As any real estate professional knows, you can’t get a proper impression of a property from static pictures. Technology innovator Matterport has developed a 3-d camera designed specifically to create tours of homes for real estate agents. Their proprietary technology took three years to develop, and is a really exciting way to increase a buyer’s exposure to a property before they even set foot inside the door. In this video, Paul Grasshoff from Matterport describes the technology and shows off one of the tours produced using this product.

The end of the year is the best time to evaluate your various systems and procedures, and make any changes needed to improve efficiency in the new year. Record-keeping, particularly when it comes to tax-related documentation, is one way in which small businesspeople, like real estate professionals, are always looking for ways to improve efficiency and accuracy. One tool for doing this is deductr, another of the vendors we interviewed at the California Association of Realtors Expo. They provide a web and mobile-based service for tracking expenses, deductions, and even mileage! As with our other interviews, our goal is to bring you information about ways to make your business better. This is not a paid advertisement for the product, nor is it an explicit endorsement of one product over another – it’s just an interesting conversation with someone whose services might come in handy for making your business run better.