This week at the California Association of REALTOR conference in Sacramento the REBS(Real Estate Business Services) division of C.A.R. announced the first ever real estate application for iPhones. Alan Arora, head of REBS premiered the application for the C.A.R. board. The application helps real estate agents demonstrate their local market expertise. […]
Press release is below - great news for CALMLS Regional Subscribers - they will also be part of CARETS - the nation’s largest data share. WAV Group recently completed a review fo CALMLS for one of California’s most prominent regionals. LOS ANGELES (June 5) - calREDDTM today announced its intent to join California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS). calREDDTM anticipates becoming a full member of CARETS once its MLS services are launched in late summer. In the meantime, calREDD is actively working with CARETS to align slight differences in rules between the two entities prior to calREDD’s launch. “calREDDTM will [...]
Top performing sales professionals ignore market downturn and turn in record year. The Wall Street Journal and LORE announced the 2009 rankings of the top real estate professionals in the country based on calendar 2008 results. The rankings will be posted onRealestatejournal.com, Realtrends.com and Loremagazine.comas of 11:00AM eastern time June 4th. The Wall Street Journal/LORE Top 400 is based on a survey of over 7,000 brokerage firms, associations of Realtors® and hundreds of other sources to determine the top real estate professionals in the United States. Now in its 4th year, this ranking is the only independent study of its kind where [...]
Real Estate Technology solutions provider to enable realPING Click To Talk NOW Technology realPING, LLC announced today that Diverse Solutions will extend realPING functionality throughout its respective marketing platforms. realPING ‘enabled’ indicates the marketing platform can display the agent?s realPING button in various locations without the agent having to play with code. realPING is a VoIP-enabled ‘CLICK TO TALK NOW’ service agents use throughout their e-marketing. Statistics from the National Association of Realtors indicate that 78% of the time, consumers will ‘deal’ with the first agent that gets back to them when a question arises. In today’s market when buyers [...]
2:15 PM Monday June 1, 2009 by Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter’s purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool? We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. Our findings are very surprising. Of our sample (300,542 users, collected [...]
As Real Estate agents divert traditional marketing tactics from showing photos of homes to becoming market experts, they rely heavily on the mining of real estate market data from suppliers like Cyberhomes, Altos Research, Clarus Market Reports and now, new commer 10K Research Marketing. I checked out their website and their reports look very nice. They plan to be at Inman Connect in San Francisco. Check out these prices and let me know what you think. Remember that Cyberhomes is $4 – $10 per report. Clarus is free if your REALTOR Associaiton picks up the site license. The prices look [...]
Marilyn Wilson, founding partner of WAV Group, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Council of Multiple Listing Services. Wilson will serve as one of two Business Partner board representatives, who are appointed by the president. The WAV Group is one of the most successful technology consulting firms in the industry. They work with many leading MLS organizations, associations, technology vendors and brokers in North America and Europe. Wilson has a strong background in technology and consumer products. Prior to forming WAV Group, Wilson was president and CEO of Surveyor Corp., a leading provider of web camera [...]
C.A.R. Educations Face2Face interactive video conferencing program to offer NAR designations LOS ANGELES (June 1) – Real Estate Business Services® (REBS®) today announced the launch of Face2Face, C.A.R. Educations new video conferencing program. Face2Face will deliver dynamic, interactive training to REALTORS® at up to four local associations in California simultaneously. The live presentation will be sent via a video feed to the local association in real-time, enabling every member to see and hear the same thing at the same time, for the ultimate learning experience. Students can instantly respond and interact with the instructor through this approach. “The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION [...]
Tired of spending your mornings and filling up your recycle box with junk mail? Now there’s hope. The Direct Marketing Association has created a great site called DMAChoice.org. The site allows you to opt-out of credit card offers, catalogs and other types of direct mail for up to five years. The site also allows you to remove your name from email lists as well. You can trust this site because it is sponsored by the governing of the direct mail industry and they are highly credible. Cutting down on junk mail will not only save you time, it will also help [...]
got a pile of direct messages from people I follow on twitter today that looked like this. When you go to the site, it asks you to be an exclusive first user of thier twitter game. To sign up, you enter your user id and password so they can access your twitter followers. It dynamically sends this message to every one of your followers and spreads like a spam virus. There is nothing harmful, but it will take over your twitter account and autopost to your friends. The only way to get out of the game is to block the [...]
Threewide Corporation Appoints Michele Routh-Combs as VP of Partner Relations Morgantown, WV - June 28, 2009 - Threewide Corporation announces the addition of Michele Routh-Combs to the Executive Management Team as Vice President of Partner Relations. Routh-Combs brings 18 years of experience in real estate and real estate related technology and marketing. She is a well-known leader in real estate, recognized by many from her role at RE/MAX International where she served as Senior Technology Marketing Analyst and was involved with RE/MAX International’s Approved Supplier Program from 1999 through the end of 2005. Routh-Combs will manage strategic partner relationships for [...]
WAV Group was recently contacted by a 5 year old company that sells technology products to MLSs. Our current workload does not allow us to help them, but we offered to post this to our blog in the event that any of our readers may be interested. The company is well established, has significant revenue and could be profitable if they were not in a significant growth ramp. They are looking for $500k to $2M in the form of a converitable bridge loan or equity. The company’s product has been “site licensed” by more than 35 MLSs in the past [...]
