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Looking for a job in real estate? Go to Vendor Alley!

Looking for a job in real estate?  Vendor Alley has just announced a great new tool for real estate technology companies, associations, MLSs and others to post their job openings. Becuase of Vendor Alley's "candor" and "calling it like they see it" tone, it attracts a broad and diverse audience of readers.  The blog often becomes the topic of conversations at conferences because it often says what everyone wants to say, but won't. We just posted a job for the EVP position for the Orlando Regional REALTOR AssociationMLS.  Go and check it - who knows you might find a new [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00March 4th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Looking for a job in real estate? Go to Vendor Alley!

Middle Aged women dominate mobile social networking

Press Release from Neilson:  Women and people between 35 and 54 are most apt to perform social networking activities via mobile device, according to data from The Nielsen Company.  Since Women are a core audience for REAL Estate Marketing, it would seem that social mobile networking would be a good strategy for agents and brokers today. Mobile Social Networking Gender Gap A clear gender gap exists in social networking activity on mobile devices. In December 2009, Nielsen research indicates that women were responsible for 55% of mobile social networking activity, compared to 45% performed by men.   Forty-five percent of all mobile [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00March 3rd, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Main category|Comments Off on Middle Aged women dominate mobile social networking

Its not about the MLS system

MLS of Choice has been with us for a while now, but has not created any landscape changes in the MLS industry. WAV Group has had the opportunity to observe the behavior of agents in two divergent situations in California.  CARETS and CalREDD. Hypothesis:  Agents don’t care about the MLS system.  They care about selling homes, the service they get from their MLS, and the relationships they have with the organizations offering them services. Case 1 - CARETS Data Share - 100,000 agents in the Los Angles and points south now can freely choose from a variety of REALTOR Associations [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00March 3rd, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Its not about the MLS system

Mike Barnet joins Property Panorama

Press Release:   Property Panorama announced the appointment of Mike Barnett as the companys Chief Information Officer. Property Panorama provides its world leading suite of online marketing tools and products to over 200,000 Realtors in more than 45 MLSs across the U.S. and Canada. Property Panoramas easy to use solutions empower Realtors with unlimited Virtual Tours, Video Tours, PodCAST Tours, and MobileMedia Cell Phone Tours at unbelievably low prices. Property Panorama owes its rapid ascension to the top of the Virtual Tour industry not only to unparalleled innovative technologies, but also to its strong leadership. Now with the addition of Mike [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00March 1st, 2010|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Mike Barnet joins Property Panorama

Lookout Facebook, here come the Boomers

If you are running an MLS, REALTOR Association, or real estate brokerage, you need to begin to read the Inside Facebook Blog.  It will allow you to keep up with trends so that you can consider your company’s Facebook strategy moving forward. Today, the average Facebook user is 26.  But that is rapidly changing and moving in the direction of the core audience for Real Estate.  According to Inside Facebook, the fastest growing user group is women over 55 (up 175% since Q4 of 2009).    Of course, where the women go, the men will thankfully follow:-)  The second fastest [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00March 1st, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Lookout Facebook, here come the Boomers

Disneyland and MLS

A few weeks ago we took an RE Technology staff member to Disneyland for her birthday.  She is in her 30s and had never been.  We all had a blast, even in the cold and the rain. As a consultant and entrepreneur, I take note of excellence.  Everything we touched and everywhere we went, and everybody we encountered from Disney was excellent.  The trip to Disneyland was as much about learning how to provide awesome service as it was about celebrating a team member’s birthday.  I am sure that there are a thousand books about doing business the “Disney Way,” [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:13-07:00February 28th, 2010|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Disneyland and MLS

Facebook use by MLS

WAV Group has worked with many of the Nation's MLSs to develop their social media strategy.  I tend to follow a bunch of REALTOR Association and MLS fan pages to see examples of using social media to stay connected to members/subscribers (lets call them customers).  Now I celebrate whenever I see an MLS or Association using Facebook correctly. In general, the principal business component of a social media strategy is to publish information that connects with customers and redirects them to information that enhances the provider-supplier relationship.  The principal social component is to listen to your customers to better understand [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 25th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Facebook use by MLS

Palm may face obsolesce

WAV Group has been following the story of Palm Inc, the makers of the most popular handset among real estate professionals.  Palm raised private equity last year from a group led by U2 singer Bono in an effort to launch their competitor to the iPhone, Google Android, and the popular Blackberry devices that have taken significant market share away from the smartphone handset pioneer.  If you are considering a mobile phone today and a new two year contract, choosing a Palm may be a mistake. Palm rolled out its new Pre and Pixi phones in an attempt to regain lost [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 25th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Palm may face obsolesce

Who will tie the data together in the MLS world?

If you have worked in the MLS world as long as I have you know how many moving parts there are in terms of technology to run the organization effectively.  With the creation of RETS, the so called “standard", the use of multiple modules to provide services has increased even more.  What has been obvious to me for many years looking at the industry’s technology, however, is that no one has done a good job of pulling all of the important data points together for the MLSs so they can run their organizations more effectively. Today, MLS systems do a [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 24th, 2010|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Company, Twitter for Real Estate, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off on Who will tie the data together in the MLS world?

A possible real estate mapping feature for MLS.

A new clue emerged today about the future of real estate mapping. The University of Washington and Cornell University are working together to build mathematical models that will use photos to dynamically build three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially entire cities.  The name for this project is called PhotoCity. PhotoCity is a process whereby multiple two-dimensional photos are combined to generate mathematical scale to buildings.  Microsoft has commercialized this process with a product they call Photosynth.  Microsoft has failed in scaling their Photosynth service to cover any significant geographic region. PhotoCity has a plan that may be prime for [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 23rd, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on A possible real estate mapping feature for MLS.

Is your team working hard or just burning out?

Ellie Mirman from Ellie Mirman.com posted a great article about the rules for maximizing productivity of work teams.  I think there are some great lessons to be learned from a presentation from a blog called The Chief Happiness Officer. Working more than 40 hours leads to decreased productivity. You can get a short-term boost by working more hours, but the team will require a recovery period that counteracts the seeming short-term productivity boost.  Working on Sundays and evenings can be helpful in the short-term to provide support to a potential client, but the team will required to recover from long hours can [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 18th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Is your team working hard or just burning out?

Attention Mobile Application Developers – AT&T is here to help

AT&T announced a new program today to encourage better collaboration for building new generation mobile and wired broadband application. There could be interesting opportunities for the real estate industry to become part of building and deploying leading edge mobile technologies for real estate consumers. AT&T Announces Plans to Open Innovation Centers to Spur Development of New-Generation Mobile and Wired Broadband Applications, Devices Facilities to Support AT&T LTE Trials and Testing Beginning Later this Year AT&T Inc.* today announced plans to establish AT&T Innovation Centers to drive development of next-generation devices, applications and equipment that expand the capabilities of mobile and [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:14-07:00February 18th, 2010|Main category|Comments Off on Attention Mobile Application Developers – AT&T is here to help