in 2020. Make sure you are off to a successful start by organizing your business and ensuring that you will be efficient and ready to expand your real estate clientele. Get your real estate business organized in the New Year with these four tips.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utilizing a good CRM is one step in the path to success but if your notes and contacts are disorganized with incorrect information, this can have a negative effect on how your future with your clients and prospective clients. On a quarterly basis you should be going through your CRM and removing duplicate entries to avoid confusion and to save time determining which is correct. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Streamline your record entry templates if you have multiple real estate agents accessing the CRM so that each agent knows where to record client info. Updated old contact info and reconnect with clients you haven’t spoken to in a while. <a href=\"http://wiseagent.com/blog/the-ultimate-clean-up-your-crm-checklist/\"> Read our blog</a> to learn more about how to clean up your CRM.</span>"],"publishDate":"2020-01-03T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 New Year's Resolutions for Getting More Out of Your CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-new-years-resolutions-for-getting-more-out-of-your-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4NewYears.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Customer Relationship Management, or CRM systems, have the potential to streamline operations and increase revenue, but few brokers and agents tap into the true potential of their systems. As a News Year's resolution, agents and brokers should take the time to get more out of their CRM and invest time in nurturing this tool to gain more business in the coming year. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer Relationship Management, or CRM systems, have the potential to streamline operations and increase revenue, but few brokers and agents tap into the true potential of their systems. As a News Year's resolution, agents and brokers should take the time to get more out of their CRM and invest time in nurturing this tool to gain more business in the coming year. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you’re ready to take your CRM best practices to the next level, here are 4 New Year's resolutions for getting more out of your CRM: </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your CRM is probably full of duplicate contacts, wrong information and information that is simply outdated. Take the time to clean up your CRM. Delete duplicate files, research and correct information, call contacts and update their information in the event it’s outdated. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-01-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 New Year’s Resolutions for a Winning CRM in 2020","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-new-years-resolutions-for-a-winning-crm-in-2020","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4NewYearsResolutions2017.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Are your current leads valuable? Do they have accurate names, contact information, pictures, etc.? Think about how much more successful your business would be if you had full names, correct contact info, client interests, photos, favorite sports team and links to their social media profiles. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are your current leads valuable? Do they have accurate names, contact information, pictures, etc.? Think about how much more successful your business would be if you had full names, correct contact info, client interests, photos, favorite sports team and links to their social media profiles. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utilize Wise Agent’s Lead Automation Enhancement feature and the system will automatically pull social information from a prospect’s email. Using this feature will help you gain more valuable information about your leads and help your business take off in the new year.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent’s Appointment Calendar will help you systematize, organize and boost your productivity. It will link and share your appointments with your vendors and clients and you can even set up text and email alerts to anyone on your team for every appointment you have scheduled in your planner. </span>"],"publishDate":"2020-01-01T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Commit to Using Your CRM in 2020 With These 4 Strategies","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/commit-to-using-your-crm-in-2020-with-these-4-strategies","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/CommitToUsing.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Even the most unbelievable technologies can’t perform to their full capabilities without adoption by the user. The same goes for your real estate CRM. If you’re not committing to using your CRM and make daily maintenance part of your routine, you’re not getting the full benefits of the system. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the most unbelievable technologies can’t perform to their full capabilities without adoption by the user. The same goes for your real estate CRM. If you’re not committing to using your CRM and make daily maintenance part of your routine, you’re not getting the full benefits of the system. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating new habits can be difficult, but utilizing your CRM is one habit you will want to adopt. A simple Google search will bring up a multitude of research stating that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. Let’s take a look at strategies to help you commit to using your CRM in 2020 and making it a new habit.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you first log into your CRM, create a task each day for an entire week. These tasks will serve as to-do items that you will have to complete. You’ll also get a reminder email each morning helping you form this new habit. Every morning you check your email you will receive a list of tasks due that day. This email will help you form the habit of jumping right into your CRM and getting to work on entering new client data or going over notes from the last time you spoke to a client before giving them a follow up call.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-31T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Wise Agent's 2019 Year in Review - Updates, Integrations, and New Features","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agents-year-in-review-2019","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WiseAgents2019YearInReview.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 350px;\" />","description":"Commission Reports","content":["<span>Commission Reports</span>","<span>The beginning of the year started with the rollout of our <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/reach-your-sales-goals-with-wise-agent-crms-commission-tracker\">Commission Reports</a>! Wise Agent CRM’s Commission Reports shows you all of your sales and commissions right on your home page with color correlated graphs that display the total numbers of your sales. Everything from commissions that have closed, those that are pending, and even those that have fallen through. </span>","<span><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/CommissionReport2.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-27T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Use Wise Agent's Goal Tracker to Plan and Achieve Your Success","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/Use-Wise-Agents-Goal-Tracker-to-Plan-and-Achieve-Your-Success","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52324 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/GoalTracker2.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"At this time in the year, we’re looking ahead to what our Goals will be for the upcoming year. And we’re even looking back at what we achieved so far. As an agent, you probably are too.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this time in the year, we’re looking ahead to what our Goals will be for the upcoming year. And we’re even looking back at what we achieved so far. As an agent, you probably are too.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting goals for yourself is the best thing that you can do for your business. It allows you to map out your future and start using your time more effectively. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are more effective with your time, you can get things done quicker and free up your time for the things that matter most to you. This is true whether you work alone or as a team.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Open House Follow Up: A Step by Step Guide with Wise Agent","excerpt":"Agents need to follow up with leads after an Open House, and having a plan in place before going in can make all of the difference in conversions.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/open-house-follow-up-a-step-by-step-guide-with-Wise-Agent","image":"<img alt=\"realtor® pointing to an open house and writing on paper\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/AStepbyStepGuide(1).jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Agents need to follow up with leads after an Open House, and having a plan in place before going in can make all of the difference in conversions.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agents need to follow up with leads after an Open House, and having a plan in place before going in can make all of the difference in conversions.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a step by step guide for marketing to your leads and following up after an Open House.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the Open House:</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-18T00:00:00","terms":["SMS text","Wise Agent","Leads","Email","Marketing","Lead","Landing Pages","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Contact Management","Contact List","Call List","Buyer Search Criteria","Lead Enhancements","Lead Accelerator","Automate","Lead Capture","Open House","Status","Rank","Category","Lead Rule"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Informed Real Estate Marketing with iFoundAgent and Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/informed-real-estate-marketing-with-ifoundagent-and-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52316 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/IFoundAgent.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"See the number of individual times a lead has visited any page on your site, and even on what days. This kind of insight can be a game changer, allowing you to adjust your marketing strategy based on a lead’s level of interest. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the number of individual times a lead has visited any page on your site, and even on what days. This kind of insight can be a game changer, allowing you to adjust your marketing strategy based on a lead’s level of interest. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plus, get instant notifications when Wise Agent contacts visit your iFoundAgent website, save properties, and create new searches.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contacts from your website forms automatically become contacts in your Wise Agent account. These can be for <span>call to action leads, home-search leads, or home-value leads, for instance. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-09T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Did you know Wise Agent has free online classes every day?","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/did-you-know-wise-agent-has-free-online-classes-every-day","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/FreeOnlineClassesEveryDay.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Wise Agent is always here for you. Our support team is second-to-none, and our training is always free! We recently updated our class schedule, and you can check it out here:","content":["<span>Wise Agent is always here for you. Our support team is second-to-none, and our training is always free! We recently updated our class schedule, and you can check it out here:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Time Management</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Management</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-12-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Instantly sync your Wise Agent contacts to hundreds of apps with our PieSync integration!","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/instantly-sync-your-wise-agent-contacts-to-hundreds-of-apps-with-our-piesync-integration","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/InstantlySyncContactsFromPieSync.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Getting your contacts to sync between all your important platforms can be difficult. However, Wise Agent CRM has simplified the process for you. Our integration with PieSync allows you to connect the most powerful CRM in the Real Estate industry with contacts from various sources in a two-way sync.","content":["<span>Getting your contacts to sync between all your important platforms can be difficult. However, Wise Agent CRM has simplified the process for you. Our integration with PieSync allows you to connect the most powerful CRM in the Real Estate industry with contacts from various sources in a two-way sync.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Piesync is a powerful tool used to connect two Cloud-Based apps in a seamless synchronization. With over <a href=\"https://www.piesync.com/connections/\"> 190 business applications </a> to choose from, your options are limitless. Piesync not only allows you to sync your apps but you can also customize the connection between your connected apps. Being able to customize your connection allows you to choose which contact fields you want to sync between Wise Agent and any other app on Piesync’s platform making your connections more personalized.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, you will need to activate your apps through your Piesync dashboard. Once logged into your Piesync account click on the “ + New Connection” field to create a new sync. You will then be able to search for Wise Agent and the secondary app you wish to sync. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-11-26T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Why Lead Follow Up Is So Important","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/why-lead-follow-up-is-so-important","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52207 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/DonnaStott.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Real Estate Agents today are so engrossed in obtaining the "next new lead" they pay enormous amounts of money for cold leads directed to them. It doesn’t even matter if those same leads are being directed at 10 other agents, they still pay. Because just maybe this time…","content":["<span>Real Estate Agents today are so engrossed in obtaining the "next new lead" they pay enormous amounts of money for cold leads directed to them. It doesn’t even matter if those same leads are being directed at 10 other agents, they still pay. Because just maybe this time…</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-11-19T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Did You Know Wise Agent Has Your Transaction Management Covered?","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/did-you-know-wise-agent-has-your-transaction-management-covered","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51933 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/TransactionManagement.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"We have default templates to get you started, which are completely customizable. You can add, edit, or delete any of the information within the template. Keep in mind, you will create one template for each of transaction you do, and then use that template over and over again.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have default templates to get you started, which are completely customizable. You can add, edit, or delete any of the information within the template. Keep in mind, you will create one template for each <i> type </i> of transaction you do, and then use that template over and over again.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have your template saved, you can create individual Checklists based on that Template. The Checklist is the page you will actually work from - adding dates, filling fields, checking tasks, storing documents, and more. Our <a href=\"https://thewiseagent.com/blog/reach-your-sales-goals-with-wise-agent-crms-commission-tracker\"> Commission Reports</a> is also built into the Checklist - so you can track your Pending, Closed, and Expired sales, and reach your Sales goals!</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-11-11T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Everything You Need to Know About Our New Navigation Menu","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-our-new-navigation-menu","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52140 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/NewNavigationBar(1).jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know:","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Introducing The Help tab!</strong> This is where you can find all of our help resources, all in one place! It includes our Knowledge Base, Video Tutorials, Online Classes, Wise Blog and of course the Contact Us button. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renamed and Moved - </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-11-08T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Camilla Temu","title":"Connect with More Leads Faster with Mojo Dialer","excerpt":"Are you finding it hard to connect with the high volume of leads you are receiving each day? Wise Agent has a solution for that. Our integration with Mojo Dialer allows you to connect the most powerful CRM in the Real Estate industry with one of the leading dialers, to help agents like you make more connections faster.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/connect-with-more-leads-faster","image":"<img alt=\"computer screen with people connected wise agent crm logo in bottom left corner \" class=\"wp-image-51930 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ConnectWithLeadsFaster.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Are you finding it hard to connect with the high volume of leads you are receiving each day? Wise Agent has a solution for that.","content":["<span>Are you finding it hard to connect with the high volume of leads you are receiving each day? Wise Agent has a solution for that.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the integrations drop-down bar click on Settings.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you are on the Integrations page, click on the Mojo tab on the right hand side.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-11-04T00:00:00","terms":["Lead","Lead Management","Mojo Dialer"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"5 Tips to Improve Your Real Estate Newsletters","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-tips-to-improve-your-real-estate-newsletters","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51927 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/MonthlyNewsletter_YourVoice.jpg\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 320px;\" />","description":"For a real estate business, monthly newsletters are a fantastic way to stay top-of-mind with past clients in your database. Wise Agent does a majority of the work for you with our monthly newsletters. It’s created for you each month, in English and Spanish, that way, you can send it as it is. However, we always encourage our users to personalize it and make it their own!","content":["<span>For a real estate business, monthly newsletters are a fantastic way to stay top-of-mind with past clients in your database. Wise Agent does a majority of the work for you with our monthly newsletters. It’s created for you each month, in English and Spanish, that way, you can send it as it is. However, we always encourage our users to personalize it and make it their own!</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-28T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Contacts, the Heart of Your Business.","excerpt":"At the heart of your business are your contacts, they are the most valuable commodity that you own. We all classify our database as the clients we’ve done business within the past or ones we are working on right now. However, the most successful Sales Agents will classify ALL the people they know as their contacts.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/contacts-the-heart-of-your-business","image":"<img alt=\"Floppy disk shield with open envelope with bomb inside closed envelop all around a contact notebook\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ContactsHeartofBusiness.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"At the heart of your business are your contacts, they are the most valuable commodity that you own. We all classify our database as the clients we’ve done business with in the past or ones we are working on right now. However, the most successful Sales Agents will classify ALL the people they know as their contacts.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the heart of your business are your contacts, they are the most valuable commodity that you own. We all classify our database as the clients we’ve done business with in the past or ones we are working on right now. However, the most successful Sales Agents will classify ALL the people they know as their contacts.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, if you subscribe to internet leads, or post your phone number on-line or have a huge list of contacts this can negatively affect you and your business.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here’s what you need to do RIGHT NOW: </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"7 Reasons Why Real Estate Video Marketing is a Wise Choice for You","excerpt":"Marketing has evolved at breakneck speed and realtors that don’t keep up fall behind fast.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/7-reasons-why-real-estate-video-marketing-is-a-wise-choice-for-you","image":"<img alt=\"camera laptop webpage illustration \" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51681\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/7ReasonWhyVideoMarketing.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px; margin: 0px auto;\" />","description":"Marketing has evolved at breakneck speed and realtors that don’t keep up fall behind fast. Take video, for example. What wasn’t even a “thing” in digital marketing a few short years ago is now the THING that catches the attention of your prospective clients. Moreover, video isn’t just for your website. Video has come to CRM, even to the most common communication channels like email and text.","content":["<span>Marketing has evolved at breakneck speed and realtors that don’t keep up fall behind fast. Take video, for example. What wasn’t even a “thing” in digital marketing a few short years ago is now the THING that catches the attention of your prospective clients. Moreover, video isn’t just for your website. Video has come to CRM, even to the most common communication channels like email and text.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-16T00:00:00","terms":["Marketing","Video"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"How to Verify Your Email Address for Email Branding in Wise Agent","excerpt":"There has been an important change made to the Wise Agent email feature. As of Monday October 14th, you will be required to verify the email address that you use with your email branding through Amazon Web Services (AWS) - our web provider.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-verify-your-email-address-for-email-branding-in-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"woman working on email on laptop\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51627\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/EmailValidation.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 435px;\" />","description":"An email from support@wiseagent.com simply explaining again that you will need to open the email you receive from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and click on the link to verify your sending email address.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An email from support@wiseagent.com simply explaining again that you will need to open the email you receive from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and click on the link to verify your sending email address.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An email from AWS containing a link that you will use to verify your sending email address.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52035\" src=\"/images/blog/EmailValidation-02.png\" style=\"width: 1156px; height: 636px;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-10T00:00:00","terms":["Email","Update"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Are the Contacts in Your CRM Categorized Correctly for the Best ROI?","excerpt":"For a real estate professional, your Database is the heart of your real estate business. It should also be set up in a way that will provide you with future business! A good CRM will help you to foster the relationships that you’ve created to provide you with current and future sales. Taking the time to maintain and organize your database is one of the keys to achieving success in your business.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/are-the-contacts-in-your-crm-categorized-correctly-for-the-best-roi","image":"<img alt=\"File cabinet coming out of computer screen\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51606\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/OrganizeYourCRM.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 458px;\" />","description":"For a real estate professional, your Database is the heart of your real estate business. It should also be set up in a way that will provide you with future business! A good CRM will help you to foster the relationships that you’ve created to provide you with current and future sales. Taking the time to maintain and organize your database is one of the keys to achieving success in your business.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a real estate professional, your Database is the heart of your real estate business. It should also be set up in a way that will provide you with future business! A good CRM will help you to foster the relationships that you’ve created to provide you with current and future sales. Taking the time to maintain and organize your database is one of the keys to achieving success in your business.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A major part of a database is all of the notes and records that you keep within it. These personal touches can spell the difference between making a sale, and if you’ve got outdated or incorrect information, making a bad impression.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cleaning up and auditing information should be a task that you set aside time for each quarter in order to properly maintain an organized database. Reaching out to past clients for referrals and future business will be a lot less daunting if you are able to take a look at past notes and feel confident with the information that you have.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-09T00:00:00","terms":["Email","Marketing","Relationship Management","ROI"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Generate Leads with Facebook Lead Ads and Wise Agent","excerpt":"Obtaining valuable leads is one of the main goals for agents in the Real Estate industry. Finding a cost-effective way to generate these leads can be difficult, however, Facebook Lead Ads makes it easy for you to capture leads that are in your target audience without running your pockets dry. Let’s be honest, the majority of people online, including you and I will end up on Facebook at some point in our day. If you’re looking for facts, a Pew Research Center survey showed that 69% of US adults use Facebook (7 out of 10) and about 51% of them will use it several times a day. Those stats alone prove that Facebook should be your go-to for online advertising.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/generate-leads-with-facebook-lead-ads-and-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"facebook ads integration manage leads in wise agent\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51715 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/generateleadsviafb_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Obtaining valuable leads is one of the main goals for agents in the Real Estate industry. Finding a cost-effective way to generate these leads can be difficult, however, Facebook Lead Ads makes it easy for you to capture leads that are in your target audience without running your pockets dry. Let’s be honest, the majority of people online, including you and I will end up on Facebook at some point in our day. If you’re looking for facts, a Pew Research Center survey showed that 69% of US adults use Facebook (7 out of 10) and about 51% of them will use it several times a day. Those stats alone prove that Facebook should be your go-to for online advertising.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtaining valuable leads is one of the main goals for agents in the Real Estate industry. Finding a cost-effective way to generate these leads can be difficult, however, Facebook Lead Ads makes it easy for you to capture leads that are in your target audience without running your pockets dry. Let’s be honest, the majority of people online, including you and I will end up on Facebook at some point in our day. If you’re looking for facts, a Pew Research Center survey showed that 69% of US adults use Facebook (7 out of 10) and about 51% of them will use it several times a day. Those stats alone prove that Facebook should be your go-to for online advertising.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how does this all tie in with Wise Agent? Well, it’s pretty simple. Ultimately you should be handling all of your marketing, transactions, follow-ups and lead management directly within your CRM. Having your Facebook integrated with your CRM eliminates the hassle of having to manually transfer data. Our integration allows you to connect your Facebook Business Pages with your Wise Agent account. That way, new leads will automatically be added to your Wise Agent database.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Let’s get started! </strong></span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-07T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Marketing","Lead","Lead Management","Integrations","Facebook Ads"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"What to Consider When Sharing Real Estate Leads With Team Members","excerpt":"All brokers or team leaders who are sharing real estate leads have some things that need to be thought out and addressed before providing those leads to agents. Of course, you'll want to put some rules and training in place how each lead should be followed up with. But it is also very important to think about how leads will be handled and tracked when agents leave your office.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/what-to-consider-when-sharing-real-estate-leads-with-team-members","image":"<img alt=\"team permissions for lead management and edit lead rules\" class=\"wp-image-51842 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/shareleadswithteam_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"team permissions for lead management and edit lead rules\" class=\"wp-image-51842 aligncenter\" src=\"/images/blog/shareleadswithteam_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" /></span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All brokers or team leaders who are sharing real estate leads have some things that need to be thought out and addressed before providing those leads to agents. Of course, you'll want to put some rules and training in place how each lead should be followed up with. But it is also very important to think about how leads will be handled and tracked when agents leave your office.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have probably explained to your kids that if they put a photo on the internet it will still be out there even if they delete it. Think of your leads the same way, once you share them you can never delete them.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-02T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Share Leads","Team Solutions"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Getting Personal With Your Marketing Can Pay Off","excerpt":"For real estate professionals, a huge part of the job is building relationships with your clients. It involves taking the time to really listen to their likes and dislikes. Once you’ve done this however, you can easily market to them more personally and send them information that they actually want.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/getting-personal-with-your-marketing-can-pay-off","image":"<img alt=\"hands holding open envelope surrounded by technology icons\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51716\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/PersonalMarketing.jpg\" style=\"width: 562px; height: 278px;\" />","description":"For real estate professionals, a huge part of the job is building relationships with your clients. It involves taking the time to really listen to their likes and dislikes. Once you’ve done this however, you can easily market to them more personally and send them information that they actually want. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For real estate professionals, a huge part of the job is building relationships with your clients. It involves taking the time to really listen to their likes and dislikes. Once you’ve done this however, you can easily market to them more personally and send them information that they actually want. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you’ve listened and figured out your clients wants, needs, and interests you should immediately be categorizing your client from within your Real Estate CRM. This will make it so much easier for you to market to them later down the line. Do they like gardening? Add them to a category for that so you can send them any awesome gardening articles you come across. Are they looking to buy a retirement property? Make sure they’re in the category that you send out some AARP travel blog posts to. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking the time to show clients that you listened to them is the perfect way to create lifelong clients AND generate referral business. Plus, being more personal in your marketing is a sure-fire way to increase not only your open rates with email marketing, but also maximize engagement. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","terms":["Email","Marketing","Relationship Management"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Real Estate Postcards Made Easy with Wise Printing!","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-postcards-made-easy-with-wiseprinting","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/wiseprinting.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 675px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/weclometowp.png\" style=\"width: 893px; height: 565px;\" /></span>","<span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Postcards can be effective for real estate marketing because they allow you to target specific areas such as cities, towns, or even neighborhoods. For example, If you’ve got a listing in a neighborhood in a certain school district, segment your audience by those who want to be in that location! </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-09-30T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Another Way Wise Agent Helps You Automate Your Business","excerpt":"Transactions are at the heart of every Real Estate Agents business, that is why we have updated the look and feel of our Checklist Summary page. Are you staying on task when going through a transaction with a client? Do you want to delegate tasks automatically?","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/another-way-wise-agent-helps-you-automate-your-business","image":"<img alt=\"woman working on computer\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51713\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/AutomateBusiness_01.png\" style=\"width: 576px; height: 278px;\" />","description":"Transactions are at the heart of every Real Estate Agents business, that is why we have updated the look and feel of our Checklist Summary page. Are you staying on task when going through a transaction with a client? Do you want to delegate tasks automatically? Do you want to communicate to your clients and others involved in a transaction where you stand with the transaction? We have given you the ability to do all the things you’ve always been doing plus some additional features!","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transactions are at the heart of every Real Estate Agents business, that is why we have updated the look and feel of our Checklist Summary page. Are you staying on task when going through a transaction with a client? Do you want to delegate tasks automatically? Do you want to communicate to your clients and others involved in a transaction where you stand with the transaction? We have given you the ability to do all the things you’ve always been doing plus some additional features!<img alt=\"Wise Agent's Transaction Checklist\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-51809 size-full\" src=\"/images/blog/AutomateBusiness-02.png\" style=\"width: 1600px; height: 658px;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2019-09-23T00:00:00","terms":["Transaction Management","Transaction Checklist","Transaction Template","Transactions","Team Solutions","Automate"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Wise Agent is Now Integrated with PieSync!","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-is-now-integrated-with-piesync","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51796\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/PieSync-Wiseagent.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 630px;\" />","description":"Real Estate professionals know the importance of having automation between the systems they use to run their business. At Wise Agent, we’re proud to partner with top tech companies to give realtors seamless integrations between those systems. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Estate professionals know the importance of having automation between the systems they use to run their business. At Wise Agent, we’re proud to partner with top tech companies to give realtors seamless integrations between those systems. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s why we’re excited to announce our new integration with PieSync! PieSync integrates Wise Agent with other apps for an automatic 2-way contact sync. Each time a contact is added in another app, or it gets updated, it is automatically synced with Wise Agent, and vice versa. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This integration will save you hours of manual data entry, as well as eliminating errors by entering duplicate information. It will also eliminate the hassle of importing and exporting contact files from each system, saving you time!</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-09-18T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Capture Leads with Wise Agent’s Real Estate Landing Pages","excerpt":"What’s your marketing strategy? Are you trying to leverage Social Media to reach your audience? Social Media Marketing is a great way to get brand recognition! Using Social Media ads in conjunction with real estate landing pages will help you capture leads! According to Hooquest, “If you are doing any sort of Facebook marketing, Google Adwords spending, or offering lead magnets like eBooks or Buyer’s/Seller’s guides, a landing page is likely going to be necessary to maximize your chance of closing the deal and getting that email and phone number.” \r\n\r\nLanding Pages have a number of uses in Real Estate Marketing, but for lead generation they are key. Landing Pages prioritize the call-to-action (CTA) or a form that encourages the user to submit their information in order to move forward.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/capture-leads-with-wise-agents-real-estate-landing-pages","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent property and open house Landing Pages on two desktops\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51730\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/captureleadswlandingpages_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"They often have few, if any links to other pages on the site, which keeps them from browsing around too long, getting distracted from the action you want them to take.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They often have few, if any links to other pages on the site, which keeps them from browsing around too long, getting distracted from the action you want them to take.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landing pages should be: </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy to Create</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-08-29T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Real Estate Agent","Email","Marketing","Lead","Relationship Management","Landing Pages","Lead Management","Repeating Emails"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Wise Agent's Search Tools That Help You Fill in the Gaps","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agents-search-tools-that-help-you-fill-in-the-gaps","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51486\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Article04.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 396px;\" />","description":"At Wise Agent CRM, we recognize that your database IS your business, and keeping it clean and organized can be an uphill battle at times. Did you know that Wise Agent has several advanced search options that can help you identify the missing pieces in your Contact List? ","content":["<span>At Wise Agent CRM, we recognize that your database IS your business, and keeping it clean and organized can be an uphill battle at times. Did you know that Wise Agent has several advanced search options that can help you identify the missing pieces in your Contact List? </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-08-26T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"How Syncing with Google with Wise Agent Can Help You on the Go","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-syncing-with-google-with-wise-agent-can-help-you-on-the-go","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51478\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/DataSync.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 450px;\" />","description":"Having total access of your Wise Agent contacts and calendar events is a must, especially for agents who are always on the go. Wise Agent’s integration with Google allows you to connect your Wise Agent calendar and contacts seamlessly with your phone.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having total access of your Wise Agent contacts and calendar events is a must, especially for agents who are always on the go. Wise Agent’s integration with Google allows you to connect your Wise Agent calendar and contacts seamlessly with your phone.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Google as the middleman, you no longer have to worry about missing any critical appointments and you don't have to wait until you get back to the office to add a new prospect you may have met while working the field. Now, you can do it all from your phone which will sync to Google and then to your Wise Agent account. Because this is a two-way sync you can also add the contacts or calendar events directly in Wise Agent which automatically syncs to your Google and then your phone.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up this integration is no hassle at all and cost you absolutely nothing. In order to get started with the contacts sync it's advisable to make sure your phone is syncing with Google and that you’ve completed the "find and merge duplicates" step in Google. Once you’ve completed this step you’ll be ready to complete the full integration process.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-08-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Marketing Tips for Real Estate Professionals - Video Makes a Difference!","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/marketing-tips-for-real-estate-professionals-video-makes-a-difference","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51479\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/MarketingTips.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 530px;\" />","description":"Are you feeling hesitant about using video in your marketing? Well it’s time to start! 70% of marketing professionals report video converts better than any other medium. Also, Marketers who use video content get 66% more qualified leads per year.","content":["<span>Are you feeling hesitant about using video in your marketing? Well it’s time to start! 70% of marketing professionals report video converts better than any other medium. Also, Marketers who use video content get 66% more qualified leads per year.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-08-20T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Your Daily Email Sending Limit Just Got Increased!","excerpt":"We have great news to share with all Wise Agent users! After making some changes to our email sending feature, we are now able to increase the daily email sending limit for all Wise Agent accounts to 2500 emails per day!\r\nWe’ve been working hard to make sure your email reputation is maintained, and by automating the process of opting your contacts into emails you’ll be sending your message to the exact people that need to hear it!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/your-daily-email-sending-limit-just-got-increased","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent email Opt-in button on desktop\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51643\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_OptInLink-01-1024x640.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 500px;\" />","description":"We have great news to share with all Wise Agent users! After making some changes to our email sending feature, we are now able to increase the daily email sending limit for all Wise Agent accounts to 2500 emails per day!","content":["<span>We have great news to share with all Wise Agent users! After making some changes to our email sending feature, we are now able to increase the daily email sending limit for all Wise Agent accounts to 2500 emails per day!</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-08-09T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Real Estate","Real Estate Agent","Email","Marketing","Lead","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Clean Up Your Database With Wise Agent CRM Duplicate Merge Tool","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/clean-up-your-database-with-wise-agent-crm-duplicate-merge-tool","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51593\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_MergeClientsBlog-01-1024x576.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 450px;\" />","description":"Most real estate professionals realize that their business revolves around their database. Your database is your livelihood. So it makes sense to control your own real estate database and put a little time to keeping it clean and updated.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most real estate professionals realize that their business revolves around their database. Your database is your livelihood. So it makes sense to control your own real estate database and put a little time to keeping it clean and updated.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Successful Realtor’s have many different lead sources and ways of meeting new prospects, so they are constantly adding new names to their database each week or even daily. Some of the new names will be added manually, others may be internet leads coming into the real estate CRM automatically and other contacts may be imported from a list all in the same week. You can see how easily one may end up with duplicates that need to be addressed.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Find the contacts that you would like to merge in the Contact List and select them with the checkboxes</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-06-11T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Have You Tried Wise Agent’s Transaction Management System?","excerpt":"The best CRM for real estate agents, Wise Agent, comes stocked with an amazing and easy-to-use real estate Transaction Management system.\r\n\r\nWith our Checklist feature, you can easily keep all your buyer and seller transactions organized.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/have-you-tried-wise-agents-transaction-management-system-spoiler-alert-its-awesome","image":"<img alt=\"transaction management checklist and templates on desktops in wise agent\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51577\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/transactionmanagement_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"The best CRM for real estate agents, Wise Agent, comes stocked with an amazing and easy-to-use real estate Transaction Management system. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"transaction management checklist and templates on desktops in wise agent\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51577\" src=\"/images/blog/transactionmanagement_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />The best CRM for real estate agents, Wise Agent, comes stocked with an amazing and easy-to-use real estate Transaction Management system. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With our Checklist feature, you can easily keep all your buyer and seller transactions organized. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have your template designed, you can use it over and over each time you have a listing or a closing approaching. Wise Agent CRM also provides you with unlimited document storage so you can upload all the forms and files you need. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-05-13T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Transaction Management","Transaction Checklist","Transaction Template","Transactions"]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"10 Real Estate Email Subject Lines & Why They Work","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/10-real-estate-email-subject-lines-why-they-work","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51497\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_EmailSubjectLine-01.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 425px;\" />","description":"The answer lies in the simple, unassuming subject line. While most email subject headlines are less than one or two sentences long, they can spell the difference between a read message and another junk email. About never make it past the headline, or in this case, the subject line. Here’s how you change that.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer lies in the simple, unassuming subject line. While most email subject headlines are less than one or two sentences long, they can spell the difference between a read message and another junk email. About <a href=\"https://moz.com/blog/5-data-insights-into-the-headlines-readers-click\">80% of readers</a> never make it past the headline, or in this case, the subject line. Here’s how you change that.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are ten real estate email subject lines to help you master the art of the email.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This simple yet effective subject line plays into an innate desire to be in the know. Not only do your readers want to know what everyone else knows, they want someone to spell it out for them, clearly and concisely. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-04-22T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"11 Reasons why Wise Agent was chosen as THE BEST real estate CRM in 2018","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/11-reasons-why-wise-agent-was-chosen-as-the-best-real-estate-crm-in-2018","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Intro01.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 399px;\" />","description":"Building a great product and providing excellent customer service is something we pride ourselves on here at Wise Agent. Not only is it part of our mission statement, but it is in our DNA. That is why we love when someone else validates the work we do to meet that goal for our customers.","content":["<span>Building a great product and providing excellent customer service is something we pride ourselves on here at Wise Agent. Not only is it part of our mission statement, but it is in our DNA. That is why we love when someone else validates the work we do to meet that goal for our customers.</span>","<span>We’re proud to say that based on their selective criteria, we were named the Best Real Estate CRM for 2018 by FitSmallBusiness! FitSmallBusiness took a look at how each CRM compared in Features, Ease of Use, and Pricing as well as what made each software able to provide the most value to customers. In this blog, you can find a comprehensive look at how we did in each category, plus what puts us ahead of our competition.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a real estate agent or office, juggling each lead, understanding their position in the pipeline and moving that contact through the buying cycle is overwhelming and leaves little time for showing houses. A comprehensive real estate CRM can help you save time and streamline the sales process resulting in more commissions and less confusion.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-03-08T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Reach Your Sales Goals with Wise Agent CRM’s Commission Reports","excerpt":"Your Numbers say a lot about your business. Are you growing to a point of needing additional staff? Are you contracting where you need to decide if someone or something needs to be changed? Your CRM commission reports will help you see trends so you can make those decisions. Making informed decisions about adding or removing resources will help keep your business profitable.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/reach-your-sales-goals-with-wise-agent-crms-commission-tracker","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent CRMs commission tracker reports\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WABlog_CommissionTracker02.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 561px;\" />","description":"To create a New Sale, click the “New Sale” button on the left, and you can fill out the fields for the type of sale including lessor or lessee, status of sale, commission type, and sale price. You are also able to connect it to existing checklists or properties, assign a projected date of completion and assign a team member to the sale if desired.","content":["<span>To create a New Sale, click the “New Sale” button on the left, and you can fill out the fields for the type of sale including lessor or lessee, status of sale, commission type, and sale price. You are also able to connect it to existing checklists or properties, assign a projected date of completion and assign a team member to the sale if desired.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-03-06T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Have You Heard About Wise Agent’s Referral Program? (Learn How to get the best real estate CRM for FREE)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/have-you-heard-about-wise-agents-referral-program-learn-how-to-get-the-best-real-estate-crm-for-free","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51114\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_ReferralTree-01.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 267px;\" />","description":"You read that right, get your Wise Agent account completely free with our referral program. When you refer 5 paying members to Wise Agent, we will comp your account for you. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51114\" src=\"/images/blog/WA_ReferralTree-01.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 267px;\" />You read that right, get your Wise Agent account completely free with our referral program. When you refer 5 paying members to Wise Agent, we will comp your account for you. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have some friends that would love to try us out? Simply send your personal referral link to them! </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find your referral link under the Gear drop-down menu at the top of any page and click 'Share Your Wisdom'. We’ve made it easy to share your referral link on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even email. </span>"],"publishDate":"2019-02-18T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent Wraps Up 2018 (With a Bang)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-wraps-up-2018-with-a-bang","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_EOY2018Cover2.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"2018 was a big year for us here at Wise Agent CRM for real estate! We released many new features for our users and integrated with some excellent new partners. We decided the best way to celebrate our year was to do a wrap-up blog to look back at all the accomplishments that came with 2018!","content":["<span>2018 was a big year for us here at Wise Agent CRM for real estate! We released many new features for our users and integrated with some excellent new partners. We decided the best way to celebrate our year was to do a wrap-up blog to look back at all the accomplishments that came with 2018!</span>","<span>We are happy to announce that our <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-gets-a-facelift-part-2-even-more-functionality\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home Page got a face lift</a>! The looks weren’t the only improvement, we added functionality with our drag and drop sections so that you can choose the order in which features you see first at the top of your screen.</span>","<span>The end of the year brought about some of the most exciting changes yet! Our contact search bar is available on every page! Now you can search for a contact without first having to get to the Contact Summary page or Contact List. The new menu bar features the day’s date as well as all of your reports.</span>"],"publishDate":"2019-01-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent CRM Gets a Facelift (Even More Functionality)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-gets-a-facelift-part-2-even-more-functionality","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA_NewPageBlog01-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"Your favorite CRM for real estate is making some updates you are going to love! Our Developers have been listening to you! The Home page is the first page you see when you login to your CRM each day, so we’re giving it even more functionality. We’re saving the best for last, so keep reading....","content":["<span><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/WA_NewPageBlog01-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />Your favorite CRM for real estate is making some updates you are going to love! Our Developers have been listening to you! The Home page is the first page you see when you login to your CRM each day, so we’re giving it even more functionality. We’re saving the best for last, so keep reading....</span>","<span><img alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50977 size-full\" src=\"/images/blog/ClientWelcomeNew2-e1573749279154.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 536px;\" />You’ll notice the Calendar looks a bit different, but look to the left. You can easily choose what items you want to see. You can select if you want to see Holidays, Marketing Events, Transaction Dates, Birthdays, Anniversaries, or Team member’s appointments. </span>","<span>In addition to that, you can choose what COLOR you want those items to appear. Click the edit icon in the right corner of that section, then you will be able to select a color for each item. This includes the Team Members!</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-12-24T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Most Powerful Marketing for Real Estate Agents (Build Better Relationships)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/most-powerful-marketing-for-real-estate-agents-build-better-relationships","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Marketing2-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"The most successful Real Estate Agents know how crucial it is to have automated marketing tools in place. It’s important to keep in touch with past clients and new leads alike, but your communication would be different depending on the recipient.","content":["<span><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/Marketing2-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />The most successful Real Estate Agents know how crucial it is to have automated marketing tools in place. It’s important to keep in touch with past clients and new leads alike, but your communication would be different depending on the recipient.</span>","<span><span>Wise Agent CRM for Realtors has the perfect solution in our real estate Drip Campaigns! You can set up emails, text messages, phone calls, and print reminders with ease. Features include: </span>","<span>Check out this video tutorial to learn more:<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JpI6gyylKK0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe></span>"],"publishDate":"2018-12-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Sarah Borland","title":"Real Estate Advertising Using Your CRM (Real Estate Marketing Ideas)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-advertising-using-your-crm-real-estate-marketing-ideas","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/01-header-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"In many ways, there has never been a better time to be a real estate agent.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many ways, there has never been a better time to be a real estate agent.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the Internet, you now have <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-marketing-tools-set-you-apart-grow-your-business\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">countless marketing methods</a> for finding prospects and connecting them with the homes of their dreams. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, having countless marketing options can be a challenge unto itself if you don’t understand which ones hold the most promise for growing your business.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-12-20T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How Proper Real Estate CRM and Transaction Management Improves Your Workflow","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-proper-real-estate-crm-and-transaction-management-improves-your-workflow","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/01-header.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"A solid real estate customer relationship management (CRM) system should include transaction management that helps real estate agents not only manage their contacts, but also their transactions.","content":["<span>A solid real estate customer relationship management (CRM) system should include transaction management that helps real estate agents not only manage their contacts, but also their transactions.</span>","<span>A CRM system is vital for agents who want to strengthen — and nurture — relationships with clients in addition to increasing their productivity overall.</span>","<span>In fact, there’s a strong correlation between agent productivity and use of a CRM for real estate.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-11-13T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent CRM is Integrated with Zapier (Simplify your Systems)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-is-integrated-with-zapier-simplify-your-systems","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WBlog-Zapier02-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"Automation between the systems you use to run your real estate business is so important. If your Realtor CRM is talking back and forth with your other real estate contact management programs, it saves you time and hassle, so you can make more money!","content":["<span>Automation between the systems you use to run your real estate business is so important. If your Realtor CRM is talking back and forth with your other real estate contact management programs, it saves you time and hassle, so you can make more money!</span>","<span>Introducing - Wise Agent CRM has now integrated with Zapier!</span>","<span>Set up “zaps” to have your contacts automatically sync back and forth! You can use Zapier to connect Outlook to Wise Agent, or any other program that works with Zapier. Here’s how to activate the integration: </span>"],"publishDate":"2018-10-16T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent and Cloud CMA Release Powerful Integration (REALTORS Need to Implement This Immediately)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-and-cloud-cma-release-powerful-integration-realtors-need-to-implement-this-immediately","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA-CMA02.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"A comparative market analysis is one of the most important reports a real estate professional can use to provide valuable information to both sellers and buyers. Cloud CMA is the real estate industry’s leading CMA software that will help you stay in front of your current database and convert more leads into clients.","content":["<span>A comparative market analysis is one of the most important reports a real estate professional can use to provide valuable information to both sellers and buyers. Cloud CMA is the real estate industry’s leading CMA software that will help you stay in front of your current database and convert more leads into clients.</span>","<span>Wise Agent CRM for real estate has just released an integration with Cloud CMA that is so powerful, it has become the first and only method available to send automated recurring CMA’s to your database.</span>","<span>The reason CMA’s (comparative market analysis) are so valuable is because they offer current property information that buyers & sellers actually want to read, which results in very high open rates.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-09-10T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How to Build Your Real Estate Company's Website Authority in 90 days","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-build-your-real-estate-companys-website-authority-in-90-days","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA-Authority-1024x715.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 559px;\" />","description":"There’s no question that your real estate company has what it takes to flourish. Selling buyers the right home is certainly important, but it’s pivotal to have a website that gains traction as well.","content":["<span class=\"mt-3\">There’s no question that your real estate company has what it takes to flourish. Selling buyers the right home is certainly important, but it’s pivotal to have a website that gains traction as well.</span>","<span>Besides word of mouth, search engines are where people get their real estate leads and trusted sources from. Your website needs maximum visibility so you can get the clients you deserve.</span>","<span>One of the best ways to gain a website's credibility is by building your website's authority score in search engines. It may seem like a daunting task initially, but within 90 days you can boost your authority score, and get more traffic towards your site.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-08-14T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"7 Real Estate Agent Tips for Converting More Leads","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/7-real-estate-agent-tips-for-converting-more-leads","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/LeadConversion.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 626px;\" />","description":"The Internet is full of real estate agent tips on a number of different topics. However, at the end of the day, what is more important than understanding how to convert real estate leads?","content":["<span>The Internet is full of real estate agent tips on a number of different topics. However, at the end of the day, what is more important than understanding how to convert real estate leads?</span>","<span>If you can’t master this fundamental skill set, nothing else matters. You either turn your leads into happy clients, or you lose out to competitors who do.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-08-06T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent Partners With dotloop (Streamline Your Real Estate Transaction Process)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-partners-with-dotloop","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WABlog-DotloopBlog_02-1024x798.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 623px;\" />","description":"What do you get when you integrate the most powerful all-in-one CRM with one of the most popular real estate transaction management software? A lot of happy Realtors!","content":["<span>What do you get when you integrate the most powerful all-in-one CRM with one of the most popular real estate transaction management software? A lot of happy Realtors!</span>","<span>Wise Agent is very proud to announce an integrated partnership with dotloop!</span>","<span>A lot of time and thought has gone into this seamless integration that streamlines real estate transactions and removes the need to enter duplicate information into multiple systems. This saves our members time and reduces the risk of error.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-07-19T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Lead Accelerator™ by Equifax Being Called Realtor’s Game Changer in Lead Conversion [Now You Know Exactly Who To Focus On]","excerpt":"Wise Agent CRM understands those challenges. That's why we are continually creating and adding new technology to help you convert more leads into clients and save you time. With one of the most powerful real estate lead management software available today, every lead can immediately be added to a drip campaign, sent a video and a text message, and anyone on your team can be notified the second a new lead is in.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/lead-accelerator-being-called-realtors-game-changer","image":"<img alt=\"magnifying glass searching for credit scores\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/EquifaxAd10-1024x536.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 419px;\" />","description":"Wise Agent CRM understands those challenges. That's why we are continually creating and adding new technology to help you convert more leads into clients and save you time. With one of the most powerful real estate lead management software available today, every lead can immediately be added to a drip campaign, sent a video and a text message, and anyone on your team can be notified the second a new lead is in.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent CRM understands those challenges. That's why we are continually creating and adding new technology to help you convert more leads into clients and save you time. With one of the most powerful real estate lead management software available today, every lead can immediately be added to a drip campaign, sent a video and a text message, and anyone on your team can be notified the second a new lead is in.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent CRM has an amazing <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/social-media-enhancements-now-available/\">Social Media Enhancement feature</a> that scours the internet as soon as a new lead comes in and returns all the information found from social media sites registered to the leads email address.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent also includes a much-loved <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-partners-with-title-tool-box-for-property-profile-reportsfree-for-members/\">Address Enhancement feature</a> that will return all the information about any address - from owners’ names to square footage and comps.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-07-16T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Integrations","Contact Management","Lead Enhancements","Lead Accelerator"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Your One-Stop-Shop for Everything Real Estate CRM","excerpt":"Your One Stop Shop For Everything Real Estate CRM","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-software-one-stop-shop","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent CRM Software Tools Integrated Partners Menu\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/softwaretools_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"As a real estate agent, you have a bunch of tools that help you do your very best at your job. You probably feel like you have a whole arsenal of different real estate software that you use to get things done!","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a real estate agent, you have a bunch of tools that help you do your very best at your job. You probably feel like you have a whole arsenal of different real estate software that you use to get things done!</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Having a lot of experience with real estate means we get that you have a lot going on and you have a lot of real estate software to guide you along the way.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We want to help you organize as much as you can into one central location. That’s why we’ve worked so hard at adding tools and integrations into our real estate CRM!</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-07-09T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Time Management Tools Just For You","excerpt":"When you first sit down to work on any day (after a showing or two, perhaps), the first thing on your mind is probably what you need to accomplish in the next couple hours. Some real estate agents even wake up thinking about what’s on their to-do list for the day! If you have a great way to stay on top of your time management and keep track of all those tasks and appointments, though, you’ll probably find yourself being less worried about missing something on a day-to-day basis.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/time-management-tools-just-for-you","image":"<img alt=\"Wise Agent CRM's Calendar, Task List and Goal Tracker on three separate laptops\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/timemanagementtools_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"When you first sit down to work on any day (after a showing or two, perhaps), the first thing on your mind is probably what you need to accomplish in the next couple hours. Some real estate agents even wake up thinking about what’s on their to-do list for the day! If you have a great way to stay on top of your time management and keep track of all those tasks and appointments, though, you’ll probably find yourself being less worried about missing something on a day-to-day basis. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you first sit down to work on any day (after a showing or two, perhaps), the first thing on your mind is probably what you need to accomplish in the next couple hours. Some real estate agents even wake up thinking about what’s on their to-do list for the day! If you have a great way to stay on top of your time management and keep track of all those tasks and appointments, though, you’ll probably find yourself being less worried about missing something on a day-to-day basis. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let Wise Agent CRM hold all of that information for you so you can clear it out of your mind. Here are a couple of time management features of our real estate CRM that we think you’ll love!</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you’re on your own or on a team, our calendar functionality works to keep your time management on track. You can now use the Wise Agent calendar right inside your CRM and it’ll sync with your <a href=\"https://youtu.be/HDvPUTC9_mQ\">Google Calendar</a>, so you’ll always have it with you (and alerting you) on your phone.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-07-05T00:00:00","terms":["Efficiency","Integrations","Calendar","Goal Tracker","Education Tracking"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Real Estate Marketing Tools that Set You Apart","excerpt":"Real Estate Agents know how crucial it is to have as much of your business automated as you can. It is important to keep in touch with past clients and new leads, however, your communication should be different depending on the recipient. Wise Agent Drip campaigns can help you sort and automate your business to help you save time.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-marketing-tools-set-you-apart-grow-your-business","image":"<img alt=\"wise agent real estate marketing tools landing pages drip campaigns property flyers newsletters post cards\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/marketingtools_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Another simple yet effective real estate marketing tool is one you’re already very familiar with: flyers. You’ve likely used flyers for years to advertise homes for sale. Now, find quick and easy templates for making great flyers right in our CRM.","content":["<span>Another simple yet effective real estate marketing tool is one you’re already very familiar with: flyers. You’ve likely used flyers for years to advertise homes for sale. Now, find quick and easy templates for making great flyers right in our CRM.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","terms":["Branding","Blog","Marketing","Conversion","Relationship Management","Landing Pages","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails","Property Flyers","Post Cards"]},{"author":"Wise Agent Staff","title":"Conversations Create Clients [Stay in Touch and Close Deals]","excerpt":"You have conversations with buyers and sellers every day. We made sure conversations are easy to handle, keep track of, and monitor in our real estate CRM. Here are just a few of the ways conversations are easier than ever with Wise Agent.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/conversations-create-clients","image":"<img alt=\"colorful conversation dialogue bubbles\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WABlog-Conversations01-1024x614.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 480px;\" />","description":"You have conversations with buyers and sellers every day. We made sure conversations are easy to handle, keep track of, and monitor in our real estate CRM. ","content":["<span>You have conversations with buyers and sellers every day. We made sure conversations are easy to handle, keep track of, and monitor in our real estate CRM. </span>","<span>Here are just a few of the ways conversations are easier than ever with Wise Agent.</span>","<span>With a large portion of real estate agents using Gmail as their email client, we decided to integrate Gmail conversations into our contact summary pages.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-06-22T00:00:00","terms":["Leads","Email","Lead","Relationship Management","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Repeating Emails","Integrations","Google Suite"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Lead Management Software Made Simple","excerpt":"Leads. Without them, where would your real estate business be? Growing and thriving as an agent or office depends on capturing and following through on those leads. Adding simple yet powerful real estate lead management software to your toolset is an awesome way to move those leads through the pipeline. As more real estate agents discover the awesome possibilities of using lead management software, more choices in the real estate space continue to pop up. However, many of them lack some of the essential choices that we’ve built into our real estate CRM.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/lead-management-made-simple-save-time","image":"<img alt=\"lead management in wise agent edit lead rule\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/leadmanagement_blogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Leads. Without them, where would your real estate business be? Growing and thriving as an agent or office depends on capturing and following through on those leads.","content":["<span>Leads. Without them, where would your real estate business be? Growing and thriving as an agent or office depends on capturing and following through on those leads.</span>","<span>Adding simple yet powerful real estate lead management software to your toolset is an awesome way to move those leads through the pipeline.</span>","<span>As more real estate agents discover the awesome possibilities of using lead management software, more choices in the real estate space continue to pop up. However, many of them lack some of the essential choices that we’ve built into our real estate CRM.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-06-18T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Email","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Google Suite"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"After All, CRM IS all about Contact Management","excerpt":"Keeping track of your contacts is arguably the most important part of running a successful real estate business. It’s how you organize your entire job: by who needs what, who’s interested in which property, who called in yesterday, etc. Being unorganized is just not an option for real estate agents. Our real estate contact management software is built specifically for what YOU need to know and do on a daily basis. We created our real estate contact manager with not only the standard contact management features, but also specific fields relevant to real estate. Keep track of everything you need to know about every person in a straightforward, intuitive interface. Here are a couple features beyond the contact management functionality we’re pretty excited about:","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/contact-management-contact-relationship-management","image":"<img alt=\"contact management list summary page call list on desktop tablet and mobile phone\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/contactmanagement_blogimage3-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"Keeping track of your contacts is arguably the most important part of running a successful real estate business. It’s how you organize your entire job: by who needs what, who’s interested in which property, who called in yesterday, etc.","content":["<span>Keeping track of your contacts is arguably the most important part of running a successful real estate business. It’s how you organize your entire job: by who needs what, who’s interested in which property, who called in yesterday, etc.</span>","<span>Being unorganized is just not an option for real estate agents. Our real estate contact management software is built specifically for what YOU need to know and do on a daily basis.</span>","<span>We created our real estate contact manager with not only the standard contact management features, but also specific fields relevant to real estate. Keep track of everything you need to know about every person in a straightforward, intuitive interface.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-06-14T00:00:00","terms":["Lead","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Contact List","Call List","Call List"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Instantly Create Offline Marketing with Our AMS Hotline Integration [It's So Easy!]","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/offline-marketing-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WA-blog02.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 546px;\" />","description":"Check out the video below to see how you can easily connect this integration within minutes:","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out the video below to see how you can easily connect this integration within minutes:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you already have a Wise Agent account, follow the instructions below to connect with AMS Hotline:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Login to your Wise Agent account</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-06-12T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Real Estate Accounting Tools from Wise Agent [Seriously Everything You Need for Financial Recording]","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/real-estate-accounting-tools-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WABlog-AccountingTools-1024x689.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 538px;\" />","description":"Are you tired of keeping track of countless spreadsheets that depict your income, expenses, mileage, and everything in between? As a Realtor it is up to you to stay financially organized, but you are not alone. Wise Agent understands that there is nothing worse than clutter whether that be with tax document storage either on or offline and has the solution with our easy-to-use real estate accounting tool.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you tired of keeping track of countless spreadsheets that depict your income, expenses, mileage, and everything in between? As a Realtor it is up to you to stay financially organized, but you are not alone. Wise Agent understands that there is nothing worse than clutter whether that be with tax document storage either on or offline and has the solution with our easy-to-use real estate accounting tool.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can now create new entries for any and all of your expenses and income. There is even the option to choose which line-item category the entry would fall under. This way, you will always know what you spent, on what, and when you made that transaction. Wise Agent will also create a report of all the entries that were entered over a period of time to make filing your taxes as easy as can be.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another feature of this tool is the mileage report. You can now capture the number of miles that you traveled for work over a period of time. This will also populate into a report directly in your Wise Agent.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-05-29T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Social Media Enhancements Now Available in Bulk","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/social-media-enhancements-now-available","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/SocialMediaEnhancement.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The Wise Agent development team has been hard at work rolling out updates to make sure that we stay the best real estate CRM. April brought some new additions to one of our lead generation features: the Social Media Enhancement capability.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wise Agent development team has been hard at work rolling out updates to make sure that we stay the best real estate CRM. April brought some new additions to one of our lead generation features: the Social Media Enhancement capability.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You probably have been using Wise Agent’s Social Media Enhancement feature for a while now. When leads do not completely fill out your landing pages, the lead management software automatically scours the internet to find any social media linked to that email address so that your new contact entry reflects as much information as possible. Anything from profile pictures to recent Tweets would all populate in your account. Really, you have access to anything posted on social media under that email address with this tool. The feature has everything you need to turn partial leads into complete ones. Learn more about this feature in this <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-new-lead-enhancement-adds-immediate-value-to-your-leads/\">blog</a>.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The only downside was that this did not happen when multiple contact were imported or synced with Google.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-05-08T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent Partners with Title Tool Box for Property Profile Reports(Free for Members)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-partners-with-title-tool-box-for-property-profile-reportsfree-for-members","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/TitleToolBoxBlog-300x300.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 300px; float: right;\" />","description":"With the power of by Benutech integrated into Wise Agent CRM for real estate agents, you can now easily generate amazing Property Profile Reports, ready for a listing presentation. You have all the details you need to verify property and tax information at your fingertips with one single click.","content":["<span>With the power of <a href=\"https://www.promotettb.com/\">TitleToolBox</a> by Benutech integrated into Wise Agent CRM for real estate agents, you can now easily generate amazing Property Profile Reports, ready for a listing presentation. You have all the details you need to verify property and tax information at your fingertips with one single click.</span>","<span><span>To take advantage of this new feature (at no cost to you as our valued Wise Agent member), follow these steps: </span>","<span>Follow along with Jackie to check out how it works!<iframe allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/rheYTOsUzyM?rel=0\" width=\"560\">?</iframe></span>"],"publishDate":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent CRM Now Integrated with immoviewer [best 3D virtual tours]","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-now-integrated-with-immoviewer-best-3d-virtual-tours","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/virtual-reality-3d-tour-1024x720.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 563px;\" />","description":" with VR-compatibility. The integration with Wise Agent allows members to connect their immoviewer tours to properties, and easily send virtual tours via email from the CRM system.","content":["<span><a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/\">Wise Agent</a>, the best real estate crm software, is excited to announce our integration with <a href=\"https://www.immoviewer.com/\">immoviewer</a>! Immoviewer allows real estate professionals to easily create <strong>DIY 3D virtual tours</strong> with VR-compatibility. The integration with Wise Agent allows members to connect their immoviewer tours to properties, and easily send virtual tours via email from the CRM system.</span>","<span>Follow along with Camilla, below, for all the details on the integration:<iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y74FbSn5PpU\" width=\"560\"></iframe> </span>","<span> You can read the full press release <a href=\"http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/03/prweb15332098.htm\">here</a>. </span>"],"publishDate":"2018-03-16T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent CRM Now Integrated with zipForm® Plus","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-now-integrated-zipform-plus","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/blog_zipform(1).png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 485px;\" />","description":"Wise Agent has partnered with zipForm® Plus and is proud to announce a collaborative CRM solution called zipCRM™ powered by Wise Agent.","content":["<span>Wise Agent has partnered with zipForm® Plus and is proud to announce a collaborative CRM solution called zipCRM™ powered by Wise Agent.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phase one of this integration is live now! Current Wise Agent members can take advantage of this integration at no additional cost, provided they have an active zipForm® Plus account. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first phase includes a single-sign-on feature. That feature allows you to login from one system to the other without having to type different usernames or passwords, saving you time. Your contacts are already in your Wise Agent CRM and now when you need those contacts in zipForm® Plus, it is very easy to pull them in. Anytime you make an update to a contact from zipForm® Plus, the update will automatically push over to Wise Agent, eliminating any dual-entry work. You are also now able to start a zipForm® Plus transaction from within Wise Agent.</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-02-14T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Use These 3 Text Message Pickup Lines to Land Your Next Real Estate Appointment","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/use-these-3-text-message-pickup-lines-to-land-your-next-real-estate-appointment","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/UseThese3TextMessage.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"SMS-based lead generation offers its own set of benefits. Of course, it might not be the go-to method for some industries, but it’s very relevant for the real estate business.","content":["<span>SMS-based lead generation offers its own set of benefits. Of course, it might not be the go-to method for some industries, but it’s very relevant for the real estate business.</span>","<span>Now, there are a lot of strategies you can rely on to grab appointments through text messages, but one that’s often ignored is using the right “pickup line”. As strange as it might sound, there are certain lines that work better than others. Here are a few examples that you can use (or seek inspiration from).</span>","<span>Customers are busy and the best way to get their attention is by being considerate of this fact. So, instead of being in your face, send a text that starts with “Are you free? Would you like to talk about a listing” or “What time would you be free to meet or talk?”</span>"],"publishDate":"2018-01-25T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How to Choose a CRM for Your Real Estate Business","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-crm-for-your-real-estate-business","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/HowToChooseACRM.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The real estate industry is filled with businesses of all sizes. However, they all have a need that’s common – an effective CRM system. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are the need of the hour, irrespective of which industry you come under. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The real estate industry is filled with businesses of all sizes. However, they all have a need that’s common – an effective CRM system. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems are the need of the hour, irrespective of which industry you come under. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, with all the varying options on the market, how do you identify one that specifically meets your needs? Well, here are a few tips that will hopefully help you out. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there’s one thing you need to do before committing to anything is to determine what your exact needs are. This definitely applies to choosing a real estate CRM system. The question you need to be asking is “What do I need from my real estate CRM system?”. </span>"],"publishDate":"2018-01-11T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"3 Ways an All-in-one System Can Streamline Your Business","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/3-ways-an-all-in-one-system-can-streamline-your-business","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/3WaysAnAllInOne.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Are you juggling data between a CRM system and a transaction management system? You could be spending time focusing on growing sales and gaining new clients, rather than having to use two alternate systems to see a complete picture of your business. Having an all-in-one system can streamline your business and free up time for you to focus on the core business tasks that affect your bottom line.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you juggling data between a CRM system and a transaction management system? You could be spending time focusing on growing sales and gaining new clients, rather than having to use two alternate systems to see a complete picture of your business. Having an all-in-one system can streamline your business and free up time for you to focus on the core business tasks that affect your bottom line.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An all-in-one CRM will keep track of notes from phone calls and meetings and will also track client feedback and establish trends. This helps to eliminate time spent doing manual entries and research you need to improve your client or prospect response rates. Not only will you be able to track your transaction performance and your success with converting leads to clients, you will also be able to improve communication between your team members. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An all-in-one system will provide everything from detailed reports measuring your performance at every step of the sales cycle as well as marketing materials like newsletters and bulk emails.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-12-27T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Old School Lead Conversion Tips that Still Work in a Digital World","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-old-school-lead-conversion-tips-that-still-work-in-a-digital-world","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4OldSchoolLead.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The way people make purchasing decisions is continuing to evolve, so it’s vital that agents continue to re-evaluate their sales strategies. The key is to find the perfect balance between persuasion but not being overbearing or too “salesy.” Let’s take a look at four old school lead conversion tips that still work in a digital world.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The way people make purchasing decisions is continuing to evolve, so it’s vital that agents continue to re-evaluate their sales strategies. The key is to find the perfect balance between persuasion but not being overbearing or too “salesy.” Let’s take a look at four old school lead conversion tips that still work in a digital world.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the digital age, you can be whoever you want to be online. When it comes to selling real estate, be real and genuine in the sales process. It’s important to convey to clients that you value their business and not just earning a commission check. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming off too robotic or calculated may deter clients, but keep in mind it pays to be prepared. It is okay to gather info and have answers in mind for every question they ask, but just remember to let your client know you care about their best interest.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Email Marketing Truths to Boost Your Lead Conversion (And How to Do it)","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-email-marketing-truths-to-boost-your-lead-conversion-and-how-to-do-it","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4EmailMarketingTruths.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"When it comes to online marketing, aside from social media, email marketing is one of the most effective ways to boost lead conversion. With Wise Agent’s email marketing tools, creating effective emails has never been easier. First, let’s take a deeper look at four email marketing truths to boost your lead conversion and how to do it.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to online marketing, aside from social media, email marketing is one of the most effective ways to boost lead conversion. With Wise Agent’s email marketing tools, creating effective emails has never been easier. First, let’s take a deeper look at four email marketing truths to boost your lead conversion and how to do it.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first step to creating an email that boosts your lead conversion is to become an expert at collecting email addresses. There plenty of ways to go about this, but you need to make a concentrated effort on collecting emails or your marketing list will never materialize and become effective in generating leads. It’s vital that you make sure your website is setup to drive visitors to opt in to your emails. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make the call to action clear, bold and easy to sign up for on your blog. The CTA should be one of the most prominent things on your website. The email signup form should also have no more than three lines to fill out to complete the form.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-09-20T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Start Next Quarter Strong: 4 Ways to Fill Your Pipeline via Your CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/start-next-quarter-strong-4-ways-to-fill-your-pipeline-via-your-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/StartNextQuarter.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"As a real estate agent, your business depends on having a healthy list of clientele in order to boost sales and close more deals. Now you may be wondering, “What happens when the pipeline has dried up and it is a struggle to find leads?” This is an excellent opportunity to utilize all of the features your CRM has to offer to find new ways to build your list of real estate clients. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a real estate agent, your business depends on having a healthy list of clientele in order to boost sales and close more deals. Now you may be wondering, “What happens when the pipeline has dried up and it is a struggle to find leads?” This is an excellent opportunity to utilize all of the features your CRM has to offer to find new ways to build your list of real estate clients. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are three ways to fill your pipeline via your CRM so you can start the next quarter strong.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real estate is all about relationships, not only maintaining good relationships with current clients, but also utilizing those relationships to gain even more referrals. Clean up your CRM and potentially gain new clients by contacting clients you haven’t spoken with recently to catch up and also ask for referrals, while clearing out duplicate contacts and inaccurate information. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-09-06T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Components of Truly Exceptional Lead Nurturing","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-components-of-truly-exceptional-lead-nurturing","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4ComponentsOfTruly.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Wise Agent’s contact manager is the ideal automated system used for building relationships. The feature works for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and helps establish long-lasting relationships in the real estate industry. Whenever you have a new lead, you will no longer have to worry about carving out time to contact them in the event that you are busy.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wise Agent’s contact manager is the ideal automated system used for building relationships. The feature works for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and helps establish long-lasting relationships in the real estate industry. Whenever you have a new lead, you will no longer have to worry about carving out time to contact them in the event that you are busy.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These features will help you nurture leads:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Google Sync</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-08-23T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent Integrates with ConnectNow","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-integrates-with-curbcall-connect","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WAIntegratesWithConnectNow.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":" ","content":["<span><span> <strong>How to activate:</strong> </span>","<span><span><strong>Creating Email Branding with the ConnectNow “Call to Action” button:</strong> </span>","<span><strong>Download the App:</strong> In order for the integration to work, you must download the “ConnectNow” app from your mobile device app store. (compatible with both Apple and Android products). The app is how you will be notified of a viewing request when a potential buyer clicks on the call to action button within your email branding. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-08-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Get Better Open Rates with These 5 Subject Line Best Practices","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/get-better-open-rates-with-these-5-subject-line-best-practices","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/GetBetterOpenRates.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"A successful real estate email marketing campaign starts with an attention-grabbing subject line. That will entice your clients to open the email and read through your content. It’s no surprise that during the day your clients spend plenty of time checking and writing emails. Utilize this and gain more leads by using these five best practices for increasing real estate email open rates. ","content":["<span>A successful real estate email marketing campaign starts with an attention-grabbing subject line. That will entice your clients to open the email and read through your content. It’s no surprise that during the day your clients spend plenty of time checking and writing emails. Utilize this and gain more leads by using these five best practices for increasing real estate email open rates. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-07-26T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Online Lead Conversion Tricks We Can Learn from Entrepreneurs","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-online-lead-conversion-tricks-we-can-learn-from-entrepreneurs","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4OnlineLeadConversion.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Entrepreneurs risk it all for the sake of advancing and growing their businesses and ultimately making their dreams come true. For those who venture into the real estate business, utilizing online platforms to gain leads is crucial and something that every successful entrepreneur has mastered. Let’s take a look at four online lead conversion tricks we can learn from entrepreneurs.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entrepreneurs risk it all for the sake of advancing and growing their businesses and ultimately making their dreams come true. For those who venture into the real estate business, utilizing online platforms to gain leads is crucial and something that every successful entrepreneur has mastered. Let’s take a look at four online lead conversion tricks we can learn from entrepreneurs.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may not always be possible, but try to respond to any inquiries within at least 2 hours. If you are too busy to respond yourself, you may want to look at using a CRM to handle this for you. Through our partners, Wise Agent CRM</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can help you make up to 270 calls per hour and offers automated lead generation features to help you manage and maintain leads.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-07-12T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Strategies for Assigning Leads to Your Agents","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-strategies-for-assigning-leads-to-your-agents","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4StrategiesForAssigning.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Sales managers face the daunting dilemma every day of how to assign leads to agents. Every real estate brokerage needs to maximize the effectiveness of their sales teams by having the best person respond to fresh leads as fast as possible. There are plenty of ways to assign leads to agents, from manually emailing them to creating an algorithm to assign leads to the most compatible broker. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sales managers face the daunting dilemma every day of how to assign leads to agents. Every real estate brokerage needs to maximize the effectiveness of their sales teams by having the best person respond to fresh leads as fast as possible. There are plenty of ways to assign leads to agents, from manually emailing them to creating an algorithm to assign leads to the most compatible broker. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pros – There are no surprises with this method, since it is inherently fair. Everyone will receive the exact same amount of leads, and because the workload is shared evenly, response rates should be uniform and done in a timely manner.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cons – This method is easy, but it may not be the most effective lead assigning strategy. Round robin doesn’t take into account the availability, performance, or the specializations of each broker on the team. This method doesn’t optimize for conversion. Pushing leads evenly also eliminate competition between brokers, because everyone knows they will receive the same amount of leads as the other team members.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-06-14T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"5 Steps for Converting an Internet Lead to a Call to an Appointment","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-steps-for-converting-an-internet-lead-to-a-call-to-an-appointment","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/5StepsforConvertinganInternetLead.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The real estate industry is constantly evolving and more buyers and sellers are looking online to find exactly what they are looking for. It’s crucial for real estate agents to have the knowledge and skills it takes to turn Internet leads into phones calls and then into appointments. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The real estate industry is constantly evolving and more buyers and sellers are looking online to find exactly what they are looking for. It’s crucial for real estate agents to have the knowledge and skills it takes to turn Internet leads into phones calls and then into appointments. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are five steps for converting an Internet lead to a call and then to an appointment.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The faster you respond to an internet lead, the more likely you are to turn this lead into a phone call where you can discuss exactly what the prospect is looking for. Don’t make your Internet lead play the waiting game. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-05-22T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Reasons All New Real Estate Agents Should Invest in a CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-reasons-all-new-real-estate-agents-should-invest-in-a-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4ReasonsAllNew.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Starting out in the real estate industry can be overwhelming, with so much to take in and learn. To make sure you begin your successful career as a real estate agent in the best way possible, you’ll want to invest in a CRM to ensure that you are organized and spending time only on the things that are going to benefit your clients and your business. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting out in the real estate industry can be overwhelming, with so much to take in and learn. To make sure you begin your successful career as a real estate agent in the best way possible, you’ll want to invest in a CRM to ensure that you are organized and spending time only on the things that are going to benefit your clients and your business. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are four reasons all new real estate agents should invest in a CRM.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A smart real estate agent knows that you need multiple lead sources. A good CRM like Wise Agent will allow you put all of these sources in one central location. You can organize phone numbers, emails, addresses and notes from conversations in your CRM. Utilizing a CRM from the start of your real estate career will allow you to enter the industry organized and better prepared to manage leads to gain new clients. As you grow your client list, your CRM will also ensure that you don’t have duplicate entries or incorrect contact information.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-05-03T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"5 Out-of-the-Box Ways to Grow Your Real Estate Email Database","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-out-of-the-box-ways-to-grow-your-real-estate-email-database","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/5Out-Of-The-Box.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"One of the most important parts of a successful marketing campaign is gaining an engaging quality email list. While this is one of the most important aspects of marketing, it can also be one of the most difficult to accomplish. To help you become a successful marketer, let’s take a look at five out-of-the-box ways to grow your real estate email database.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most important parts of a successful marketing campaign is gaining an engaging quality email list. While this is one of the most important aspects of marketing, it can also be one of the most difficult to accomplish. To help you become a successful marketer, let’s take a look at five out-of-the-box ways to grow your real estate email database.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone who sees your emails are already on your email list, but consider adding a button to your weekly or monthly newsletters that encourage people to join your email list. That way, if anyone in your current email list shares your newsletter, there is an option to subscribe, ultimately gaining you more quality and engaging people on your email list. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also keep in mind that people may also share your newsletter on social media, encouraging an even wider audience to subscribe to your emails. This is another incentive to ensure that the content you are including in your newsletters is of quality and content your audience would find useful. Read more about how to create a real estate newsletter that gains leaders in <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/3-ways-real-estate-newsletters-can-increase-your-business\"> our blog</a>.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-03-16T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Are You Using the Wise Agent Mobile Web App Yet?","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/are-you-using-the-wise-agent-mobile-web-app-yet","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Wise%20Agent%20Mobile%20Web%20App%201200.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"As a Real Estate Agent on the move for the majority of the day, it is important to have your business connected to your phone at all times to make sure you don’t miss out on any potential leads. Luckily, Our Wise Agent mobile app has all the main features from the desktop version for a convenient and fast mobile web app. You will be able to have immediate access to every aspect of your business right from your phone. By using the app you are able to connect with your clients even when you are not in the office or in front of a desktop computer.","content":["<span>As a Real Estate Agent on the move for the majority of the day, it is important to have your business connected to your phone at all times to make sure you don’t miss out on any potential leads. Luckily, Our Wise Agent mobile app has all the main features from the desktop version for a convenient and fast mobile web app. You will be able to have immediate access to every aspect of your business right from your phone. By using the app you are able to connect with your clients even when you are not in the office or in front of a desktop computer.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"3 Proven Tactics for Converting Leads to Appointments Over the Phone","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/3-proven-tactics-for-converting-leads-to-appointments-over-the-phone","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/3ProvenTactics.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"As the real estate industry evolves and more buyers and sellers look online to find the answers they’re looking for, it’s now more important than ever to have the skills to turn leads into appointments over the phone. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the real estate industry evolves and more buyers and sellers look online to find the answers they’re looking for, it’s now more important than ever to have the skills to turn leads into appointments over the phone. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real estate agents are constantly running to open houses, meeting with clients and sifting through mounds of paperwork, so it isn’t realistic to expect to be able to answer every call, but you should respond in a timely manner. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The faster you can respond to a lead, the more likely you are to convert them into a client. Respect both your time and the prospect’s time by responding as soon as possible with prepared answers to any questions they may have sent you via email.</span>"],"publishDate":"2017-03-01T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Show You’re the Neighborhood Expert with These 4 Steps","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/show-youre-the-neighborhood-expert-with-these-4-steps","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ShowYoureTheNeighborhoodExpert.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Show your clients that you are the neighborhood expert with these 4 easy steps: ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Show your clients that you are the neighborhood expert with these 4 easy steps: </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Wise Agent, sending newsletters has never been easier. In less than two minutes you can create a newsletter your clients and prospects will enjoy. In your newsletter, highlight popular neighborhoods and include information on the school district, entertainment and transportation in the area to show that you are knowledgeable about the neighborhood. Include photos and details on homes listed in the neighborhood as well.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Offer your clients a market report to show them how the neighborhood is doing in terms of homes on the market, average sales price, and other statistics your clients will be interested in knowing. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-02-22T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent to Sponsor Fearless Kitty Rescue 5K Run/Walk","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-to-sponsor-fearless-kitty-rescue-5k-runwalk","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/fearlesskittyrescue.png\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 146px; float: left;\" />","description":"Here, at Wise Agent, we are focused on well-being of neighborhoods we live and work. ","content":["<span><img alt=\"\" src=\"/images/blog/fearlesskittyrescue.png\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 146px; float: left;\" />Here, at Wise Agent, we are focused on well-being of neighborhoods we live and work. </span>","<span> For the past 15 years we have been demonstrating our commitment to giving back by serving the needs of our communities. Whether it is a donation to a non-profit organization or sponsoring kids’ sports teams, and schools our philanthropic actions are simply part of the way we do business here. We believe our efforts make us a better business, however the true value is that it provides us with better communities. </span>","<span> Recently we have proudly contributed to Fearless Kitty Rescue (FKR), a non-profit organization, that is dedicated to saving the lives of abandoned and homeless cats, particularly those that are being kept in high-kill shelters with no appropriate care. The organization is 100% funded by donations and is operated by volunteers and since 2012 FKR has saved over 850 cats. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-02-16T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"5 Things New Agents Need to Get Up and Running in 2017","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-things-new-agents-need-to-get-up-and-running-in-2017","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/5ThingsNewAgentsNeedToGetUpandRunningin2017.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Let’s take a look at five things new agents need to get up and running for 2017.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s take a look at five things new agents need to get up and running for 2017.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We live in a digital age where everyone reverts to the Internet to find information they need. To start off strong, you need to get your website up, running and fully updated with all of the latest information to establish your digital presence. </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure that your website is professional and includes plenty of information that clients and prospects will need. You want to become a reliable source of information for anyone looking to buy or sell a home. A great tool to have on your website is a blog that offers tips and tricks for those in the market for a new home or selling their current home. </span>"],"publishDate":"2017-01-11T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"3 Easy Steps to Get Started with Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/3-easy-steps-to-get-started-with-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/3EasyStepstoGetStarted.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Then you’re ready to move on to cleaning up your database, creating Marketing Programs, and setting up Transaction Management Checklists! for personalized training!","content":["<span style=\"text-align: center;\">Then you’re ready to move on to cleaning up your database, creating Marketing Programs, and setting up Transaction Management Checklists! <a href=\"http://www.thewiseagent.com/contact.asp\">Contact Us</a> for personalized training!</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-11-14T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"The Ultimate “Clean Up Your CRM” Checklist","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/the-ultimate-clean-up-your-crm-checklist","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/TheUltimateCleanUpYourCRMChecklist.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Having a good approach to client relationships can completely alter the way you do business —and utilizing a good CRM is key to this success. But, if your contacts and notes are disorganized or out of date, it can negatively affect the way you move forward with current clients and prospective clients. ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a good approach to client relationships can completely alter the way you do business —and utilizing a good CRM is key to this success. But, if your contacts and notes are disorganized or out of date, it can negatively affect the way you move forward with current clients and prospective clients. </span>","<span>If you have several different real estate agents accessing the CRM system, you will want to streamline the record entry templates so that each agent knows where to record client information, transactions and opportunities without confusing others. It’s always a good idea to get everyone in the habit of entering the following:</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current budget</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-10-13T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"5 Ways to Find NEW Business in Your Existing CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/5-ways-to-find-new-business-in-your-existing-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/5WaysToFind.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"CRMs integrate your contacts with data from sources like social media, transaction logs, market statistics, and public records. They also provide access to real-time information on how customers are responding.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CRMs integrate your contacts with data from sources like social media, transaction logs, market statistics, and public records. They also provide access to real-time information on how customers are responding.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best way to earn a referral is through extraordinary customer service. Using a CRM during the listing and transaction process provides a very smooth customer experience. You are able to meet their needs efficiently and provide any and all information in short order. In this way, just making use of your CRM helps to generate more referrals, and thus create new business.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making connections is the specialty of the CRM. It can help identify relationships among your clients and partners that can produce referrals for you.</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-09-28T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"4 Real Estate Coaches Share How to Convert an Internet Lead via Phone","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/4-real-estate-coaches-share-how-to-convert-an-internet-lead-via-phone","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/4RealEstateCoachesShare%20.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The strategies you use to successfully convert leads are a big factor in your level of productivity. As we are able to find leads through an increasing number of channels, it can be challenging to identify the best ways to move toward conversion. Taking advantage of the opportunities that come via the Internet can require some new ways of thinking, and creative combinations of tools that you might not have tried before.","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The strategies you use to successfully convert leads are a big factor in your level of productivity. As we are able to find leads through an increasing number of channels, it can be challenging to identify the best ways to move toward conversion. Taking advantage of the opportunities that come via the Internet can require some new ways of thinking, and creative combinations of tools that you might not have tried before.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One traditional yet effective way to move an online inquiry into the pipeline is to make contact by phone. Following up is critical, and it’s amazing how frequently initial contacts are ignored.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">48% of buyer inquiries were NEVER responded to.</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"3 Tips for Managing Your Realtor.com and Zillow Leads","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/3-tips-for-managing-your-realtor-com-and-zillow-leads","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/3TipsForManaging.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Purchasing leads through listing portals like Realtor.com and Zillow is a great way to get your hands on some contact information ","content":["<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purchasing leads through listing portals like Realtor.com and Zillow is a great way to get your hands on some contact information </span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that might be useful. The thing to remember is that the information can only be useful if you can pull it up when you need it, and if you effectively nurture those leads to fruition.</span>","<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>"],"publishDate":"2016-09-07T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Convert more Leads with Wise Agent CRM and Mojo Dialer","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/convert-more-leads-with-wise-agent-crm-and-mojo-sales-dialer","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ConvertMoreLeadswithWAandMojoDialer.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Are you throwing away money on leads that you’re not working? The best way to get them to convert to clients is to talk to them - FAST.","content":["<span>Are you throwing away money on leads that you’re not working? The best way to get them to convert to clients is to talk to them - FAST.</span>","<span>Announcing Wise Agent’s integration with <a href=\"http://www.mojosells.com/\">Mojo Dialer</a>, a dialing system that can help you make up to 270 calls per hour.</span>","<span>You can push contacts from Wise Agent into the Dialer; make notes and follow-up reminders; as well as push contacts from Mojo to Wise Agent.</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-08-08T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Send Newsletters with Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/send-newsletters-with-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/real-estate-newsletters-01-300x240.png\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 240px; float: right;\" />","description":"Your and materials you can use to build relationships with your leads and clients.","content":["<span>Your <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/\">Wise Agent CRM</a> comes chock-full of <strong>marketing content</strong> and materials you can use to build relationships with your leads and clients.</span>","<span>Check out how quick and simple it is to email your newsletter, in this video tutorial:</span>","<span>Many of our members tell us that the newsletter <strong>ALONE</strong> is worth the monthly fee for Wise Agent, but we give you so much more! If you don’t already have a Wise Agent account, sign up below for free instant access.</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-06-30T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How to Buy and Sell a Real Estate Agent's Business","excerpt":"For anyone in the real estate industry, two of the most common questions are:\r\n\r\nHow do you create and grow your business?\r\nHow do you retire?","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-buy-and-sell-a-real-estate-agents-business","image":"<img alt=\"contact tree next to hand holding home with tag and red arrow pointing to tree\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/HowToBuyAndSellARealEstateAgentsBusiness.jpg\" />","description":"For anyone in the real estate industry, two of the most common questions are:","content":["<span>For anyone in the real estate industry, two of the most common questions are:</span>","<span>That's where Nick Krautter and the Golden Handoff come in. In the video below, Nick explains how to buy and sell a real estate agent's business. You'll need a great <a href=\"http://www.thewiseagent.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wise Agent CRM\">CRM</a> to be successful, and we've got you covered there.</span>","<span>Check it out:</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-03-23T00:00:00","terms":["Real Estate"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Consolidate your Contacts with Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"Consolidating your database is important. You want to make sure that you transfer all of your contacts into your new Wise Agent CRM. Therefore, we want you to have the smoothest setup possible, so it’s important that it gets done correctly the first time. Having all of your data together in one spot makes it easy to send out blasts emails or mass texts.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/consolidate-your-contacts-with-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"blue and black desktops contact management in wise agent\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ConsolidateYourContacts.jpg\" style=\"height: 400px; width: 800px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span><img alt=\"blue and black desktops contact management in wise agent\" src=\"/images/blog/ConsolidateYourContacts.jpg\" style=\"height: 400px; width: 800px;\" /></span>","<span>Consolidating your database is important. You want to make sure that you transfer all of your contacts into your new Wise Agent CRM. Therefore, we want you to have the smoothest setup possible, so it’s important that it gets done correctly the first time. Having all of your data together in one spot makes it easy to send out blasts emails or mass texts.</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-03-16T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Contact Management","Contact List"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Send SMS Text Messages Now with Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"Improving communication between real estate professionals and their clients is one of our specialties. That’s why we are very excited to announce that you can now send SMS text messages to your contacts right from your Wise Agent CRM!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/send-sms-text-messages-now-with-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"woman and man texting on phones with conversation bubbles\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WAB_WiseAgentText-02%20(1).jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 825px;\" />","description":"Improving communication between real estate professionals and their clients is one of our specialties. That’s why we are very excited to announce that you can now send SMS text messages to your contacts right from your! In today’s world, people open and view 100% of the text messages they receive. Think about it... How many emails have you left unopened? How many text messages are unopened? ","content":["<span>Improving communication between real estate professionals and their clients is one of our specialties. That’s why we are very excited to announce that you can now send SMS text messages to your contacts right from your<a href=\"http://www.wiseagent.com/\"> Wise Agent CRM</a>! In today’s world, people open and view 100% of the text messages they receive. Think about it... How many emails have you left unopened? How many text messages are unopened? </span>"],"publishDate":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","terms":["iPhone Sync","SMS text","Wise Agent","Leads","Marketing","Lead","Lead Management","Contact Management","Contact List","Automate"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Share your Contacts with Wise Agent’s “Send Vcard” Feature","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/share-your-contacts-with-wise-agents-send-vcard-feature","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/ShareYourContacts.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Your buyer just closed on their new house. Now, they have asked if you know a good contractor for some remodeling they are planning. Wise Agent makes it easy for you to send one contact’s information to another.","content":["<span>Your buyer just closed on their new house. Now, they have asked if you know a good contractor for some remodeling they are planning. <strong>You do!</strong> Wise Agent makes it easy for you to send one contact’s information to another.</span>","<span>You’ll also find the “send vcard” option under Actions on the mobile web app. Another example of how Wise Agent has been built on your suggestions! Keep ‘em coming - <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/contact.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact Wise Agent\">contact our support team</a> anytime!</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-02-17T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Your Buyers' Wants and Needs at your Fingertips","excerpt":"At Wise Agent, we love the feedback we receive from our users – we are always adding new things based on users’ requests! Along those lines, we have recently updated the functionality for Buyer’s agents. You can now add new buyer search criteria, and easily search your database to match your client with new listings. Choose the area/neighborhood, the square footage, the price range, and even the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/your-buyers-wants-and-needs-at-your-fingertips","image":"<img alt=\"people thinking of home features\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/YourBuyersWantsAndNeeds.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"You can now , and easily search your database to match your client with new listings. Choose the area/neighborhood, the square footage, the price range, and even the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.","content":["<span>You can now <strong>add new buyer search criteria</strong>, and easily search your database to match your client with new listings. Choose the area/neighborhood, the square footage, the price range, and even the number of bedrooms and bathrooms.</span>","<span>Let us know if you have any feedback on this or any part of Wise Agent! Our <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/contact.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact Wise Agent Customer Service\">amazing support team </a>is available 24/7 to help!</span>"],"publishDate":"2016-02-03T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Buyer Search Criteria"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent CRM - New Lead Enhancement Adds Immediate Value to Your Leads","excerpt":"Wise Agent is very excited to announce the release of our new lead enhancement system. Now as soon as your leads automatically drop into Wise Agent from any source, our lead system immediately scours the internet in search of any social media linked to the lead's primary email address.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-new-lead-enhancement-adds-immediate-value-to-your-leads","image":"<img alt=\"contact card with contact information email address social media\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/LeadEnhancementAdds.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span><img alt=\"contact card with contact information email address social media\" src=\"/images/blog/LeadEnhancementAdds.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2015-11-03T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Lead Management","Lead Enhancements"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Logins, Leads, and Attachments - Three More Updates","excerpt":"Wise Agent makes updates to the system almost daily; some are completely new features, while others are just small changes or additions. We like to keep our valued members in the loop about these updates, so here are three small enhancements that we have made recently!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/logins-leads-and-attachments-three-more-updates","image":"<img alt=\"Computer with password file and envelope on computer screen\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/LoginsLeadsAndAttachment3More.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"We know you have a ton of passwords to remember - we all do. Wise Agent has made that a little easier with this new feature. As long as you are also logged into Facebook, you can now hit the Login button and be directly logged in without entering your Wise Agent username and password!","content":["<span>We know you have a ton of passwords to remember - we all do. Wise Agent has made that a little easier with this new feature. As long as you are also logged into Facebook, you can now hit the Login button and be directly logged in without entering your Wise Agent username and password!</span>","<span>We have received a ton of feedback after the recent release of the <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/lead-management-made-simple-save-time\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lead Management Systems\">Lead Management Systems</a>.</span>","<span>So many of you have already taken advantage of the email parsing as well as customized the way you assign leads to your team members. One request we received was to add the ability to assign leads by day of the week.</span>"],"publishDate":"2015-09-04T00:00:00","terms":["Lead","Update","Facebook"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How Do You Keep Track of Referrals? Introducing Wise Agent's Referral Tree","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-do-you-keep-track-of-referrals-introducing-wise-agents-referral-tree","image":"<img alt=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/images/referralTree_owl.png\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Track%20Your%20Referrals.png\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 10px; width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"We all agree that referrals are an extremely important part of our business. Some say referrals are the lifeblood when it comes to being successful in any kind of sales.","content":["<span>We all agree that referrals are an extremely important part of our business. Some say referrals are the lifeblood when it comes to being successful in any kind of sales.</span>","<span>Referrals are the <strong>most cost-effective way to get new leads</strong> and maximize your percentage rate closed.</span>","<span>With referrals being so important, it is also important to make sure you have a good system in place to track, nurture, and build relationships with those referrals.</span>"],"publishDate":"2015-07-21T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How to Add Leads and Contacts to Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"A large part of sales today is receiving and handling leads. There are many ways you may come across leads, from generating them organically on your website to paying for a service that supplies you with leads to work on. Wherever the contacts come from, the next step is usually to get them into your CRM. Wise Agent offers six different methods to add your contacts and leads to your database, with some methods being better than others.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-to-add-leads-and-contacts-to-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"Blue and yellow houses on blue and yellow square background\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/AddLeadsAndContactsToWACRM.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Contacts can be added manually by selecting "add contact" from the “Contacts” drop-down menu.","content":["<span>Contacts can be added manually by selecting "add contact" from the “Contacts” drop-down menu.</span>","<span>This, too, is a manual way to do it. You can put your leads into a CSV file and then import that file into most CRM’s. Wise Agent allows you to import more information than several other CRM’s as we include categories, birthdays, anniversaries, spouse and child names, and notes.</span>","<span>Wise Agent can sync your contacts to and from Google contacts.</span>"],"publishDate":"2015-06-16T00:00:00","terms":["Lead","How to"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Gmail Conversations Now in Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"Your CRM should foster seamless access to your channels of communication between you and your clients. For our Gmail users, our Google Conversations feature will allow you to view and save your email conversations right from your Contact Summary pages in Wise Agent!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/gmail-conversations-now-in-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"circle made out of arrows between gmail and wise agent logos\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/GMailAndWiseAgent.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"","content":["<span><img alt=\"circle made out of arrows between gmail and wise agent logos\" src=\"/images/blog/GMailAndWiseAgent.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" /></span>","<span>Your CRM should foster seamless access to your channels of communication between you and your clients. For our Gmail users, our Google Conversations feature will allow you to view and save your email conversations right from your Contact Summary pages in <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/\">Wise Agent</a>!</span>"],"publishDate":"2015-06-02T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Email","Gmail"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"How Does Wise Agent CRM Email Work?","excerpt":"Wise Agent continues to push email inside a CRM to new levels. Today, over one million emails are sent through Wise Agent each month. With all the new regulations on email, this can be a very tricky task to pull off without being blacklisted. We are constantly innovating new ways to ensure that our members can keep in touch with their database and have designed several tools to make this happen.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/how-does-wise-agent-crm-email-work","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/HowDoesWAEmailWork.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"With all the new regulations on email, this can be a very tricky task to pull off without being blacklisted.","content":["<span>With all the new regulations on email, this can be a very tricky task to pull off without being blacklisted.</span>","<span>We are constantly innovating new ways to ensure that our members can keep in touch with their database and have designed several tools to make this happen.</span>","<span>When you upload a list of contacts, add an individual contact, or when a lead is auto populated into Wise Agent from another source, the emails are scrubbed to ensure that they are valid email addresses.</span>"],"publishDate":"2015-04-21T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Email","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Repeating Emails","Gmail","Automate"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Easy Video Emails with BombBomb and Wise Agent CRM","excerpt":"We’re excited to announce our partnership with another awesome tool to add to your arsenal - BombBomb! Video emails are a great way to build relationships and will really set you apart.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/easy-video-emails-with-bombbomb-and-wise-agent-crm","image":"<img alt=\"orange video play button on animated laptop for video text message and email\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WAAndBombBomb.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"We’re excited to announce our partnership with .","content":["<span>We’re excited to announce our partnership with <strong>another awesome tool</strong> to add to your arsenal - <a href=\"http://www.bombbomb.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bomb Bomb Video Emails\">BombBomb</a>! Video emails are a great way to build relationships and will really <strong>set you apart</strong>.</span>","<span>With our new partner BombBomb, you can easily create and send personalized video emails and texts to individuals or groups from right inside your Wise Agent account.</span>","<span>Now you’re ready to start recording and sending your very own videos to your clients! Here’s a tutorial on the different ways you can do this within Wise Agent.</span>"],"publishDate":"2014-10-30T00:00:00","terms":["SMS text","Leads","Email","Marketing","Lead","Lead Management","Drip Campaigns","Repeating Emails","Integrations"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent CRM Very Proud to Announce Zillow Integration","excerpt":"We are very excited to announce that phase one of our integration with Zillow is now live!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-very-proud-to-announce-zillow-integration","image":"<img alt=\"three people funneling into money\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WiseAgentandZillow.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"This is one integration that our members have requested almost daily. We are very excited to announce that phase one of our that Zillow has partnered with through their new Tech Connect Program. Now, the leads you are receiving from Zillow will automatically populate in your Wise Agent account. ","content":["<span>This is one integration that our members have requested almost daily. We are very excited to announce that phase one of our <strong>integration with Zillow is now live!</strong> As featured in the Wall Street Journal, Wise Agent is <strong>one of only nine companies</strong> that Zillow has partnered with through their new Tech Connect Program. Now, the leads you are receiving from Zillow will automatically populate in your Wise Agent account. </span>","<span>If you are not yet receiving leads from Zillow, you may click here to get started quickly and easily:</span>","<span><span> <a href=\"https://premieragent.zillow.com/re/contact-us-sales/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=zaw_br_branded_nat!c73dhg33&utm_term=Branded_Premier_Agent_Zillow_Exact-zillow%20premier%20agent-e_kwd-365771804117_c_g&utm_content=336140369490_9029984__adpos1t1_%7C_k_CjwKCAjw-OHkBRBkEiwAoOZql1lYvPtow43N4vi5JkqDQ4hrKF-uraqRucrCO77TXkHKrkfT2zmPbxoCDA4QAvD_BwE_k_\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zillow Premier Agent Information\">Get More Leads - become a Zillow Premier Agent</a> If you already have a Zillow account, here’s how to link it to your Wise Agent: </span>"],"publishDate":"2014-03-11T00:00:00","terms":["Partner Integrations","Zillow","Leads","Lead"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Sync your CRM with your phone - Wise Agent is integrated with Google","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/sync-your-crm-with-your-phone-wise-agent-is-integrated-with-google","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/SyncYourCRMwithYourPhone%20.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"The real estate industry is one that is always on-the-go. Therefore, it’s no surprise that this question comes up daily – How can I have my Wise Agent contacts and calendar on my phone?","content":["<span>The real estate industry is one that is always on-the-go. Therefore, it’s no surprise that this question comes up daily – How can I have my Wise Agent contacts and calendar on my phone?</span>","<span>Wise Agent has the solution! We have integrated with Google, allowing you to automatically sync your Wise Agent contacts and calendar items to Google and then to your mobile phone, and vice versa. The synchronization is set up to mirror your contacts and calendar in all three places and there are no additional fees.</span>","<span>As a general rule, if you’re just getting started and you think you might want to sync, <strong>it is best to set up the sync prior to importing contacts from other sources</strong>.</span>"],"publishDate":"2013-10-01T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent CRM Call List Feature","excerpt":"The leaders in each marketplace know this, and have a solid system in place to ensure they make those critical calls to their clients, prospects, and leads. If you are one of the many that does not have such a system - we have your solution. Wise Agent understands how important making those calls are. That's why, when you login to your virtual office each day, the first thing you will see is the Call List at the top of the your screen.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-crm-call-list-feature","image":"<img alt=\"woman talking on cell phone at desk with laptop and wise agents call list\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/callistblogimage-01.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\" />","description":"The leaders in each marketplace know this, and have a solid system in place to ensure they make those critical calls to their clients, prospects, and leads. If you are one of the many that does not have such a system - we have your solution.","content":["<span>The leaders in each marketplace know this, and have a solid system in place to ensure they make those critical calls to their clients, prospects, and leads. If you are one of the many that does not have such a system - we have your solution.</span>","<span>Wise Agent understands how important making those calls are. That's why, when you login to <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/\" title=\"Wise Agent\">your virtual office</a> each day, the first thing you will see is the Call List at the top of the your screen. Within the call list, you will see the contacts name, the scheduled date of the call, and a phone icon. Make sure to <strong>set aside time each day</strong> to make your calls!</span>","<span>When you’re ready to make the call, simply click that phone icon to the right of the person’s name. This will bring you to their Contact Notes page, which is <strong>loaded with all the information you need</strong> in front of you.</span>"],"publishDate":"2013-09-05T00:00:00","terms":["Wise Agent","Leads","Lead","Contact Management","Contact Summary Page","Contact List","Call List","Automate"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"How Many Left-Handed Realtors Are There?","excerpt":"How many left-handed Realtors are there? We’re not sure either but we figure some of those left-handed Realtors are using Wise Agent.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/lefty-friendly-mobile","image":"<img alt=\"Magnifying glass over wise agent crm logo next to note pad with scribbles under red hand print\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/HowManyLeftHandedRealtorsAreThere.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"On a recent trip to Inman Connect in San Francisco the Wise Agent developers walked through a store on pier 39 called that only carried products for left-handed individuals.","content":["<span>On a recent trip to Inman Connect in San Francisco the Wise Agent developers walked through a store on pier 39 called <a href=\"http://www.leftyslefthanded.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lefty's San Francisco\">“Lefty’s”</a> that only carried products for left-handed individuals.</span>","<span>That was all it took to inspire Wise Agent developers to be thoughtful of the lefty’s when developing the Wise Agent <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/blog/are-you-using-the-wise-agent-mobile-web-app-yet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wise Agent Mobile\">mobile web app</a>.</span>","<span>This very well may be the <strong>first app in the <em>world</em> to add a setting just for lefties</strong>. That shouldn’t surprise you if you have been with Wise Agent long; you know we are always thinking outside of the box.</span>"],"publishDate":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","terms":["How to"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Capture Your Audience With Wise Agent’s New Lead Capture Form Wizard","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/capture-your-audience-with-wise-agents-new-lead-capture-form-wizard","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/CaptureYourAudienceWithWANewLeadCapture.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Did you know that you can save time and eliminate delays by connecting your account to your website?","content":["<span>Did you know that you can save time and eliminate delays by connecting your <a href=\"https://www.thewiseagent.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"WiseAgent\">Wise Agent</a> account to your website?</span>","<span>With our <strong>Lead Capture Form Tool</strong>, you can create custom contact forms for your website, allowing <strong>new leads to automatically add</strong> to your contact list.</span>","<span>They can be added to the call list, a certain category, or even a drip email campaign.</span>"],"publishDate":"2013-03-29T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Supercharge Your Email Marketing on Wise Agent with MailChimp!","excerpt":"Do you ever wonder who’s opened your emails? With Wise Agent’s MailChimp integration, that’s just one of the things you’re now able to do.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/analyze-your-email-effectiveness-and-so-much-more","image":"<img alt=\"wise agent integrated with mailchimp yellow and black\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/WiseAgentWithMailChimp.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"This integration brings to you the great analytical tools included with a account, right within your Wise Agent. You can still send bulk emails from Wise Agent without it, but here are some options that are now available should you choose to utilize this feature:","content":["<span>This integration brings to you the great analytical tools included with a <a href=\"http://mailchimp.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mail Chimp\">MailChimp</a> account, right within your Wise Agent. You can still send bulk emails from Wise Agent without it, but here are some options that are now available should you choose to utilize this feature:</span>","<span>Setup is easy – just follow the steps below. You only have to complete the setup process once, and if you have any trouble, you can always <a href=\"http://wiseagent.com/contact.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact Wise Agent\">reach out to our support team</a> for help with the process.</span>","<span>You’re now ready to create your email “campaigns” and track your email analytics! This useful tool is <strong>completely free</strong> for a database of up to 2,000 email addresses, as long as you plan to send less than 12,000 emails a month.</span>"],"publishDate":"2013-03-27T00:00:00","terms":["Email","Email","Marketing","Marketing","Mail Chimp","Mail Chimp"]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"Wise Agent Is Now Integrated With Landvoice","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-is-now-integrated-with-landvoice","image":"<img alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51907 aligncenter\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Integrated-with-Landvoice.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"New leads will appear on your Call List, and in your Client List under special categories - LandvoiceCanceled, LandvoiceExpired, and LandvoiceFSBO. ","content":["<span>New <a href=\"https://www.landvoice.com/wiseagent\">Landvoice</a> leads will appear on your Call List, and in your Client List under special categories - LandvoiceCanceled, LandvoiceExpired, and LandvoiceFSBO. </span>","<span><strong>LandvoiceExpired</strong> has a basic and Pro version that provides you with anywhere from 60%-95% of phone numbers for expired listing leads, including cell phones. Their built-in management tool will help you sort, manage, search, tag, and much more. It will help mange your expired leads more efficiently. </span>","<span><strong>LandvoiceFSBO</strong> searches approximately 2,000 sources to find every FSBO lead possible. It allows you to see all the FSBO leads from the last 6 months. They also have leads delivered via email each day for immediate access to property and contact information. </span>"],"publishDate":"2013-02-12T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Track your Properties and Lock Boxes Too","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/track-your-properties-and-lock-boxes-too","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Track-Your-Properties-and-Lock-Boxes.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"With , and the headache, and always have what you need at your fingertips.","content":["<span>With <a href=\"http://www.wiseagent.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Transaction Management\"><strong>Wise Agent</strong></a> you can <strong>get rid of all the paper</strong>, and the headache, and always have what you need at your fingertips.</span>","<span>Begin by adding the Property to your Property List - adding Properties in Wise Agent is easy. Simply go to the Properties tab and click on the “Add Property” link. At a glance you can enter all the most important information including the address.</span>","<span>Click on “Show Property Details” and you can add more detailed specs and other information. Remember to save your work before leaving the page!<img alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52073\" src=\"/images/blog/trackyourproperties.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 445px;\" /></span>"],"publishDate":"2012-03-23T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent is integrated with Listings-to-Leads","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wise-agent-is-integrated-with-listings-to-leads","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Listings-To-Leads.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"Listings-to-Leads lets brokers and agents post fully branded ads for listings with links to the tools and information at your website on Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, RealTown and ActiveRain with a 1-click post tool securely.","content":["<span>Listings-to-Leads lets brokers and agents post fully branded ads for listings with links to the tools and information at your website on Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, RealTown and ActiveRain with a 1-click post tool securely.</span>"],"publishDate":"2011-12-02T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Wise Agent","title":"FAQ: Can I embed my personal images and flyers into the body of an email?","excerpt":"Embedding your flyers or images so they appear in the body of an email is easy with Wise Agent.","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/faq-can-i-embed-my-personal-images-and-flyers-into-the-body-of-an-email","image":"<img alt=\"sending emails\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Can-i-embed-my-personal-images-and-flyers-into-the-body-of-an-email(1).jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 600px;\" />","description":"First, make sure that your image or flyer is saved to your computer, and is in jpg format. If your flyer is in another format, such a PDF, you will first need to convert it to a jpg.","content":["<span>First, make sure that your image or flyer is saved to your computer, and is in jpg format. If your flyer is in another format, such a PDF, you will first need to convert it to a jpg.</span>","<span>You can do this with a photo editing program, such as Photoshop or Publisher. If you don’t have a photo editing program, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! You can email your image or flyer to help@wiseagent.com and we will gladly convert it for you.</span>","<span>Now that you have your jpg saved in the proper format, the next step is to <strong>upload it</strong>.</span>"],"publishDate":"2011-07-29T00:00:00","terms":["FAQ","Wise Agent","Email","Lead Management","How to","Drip Campaigns","Automated Emails","Property Flyers"]},{"author":"Amy","title":"FAQ: How do I transfer my database to Wise Agent?","excerpt":"","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/faq-how-do-i-transfer-my-database-to-wise-agent","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-28%20at%2012_30_57%20PM.png\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 602px;\" />","description":"Once logged into your account, put your mouse over the . Look on the left side of the page – is your current program listed there?","content":["<span>Once logged into your account, put your mouse over the <strong>Contacts </strong>button and click on <strong>Import/Export</strong>. Look on the left side of the page – is your current program listed there?</span>","<span>If you have any trouble during the process shown, or if your program is not listed on the Import/Export page, click the <a href=\"https://wiseagent.com/contact-us.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contact Wise Agent\">Contact Us</a> button (located on the Help menu drop-down). Our 24/7 support team will be happy to assist you.</span>","<span>Lastly, if your contacts are in a CSV or Excel file, just email that file to <a href=\"mailto:help@wiseagent.com\">help@wiseagent.com</a> and we’ll take care of formatting and importing it for you.</span>"],"publishDate":"2011-07-22T00:00:00","terms":[]},{"author":"Amy","title":"Wise Agent Text Alerts and Email Reminders","excerpt":"Did you know that you can set up reminders in Wise Agent for your appointments? Never miss another important appointment again! You can have reminders sent to your email or as a text message to your phone, or both!","url":"https://zipcrm.thewiseagent.com/blog/wiseagent-text-alerts-and-email-reminders","image":"<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://wiseagent.com/images/blog/AdobeStock_121768137.jpeg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 400px;\" />","description":"Did you know that you can set up reminders in Wise Agent for your appointments? Never miss another important appointment again! You can have reminders sent to your email or as a text message to your phone, or both! ","content":["<span>Did you know that you can set up reminders in Wise Agent for your appointments? Never miss another important appointment again! You can have reminders sent to your email or as a text message to your phone, or both! </span>"],"publishDate":"2011-06-09T00:00:00","terms":[]}]