Putting Storytelling Back Into a News Release

The art of storytelling is celebrated today as one of the most effective ways to communicate. When I first started practicing public relations, the most effective news releases were the ones that told a story. They were called feature news releases. I’m not sure what happened to them, but over the years, that term has all but disappeared from the PR vernacular. In fact, Google yields a paltry 5,700 search results for the term, which makes me very sad, as it once was the most effective way to get a reporter or editor’s attention. It was a great way to [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:49-07:00May 25th, 2017|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off on Putting Storytelling Back Into a News Release

ELM STREET TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF CONSOLIDATED KNOWLEDGE

May 23, 2017 – Greensboro, NC – Today, Elm Street Technology (EST) announced the acquisition of Consolidated Knowledge, a technology platform provider to the residential real estate and multi-family industries. This acquisition is the next step in EST’s ongoing efforts to consolidate the real estate industry’s leading technology and marketing service providers. Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of strategic moves EST has made in recent months to create a portfolio of marketing and technology products and services that, when integrated, offer a single technology solution providing lead generation to client retention services for agents, teams, brokers and [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:49-07:00May 23rd, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on ELM STREET TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ACQUISITION OF CONSOLIDATED KNOWLEDGE

CRMLS Agrees to Offer Remine to its 82,000 Subscribers

by MARILYN WILSON on MAY 16, 2017 Remine is at it again!  In recent months, the company has forged partnerships with several of the nation’s largest MLSs. CRMLS will be launching the product to its 82,000 members according to the press release issued today.  Remine is taking the industry by storm.  Every MLS I work with across the country seems to be looking at this exciting new product. Remine is an intelligent service marrying social media profiles with home ownership factors to help agents identify prospects and then use social media to advertise to them.  The company has deep expertise in [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:49-07:00May 16th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on CRMLS Agrees to Offer Remine to its 82,000 Subscribers

Metro Market Trends, Inc. Welcomes Brenda Carnegie

Metro Market Trends, Inc. (MMT), a subsidiary of RealtyWEB.Net, is pleased to announce that Brenda Carnegie has joined the MMT team as a Business Development Consultant. Brenda has served in the real estate industry for over 25 years starting as an MLS Director in Clearwater, Florida.  She has held positions with Interealty (now part of CoreLogic), Realist, and Coldwell Banker Residential. Brenda was responsible for managing MLS system installations, sales and member support, as well as developing and implementing Broker-based solutions. Brenda was part of the realtor.com® Industry Relations Team from 2009-2015 as Director of Industry Relations, providing support to Associations/MLSs in [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:50-07:00May 16th, 2017|Marketing, Press Releases|Comments Off on Metro Market Trends, Inc. Welcomes Brenda Carnegie

LIBOR and BNAR getting serious about REALTOR(R) safety

Did you know that nearly 1/3 of REALTORS(R) STAY in situations where they feel unsafe as they strive to make a sale.  Nearly 4 in 5  do NOT ask for Identification/Verification before meeting a client.  Just about everyone (88%) of agents are alone when showing a home to new prospect. Bottomline, many agents put themselves at risk REGULARLY.  While real estate is an amazing industry that provides exciting career opportunities to nearly 2 million people every year, it’s a job that deals with the public.  By definition, it puts agents at risk. The Long Island Board of REALTORS® and the Buffalo [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:50-07:00May 16th, 2017|Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases|Comments Off on LIBOR and BNAR getting serious about REALTOR(R) safety

New Merger Creates Third Largest Association in America

Consolidation of Associations of Realtors® and Multiple Listing Organizations has been the chapter and verse of our industry over the past few years. If we all learned anything during the recession it is that the organizations that support Realtors® need to deliver a higher bar of services. WAV Group is excited to share the announcement of collaboration between two of Americas great Association Boards who have come together to form a more perfect union. The State of Florida is one of America’s great Realtor® chapters. Along with New York, Texas, and California they boast one of the highest member counts. [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:50-07:00May 11th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on New Merger Creates Third Largest Association in America

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|Comments Off on CoreLogic Completes Multiyear Matrix Conversion Effort

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|Comments Off on CoreLogic Hires John Chipman

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|Comments Off on Clareity Announces New Event For RE Developers and Tech Pros

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|Comments Off on Remine Hires Three Real Estate Technology Veterans

Upstream May Go Both Ways

April 10th marked a big transition for Upstream RE, the broker driven effort to develop a data management system for all firms. As you may know, there are three components to Upstream – data input, data storage, and data distribution. It is also important to remind you what Upstream is not – it’s not an MLS, not a consumer site, and not a data share. Upstream is a replacement for the independent efforts of all 86,000 real estate brokers to manage their customer records, agent records, firm records, vendor records, and listing records. The big transition is the consideration of [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 27th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off on Upstream May Go Both Ways

eXp Realty Supports Accelerated Growth with the Addition of Four Industry Veterans to Management Team

BELLINGHAM, WA – (Marketwired – April 17, 2017) – eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), the holding company for eXp Realty LLC, The Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage®, today announced the addition of industry veterans Kee Wah Chung, Kathy Gordon, Scott Petronis and Mitch Robinson to its management team. “Our daily objective is to be the most agent-centric brokerage firm in the world,” said Russ Cofano, President and General Counsel of eXp World Holdings. “Adding Kee Wah, Kathy, Scott and Mitch to our stellar team will allow us to provide new and exciting services for both current and future agents on the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 18th, 2017|Press Releases, Twitter for Real Estate|Comments Off on eXp Realty Supports Accelerated Growth with the Addition of Four Industry Veterans to Management Team