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Join Lauren Hansen and Marilyn Wilson to learn about- How to Increase Your Chances of Success with eCommerce
Join Lauren Hansen and Marilyn Wilson to learn about- How to Increase Your Chances of Success with eCommerce

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Join Lauren Hansen and Marilyn Wilson to learn about- How to Increase Your Chances of Success with eCommerce

Many MLSs are now considering offering additional products and services to their members. Come to the RE Technology webinar on Wednesday, May 8th at 11:00 am and learn how to increase your chances of non-dues revenue success with eCommerce. Learn from Lauren Hansen, CEO of IRES MLS, one of the first MLSs to offer eCommerce who will share her early experiences with eCommerce. Also, get a peek at RE Technology's affordable solutions for eCommerce. Click here to register now! At this session you will learn: What the fundamentals of eCommerce are and what does it take to be profitable Discuss [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:37-07:00May 6th, 2013|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

Managing MLS Channel Conflict
Managing MLS Channel Conflict

Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services, Strategic Planning

Managing MLS Channel Conflict

On the business-to-business side of real estate, there are entities that cooperate with one another that also compete with one another. A common term for this in modern business management is a neologism called coopetition. Brokers competing against each other participate together in the MLS to share information and offer of compensation; and may be related to the same franchise. Agents who compete with each other participate in Associations of REALTORS and are often members of the same brokerage or franchise. Associations who compete with each other sometimes cooperate in offering MLS services. Within this system of collaboration, there are [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:38-07:00April 11th, 2013|Main category, MLS Insights, Our Services, Strategic Planning|Comments Off

Remembering Pat Bybee

All of us at WAV Group want to acknowledge our friend and colleague, Pat Bybee who was taken from us recently in a tragic car accident. Our prayers and sincere condolences go out to her family. Pat will be missed by all that know her. Until resigning in 2011, Pat served as the president and CEO of Metrolist MLS in Denver for 27 years. Pat was a true industry professional, a friend to many and her enthusiasm, smile and dedication will be missed by all that knew her. Pat Bybee Scholarship A scholarship in Pat's name at the Burns School [...]

By WAV Group|2018-05-03T21:24:39-07:00March 22nd, 2013|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

Goodbye Mongofax

Mongofax was awesome. Now it is no more. The company is closing today. It is never a celebration when companies go away - jobs are lost and customers who relied on their services scramble to find a replacement. I am pretty sure that their primary marketplace was in Florida. Instanet, which supports faxing as a feature of their forms solution may have put pressure on Mongofax. According to a post by Jeremy Crawford of MLS listings over on the VendorAlley Blog - the Mongofax's patent is available for purchase For Associations and MLSs that offer ZipForms, be aware that zipVault can [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:40-07:00March 15th, 2013|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off

IRES MLS Launches Tablet Solution

WAV Group MLS Customer Satisfaction Surveys have demonstrated that agents want the ability to access all of their MLS services on the iPad or other tablet device. It is refreshing to see IRES MLS in Colorado take on that need and address it by launching their own iPad app for members. IRES built their iPad application themselves, proving that some MLSs with strong developers can accomplish the delivery of MLS services on an iPad quickly and cost effectively. The IRES app supports the most meaningful and highly used features of the MLS service, including full listing search of all MLS [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:40-07:00March 4th, 2013|Main category, MLS Insights, Press Releases|Comments Off

TheMLS/Claw seeking Senior DBA

Senior DBA Job Description Los Angeles based company is conducting interviews for a permanent, full time Sr. Database Engineer who will be responsible for the design, development, coding, testing, optimizing, debugging and documentation of database applications. Candidate must be able to thrive in a fast paced, team oriented environment. Your Nature: Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as a team player Self-motivated Ability to manage support tickets through to completion. Ability to prioritize workload and manage time effectively. Excellent communication skills and customer service skills. Exceptional problem solving and results oriented Take ownership of your work [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:41-07:00February 21st, 2013|Main category|Comments Off

Is the MLS In Danger?

I do not really know Alain Pinel as well as I would like to. He sold the company that bears his name and pursued other interests. He is back now and runs the Luxury division of Intero Real Estate, one of Alain Pinel Real Estate's chief competitors in San Jose, along with Coldwell Banker and others. What I do know of Alain Pinel I like and respect a lot. I have a similar level of respect for the maverick efforts of Intero, who used passion combined with technology (AgentAchieve) to launch a powerful brokerage in a very competitive marketplace. In a [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:41-07:00February 20th, 2013|Broker Technology Research, Main category, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning|4 Comments

WAV Group Report on Home Services

Home services offerings beyond real estate sales have the potential to achieve long-term sustainability and stabilization for real estate brokerages. However, undermining this potential for enterprise brokerages are disparate technology solutions that do not seamlessly connect or share consumer data. As a result of this and other factors, many consumers do not take advantage of enterprise brokerage home services offerings because they do not know that they exist. This is a massive, industry-wide problem that does not have a simple solution. In 2013, WAV Group will be working with brokers to design specific strategies and business practices to improve the [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:42-07:00January 31st, 2013|Main category, Reports|Comments Off

TheMLS/CLAW seeking Systems/Network Administrator

POSITION TITLE: Systems/Network Administrator REPORTS TO: Director of Product Development and IT CLASSIFICATION: Exempt Opportunity TheMLS.com is seeking to hire a seasoned systems and network professional for the position of Systems/Network Administrator. This position will be responsible for maintaining a reliable and robust environment to host the company’s multiple listing service technologies and infrastructure. The Systems/Network Administrator will be monitor, manage and maintain the network infrastructure and the production server environments of two datacenter colocation facilities. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, highly independent and proactive to help the company provide an industry-leading customer experience. ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION: TheMLS is [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:24:43-07:00January 11th, 2013|Main category|Comments Off

SFAR hires Association Vet Baczkowski from Point2

Congratulations to Walt Baczkowski as he returns to his roots in Association Leadership, taking the helm in San Francisco. Walt is departing his post at Point2 where he was VP of Marketing and wingman to division leader Saul Klein. San Francisco is a great Association and MLS - the crown jewel of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco covers about 49 square miles, pinched between BAREIS to the north and MLSListings to the south. East Bay and Contra Costa are in the East Bay. They share some data, and most agents are members of more than one Association or [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:45-07:00December 18th, 2012|Main category, Press Releases|Comments Off

CMLS brainstorms new approach for MLS Rules

The CMLS meetings (Council of MLS) were held on Wednesday, November 7th. There were numerous presentations but one in particular seemed to engage the Nation's leading MLS executives in attendance - ReThink MLS. The question before the panel was "What If We Started from Scratch?" As we all know, MLS rules (including Broker Reciprocity) provides structure for how brokers and agents will behave when sharing listings with one another: Two problems have arisen since these rules were first crafted more than a dozen years ago. The MLS rules have become cumbersome in length and somewhat unwieldy to manage and enforce. [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:47-07:00November 12th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning|1 Comment

Black Sand Labs Launches MLS License Compliance Tool

Like all MLSes, Hawaii Information Service takes data licenses seriously. Aside from the natural investigation of reported violations, they wanted to find a way to crawl the Internet to find additional abuses of their data license agreements. After an unproductive effort to find a commercial solution to meet their needs, Hawaii Information Systems partnered with Falcon Technologies to build one. Now, the two cooperating companies formed a new startup called Black Sand Labs to deliver the service to other MLSs fighting the compliance battle. The new product is called APHIS – which may sound like a crawling insect, but was [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:24:49-07:00October 25th, 2012|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off