Marketing Trauma

REALOGY has made a big deal of the new 3-D virtual tours that they believe is the future of property marketing. They may be right. WAV Group took a look at homes on the internet which offered three distinctive methods of viewing images – Photos, 3D Tours, Video Tours. When you think of marketing homes for sale, real estate professionals need to think in terms of priority. In consulting parlance – we divide prioritization into three categories – Trauma, Pain Killer, Vitamin. Beyond marketing decisions, it is a healthy idea to use this categorization across many of your technology considerations. [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:03-07:00July 15th, 2014|Main category, Marketing, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Marketing Trauma

What is Your Lead Conversion Strategy?

This is a guest post sent to us by Carl DeMusz of NORMLS - https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carl-demusz/4/749/249 Real estate markets are cyclical and change with the economy. They tend to be closely linked to employment which is also impacted by the economy. We have often observed times when the housing market can lead the economy out of recession. One thing that helps improve the housing market is a well-informed consumer who realizes that while housing markets are cyclical they always recover. They know that if they buy a home and hold on to it, the value will rise over time simply because people [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:04-07:00July 9th, 2014|Main category, Marketing, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on What is Your Lead Conversion Strategy?

Howard Hanna Promotes 5700 REALTORS on Realtor.com

Today’s real estate broker faces some difficult decisions when it comes to online advertising. The choices are often predicated upon what your competition is doing; what sellers demand; traffic and leads generated by your website or franchise website; website owner terms of use; who gets the lead; who pays – agent or broker. It is really quite a mess. It is so bad, that many large firms have walked away from it entirely and leave it up to the agent. Other firms have taken the proverbial bull by the horn and worked hard to market listings online is a very [...]

Top 5 Articles of the Week

WAV Group partners, Mike Audet, Marilyn Wilson, and Victor Lund are founders of RE Technology and RETechnology.com. Today that site reaches 750,000 real estate agents and brokers through partnerships with more than 90 MLSs who deliver subscriptions to RE Technology as a member benefit. Each week, RE Technology publishes a notification to MLSs that lists the top 5 most heavily viewed articles of the week. This list goes out to our MLS partners who may, in turn, republish the articles in their own newsletter, blog, or develop content ideas for their training or communications programs. Below is the RE Technology [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:05-07:00June 24th, 2014|Broker Technology Research, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Top 5 Articles of the Week

Euro Net Privacy Calls Brokers to Action

I have often been heard shouting about consumer privacy in real estate. Brokers and agents toss listing content onto the web with little care for their ability to take it down. If you ask a seller if they want their home advertised online with a dozen or a hundred photos of every quaint nook and cranny of their home – they shout a jubilant YES! If you ask a home buyer if they want the photos of their daughter’s new bedroom published on 200 real estate websites, they scream a resounding NO! Brokers have not faced any legal action regarding [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:09-07:00June 13th, 2014|Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Euro Net Privacy Calls Brokers to Action

Inman Real Estate Connect SF

WAV Group and RE Technology is looking forward to attending Inman Real Estate Connect in San Francisco next month – July 16th – 18th.  The annual industry gathering in one of America’s great cities to discuss issues is among our favorites. Unlike a lot of industry conferences, Real Estate Connect addresses topics in an “in your face style” which is unique. I remember Billionaire Barry Diller sitting on stage getting booed by the audience when he said,  (my paraphrase) “At LendingTree, we take your listing data, generate consumer leads, we sell them mortgages, and we sell you the real estate [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:10-07:00June 5th, 2014|Broker Technology Research, Main category, Marketing, Our Services, Press Releases|Comments Off on Inman Real Estate Connect SF

Top 5 Articles of the Week

WAV Group partners, Mike Audet, Marilyn Wilson, and Victor Lund are founders of RE Technology and RETechnology.com. Today that site reaches 750,000 real estate agents and brokers though partnerships with more than 90 MLSs who deliver subscriptions to RE Technology as a member benefit. Each week, RE Technology publishes a notification to MLSs that lists the top 5 most heavily viewed articles of the week. This list goes out to our MLS partners who may, in turn, republish the articles in their own newsletter, blog, or develop content ideas for their training or communications programs. Below is the RE Technology [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:10-07:00June 3rd, 2014|Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights|Comments Off on Top 5 Articles of the Week

Increase Home Listings By 27 Percent

  How would you like to increase your business garnered from your website by 27%? That’s right, 27%. I had to say it again because people often do not believe in testing or research to determine what works best for their business. In fact, many companies today “take the high road” and completely ignore trends and tactics that can improve their business because they get stuck with their fondness for what they have and stop moving ahead. Here is the example of how research and testing can drive improvements in company online effectiveness. Thankfully, the company the largest broker in [...]

Top 5 Articles of the Week

WAV Group partners, Mike Audet, Marilyn Wilson, and Victor Lund are founders of RE Technology and RETechnology.com. Today that site reaches 750,000 real estate agents and brokers though partnerships with more than 90 MLSs who deliver subscriptions to RE Technology as a member benefit. Each week, RE Technology publishes a notification to MLSs that lists the top 5 most heavily viewed articles of the week. This list goes out to our MLS partners who may, in turn, republish the articles in their own newsletter, blog, or develop content ideas for their training or communications programs. Below is the RE Technology [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:11-07:00May 27th, 2014|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Marketing, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Top 5 Articles of the Week

How to Market Yourself on Facebook WITHOUT Annoying Your Friends and Family

AGENTS! Join Marilyn Wilson for this exciting RETechinar™  where we will learn from special guest Realtor® Shaun Nilsson, the social media wizard behind CityBlast.com, as he diagrams his time-saving formula for attracting tons of new clients through social media while completely avoiding annoying your friends and contacts. In this 100% FREE online workshop, we'll show you exactly how to close more real estate commissions right now - using only your Facebook - while effortlessly projecting the confident business savvy of a seasoned professional. PLUS you'll learn how to outsource your online marketing to others and avoid wasting even one more [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:11-07:00May 20th, 2014|Broker-Agent Information, Marketing|Comments Off on How to Market Yourself on Facebook WITHOUT Annoying Your Friends and Family

Top Articles of the Week

 Beating Zillow at Their Own Game What if I told you that just about everything you find unfair about the way Zillow and Trulia display your listings can be changed? Guess what? An insider understanding of how these sites work has allowed thousands of listing agents to get hundreds of dollars worth of free marketing on these sites without paying a dime.   What is Email Drip Marketing? Chinese water torture is a way to drive someone insane by slowly dripping water on the person's forehead. Drop email marketing is a communication strategy that slowly drips email messages to prospects' [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:11-07:00May 9th, 2014|Broker Technology Research, Main category, Marketing, Technology Evaluation|Comments Off on Top Articles of the Week

MRIS Seeking Seasoned and Strategic Director of Marketing

Director of Marketing, Communications, Events & Education Position and Company Overview Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. (MRIS, Inc.), located in Rockville, MD, is the largest real estate information service in North America serving the information needs of nearly 40,000 real estate professionals in the Mid-Atlantic. The company helps facilitate over $60B in residential real estate transactions each year and provide breakthrough technology designed to create value and innovation for the real estate industry. The company offers a leading edge suite of real estate marketing tools and technologies to its customers available both via subscription and a la carte purchases. MRIS [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:24:13-07:00April 25th, 2014|Clients, Main category, Marketing, Our Services|Comments Off on MRIS Seeking Seasoned and Strategic Director of Marketing