Hello there, February! Seems like I was just ringing in the New Year, and already Spring is right around the corner. It's certainly a wake-up call for those of us who can be prone to procrastination. You may see the rest of the year stretching in front of you and feel like you have infinite time to achieve your goals. The truth, however, is that time will fly by.

So, are you ready to sprint? There are some ways to achieve a brisker pace for doing business. By streamlining your workflow and improving your efficiency, these tech tools can free you up to sell more real estate and keep that swift pace moving. Here are a few ideas to get you going:

1) Electronic Signatures

If you're driving around town, it should be because you're showing properties and meeting with clients to take on new listings—not gathering signatures on real estate documents. With electronic signatures, the process is infinitely swifter and requires zero legwork on your part.

As Jeremy Lehman, a real estate professional in Southern California, explains in his video on DocuSign.com, "At the Boutique Real Estate Group, our agents are in the field all day, every day. I mean, we're rarely in the office, so we really take advantage of mobile technology to get our jobs done wherever we are." He continues, "After using Cartavi [document management] and DocuSign together, it has really streamlined the process of working with all the other parties involved in a real estate transaction. The benefits to using DocuSign in our business are the fact that we don't have to meet with our customers to sign documents when it's not necessary. We can simply email documents to our clients and they can open them up and click to sign."