The Industry Has Risen

I had a feeling during the recession that the pillars that held our industry in trust had cracked. The first of two pillars of trust is the National Association of REALTORS® as fully constituted by its local, state, national, and international chapters. The second pillar of trust is the Multiple Listing Service. History has taught us that when you apply pressure to any society or organization it is likely to fracture. No doubt, these industry pillars came under massive scrutiny from their constituents. The real estate brokers who founded these noble entities became conscientious objectors to the organizations and their [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:50-07:00May 10th, 2017|Main category, MLS Insights, Wav of Change|0 Comments
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Help your Brokers Improve their Marketing with RESO Standards

MLSs have done a great job of embracing the Real Estate Standards Organization, the RESO Data Dictionary and RESO Web API. Today, 93% of all REALTORS® in America work with MLSs that are RESO Certified. RESO volunteers have worked tirelessly for years to get us to this stage.  MLSs have done the hard work to make RESO data standards available to their members and technology partners. We’re on the cusp of greatness with RESO. While just about all brokers in America can leverage RESO standards on their website, CRM and other marketing solutions now, very few are aware of the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:50-07:00May 10th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Marketing, MLS Insights|0 Comments
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Are You Stuck in the Office Whilst Everyone Else is at NAR?

We have been in SO many board rooms where we see a lack of awareness of the key strategic issues facing our industry today. Many Associations and MLSs are making decisions, or worse yet, not making decisions that may put their organizations in a weakened position over time. We also see that many smaller associations cannot afford to send multiple people to conferences where many of the industry’s important issues are discussed. Stuck in the Office? Are you and members of your Board of Managers stuck in the office rather than being out at NAR Mid Year this week? We [...]

By |2018-11-08T04:00:37-08:00May 10th, 2017|MLS Insights, Wav of Change|0 Comments
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Fixing Real Estate with People and 2.0 Technology

In Colorado there’s a modern brokerage called 8z Real Estate that has become known for its collaborative work environment and home to top producing teams that support one another. And despite all the competition – after all it is in RE/MAX’s backyard – it’s become a dominate player on Colorado’s Front Range. Most recently, 8z Real Estate garnered the attention of The Denver Post, which selected Boulder-based 8z Real Estate as the “Top Workplace” of 2017 for midsize companies in Colorado. And 8z and its founder Lane Hornung were also recently profiled in a Colorado Business Magazine story “8z Real [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 9th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information|0 Comments
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CoreLogic Completes Multiyear Matrix Conversion Effort

700,000+ Agents to be on Matrix by Yearend— IRVINE, Calif., May 9, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced today the completio n of a large-scale project to convert its Fusion™, MLXchange® and TEMPO® clients to the Matrix™ multiple listing platform. More than 50 clients on CoreLogic legacy systems were migrated to Matrix in less than 30 months. “Successfully converting so many multiple listing clients in two-and-a-half years is a great achievement,” said Chris Bennett, general manager of Real Estate Solutions for CoreLogic. “We completed all this work on top of at least 40 [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 9th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments
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RESO Honors its Outstanding Volunteers

Real Estate Standards Organization, or RESO, recently showed how massive volunteerism is in real estate. It often goes unnoticed, under the radar. But at its sold-out Spring Summit in Austin, Jeremy Crawford, CEO of RESO, took to the stage and invested time to honor more than two-dozen people in our industry. Jeremy recognized each of them for their outstanding personal contributions with a 2017 Spring Tech Summit Award. What’s amazing to think about is that collectively, these individuals contributed literally thousands of annual volunteer hours to RESO. They spent time volunteering for the seven RESO Workgroups – and one key committee – all [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 8th, 2017|Main category|0 Comments
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Building a Seller Lead Funnel

In a conversation yesterday with a large brokerage firm, we discussed a $250,000 online ad campaign that was directed at generating buyer leads. If the vendor had not quoted a $100k price increase over the previous year, the client would have simply stroked the check for $150k without a meeting, as they had done over the past 13 years. The massive price increase caused them to rethink. What came out of the conversation was a brainstorm for innovation around developing seller leads. The brokerage supports and coaches agents around the common stuff – door knocking, farming, telemarketing, etc. What can [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 3rd, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Marketing|0 Comments
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CoreLogic Hires John Chipman

WAV Group are pleased to announced that John Chipman has joined the CoreLogic Team. Read the full press release from CoreLogic below. It is my pleasure to announce that John Chipman has joined CoreLogic® as a strategic account executive with a focus on real estate brokerage. John has been working with real estate brokerages dating back to his start with Homestore in 1999. Over the years he has become an expert at understanding the operational need of brokers in areas of online marketing, digital marketing, websites, CRM, and big data. John will be responsible for CoreLogic large broker and franchise [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00May 2nd, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Press Releases, Strategic Planning|0 Comments
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5 Steps to an Impactful and Effective Strategic Plan

by MARILYN WILSON on APRIL 28, 2017 We’ve all been involved in those strategic planning sessions where you get locked in a room, hold hands, sing Kumbaya, feel really excited for about 3 days and then everyone goes back to doing everything the same old way they did before the session. They are a total waste of time. I call those sessions “Forced Family Fun”. They give strategic planning a bad name. Let’s talk about a way to make the time and effort put into a strategic plan that will actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE for your organization. I’ve been facilitating [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00April 28th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Strategic Planning|0 Comments
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Snapchat for Real Estate – Probably Not – But Ideas Abound

If you have a teenager, you know all about Snapchat. Since the earliest days of social media, WAV Group has experimented with a host of social media platforms to discover opportunities for our clients. In lock step, I have been snapping away. Haven’t tried Snapchat for real estate marketing? Don’t bother. Unless you are trying to keep up with your child or other Snapchat enthusiast, there is no place on Snanpchat for the real estate business. However, there are some marketing thoughts that may spark some creative strategic thinking. Scarcity and Urgency Snaps expire after 24 hours. This is an [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00April 27th, 2017|Marketing, Product Management|0 Comments
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Clareity Announces New Event For RE Developers and Tech Pros

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – April 27, 2017 – Clareity is excited to announce a new event for the real estate industry: {Integrate}: The Developer’s Workshop. This first-ever, immersive conference is designed for the technical contributors in the industry including developers, coders, engineers, IT professionals, and others interested in real estate technology. This one-day workshop will take place June 1st, 2017 in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort.Speakers will include world-class talent in and outside of Clareity. One featured keynote, Mike Stowe, has built software at Constant Contact, Mulesoft, and Tigera and recently spoke at API:World. Hear Stowe share advice and best practices on [...]

By |2018-11-08T04:01:21-08:00April 27th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments
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Remine Hires Three Real Estate Technology Veterans

FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/  Lucie Fortier will serve as Remine’s VP of Product to oversee product development and MLS implementations.  Bill Weis was hired as Director of Data Acquisitions. Joel Shears is Director of Industry Relations. Fortier joins Remine from Corelogic, where she was Senior Director of Operations for Real Estate Solutions, including Matrix and Realist, which is in use by more than 700,000 Realtors® today. “MLS executives across North America have a deep respect for Lucie because she can take complex situations and deliver results. She’s got the track record to deliver the Remine platform to [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00April 27th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments
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