When I first started to use Gmail as my main email provider, I was saddened to learn that I could not put my signature below every email I sent out. My email signature is used to provide my contact information to recipients, and also as a constant reminder for referrals. Having my email at the bottom of all messages was not the way I wanted my emails structured, so I migrated over to using Outlook. Greasemonkey has brought me back to using Gmail.
I’m surprised when touring many new, experienced, and veteran real estate agent offices just how rudimentary and out-dated their email systems are. I think it’s necessary to shed a little light on just how nice Gmail is for real estate agents, and how using it can improve your day-to-day business.
First off, let me explain that just because your email may be johndoe@kw.com doesn’t mean that by using gmail you lose your email address. Gmail is advanced in the aspect that you can send emails from any account that you can verify ownership of using gmail’s software backend. What does this mean? You can log in to gmail and send emails as if they were coming from johndoe@kw.com.
As a real estate agent, I can attest to one FANTASTIC feature of gmail. Searching for lost emails is by far the easiest I’ve ever experienced. I don’t know why other email providers haven’t gotten it right just yet, but gmail sure has. Simply enter in a search and gmail will find emails using your search phrase in a split second. Can’t find that email from the title company you sent last week but you remember the topic in the email? Easy; enter the topic in the search field of gmail and voila! Out populates emails that use that phrase somewhere in the email.
If you have some spare time in your busy real estate schedules, take some time and familiarize yourself with what gmail can do for your stress levels. Head over to gmail.com and create a new account and play around with it a bit. I can almost guarantee that you’ll love it.
By the way, how does 2+ Gigabytes of storage sound? This is another gmail feature, and it’s growing every day.
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