As you may know from the August Press Release, RE Technology will soon be launching in MRIS, MRED and MLSListings.com.  RE Technology was created to allow an MLS to deliver a directory of technology vendors, product reviews, and product news to keep their members informed about the best tools and services available today.

If you are a technology vendor, be sure to join the more than 400 companies who have registered for the free directory here.

If you are an MLS or REALTOR Association - you may offer RE Technology subscriptions to your members too.  Just send a note or call.

It is time once again for the annual REAL Trends 500 Survey.  If your brokerage firm closed more than 500 transaction sides in 2009, you qualify to participate in this year’s ranking.  Making this prestigious list can be a great marketing tool for your firm.  It’s a great honor to be featured with the most progressive and successful firms in the industry. The REAL TRENDS 500 Survey highlights the companies that sold the most homes and the most dollar volume in the past 12 months.

The deadline to submit an application is FEBRUARY 28th, 2010 so don’t miss out!

All firms which participated in last year’s survey will automatically receive via e-mail a direct link to your survey. If you have not received a link or if this is the first year your firm has participated please visit us at www.realtrends.com and click on the large “Submit REAL Trends 500 Survey” button located in the upper left corner of the home page or contact Amy Broset at abroset@realtrends.com or 303.741.1000.

Good luck!  We hope you make it to the top 500!

Vendor Alley is opening a jobs board, but until that is live, we are teaming together with other bloggers to announce job openings in our industry.  There has never been a better time to attract talent into real estate technology.  If you know anyone that is looking for work who knows saleforce.com - be sure to send them over to LPS for a confidential interview.

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The LPS Real Estate Group is looking for a Senior Customer Relationship Management Evangelist to join a dynamic technology organization.  This key position will involve working closely with senior management and technology staff in the design and implementation of an enterprise CRM program. 

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Brian Larson commented on another set of great questions yesterday from John Rees on MLS Tesseract, that John posted on his Strategic MLS blog that look at legal considerations to consider when evaluating the RPR opportunity. We encourage all MLSs to read John’s questions and to include them in their discussions and evaluations.

Click to see the entire  article from John Rees

Another question that came up as a result of my RPR paper, from Ron Stephen, Executive Vice President of RealtyWEB.NET MLS in Jacksonville, FL was the potential impact RPR

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Since the announcement made by NAR on the formation of RPR and their public rollout at the NAR conference in San Diego, RPR and their proposed business model has been a major topic of conversation in MLSs across the U.S.  Some MLSs seem to think this is an idea long overdue while others have expressed “no interest” while most seem to be somewhere in between with a “wait and see” attitude.

c planning session we facilitated for a major MLS the topic of RPR participation was, of course, discussed.  Our approach to the discussion, as with any business issue, is to try to take the hype and emotion out of the discussion to look at it for what it is, a business decision.  To that end, we believe there are several points each MLS might consider as they decide whether RPR makes sense for them or not.  This is not intended to serve as a full review of the RPR opportunity but we hope it at least presents some questions to stimulate your MLS discussions. Click on the following link to download the paper.

Download RPR - Paper