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January 30, 2015

Scott Strevell: ‘Local content produces our best results’

Age: 53 Years in real estate: 32 Job title: Broker associate at KC Homes 365 Team with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Kansas City Realty Location: Kansas City, specializing in Johnson County Hours per week spent on social media: Less than one hour per day, but working on increasing our presence on the…
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January 30, 2015

Radical innovation is coming to real estate. Will you survive it?

Webster’s Dictionary defines innovation as “the act of introducing something new.” That’s weak. Someone could introduce a new shape of marshmallow into the market, but it creates little change. So let’s redefine the word. There are two levels of innovation, the first being “incremental innovation — new, but not lethal.”…
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January 30, 2015

Building the dream MLS

NEW YORK — It’s time for the multiple listing service to go back to its roots and remember its main reason for being: to foster cooperation between agents. That’s according to several real estate leaders asked to imagine their “dream” MLS at today’s Real Estate Connect conference. The MLS was…
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January 30, 2015

Technology fueling commission rebates to Toronto homebuyers

Canadian brokerages TheRedPin and CommissionMadeFair.com say technology that lets homebuyers do much of the legwork involved in finding the home of their dreams themselves lets them offer commission rebates to buyers. Homebuyers “can filter through all the facts until they’re ready to take the next steps, which is usually going…
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January 29, 2015

No locked doors at indie brokerages — and in some cases, no doors

NEW YORK — Inman’s independent broker survey revealed that a big factor behind the current boom in unaffiliated firms is the freedom broker-owners have to pursue their business and adapt to changing conditions as they see fit. An open office floor plan is one way that freedom and entrepreneurial spirit shines through at three firms…
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January 29, 2015

Notorious real estate coach basks in ‘bad guy’ image

Mike Ferry doesn’t want to be your friend. Not if you’re his coaching client at least. The industry bigwig, widely regarded as the granddaddy of real estate coaching, believes coaches who socialize with their clients are less likely to be effective at teaching tactics for drumming up business and closing more…
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January 29, 2015

Ability to customize and integrate helps vendor keep big client

Keller Williams Realty has renewed an agreement with its custom intranet provider, BackAgent, which touted its ability to build new features suggested by the franchisor and improve integration with Keller Williams’ existing systems for the extension of a relationship dating to 2011. The BackAgent platform integrates directly with “myKW,” Keller…
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January 29, 2015

Keller Williams re-ups with dotloop for 5 more years

Dotloop will continue to power the transaction management component of Keller Williams Realty all-in-one tech platform for five more years, extending the firm’s partnership into 2021. Dotloop has been a Keller Williams partner since 2009, and was on board in 2011 as the franchisor rolled out its “eEdge” platform, which…
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January 29, 2015

App promises to help you ‘Keep’ your clients

Good real estate brokers and agents get a heck of a lot of business from repeat clients and referrals, but they might get even more if they had an easy way to stay in touch. Agents call it staying “top of mind,” and a new post-closing marketing tool for real…
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January 29, 2015

Agent safety apps leverage real estate community

NEW YORK — Let’s face it: Many real estate agents do not vet strangers before meeting them in homes for fear of losing a sale. But in the wake of the kidnapping and killing of Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter, technology companies are coming up with mobile apps designed…
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