Apto Commercial Real Estate Blog

Finding and building relationships with tenants can take a lot of time, and with periods where you feel like you haven’t accomplished anything. Brokers from all generations know the importance of making a good impression on the first call and then keeping momentum through every subsequent interaction.

In talking to brokers, we’ve seen the many ways in which they piece together the contact, company, and lease information needed to make a good connection when they get on the phone. It usually involves 5-15 tabs on one computer screen and a good amount of prep time before the call.

If this sounds familiar, then you’re going to like what we say next: You don’t need to work this way anymore.

Who doesn’t wish they had a few more hours in their day? Commercial real estate brokers in particular are always on the move and multitasking between a number of urgent tasks.

What better way to be more productive than to look to the technology we already use a hundred times a day—our cellphones! Here are seven apps brokers can download right now to gain more hours in their day.

SRS National Net Lease Group in Newport Beach recently jumped on with Apto, and already it's resulted in more calls, more deals, and more efficiency overall. 

Watch the video or go ahead and start a conversation about how Apto can help your business

When you structure your day right, everything seems to flow more easily—from the hours to the deals. But get cluttered up with pointless emails, meetings, and other time sucks, and suddenly the day has gone by and you’ve got nothing to show for it.

Being in this business means figuring out how to structure your day for the most productivity—from how you schedule meetings to how you handle emails. Here's how 5 high-performing brokers do it.

Who has time to read books these days?

Well, the most successful leaders in technology, business, and media for starters.

Did you know Mark Cuban spends three hours a day reading? Or, that Bill Gates reads roughly 50 books per year?

Sure, they could be spending that time sailing around on yachts, taking meetings, attending events or however else it is billionaires spend their time, but instead, they carve out a chunk of every day for learning new things through books.

So, what’s stopping you?

Whether you call it outsourcing, vendor management, or strategic partnerships, commercial real estate brokers are increasingly working with third-party companies to maximize value.

It’s not hard to see why.

Outsourcing the right tasks saves money and lets you spend more time on relationships and deals. It can also boost efficiencies by letting you hand off tasks you aren’t an expert in, such as technology and marketing, to specialists who can do the job for you.

So from getting rid of pesky administrative work to integrating the best technologies in the industry, consider outsourcing tasks in these three areas.

Getting a deal done in commercial real estate is a long and often complex process. Fortunately, automation is starting to improve communication and reduce friction for managing various elements of the deal.

Let’s take a look at four ways automation is helping change the commercial real estate game in 2018 and beyond.

The first quarter of 2018 is over. We hope you’re currently working deals, but it’s important to keep up any momentum you have when it comes to prospecting. Before you know it, Q2 will be over, and then summer will be over, and you’ll be scrambling to close those last deals of the year.

Make sure you’re working to keep your pipeline full--you’ll be glad you did whenever the season slows down. Let’s look at a few ways to stack your pipeline to keep it moving all year.

When you’re evaluating a new CRE technology for your business, you probably have a few specific things you’re looking to accomplish. Maybe you want a better workflow for prospecting and following up, or perhaps you just want task prioritization and management.

Whatever it is, Apto can help. Get a personalized look at our tools by selecting what you’re looking for.

Maggie Ham is a senior project manager at Apto. She has helped brokerages of all different sizes find success with our technology. We sat down with her to learn what makes an Apto customer successful, and what practices can ultimately sabotage a technology roll-out.

Maggie focuses on CRM, and it’s important to note that this needs to be set up right to take advantage of our prospecting and mapping tools. It’s your data, and it needs to be organized so you’ll take action on it! Here’s how to get set up for success.