I work as a finance consultant in Nairobi Kenya.I seek to meet many members in bigger pockets forum to learn more and build contacts.Am working on bringing in Automated Valuation Modeling through my business consultancy whereby I shall be doing statistical valuations and offering this service to real estate investors.I look forward to relating with you all.

The amount of time to take the pictures, organize the pictures so you know what address they correlate to and to automate the mail merge process may not be worth it.  

Another thing they become so automated and their business become illusive.  

I think I cracked the algorithm for a real live automated appraisal like Zillow and those other monkeys have been trying to do..

Automating follow up tasks so you have no excuse not to be getting back to people and making the mandatory amount of touches needed to get the listing/close the deal, and having someone hold you accountable.Being reachable/quick to respond (you or an assistant) at all times so you maximize all opportunities.Pick one method of marketing and do it, research it, learn it, dominate it, (whether its offline or online), find who is good at it and do what they do, so you always can depend on yourself for at least one method of new business.Check your fear meter.

For example, how are you incorporating Google, Facebook, YouTube, Virtual Assistants to drive automation, landing pages, etc?

Hi BP,I am setting up an automated SMS marketing campaign to follow up with my seller leads.

CloudCMA is a good comps system for agent use and I would presume it could work for projecting ARVs to a degree (however, this is one of the hardest things to automate in the process, so it may require some finagling and creativity on the back end).Cost for Costar .  . . for listing properties? 

Having a local, reliable cleaning and maintenance crew can definitely make or break a vacation rental for homeowners self-managing remotely, and home automation tools are basically necessary for anyone looking to manage from afar.

Good afternoon Takeshia,Some people use automated services to field phone calls- search BP for more info on this.