Haiku Deck for Real Estate
Here’s a trend: Across the country, innovative, tech-savvy agents and brokers are turning to Haiku Deck for real estate marketing inspiration. The mobile-first approach, focus on beautiful imagery, and speed with which standout presentations can be created seem to be an ideal fit with on-the-go, time-crunched real estate pros.
Real Estate Pros Talk Haiku Deck – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
We’ve seen creative real estate pros using Haiku Deck to land listings, market properties, demonstrate how they’re different, and build thought leadership (and business) — this resource list will help you work Haiku Deck into your own tech toolkit.
Step 1: Get Haiku Deck
- Haiku Deck for iPad and iPad mini: You can download the free app here.
- Other platforms: Click GET HAIKU DECK in the top right corner of this page. Add your email and the platform you’d like to request, and you’ll be among the first to try our Web App.
Step 2: Create a Haiku Deck Account
You can sign in with email, Facebook, or Twitter. Be sure to make a note of how you sign in, because you’ll need to sign in to the website the same way.
Step 3: Get to Know Haiku Deck
Here’s a quick video intro to Haiku Deck:
Meet Haiku Deck from Haiku Deck on Vimeo.
Ideas:
- For inspiration, tap GALLERY to browse some popular and featured decks
- Tap the + sign at the bottom to create a new deck
- Try using the built-in keyword image search and using your own images (you can take them with the iPad camera, select from your camera roll, or import from Instagram, Dropbox, and other sources)
- Try choosing a new theme to change the look of your deck
- Try creating a pie chart or bar graph
- Create a deck to introduce yourself
- Create a list of favorite places or things to do in your neighborhood
- Create a deck to capture your philosophy about real estate
- Create a deck to present data about your market
Step 4: Explore More Features and Get Inspired
Tutorials and Beginning Resources
- 10 Tips to Transform Your Presentations (Haiku Deck illustrating our core philosophy of simple, beautiful, and fun)
- Haiku Deck Tutorial: Getting Started (Basic navigation and settings)
- Edit Mode Tutorial (Creating and working with slides)
- More Tutorials and Videos (Pinterest board)
- Haiku Deck Support page (For fast, personalized help – really!)
Photos and Visuals
Just type a few words, find a matching (free) Creative Commons licensed photo, and apply stylish formatting with a couple of taps. The app pulls in photo attribution automatically, which is a huge time saver. You can also create a beautiful chart or graph or import your own blog photos from Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, and other services.
- Import Images to Haiku Deck Like a Pro (How to use images from your camera roll, photo stream, and online services like Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more)
- Free Photos for All: How Haiku Deck Puts Creative Commons Images at Your Fingertips (About the built-in keyword image search, which taps into millions of Creative Commons images with automatic attribution)
- Premium Images from Getty Images, Now in Haiku Deck (Seamless, affordable, in-app licensing from the world leader in premium stock photography)
- Presentation Inspiration: 3 Power Tips for Selecting Images (Tips for effective visual storytelling)
- Presentation Templates with Pizzazz (An overview of Haiku Deck’s stylish, professionally designed free and premium themes, each with integrated fonts, image filters, and color palettes)
- Charts and Graphs Made Easy with Haiku Deck (How to create simple, beautiful pie charts, bar charts, and stat charts right in Haiku Deck with intuitive touch controls)
- Charts and Graphs Pinterest board (Examples of colorful and creative Haiku Deck pie charts, bar charts, and stat charts)
Resources for Real Estate Pros
- Real Estate Case Studies Pinterest Board (examples of Haiku Decks created by real estate pros on a wide range of topics)
- Haiku Deck iPad App Helps Realtor Win $1.4M Listing (writeup by Chris Smith on Inman News) and How a Colorado Realtor Used Haiku Deck to Land a $1.4M Listing (case study and guest Q&A with John James of Coldwell Banker)
- Haiku Deck for Real Estate Pros (more great case studies from the Haiku Deck blog)
- Haiku Deck for Realtors (video review by Andrea Sutten of Ready Real Estate)
- Episode 66 Agent Caffeine (Agent Caffeine podcast featuring Haiku Deck’s Adam Tratt and AGBeat’s Lani Rosales)
- Rethinking the Pitch: Top Tips for Real Estate Professionals (5 real estate tips straight from Haiku Deck’s Adam Tratt on Realty Times)
Training and Templates
- Listing Presentations: Five Ways to Renovate Yours (created for InmanNews webinar)
- Presentation Boot Camp Recap (overview and links to all resources for a series of three webinars we did for TruliaPro)
- 3 Keys to Presentations that Wow (created for TruliaPro webinar)
- 12 Ways to Transform Your Real Estate Marketing (created for TruliaPro webinar)
- Taking Presentations to the Next Level (created for TruliaPro webinar)
- 5 Strategies for Renovating Your Listing Presentation (created for TruliaPro webinar)
Power Resources
- Turn Presentations into Content Assets with Public Notes (Add supporting detail, context, and helpful links to accompany your deck in web view)
- How to Enrich Conferences and Events with Haiku Deck (Inspiring examples of how to use Haiku Deck to promote events, capture ideas, and share reflections at events large and small)
- Haiku Deck SEO Checklist (How to maximize the SEO value of your Haiku Deck)
- 23 Ways to Share Your Haiku Deck (How to present a Haiku Deck live or tweet it, post it, email it, pin it, and embed it)
Step 5: Join our Community and Build your Network
- Follow Haiku Deck on Twitter
- Connect with Haiku Deck Real Estate Gurus @1stduderiding and @asutten, and industry experts (and Haiku Deck fans) @lauramonroe, @katielance, @meg_inman, @debra11 on Twitter
- Join our Google+ community
- Find us on Facebook
If you have more questions about Haiku Deck or need additional materials, we’re always here to help! Just leave us a note in the comments.