Real estate leaders share 2015 outlook on housing, economy
Imprev arguably has come to own the real estate “Thought Leader” space with its bi-annual survey now in its third year, largely because it’s not a self-serving exercise. What we get from their latest...
View ArticleWAV Group Windermere and Long and Foster Sales Excellence Case Study
The two valves that constitute the heart of consulting are benchmarking and case studies. Benchmarking is measuring an industry norm. Case studies focus on telling the story of new strategies deployed...
View ArticleAutomate Your Business with zipForm® Plus and Zapier
Most people have heard the devil is in the details, and to achieve success, the goal is to eliminate that devil. For real estate professionals these smaller details, like keeping address books...
View ArticleForward Looking Technology
2015 and 2016 will be years of incredible change in real estate technology. For too long, the real estate industry evolved in an eggshell whereby data, applications, and presentation layers were...
View ArticleInstanet Provides Remote Add-Edit to 100000 Agents
There has been a lot of discussion about the challenges of separating listing add/edit from MLS systems. This has long been the practice is many MLSs and this announcement today adds yet another to the...
View ArticleIs Zillow A Great Broker?
Zillow is not a broker. Well, technically they are registered as a brokerage in many states and hold brokerage licenses, but they do not market themselves as a brokerage. The point is that they provide...
View ArticleBroker Public Portal License Agreement
WAV Group is providing consulting services to the Broker Public Portal project. This project seeks the collaboration of MLSs and Brokerages in developing a national MLS consumer-facing website that...
View ArticleBrokers Must Immediately Audit Mobile
Mobile traffic is 50% for most brokers today. Sadly, the mobile solution that you purchased a year or two ago is probably behind the times. Not only does your website need to be “responsive” to any...
View ArticleBetter Market Reports
Graphs, Actives, Pendings, Recently sold, yadda, yadda. I have been reviewing the market reports across a variety of brokerages recently. They all seem to be missing the same little touch of...
View ArticleGetting The Word Out Through Agents
WAV Group works with a number of different company types. We work with large brokerage and franchise organizations, technology firms, MLSs, and Associations of REALTORS. Our specialty is enterprise...
View ArticleUpstream Agent Record
Many assume that Upstream is only about listings. In fact, there are six database categories that are contemplated for the application that solve a lot of problems for brokers of any size. The Need For...
View ArticleBroker Public Portal Update – October 2015
Many participants in the Broker Public Portal project were in attendance at the Council of MLS annual meeting in Kansas City. It was an extraordinary event, and one could not walk away without a sense...
View ArticleBoost Your Member Satisfaction by offering RE Technology
Real estate agents and brokers are overwhelmed by technologies. Telemarketers pitching the latest and greatest gimmick inundate them. We have been changing this since 2010 and now serve 750,000 MLS and...
View ArticleTop 10 Ways to Become a Truly Broker-Centric MLS.
Ever since the now infamous Gripe List was published, MLSs have been scrambling to find out they can better serve their MLS Customers. I was honored to moderate a panel of brokers at the highly...
View ArticleStop Buying Technology
It’s the season. WAV Group is fielding satisfaction surveys to determine how agents and brokers use or don’t use technology offerings. We even encounter a curious situation where we are measuring...
View ArticleMaking Vendor Partnerships Work
The tragedy of software in real estate is lack of adoption by agents. Brokerage firms and MLSs who invest dearly in technology solutions start out with the hope that agents will use it and success will...
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Will the Last PC User Please Turn Out the Lights?
Mobile has gone global and everyone from Wired Magazine, Gartner, Forrester Research, and Barron’s is writing about it. The headline is almost always the same – “THE DEATH OF THE PC HAS NOT BEEN...
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Crye-Leike, Realtors® Recognized For Outstanding Website Marketing: Recipient...
Nashville, Tenn. (March 9, 2016) – Crye-Leike, REALTORS®, the nation’s fourth largest privately-held residential real estate firm, was named the winner of the 2015 Most Effective Search Engine...
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A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
A French writer wrote this line – “a goal without a plan is just a wish.” It often pops into my head when I read a trade story about a hot new real estate tech company that upon closer inspection,...
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Blow Away Your Broker Profit Goals
Top 5 Reasons to Leverage MLS Listing Data in Your Brokerage Today MLS data can make a lot of the systems in a brokerage work more smoothly and can create new ways to serve the needs of your clients...
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