Our Company, WAV Group
In today’s business environment it is tougher than ever to find new paths to optimize your real estate business. The WAV Group can help you make better technology decisions and to find new breakthroughs and paths to success. Areas we can help with include:
- Facilitating comprehensive strategic planning initiatives
- Evaluating and selecting real estate technology solutions
- Designing and executing research programs
- Helping you to develop and launch your next real estate product
- Creating and executing custom marketing plans
- Optimizing sales - sales training, comp plans, presentation development, distribution strategies
- Building and evaluating compensation plans
- Retooling marketing and distribution strategies
- Delivering broker Internet strategies to increase leads and lead conversion
WAV Group has a depth of experience in technology, strategic planning, research, business development, sales, product development and marketing in the real estate industry. We work with your organization as virtual executives and help you meet the objectives of your business or association, more quickly, more effectively and more affordably. Our partners have collectively launched over 25 businesses and have led several hundred business process evaluations and system installations in North America, Europe and Asia. We have created significant increases in sales and profits for Fortune 100 to start-up companies. Our clients include real some of the largest MLS’s in North America, International real estate franchise organizations, leading brokerages, technology companies, and trade associations. This diverse collection of global industry experience allows the WAV Group to cross-fertilize ideas and bring best of breed solutions to its clients.
All of the WAV Group partners have been CEO’s, Executive team members or founders of Fortune 100 and venture-funded corporations and approach each relationship with a clear understanding of the challenges that face our client’s businesses today. We are here to help you take your association or business to the next level and create the next wave of success!
RE Technology launches VScreen Training Videos
09-08-2011
Leading real estate technology media site, RE Technology, has partnered with VScreen to create agent training videos from top industry trainers. Arroyo Grande, CA (September 2011) – As a leading technology resource for the real estate industry, no one understands the value of video for websites better than the team at RE Technology. The company has partnered with VScreen, a leader in real estate training video creation and distribution, to improve their website’s home page: www.RETechnology.com. “We’ve published many articles about video on our website,” Read more...
WAV Group Unveils New Website, Enhanced Resources for Real Estate Industry
06-02-2011
The leading real estate consultants at WAV Group are unveiling a new, enhanced website. The new site will make their valuable content even more accessible to brokers, MLSs, and associations seeking to grow their business. For RSS subscribers, please renew your subscription by dropping the following link into your feed reader: feed://waves.wavgroup.com/feed/ WAV Group (www.wavgroup.com) has become the go-to resource for real estate industry insiders seeking guidance about strategy and technology. To make their valuable insights and information more accessible to readers, the thought leaders Read more...
NAR Announces 2011 30 under 30 Award Winners
05-31-2011
As a former winner of a “40 under 40″ award in Buffalo, New York I know what an honor it is to receive a “30 under 30″ award. It’s a great way for the industry to recognize those that go above and beyond – the up and comers – the future of our business. Today, the National Association of REALTORS® announced its 2011 list of “30 Under 30″ honorees. This group exemplifies the personal drive many Realtors® have to be the best and provide a Read more...
Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RML
01-11-2011
Kurt von Wasmuth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2010 Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ RMLS™ Board of Directors promotes companys Senior Vice President PORTLAND, Ore. RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, announced the promotion of Kurt von Wasmuth to President and CEO today. Von Wasmuth joined RMLS™ in 1998 as a Help Desk Technician and most recently served as Senior Vice President. He has also held management positions in training, communications and information Read more...
MRIS Goes Live With RETechnology.com
10-05-2010MRIS recently announced they have gone live with RETechnology.com as a member benefit to help their brokers and agents make more informed technology decisions. RETechnology.com is the largest portal of its kind dedicated to providing real estate professionals information on real estate technology and products on one easy to use site. RETechnology.com is free when offered to real estate professionals through their MLS. John Heithaus, CMO of MRIS, explains that, “RETechnology is the first website of its kind in the industry and promises to make a positive Read more...
The RPR - Data Seeker Update
09-21-2010The RPR Data Seeker Update It has been almost twelve months since the San Diego NAR conference when RPR had their coming out party and began the data wars our industry finds itself in. Maybe it didn’t actually start the whole issue of using MLS data for non-traditional purposes, but it certainly put it in our mainstream discussions. It also made the whole concept of using MLS data for purposes other than selling properties a concept that the industry was willing to consider. This was Read more...
A lesson from a departed friend - Chris Warner
07-07-2010We write so much in our industry about stuff. Stuff like technology, politics, data and other topics dominate our blogs and daily reading but today I want to share a few thoughts about a person that many of you may not know, Chris Warner, who was very important to me, and others, in our early days in our industry. Chris recently passed away. Chris and I, like many of our cohorts in our industry, worked together at PRC Realty Systems in the 80’s when the Read more...
New Ways to Leverage MLS Data
04-30-2010
It is an exciting time for Multiple Listing Services. The announcement of REALTOR® Property Resource by NAR has spawned many debates and several new programs allowing MLSs to leverage local property information in many new ways. The programs are exciting, but are evolving quickly and thus can be a bit confusing and even overwhelming at times. In an effort to help every MLS understand the unique values of each of the programs now available, the Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS), commissioned WAV Group to Read more...
Who will tie the data together in the MLS world?
02-24-2010If you have worked in the MLS world as long as I have you know how many moving parts there are in terms of technology to run the organization effectively. With the creation of RETS, the so called “standard”, the use of multiple modules to provide services has increased even more. What has been obvious to me for many years looking at the industry’s technology, however, is that no one has done a good job of pulling all of the important data points together for Read more...
RMLS Portland Announces Kurt von Wasmuth as new President/CEO
01-11-2010Press Release: Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ Kurt von Wasmuth FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2010 Kurt von Wasmuth Named President and CEO of RMLS™ RMLS™ Board of Directors promotes companys Senior Vice President PORTLAND, Ore. RMLS™ (Regional Multiple Listing Service), the largest Realtor®-owned multiple listing service in the Northwest, announced the promotion of Kurt von Wasmuth to President and CEO today. Von Wasmuth joined RMLS™ in 1998 as a Help Desk Technician and most recently served as Senior Vice President. Read more...
10K Partners with the Greater Capital Association, NY
10-30-200910K Partners with GCAR Minneapolis, MN (October 30, 2009). 10K Research and Marketing is pleased to announce a Market Reporting Partnership with the Greater Capital Association of REALTORS®, Inc. (GCAR). GCAR has elected to roll with our Monthly Indicators, Local Market Updates, Housing Supply Outlook, and Skinny Video, and this thrills us. Said James Ader, Chief Executive Officer of GCAR, “GCAR decided to partner with 10K Research and Marketing because our Board of Directors feels the products they provide will further advance our membership as Read more...
Job Posting - Executive Vice President - Association/MLS
10-27-2009
POSITION TITLE: Executive Vice President-Association/MLS REPORTS TO: Board of Directors ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION The Greenwich Association of REALTORS® (GAR) and Multiple Listing Service serving one of the most exceptional markets in the U.S., with average property values in the millions, is currently interviewing candidates for the position of Executive Vice President. The Greenwich Association of REALTORS® and Multiple Listing Service are driven by clear strategic goals and benchmarks designed to continually improve all member services from education to technology and data accuracy. The Association has recently Read more...
WAV Group partners selected as featured speakers on brokeragentspeakers bureau
06-16-2009Marilyn Wilson and Victor Lund, partners in the WAV Group, were recently selected as featured speakers by the Broker/Agent speakers bureau. The speaker’s bureau connects interested parties to over 100 speakers in the real estate and financial services industries covering hundreds of topics and offer keynote speakers, real estate seminar speakers, workshop leaders, breakout speakers and more. Marilyn and Victor are frequent speakers at real estate industry events and now, though the bureau, are available to speak on a wide range of broker/agent services from Read more...
Victor Lund
12-17-2008
Victor Lund is a founding partner of WAV Group – facilitated by the merger between Wilson Victor Associates and Audet Consulting in May 2004. Wilson Victor Associates was a leading technology and business-consulting firm serving their clients in the areas of new business development and new product development, marketing and venture funding. Prior to Wilson Victor Associates, Mr. Lund was an associate partner with Resource Capitalist, LLC. Mr. Lund was raised in family controlled businesses, Lund American and Dynamic Homes. Lund American, the world’s premier aluminum Read more...
