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TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS Will real estate data save agents? “RPR now live in 43 markets” I didn’t even click on the headline when I saw it on Inman.com a few weeks ago. At this point, and previous writings here notwithstanding, I am having difficulty seeing how RPR will change the … [Read more...]
Starting tomorrow: The 12 days of iPhone and Android Apps for Colorado Springs Real Estate Agents! TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS 10 Common Business Blogging Questions Answered Yesterday Dan Zarrella expanded his scientific webinar series with a presentation analyzing the science behind blogging for … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS Zillow adds Realtor ratings, how will real estate agents react? Not expected to go live until the morning of December 02 at 9am PST, we noticed that Zillow.com launched their Realtor rating system early at around 10pm PST on December 01. The new ratings system allows … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS Online real estate listings: It’s time to clean up our act “Look, let’s just go online right now and look at homes for sale in our price range that aren’t really for sale and get help buying one of them from a Realtor that knows absolutely nothing about the … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS The lead gen form: the gateway to user heaven or user hell Every once in a while we’ll post a breakdown of a real estate brokerage home page here on the blog. We hope to provide some insight into how to create better online real estate user experiences. The lens we … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS The dream of homeownership lives This broker/owner was thirty-something. He looked a lot like me. And sounded unlike any real estate executive I had ever spoken with. I had asked him, in the course of a discovery meeting that kicks off many of our engagements, to … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS How much does NAR spend on individual political campaigns? Ever wonder what candidates and/or offices they hold get what amounts of money via lobbyists for the National Association of Realtors (NAR)? We did, and were rather shocked at how easy it was to get the goods. … [Read more...]
TECHNOLOGY & BUSINESS Are you Lead-Generating or Trust-Generating I am in many brokerages on a regular basis. The most consistent message I hear? Lead generation. Much of this discussion is about gaining leads in the online space. An interesting two words together…lead generation. It makes … [Read more...]
LOCAL and INDUSTRY NEWS Battered commercial real estate market shows signs of improvement The Colorado Springs commercial real estate market is showing an early sign of recovery with the amount of occupied space increasing for the first time this year, according to a quarterly survey by Turner … [Read more...]
LOCAL and INDUSTRY NEWS 'It's a mess:' Short sale delays hamper area housing market A few years ago, most homeowners didn’t know a short sale from a bake sale. As the nation’s economic woes continue and the housing market attempts to rebound from its worst downturn since the late 1980s, short … [Read more...]