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In Search Of A Perfect Broker VOW

WAV Group is conducting research to discover if there is any broker in the United States who has pulled out of IDX and only offers a Virtual Office Website to consumers. Presumably, it would be a large enough broker who would display their listings publicly without the need to register to the site. If consumers wanted to see other broker listings, they would need to register. No other broker would be able to display that brokers listings to the public. If you know of such a site here in America, please direct me to it and you will be handsomely rewarded. My loving relationship [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:37-07:00April 29th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|3 Comments

How Leading MLSs Are Winning with Public Service Apps
How Leading MLSs Are Winning with Public Service Apps

Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category

How Leading MLSs Are Winning with Public Service Apps

First-time home buyers are necessary for a healthy housing market, but their needs and behaviors have changed. This group is doing more research in advance of working with an agent, and it's no surprise that their research is happening online. In fact, real estate related searches on Google.com have grown more than 200 percent over the past four years, with frequently searched terms like FHA loan, home grants and homebuyer assistance. Are your MLS core services prepared to serve these buyers? Join MLS leaders John Mosey of NorthstarMLS and Merri Jo Cowen of My Florida Regional MLS for a discussion about [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:38-07:00April 15th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off

When disaster strikes your online software systems
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When disaster strikes your online software systems

Broker-Agent Information, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights

When disaster strikes your online software systems

Over Easter weekend, an outage happened to the largest real estate technology company in America. They recovered quickly and elegantly. On another side of life, a broker client of ours with 400 agents was given one-week notice that the company who provided Microsoft Exchange Mail services is going out of business. The realty is that software systems and hardware systems break. And when it happens, it is very disruptive. It is a good idea to think about your disaster plan every year, and review your vendor contracts. You should have a document that outlines everything that happens when systems fail. [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:38-07:00April 3rd, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, MLS Insights|6 Comments

Managing Your Training Department

Training, support, and customer service are key features to any organization in real estate. Although these are three separate functions in large organizations, they typically are handled by one or two departments in most real estate organizations. For the purpose of this article, we will discuss this as one department, Training. WAV Group encourages the discipline of measuring satisfaction with the training department whenever a real estate organization performs focus groups, telephone interviews, or user surveys. Frequently the primary reason for dissatisfaction with a product or service is grounded in some part by poor training. Real estate is an adult [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:39-07:00March 23rd, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services, Reports|Comments Off

Monetizing Listing Data…Is it Possible? Let’s find out in 2013

To Syndicate or not to Syndicate, that is NOT the question! WAV Group Response What an exciting day in real estate media. 1000Watt Consulting is having a spirited discussion blog to blog with Dale Ross of NAR's RPR. And, in an exciting development, Zip Realty did a data accuracy study that somewhat mirrored the WAV Group data accuracy research performed for brokers, Redfin, Windermere, and Long and Foster. They concluded that 30% of the listings on Zillow and Trulia are not on the market. To keep things rolling along, my friend Saul Klein from Yardi published a spirited article about [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:40-07:00March 6th, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights, Product Management|1 Comment

Brokers harvesting business from their data

Real estate brokerages are way behind in the curve of excellence in lead management. This report is not about best practices of routing leads to agents, it is focused on measuring lead quality, and appending lead information with business intelligence that will convert more leads to drive more revenue. WAV Group’s brokerage business is focused on enterprise brokers, 500 agents or more – and usually a brokerage that also has some type of relationship with a mortgage or an insurance company. We use the term “home services” or “ancillary services” to refer to a brokerage that provides a full suite [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:40-07:00February 25th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Marketing, Suveys and Research|3 Comments

METROLIST® SELECTS CORELOGIC® MATRIX™ MLS SYSTEM––Colorado’s Largest MLS to Provide New Product Suite to 15,000 Real Estate Professionals–

IRVINE, Calif., February 6, 2013—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading residential property information, analytics and services provider, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Metrolist, Colorado’s largest multiple listing service (MLS) and provider of REcolorado, to provide the CoreLogic Matrix MLS system to 15,000 Colorado real estate professionals. For more than 25 years, Metrolist developed and hosted its own proprietary MLS systems. “The pace of innovation has profoundly accelerated since the company was originally founded in 1984 and we found that a transition to a vendor-based product suite made a lot of sense,” commented Metrolist President and CEO, [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:41-07:00February 13th, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off

Putting the Broker in Charge of the MLS Service Offerings

Most MLSs today have a very simple pricing structure. One size fits all. Every MLS customer receives exactly the same level of service and technology tools. There is no consideration for what services they may have available from their brokerage. This is the crux of why many large brokers are not best friends with their local MLS. They believe the MLS is “leveling the playing field”. Large brokers believe their secret sauce and recruiting advantages lie in the technologies they offer to their agents. They argue that the “full-service” MLS is diluting the impact of their significant investments in breakthrough [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:42-07:00January 31st, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|5 Comments

RE/MAX Expands Marketing Technology Platform: New Integrated Solutions Deliver a “Digital Upgrade” to the RE/MAX Design Center

January 16, 2013 (New York, NY)– RE/MAX agents will be getting a “digital upgrade” to their Design Center with the ability to create mobile-ready Single Property Websites, YouTube enabled videos, and dozens of professionally written marketing campaigns for email, print and mail, and social media. This new suite of products, which will be available to over 70,000 RE/MAX agents in the U.S. and Canada beginning in January, delivers advanced mobile-enabled technology and engaging consumer content to help agents sell more homes and develop their personal brands. RE/MAX agents can use the new automated marketing campaigns to target first-time homebuyers, move- [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:42-07:00January 30th, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off

PCMS positions for growth in 2013

Atlanta, GA (January 29, 2013) - PCMS founder and chief visionary, Jose Perez, today announced several key personnel decisions designed to support expansion plans in 2013. The company plans to leverage the success it has experienced since its founding in 2008 to provide a higher level of value and support to its clients and the industry in general. Former Realogy Regional Vice President, June Huber, recently joined PCMS as Vice President of Business Development for the Western United States. Based in Southern California, Ms. Huber brings over 20 years of real estate, mortgage and title experience to PCMS. "I had [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:43-07:00January 29th, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off

Time is Running Out!

RE Technology is hosting an exciting 60-minute webinar with Cartavi and DocuSign on: January 29, 2013 at 10:00 am PST, 12 pm CST, 1 pm EST to learn how you can leverage your iPad and become mobile and paperless agent. The presenters of this interactive webinar will show you how to take advantage of the cloud, your iPad and technology such as DocuSign and Cartavi to better serve your clients from wherever you are. Take your business to the next level by saving time, saving money and providing your clients with an exceptional level of service when and where they [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:43-07:00January 25th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off

MOVE, INC. ACQUIRES eFROGPOND, INC. ASSETS TO EXPAND MARKETING SOLUTIONS

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 14, 2013 – Move, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE) today announced the expansion of its suite of free marketing tools with the acquisition of certain assets of eFrogPond, Inc. an integrated communications and marketing solutions provider best known for its Housing Trends eNewsletter. This acquisition signifies an enhancement to the Move, Inc. series of industry-leading marketing solutions. Move, Inc. is the operator of TOP PRODUCER Systems and REALTOR.com. The Housing Trends eNewsletter will continue to function in its present form and Top Producer Systems CRM subscribers can distribute Housing Trends eNewsletters automatically to their customers. Going forward, subscribers can [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:43-07:00January 15th, 2013|Broker-Agent Information, Marketing, Press Releases|Comments Off