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Sell Homes More Quickly with a VOW Website

Part Four of a Five part series “Roadmap to using VOWs in your business.” In this fourth of a series of five articles about Virtual Office Websites or VOW’s we are going to discuss the ways to use a VOW to work more effectively with home sellers. The value of a home is exactly equal to the amount a willing seller and a willing buyer agree to at a given point in time. It can sometimes be difficult or impossible to convince a seller of a realistic asking price, especially if they purchased their home within the past few years. [...]

By WAV Group|2020-10-06T15:07:32-07:00March 16th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off

twitter for real estate – wefollow introduction

Thanks to @bhgre_sherry aka Sherry Chris of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate for sharing a new website called wefollow.com. Following people on twitter has always been a bit random for me. I mostly follow people who publish inforamtion about all things real estate. My twitter goal is to stay in touch with new thoughts, new products, and new thinking that supports progress in the real estate industry. And to a great extent - I am often more likely to only tweet when WAV Group publishes a blog post or whitepaper that I hope folks will enjoy. Thanks to Digg Founder @KevinRose who [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:32-07:00March 15th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off

Is Raw Linked Data the future of the MLS? Perspective from Tim Berners-Lee, Founder of the World Wide Web

I have always been inspired by TED talks and make a point of watching 6 - 10 a month. Today I reviewed a TED talk from Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the world wide web in 1989. He drafted the first standards for HTML, HTTP, URL structures, etc. Here we are, 20 years later (incidentially I graduated from Shattuck-St.Mary's highschool in 1989). My how things have changed. Tim's first vision was for sharing documents (web pages or web paper) on the internet. His new vision is for sharing RAW Linked Data. In the wake of the NAR/DOJ settlement that [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00March 13th, 2009|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in Your MLS
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How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in Your MLS

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How to Make Strategic Planning Really Work in Your MLS

The MLS industry is in an extremely tenuous position today, feeling pressures from 3rd party vendors, state associations, neighboring MLSs and declining membership. Like any business channel, multiple entities in the MLS world are competing for a finite number of customers and business space. To make things even more difficult, a percentage of MLS leadership changes from year to year with election of new officers and directors. MLS staff has to adjust to different leadership styles while often having to re-educate the new regime on where things stand. It can be a difficult scenario for staff and the elected leadership. How can an MLS establish continuity [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00March 13th, 2009|Main category, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning|Comments Off

Introducing htm2pdf.com

I ran into this application today by chance called htm2pdf. It converts webpages into pdf documents. You will note that they do not ask for your contact information - just paste in a url of the page you want converted and they push the pdf to you on the web page. Please try it. Be sure to open the pdf and click the file links - THEY WORK!

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00March 12th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off

Using your Virtual Office Website as a Buyer’s Tool

Part three of five part series “Roadmap to using VOWs in your business.” In this third of a series of five articles about Virtual Office Websites or VOW’s we are going to discuss the ways to use a VOW to work more effectively with buyers. Whether you are new to real estate or a seasoned veteran, you must be aware that consumers are using the Internet as the cornerstone of finding a home to buy. Year after year the influence of the Internet is measured by many - including the 2008 National Association of REALTORS® Profile of Home Buyers and [...]

By WAV Group|2020-10-06T14:19:05-07:00March 10th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off

2009 $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
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2009 $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit

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2009 $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit

$8000 Tax Credit to First Time Home Buyers. - Called The American Recovery Reinvestment Act. There are some interesting details to the plan. Available for purchases made from Jan. 1, 2009 to December 1, 2009. 10% of the cost of the home up to $8000. Buyers claim the credit on thier federal tax return to reduce their liability. If the credit is more than their total tax liability that year, the buyer will get a refund check for the balance. A first time homebuyer is defined under the tax credit as an individual who has not owned a home in [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00March 5th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

Job Posting – VP MLS/Association Sales

POSITION TITLE: VP MLS/Association Sales REPORTS TO: Chief Operating Officer CLASSIFICATION: Exempt Opportunity Previsite is seeking to hire a senior sales manager, for the position of VP MLS/Association Sales to take the lead on developing virtual tour product sales with MLSs, boards and associations. In today’s challenging economy MLSs, boards and associations are looking for opportunities to increase their value to their members while lowering member costs for technology services. Previsite has developed a technology and business model to achieve [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00March 3rd, 2009|Main category|Comments Off

How to Use a VOW to Generate New Customers

Part Two of a 5 part series “Roadmap to using VOWs in your business.”

By WAV Group|2020-10-06T14:09:13-07:00March 2nd, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off

Join me at the AFIRE conference!
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Join me at the AFIRE conference!

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Join me at the AFIRE conference!

The 3rd annual AFIRE (Awesome Females in Real Estate) is being held from March 25th - 27th in historic Savannah, Georgia. This is absoiutely my favorite conference of the year. It is the only conference I have ever attended that combines personal growth with incredible real estate networking opportunities.Conference attendees are primarily female executives from real estate brokerages, technology vendors, associations and MLSs. It is a terrific collection of hard-working, intelligent, successful women who come together to share ideas about how to open the potential for more success in business and personal situations. For those of you that feel like [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:33-07:00February 27th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off

New Green Rating Service Franchise Launched

The Closing Gift that Keeps on Giving Fox Energy Specialists launched the country’s first green/energy rater franchise last week at the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET) National Conference in New Orleans, LA. The timing for the launch could not have been better with the announcement of the Stimulus package which includes millions of dollars earmarked for Energy Improvement projects in all 50 states. In attendance at the conference, were key staff members from the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program and the Department of Energy who were there to educate the Home Energy Rating Industry on both current and upcoming programs, and [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:34-07:00February 27th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off

Rapattoni integrates Goomzee text messaging into Single Sign On Security Platform

SIMI VALLEY, Calif., February 26, 2009 - Rapattoni Corporation announced today that Goomzee Corporation, the text message marketing solution provider, has successfully completed their integration of the Single Sign-On (SSO) standard. With the SSO feature in place, MLS users can log on to the Rapattoni MLS system once and access Goomzee’s marketing and lead generation platform without requiring separate logons. Goomzee is the first mobile solutions provider to implement SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) with their system. SAML technology is the backbone upon which SSO is built. SSO and SAML allow the establishment of “trust” relationships between the Rapattoni MLS [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:26:34-07:00February 26th, 2009|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

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