HBM is actually a really good system for contact capture and conversion. I have been using it as a loan officer for 2 years and convinced my wife to become a Realtor because the system is so "no brainer" it hurts.

I do not work for HBM, but I can contribute a great deal of my success to their system and philosophies.

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Chris Roberts
Sr. Loan Officer
817-329 LOAN (5626) x 227

Top Producer is a piece of buggy junk. They know it---they want you to "upgrade" to 7, for $30 a month. It will work on XP, I have it installed on my wife's pc. I just think it isn't that great a program. ACT has a module specifically for real estate. Several people I know also use plaxo combined with outlook express.



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I've been using Outlook 2003 in conjunction with Plaxo and it definitly is very handy especially for keeping all your contacts in sync between your desktop - internet - laptop all very easily. Not to mention that it is free, it also has the calendar, tasks, and notes functions from Outlook. Supposedly they will be releasing some "business" applications in the future, I can't wait. There seems to be a pretty handy plugin for Outlook called AgentOutlook that I am currently trying and it is around $149 or so...

-J

I'm curious - if you could design your own system, what functionality would you like it to have?

Would you like it to maintain your client lists easily?

Would you like it to be able to 'communicate' with your email software and make a note whenever you contact a client?

Would you like it to be capable of sending drip email in text or HTML? (and run reports on success, bounces, etc.)

I'd love to get a feel for what types of functions you're missing in current vendor products.

Thanks in advance!


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This is a hot little program

I like AgentOffice from FNIS. Reliable product.

Scott can this integrate with Outlook and can it work with active Sync?

I'm looking for Agent software where you can enter all their contact info along with all their Birthdays and Kids Birthdays as well as anniversaries! Any suggestions?

Please try Contacts Clinic a plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002(XP), 2003. You can Auto update outdated Outlook contact, Remove duplicate outlook contact, Import and Export Outlook Contact, Extract Email Ids from Outlook mails and folders, Extract email addresses for Internet Explorer IE pages. Contacts Clinic is secure and no 3rd party data handling.

Contact Clinic is the best Microsoft Outlook Contact Management Software in the market.

Try it http://www.srimax.com/contactsclinic

Thanks....Is there a cost involved?

Keller Williams just approved http://www.symplifi.com/ as an affiliated lead management and tracking tool. A least one top agent from the Millionaire Real Estate Agent book uses it to grow his business. I've been using HomeFollowup.com for sending HTML emails and to help keep track of my contracts. I'll see how well it works out. The only thing that I don't like about either is that they only really work well on a PC, so Mac users should beware.

We have a KW version of TopProducer, but I really don't like it as much. It has a lot of capabilities, but I've found that it has bugs that make it not work properly on PC. I paid extra fro the Top Connector option, but it doesn't seem to sometimes pull the latest MLS listings. You can't use it for Mac at all, but either way, I may cancel my subscription to them.

Hello. We are interested in buying a system that does contact management and drip marketing. I would like to only pay a yearly fee, NOT a monthly fee. I want it to be web based, as we access it from all over. We have our own website, and would like it to integrate somehow with the leads we generate from the website.

Any suggestions?