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RBI – Real Estate Business Intelligence Launches

MRIS and RBI are pleased to announce the launch of the data analytics company, RealEstate Business Intelligence, and its new website, www.rbintel.com.  RBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of MRIS, the nation’s largest MLS provider to agents and brokers. Agents, brokers, appraisers and other real estate professionals can now receive the most reliable housing market data in the Mid-Atlantic region via www.rbintel.com - empowering them to make more educated decisions for their clients. RBI provides an in-depth understanding of real estate activity at the regional, county and local levels in the Mid-Atlantic housing market that has not previously been available. Based upon data [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:05-07:00June 17th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on RBI – Real Estate Business Intelligence Launches
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Is an MLS Like a bank?

I have been rather absorbed with the problems with Intuit the past couple of days.  They went down tuesday night and we had to switch our payment processing over to paypal during the outage.  Thankfully, we had a backup plan. Our back up plan gets simulated monthly across all systems.  Thankfully it worked when it needed to, but not without the full on efforts of the development team. I was able to sit down with David Charon of Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS) last week.  I am not sure how it came up, but he mentioned that his MLS system produces around [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:05-07:00June 17th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Is an MLS Like a bank?
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Intuit does social networking wrong

We gave the “love” to Quickbooks in our last post, now we will slam them in this post - they have it all wrong when it comes to social networking.  In our little real estate industry, we find companies like RPR, Trulia, Zillow and many others have full time social networking people who are managing real engagement on blogs, social networks and twitter.  However, there are many companies who are taking the approach of what J.D. Salinger’s famous Holden Caulfield called Phony. You see, Intuit is facing a major outage today - their massive number of websites and e-commerce solutions went dark [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:05-07:00June 16th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Intuit does social networking wrong
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A web services lesson from Quickbooks

When it comes to web services, Quickbooks gets it.  They understand that the work begins after the sale, not leading up to it. I recently had the opportunity to attend the RIS Media conference.  There was a room full of vendors barking about the promised land that would be achieved magically through the adoption of thier products - generate more leads, track this, engage consumers this way, reduce costs here.  In preparation for my panel address to the audience, I asked each booth to talk to me about thier support and training services.  What happens after the sale? The responses [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:05-07:00June 16th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on A web services lesson from Quickbooks
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MLS System Branding- Take credit for your most valuable tool

MLS organizations many times suffer from branding confusion. When they are a division of the association, for example, yet they have their own identity members don’t know the name of the MLS entity. When regional MLSs deliver their services through local associations their brand recognition gets even more muddied. Here’s one area where there may be an opportunity to deliver a more clearly-branded service to build the strength of the MLS organization’s brand - the MLS system. WAV Group conducts member satisfaction research all over North America.  When we ask members what MLS organization they belong to they will often [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:05-07:00June 16th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on MLS System Branding- Take credit for your most valuable tool
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CoreLogic Launches Partner InfoNet

CoreLogic made it official today with the launch of their  Partner InfoNet program.  The program allows participating MLSs to share revenue that results from its inclusion in various risk management products.   Press Release SANTA ANA, Calif., June 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – CoreLogic (NYSE:CLGX - News), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today officially launched the Partner InfoNet, a special program for sharing revenue with multiple listing service (MLS) organizations. Through the program, an MLS licenses its listing data for use in a variety of new risk management products for mortgage lenders, servicers and the capital markets. Until [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 14th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on CoreLogic Launches Partner InfoNet
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Just too funny not to share!

John Mosey, one of the funniest MLS executives out there shared this list with me and I thought you might enjoy it. While words on this list have been touted as winners of the “Washington Post Mensa Invitational". From what I can gather it appears as though the “invitational” may be, in fact urban legend, but the words are really funny nonetheless.   This list has been floating around it appears since 2005, but they still seem pretty topical. “Here are the winners of this year’s Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 9th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Just too funny not to share!
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Edutizing with Market Statistics Proves it has staying power

WAV Group strongly believes that the best way to attract consumers is to provide them with valuable information to help position an agent as a local expert.  We believe that advertising is dead and “edutizing” is replacing it.  According to Socialnomics, 78% of people rely on research and referrals to make product decisions, while only 14% trust advertising as an information source.  It appears as though the market, at least in California agrees. Real Estate Business Services Inc. (REBS) today announced that two real estate associations, Ventura County and Victor Valley both renewed their agreements to provide robust market statistics [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 8th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Edutizing with Market Statistics Proves it has staying power
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Divorce and Real Estate

WAV Group performs volumes of research for MLSs and Associations each year.  As part of collecting subscriber and member surveys, we also collect basic demographic data - Male or Female, Age, etc.  Much of this demographic information allows us to associate general age group trends of American demographics and apply them to our understanding of the culture within an MLS or Association.  We have never asked marital status, but I wonder what role that plays in understanding the mindset of today’s REALTOR. One of the research instutitions that we value for information is Pew Research Center.  Today they released a [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 8th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Divorce and Real Estate
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New Jersey MLSs step up data sharing

I caught this on the Real Town blog today.  It was published by Thomas Wissel, Information Technology,  Toms River,  NJ   Jersey Shore MLS, Middlesex County MLS and Trend MLS are now using the MarketLinx Data Co Op to efficiently share listings between 3 different MLS platforms. This may be “old hat” to other MLS operators in the country, but NJ has been rooted in the past by forcing agents to subscribe to multiple services. There are 9 MLS services that cover the state and right now only 3 have fully embraced the notion of making it easy on the users by [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 4th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on New Jersey MLSs step up data sharing
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Update SentriLock(TM) card with your Blackberry(TM)

This is a nice video to share with your members/subscribers if you offer Sentrilock in your marketplace. REALTORS® on the SentriLock system can now complete full SentriCard® renewals on the go, anytime and anywhere their busy day takes them, by using any BlackBerry phone* and BlackBerry SmartCard Reader. System users can purchase a BlackBerry SmartCard Reader V2 directly from SentriLock for $199. The SentriLock BlackBerry Card Utility Program is free. Please fill out the form below to order a BlackBerry SmartCard Reader.WAV Group has long suggested that the Blackberry phones are the best choice of smart phones for the professional [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:06-07:00June 3rd, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Main category|Comments Off on Update SentriLock(TM) card with your Blackberry(TM)
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John Heithaus to lead Marketing at MRIS

06/01/2010– Press Release On June 1, John L. Heithaus joins MRIS as chief marketing officer. Bringing more than 30 years of real estate and executive experience, Mr. Heithaus will lead all marketing efforts for MRIS and be responsible for marketing operations, product management, partnership marketing and customer relations. He will also lead MRIS media and industry relations, advertising, interactive programs, communications and market and customer research. Prior to joining MRIS, Mr. Heithaus served as senior vice president of sales, marketing and REALTOR®alliances at SentriLock. He also served as senior vice president of partner and product development at Prudential Real Estate, [...]

By |2010-06-01T18:50:24-07:00June 1st, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on John Heithaus to lead Marketing at MRIS
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