Client Relationship Building: 5 Easy Habits That Make Selling Easier
A client rings on a Tuesday about a flat she saw in February. Her name shows on the screen and nothing else. By the time you place her, she has…
Call notes and CRM alternatives for solo agents
I sell real estate for a living and I built Business Dialer because I kept answering calls from clients whose names I recognised and whose details I could not remember. Everything here comes out of that problem.
These posts look at what solo agents actually need from a CRM, what the free and cheap options really give you, and how to keep client context somewhere you can reach it in the ten seconds before you say hello. No vendor wrote them, and I tell you where I am biased.
The Psychology of Remembering: Why Recall Builds Trust on a Call
In 1995, three researchers ran an experiment in a shop. A salesperson greeted customers who had visited before. With some of them, the salesperson remembered their name out loud. For…
How to Record Phone Calls on Android
You are mid-call. The other person starts reading out an address, and you reach for the record button. On plenty of Android phones there isn't one, which is why how…
Company Name on the Incoming Call Screen: Why Android Hides It
On 22 May 2015 somebody opened a feature request with Google, asking for the company name on the incoming call screen. The title was plain: show the "Company" and "Title"…
Follow Up Boss Pricing: What a Solo Agent Actually Pays
The first number on Follow Up Boss's pricing page is $58. It sits in large type under the word Grow, and it is accurate. But the switch above it is…
Call Notes on Android: Four Things With One Name, Compared
Search Google for call notes and the first thing you get is three videos. All three are about a Pixel feature. Two of them are, more or less, called how…
Phone Call Notes, What to Write and Where to Keep Them
Someone posted in a remote work group last year asking for help. She makes sixty calls a day, eight hours at a stretch, and she wanted tips on writing down…
Call Notes Pro Alternative: What Happened and What to Use Now
A year ago somebody opened a thread on r/AndroidQuestions with a title that reads like a small eulogy. Call Notes Pro is no longer supported, he wrote, and asked what…
Samsung Call Notes Replacement, what works today
In August 2022 somebody posted on the Samsung Community forum asking a simple question. He had watched a video about the new One UI 5 features. One of them was…
Free CRM for Real Estate Agents: The One You Already Own
Every free-CRM list for agents is written by a CRM vendor, and one of the top results still recommends a product that shut down in 2025. Here is what free actually costs, and how to run 360 clients on Google Contacts instead.