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Alex Wang pulls the curtain on the listing agent life through video

Last August, Gary Vaynerchuk delivered the keynote session at Inman Connect San Francisco and shared his one-of-a-kind approach to marketing, social media and business. Throughout his talk, Vee challenged agents to stay ahead of the curve and get hip to “the digital revolution.” The marketing guru predicted that many of the audience members wouldn’t follow his advice, but […]

Crazy sh*t podcast Episode 9: Where there’s smoke …

Reposted with permission — show notes and credits available here. On the latest episode of Leigh Brown’s podcast that explores the wild and weird things that can happen in real estate, home inspector Wally Conway shares one of the weirdest stories in his 30,000 inspections: the time a home caught on fire. Do you have […]

What’s on the horizon for Move in 2017?

Ryan O’Hara, CEO at Move — which owns and operates realtor.com — gave an overview of what real estate agents can expect from the company in 2017…. Source: click here

San Francisco Bay Area MLSs to share ‘coming soon’ and pocket listings

When “coming soon” listings blazed into the spotlight nearly three years ago, MLSs had a choice: support what agents and brokers were already doing among themselves or try to quash it.Several — many in hot real estate markets — picked the former and set up their own “coming soon” listing status, allowing their members to generate buzz […]

How Coldwell Banker used Facebook Live to cover the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES) for agents

In December 2015, Facebook opened Facebook Live to the masses — and its popularity has yet to slow down, with everyone using it from your grandma sharing her top baking secrets to your next-door neighbor filming cool dog tricks all for friends to see in real time.Facebook Live was a risk, especially with users’ allegiance to […]

Re/Max nets $22.7M in 2016 with rising agent count

Today Re/Max announced its largest annual agent gain in a decade and a bank account that’s $22.7 million in the black.In its 2016 full-year and fourth-quarter earnings results, the company also reported total revenue of $176.3 million in 2016, down 0.3 percent year-over-year, and total revenue of $44.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, a […]

TripleMint, a high-tech brokerage, closes $4.5 million Series A funding round

The most successful venture capital-funded brokerages tend to shed some experimental business practices for more traditional techniques, while retaining a core focus on innovative technology.TripleMint fits this model to a T.The New York City-based brokerage recently closed a $4.5 million Series A funding round after three years of tinkering. ‘Immense’ growth in 2016 In April 2015, TripleMint told Inman it […]

Why you should think of business planning as ‘success planning’

Reposted with permission from Matt Bonelli. Let’s be real: Most people don’t like to put together an annual business plan. Why is that? Does it seem too selfish? Or is the plan created just never used? What if you looked at your planning session as “success planning” instead of business planning? (Also: Recognize that this […]

Voice-driven real estate app for Amazon Echo now talks to 3 markets

Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our real estate technology expert? Email Craig Rowe.Bots are becoming quite the industry talking point. Especially those that work through Echo, Amazon’s voice-activated smart home appliance.A few weeks ago I reported on a real estate search app built for the device by a father and […]

Virtual tours or video: How do you decide?

In this week’s video, Peter Lorimer of PLG Estates discusses the merits of video tours over virtual tours. In his opinion, virtual tours come second to videos, which come after the consumer is pulled in with stellar photos. That’s the gateway that viewers happen upon real estate online — photos, video and then virtual tours. Until […]

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