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Top 6 Ways to Make Your Sales Team the Best “Athletes” They Can Be

What’s the key to being the BEST at what you do?    Natural talent helps, but the different between a good athlete and a GREAT athlete is a CONSISTENT discipline.   Olympic athletes train EVERY day, usually 2 or 3 times MORE than their peers.  They do whatever it takes to get a competitive edge and they do it REGULARLY.  Michael Phelps, 28 time Gold medalist is credited with training harder than any of his peers – 365 days per year for 6 years including holidays, weekends and even after swimming meets.

By |2018-08-04T18:23:25-07:00July 16th, 2018|Main category|Comments Off on Top 6 Ways to Make Your Sales Team the Best “Athletes” They Can Be

Homesnap Delivers One Million Free Leads for Agents

Homesnap, the industry-endorsed national home search platform, today announced that it has sent over one million free leads to listing and buyers agents. These leads are shared by Homesnap to help real estate agents build their brand and connect with potential clients.

By |2018-08-04T18:46:06-07:00July 10th, 2018|Main category|2 Comments

No Image, No Active Listing – PERIOD!

In this day and age, it is ridiculous to be on a property site and see active listings with no images included. If we want to give sellers the marketing exposure their property deserves and buyers the shopping experience they require, then it’s time to get us past this problem once and for all!

By |2018-08-04T18:42:09-07:00July 2nd, 2018|Main category|5 Comments

Broker Public Portal is the #2 MLS Consumer-Facing Website!

The Broker Public Portal with Homesnap continues to take the industry by storm.  The strategy to pool the listings and resources of MLSs across the country is working! In just over a year after the BPP/Homesnap partnership was announced, there are now 145 MLSs representing 875,000 agents on one marketing platform featuring over 90 million properties, generating thousands of FREE leads every day for agents.  

By |2018-06-25T15:30:10-07:00June 25th, 2018|Main category|1 Comment

Looking For A Great Opportunity In An Even Better Location?

Wow, this is a really fun one!  How would you like to run a real estate association and MLS in one of the prettiest ski towns in America, Park City, Utah?

By |2018-06-25T15:00:44-07:00June 25th, 2018|Main category|Comments Off on Looking For A Great Opportunity In An Even Better Location?

eXp Realty Founder Glenn Sanford Named a Glassdoor Top CEO in 2018

Congratulations to our friends at eXp REALTY for achieving yet another important milestone. In addition to doubling the size of their agent count in less than 1 year, they have been able to do it while keeping their employees very happy - not an easy thing to do! What’s the their secret?   Here’s the secret sauce from where I sit. 1. Unique business model that focuses the money where it should be - in the hands of those creating value for the company - the agents 2.  Consistent training and coaching because of centralized management support 3.  Passion - [...]

By |2018-08-20T07:22:25-07:00June 20th, 2018|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on eXp Realty Founder Glenn Sanford Named a Glassdoor Top CEO in 2018

5 Key Takeaways in Preparation for the FTC/DOJ Workshop

When Daniel Castro from the Internet Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) took the stage at Inman in New York on January, we all thought he was going to provide an academic view of our industry and provide us with some food for thought. What we didn’t know was that he was going to tell us how the consumer needs Open Data because we have somehow been holding back on them.   We also didn’t know at the time that the ITIF had been promoting Zillow for many years.  Castro published an articles on the Federal Government’s Economic and Statistics Administration website featuring a promotional video from Zillow in 2015 entitled “Open Data Impact:  How Zillow Uses Open Data to Level the Playing Field for Consumers.”

By |2018-06-05T00:48:04-07:00June 5th, 2018|Broker Public Portal, Main category|4 Comments

RESO Is Lighting Up $1 Billion In Savings For The Real Estate Industry

Homes.com recently put RESO Standards to the test.  What is the real business value of RESO Data Standards?  A new Homes.com Case Study shed some serious light on the subject.  They have proven that moving to standardized data and the RESO Web API is saving them thousands of dollars in development time, allowing them to redeploy that energy to more innovative endeavors. We hear often that “nobody” is asking to leverage RESO data standards in local MLS data feeds yet.  This exciting news is going to change that.

By |2018-04-16T09:15:44-07:00April 16th, 2018|Main category|Comments Off on RESO Is Lighting Up $1 Billion In Savings For The Real Estate Industry

Are You Passionate About Building Software That is Built for the Way Agents Really Work?

Are you passionate about building software that is easy to use and provides really powerful information to help real estate professionals prospect more effectively and provide better information to their clients? Do you wake up at night thinking about ways to help REALTORS® be more successful?   Do you LOVE to find new ways to display real estate data to make it more actionable? Do you believe your experience has uniquely prepared you to understand the practical workflows of agents and the REAL informational needs that agents will actually USE? If so, we have a really exciting position to tell you about!

By |2018-03-13T10:32:37-07:00March 13th, 2018|Recruiting|1 Comment

Why do so Many Brokers Think TECHNOLOGY is the Way to WIN?

It seems like every week we’re hearing about a new announcement from a large brokerage or franchise telling us they are spending millions on technology and re-positioning their brand story around their technology suite.

A Winning Formula to Increase MLS Technology Adoption

The Miami Association of REALTORS® (MIAMI) and Multiple Listing Service supports 46,000 primary subscribers and more than 4000 out of area secondary subscribers. Miami have an insatiable curiosity to identify and launch products that will help their brokers, teams, and agents be more successful.

By |2018-03-01T16:34:17-08:00March 1st, 2018|Main category|Comments Off on A Winning Formula to Increase MLS Technology Adoption