I love testing out new services and products that can greatly improve my productivity. Even better when I find one that can be integrated into Podio allowing me to manage more things in one spot. I found one of those recently called smrtPhone. Communicating with leads and keeping track of each touch is always a challenge. I mean you can send an email, call someone on the phone, text them, leave them a ringless voicemail or even send regular snail …
Cheating with ProcFu
If you have read any of my previous articles you know that I love me some Podio API. However it is not something that your average Podio user can take advantage of. Not even your advanced Podio users for that matter. The reason being is that it can only be leveraged by using other programming languages such as PHP and Ruby-on-Rails. That is what I thought until I stumbled across a tool, created by the same person who developed GlobiFlow, called ProcFu! What …
Easily Backup App Data to MySQL Database
This will probably be one of the more challenging articles I have written. The difficulty will be in guiding people through the different technologies in order to get this immensely useful functionality implemented for us Podio users. Being able to backup and access your Podio data for reporting, exporting and searching is invaluable. These things are very difficult to do in Podio as your workspaces get more complicated with Apps linking to each other all over the place. Plus the …
Podio: Preventing Duplicate Property Leads
One issue that does not really have a perfect solution is preventing duplicate leads in an app. I run into this problem on occasion with leads that come from my websites. Also from time to time from leads lists that I import. In this article I’ll go over the possible solutions and the problems each one has. Just Match the AddressThe concept of keeping duplicate leads out of your Podio App is simple one. Any property with the same address as a …
Podio Thoughts After 3 Years
I have been using Podio for the better part of 3 years now. Not only have I setup Apps and Globiflow automations to help my real estate business, I’ve even developed a full blown lead management tool using the Podio API called REIFLOW. It has been a great learning experience getting to know everything Podio has to offer. The Crazy part is that there are still features of Podio that I have yet to touch. That just shows you how …