Trying to Stay Ahead? Consider a High-speed, Compact Scanner!

Guest contributor Veneeta Eason says:

The "agent of the future" will be more successful being as efficient as possible and staying ahead of time consuming processes.  Closing on real estate is paper intensive and can slow you down. Scanning documents allows you to get documents to banks, other REALTORS®, respond to clients, get and stay organized and put an end to office clutter.  All of which helps you save time and money, and stay ahead your day.

How can you get ahead? Some REALTORS® utilize their office or home for scanning.  But in today's world of REOs and the increasingly heavy document load that contracts, appraisals and other transaction paperwork places on agents, scanning multi-page documents page-by-page eats up a lot of your time.

Have you ever had to fax a contract to the bank, only to have it rejected because the image quality was so poor?  Worse yet, you try to scan with your All-in-One, realize that the process is going too slowly and then end up driving to the office to use a high-speed scanner?  It’s not the best use of your time.

An answer to getting and staying ahead is an easy-to-use, compact desktop scanner.  This technology solution is increasingly important to real estate agents.  There are several products on the market, but one of the leading compact, full-featured scanners is the affordable Kodak ScanMate i1120 Scanner.

The Kodak ScanMate model has an automatic document feeder for quick scanning.  You can place up to 50 sheets in the feeder and they’ll be scanned in sequence for you.  The scanner handles 20 pages per minute, which makes fast work of your contract files.  And you can even add more sheets to the feeder while scanning is in progress.

This compact scanner won’t take up much room on your home office desktop, and eliminates the need to make extra trips to use the scanner at the real estate office or pay to use the mega-machines at the office copy store.

The ScanMate Scanner’s Smart Touch feature lets you store up to nine custom scanning operations for “press one button, it does the rest” ease of use.  You can scan to email, to a printer, to a file folder or to popular Web mail programs such as Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL Mail.  Scan and send closing documents to the title company.  Scan and send signed contracts to your client’s attorney.  Scan just about anything – from a business card to documents as long as 34 inches.

Even when your documents are hard to read, Kodak’s built-in Perfect Page image processing can make scanned images look even better than the originals.

A dedicated scanner can be the difference-maker for you as a real estate professional. It can enable your goal of a paperless office and deliver speed and efficiency benefits like these:

1. Save Time – scanning, sending and sharing information all happens quickly and productively
2. Get Organized – de-clutter your work space, free up your filing cabinets, eliminate lost documents
3. Save Money – lower your storage costs and concentrate on what's important – building business rather than managing paperwork

This post was written by Veneeta Eason, Director, Worldwide Marketing Manager – Real Estate for Kodak.

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