Although I am not directly involved with real estate selling, I was able to work with several real estate agents in the company where I’m currently working.

I was lucky enough to be able to work in a Property Management company here in Fort Bonifacio Global City, Philippines. The company manages several Commercial Centers and Hotels in Metro Manila, Cebu City and Davao City. They are also engaged in Leasing and Brokerage, selling prime real estate properties, house and lot and condominiums around Metro Manila and other parts of the Country.

When I was hired by the company, I was expecting to be assigned in their main office, but instead I was assigned in one of their projects. I found out later on that the reason why I was assigned on that project is because, aside from my main job, I will also serve as technical support and a tutor to some of the in-house real estate agents.

I was really surprised to find out that most of the in-house agents of that project are not too familiar with the Internet yet. Some of them do not even know how to send emails to their client. When a client asks for pictures of the model units, I’m the one doing it for them since they don’t even know how to attach files or pictures in their emails.

For several weeks, I have observed that a lot of clients are asking for some information about the project to be sent to their emails, and for more than a month, I was able to help some of the in-house agents make their task a lot easier.

With those experiences, I realized that internet knowledge is really a must for real estate agents. I even remember this one lady agent who doesn’t know how to create an email account since I’m the one who create one for her, but later on became one of the top sellers.

So if you are planning to be a real estate agent, be familiar with the internet.

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