How much do you spend on all your tools/softwares to help you do your job effectively and are they working the way you want them too?
For those CEO's/Founders of commercial real estate businesses, have you ever added up all the software/tool subscriptions you pay to help manage your team and work? Is everything you're using actually useful and doing what you want it to do?
[{"id": "ivfv60y", "text": "Too much \ud83e\udd23", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iviogur", "text": "LandGlide: $100 per year\nSalesforce: $4k per year\nCostar: covered by firm (otherwise $12k)\nCrexi premium: $2,400 per year\nFeedly: $100/year\nVirtual assistant: $100-$200 per week", "replies": [{"id": "ivjjb7x", "text": "What do you use the VA for if you don\u2019t mind my asking? And at what point did you decide it was worthwhile to do so?", "replies": [{"id": "ivjm1kw", "text": "The VA does various tasks. Primarily, it\u2019s re-searching owners of properties in my database. However, I will also have them doing light website management, pulling lead lists, aggregating news articles, etc. Basically anything that I could offload to somebody else for less than $50 per hour they do. It\u2019s a huge productivity hack", "replies": [{"id": "ivk731g", "text": "It's a huge productivity hack for sure!  In Tim Ferris' book 4 hr work week, he highlights the benefits of it.  When you can leave the menial work to others, you can focus on the bigger, more important tasks!", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "ivk7g3m", "text": "Are you facing any challenges with the softwares you use?  Have you ever thought about your own custom software?", "replies": [{"id": "ivl7miv", "text": "I would love to but don\u2019t have the resources", "replies": [{"id": "ivshdiu", "text": "do you mind elaborating on What challenges you are facing with the tools you are using now? your stack seems to be pretty thorough, im just joining a family office so would love some industry knowledge before i join", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]