CoreLogic Hires John Chipman

WAV Group are pleased to announced that John Chipman has joined the CoreLogic Team. Read the full press release from CoreLogic below. It is my pleasure to announce that John Chipman has joined CoreLogic® as a strategic account executive with a focus on real estate brokerage. John has been working with real estate brokerages dating back to his start with Homestore in 1999. Over the years he has become an expert at understanding the operational need of brokers in areas of online marketing, digital marketing, websites, CRM, and big data. John will be responsible for CoreLogic large broker and franchise [...]

5 Steps to an Impactful and Effective Strategic Plan

by MARILYN WILSON on APRIL 28, 2017 We’ve all been involved in those strategic planning sessions where you get locked in a room, hold hands, sing Kumbaya, feel really excited for about 3 days and then everyone goes back to doing everything the same old way they did before the session. They are a total waste of time. I call those sessions “Forced Family Fun”. They give strategic planning a bad name. Let’s talk about a way to make the time and effort put into a strategic plan that will actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE for your organization. I’ve been facilitating [...]

Snapchat for Real Estate – Probably Not – But Ideas Abound

If you have a teenager, you know all about Snapchat. Since the earliest days of social media, WAV Group has experimented with a host of social media platforms to discover opportunities for our clients. In lock step, I have been snapping away. Haven’t tried Snapchat for real estate marketing? Don’t bother. Unless you are trying to keep up with your child or other Snapchat enthusiast, there is no place on Snanpchat for the real estate business. However, there are some marketing thoughts that may spark some creative strategic thinking. Scarcity and Urgency Snaps expire after 24 hours. This is an [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00April 27th, 2017|Marketing, Product Management|0 Comments

Clareity Announces New Event For RE Developers and Tech Pros

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – April 27, 2017 – Clareity is excited to announce a new event for the real estate industry: {Integrate}: The Developer’s Workshop. This first-ever, immersive conference is designed for the technical contributors in the industry including developers, coders, engineers, IT professionals, and others interested in real estate technology. This one-day workshop will take place June 1st, 2017 in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort.Speakers will include world-class talent in and outside of Clareity. One featured keynote, Mike Stowe, has built software at Constant Contact, Mulesoft, and Tigera and recently spoke at API:World. Hear Stowe share advice and best practices on [...]

Remine Hires Three Real Estate Technology Veterans

FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/  Lucie Fortier will serve as Remine’s VP of Product to oversee product development and MLS implementations.  Bill Weis was hired as Director of Data Acquisitions. Joel Shears is Director of Industry Relations. Fortier joins Remine from Corelogic, where she was Senior Director of Operations for Real Estate Solutions, including Matrix and Realist, which is in use by more than 700,000 Realtors® today. “MLS executives across North America have a deep respect for Lucie because she can take complex situations and deliver results. She’s got the track record to deliver the Remine platform to [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:51-07:00April 27th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments

Digital Designers are Killing the Content!

One of two things has happened. Either my eyesight is completely shot or magazines have somehow decided that 8-point font is legible. Unfortunately, it turns out my eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be, and just about every magazine I seem to pick up these days appears to be designed by a prima donna or don who is killing the content because it’s impossible to read. The hard truth for boomers is that somehow, magazines have decided to try and make Boomers adapt to them instead of the other way around. My guess is that if you visited [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 27th, 2017|Main category|0 Comments

Upstream May Go Both Ways

April 10th marked a big transition for Upstream RE, the broker driven effort to develop a data management system for all firms. As you may know, there are three components to Upstream – data input, data storage, and data distribution. It is also important to remind you what Upstream is not – it’s not an MLS, not a consumer site, and not a data share. Upstream is a replacement for the independent efforts of all 86,000 real estate brokers to manage their customer records, agent records, firm records, vendor records, and listing records. The big transition is the consideration of [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 27th, 2017|MLS Insights, Press Releases|0 Comments

Brokers Can Now Freely Use This Old House Video for Website Content

WAV Group will be hosting a free informational webinar next Tuesday 2nd May at 10am PST (register here) to provide information about the new offer from This Old House to allow brokerage firms to display their award winning video content at no charge. Brokers have been benefiting from video publishing on their listing pages and community pages for years – but the process of getting fresh, high production quality video has been painful and expensive. This Old House is seeking to drive video views on their content and is partnering with brokers to achieve that objective. It’s great for brokers [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 25th, 2017|Broker Technology Research|0 Comments

Bigger Conferences Are Not Better

The real estate industry is going strong. It is healthy and vibrant, full of bloom and experiencing exciting change. As agents, brokers, MLSs, franchises and tech firms explore a deeper understanding of the industry’s best practices, they look to conferences to gain insights and meet the people that are powering new ideas. Conferences are good, and we attend a lot of them. Our annual conference tour includes two NAR conventions, two Inman Connects, CMLS, two RESO conferences,T3, RIS Media, and a variety of franchise, state AOR, Leading RE, The Realty Alliance, 1000Watt, Clareity, and large AOR or MLS events. Yup [...]

First CoreLogic Client Deploys Graphiq Data Visualizations

IRVINE, Calif., April 19, 2017—CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced that Information and Real Estate Services, LLC (IRES) is the first CoreLogic client to make Graphiq data visualizations available to U.S. homebuyers. Working together, CoreLogic and Graphiq provide responsive data visualizations that graphically illustrate property lot, tax and transaction information, as well as local real estate trends, school ratings, commute times, and demographic breakdowns. Using data from CoreLogic and a variety of other sources, these striking visual representations provide deep insights and valuable context about properties and communities. “The public has access to [...]

By |2018-08-26T11:16:09-07:00April 19th, 2017|Clients, Marketing, MLS Insights|0 Comments

eXp Realty Supports Accelerated Growth with the Addition of Four Industry Veterans to Management Team

BELLINGHAM, WA – (Marketwired – April 17, 2017) – eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), the holding company for eXp Realty LLC, The Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage®, today announced the addition of industry veterans Kee Wah Chung, Kathy Gordon, Scott Petronis and Mitch Robinson to its management team. “Our daily objective is to be the most agent-centric brokerage firm in the world,” said Russ Cofano, President and General Counsel of eXp World Holdings. “Adding Kee Wah, Kathy, Scott and Mitch to our stellar team will allow us to provide new and exciting services for both current and future agents on the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 18th, 2017|Press Releases, Twitter for Real Estate|0 Comments

4 Things Robotics Students Taught Me About Marketing and Communications

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.” That quote from Vernon Howard sums up why I love being around students. They are so damn smart, engaging and not as jaded as the rest of us older folks. They are open to new ideas, quick to embrace innovative thinking and fast to adapt and explore new approaches. During their high school years in particular, what emerges from their minds and behaviors is an explosion of growth that is truly intoxicating to watch. I’ve been a direct witness to this as a founding member [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:52-07:00April 12th, 2017|Main category, Marketing|0 Comments