September 2017

Don’t Miss Out on our Summer Special!
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Don’t Miss Out on our Summer Special!

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Don’t Miss Out on our Summer Special!

With planning for 2018 on the horizon, now is a great time to reflect on the best ways to help prepare your organization for the evolutions and revolutions that may happen next year. Are you Making Informed Decisions? Many things can happen when an Association or MLS is detached and not paying attention to the transient nature of the real estate industry and market. They can delay or even completely avoid decisions because they simply seem too difficult or controversial, causing the organization to fall behind or lose its competitive advantage. Even worse, Boards of Directors who do not stay [...]

By Camilla Harvey|2018-05-03T21:22:40-07:00September 5th, 2017|Wav of Change|0 Comments

Looking for Job Security? Brokers are Looking for THIS!
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Looking for Job Security? Brokers are Looking for THIS!

How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights

Looking for Job Security? Brokers are Looking for THIS!

By far, an IDX feed is the most heavily used broker tool offered by MLSs today. Most brokers offer IDX data including active listings and many also include SOLD and PENDING listings thanks to the NAR IDX policy changes which allow brokers to leverage all statuses. One progressive MLS recognized how important IDX feeds are. RMLS in Portland, took the proactive step to transition every one of their IDX feeds to a RESO Certified collection of data. This bold step allows all brokers to take full advantage of the rich collection of data relevant to their market available with Platinum [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:22:40-07:00September 5th, 2017|How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in your MLS, Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights|0 Comments

MLSListings Shares Best Practices for Public Relations
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MLSListings Shares Best Practices for Public Relations

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MLSListings Shares Best Practices for Public Relations

Public Relations is a key communication practice for leading MLSs. Silicon Valley, California-based MLSListings is leveraging Public Relations to promote the relevancy of the MLS in the best possible way. They have developed communications for the real estate trade media and the consumer media that are both having positive impact. Consumer Media Trade The real estate industry has brokers and agents who continue to invest in newspaper advertising. By and large, newspapers may not display real estate listings from the MLS unless there is a special consideration. To save brokers and agents money, MLSListings has developed an agreement with 12 [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:22:41-07:00September 5th, 2017|Marketing, MLS Insights|0 Comments

Intuit Partners with Moxi Works to Enable Agent Tax Savings
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Intuit Partners with Moxi Works to Enable Agent Tax Savings

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Intuit Partners with Moxi Works to Enable Agent Tax Savings

MoxiWorks is a brokerage application development company that was founded by Seattle’s leading brokerage company, Windermere Real Estate. The software was originally developed for Windermere’s brokerage company until the company expanded the offering to include brokerages around the nation. Today, Moxi Works is a separate company that serves a brokerage base that is representative of more than 90,000 agent users. Some of their leading brokerage partners include Windermere, Long and Foster, Howard Hanna, Pacific Union, Seven Gables and many others. Faced with the challenge of integrating their own applications into a broker’s suite of agent tools and data sharing across [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:22:41-07:00September 4th, 2017|Main category|1 Comment