You know that summer tends to be the busiest time of year in the real estate industry; once the kids get out of school, families have more time to go house hunting. While this is great for business, the increased workload can be overwhelming and make it difficult to maintain a productive workflow. The key…

It’s no secret – as your own business you have to spend money to make money. So you spend money on marketing to gain business and close transactions to collect commissions, right? While this makes perfect sense and there are plenty of ways to spend money on marketing, you might be wasting your money if…

The new year is officially here, so you’ve probably already set your ‘new year, new me’ resolutions. But if you’re anything like the rest of us, those new habits typically don’t make it past February. So this year, instead of coming up with resolutions, let’s kick the new year off with intentions to shift our…

We’ve already covered the basics of how to take great real estate pictures on your own. But what’s the next step after you take a great picture? Well, there’s a little program which I’m sure you’ve heard of called Photoshop. It can be an incredibly useful tool. There’s also a very similar alternative called Pixelmator…

A good photographer is always in touch with the latest innovations, trends, and equipment in the market, not to mention, constantly improving their technique. This especially rings true for DIY real estate photographers. Now that you know what equipment to use and the basic rules of photography, here are some great websites (in no particular…