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Help us crack the code of online leads

Online leads can be a polarizing topic in the real estate community. Where some agents and brokers see great value, others see garbage. Whether you’ve never bought an Internet lead in your life or you capture scores every day, we want to know what you think about online leads, where you’re…
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How I landed 54 new prospects in 4 days

I have had three articles published on Inman in the last two months. For a blogger, guest-posting is an excellent way to gain exposure in your industry. There is also an opportunity to add email subscribers to your list, which is something I have focused on during the last two months.…
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Realtor facing criminal charges over 8 loans made nearly a decade ago

A Sacramento, California, Realtor has been charged with eight counts of bank fraud for allegedly submitting fraudulent loan applications that enabled clients she represented nearly a decade ago to buy eight homes they did not qualify for. Gabriela Carter / LinkedIn Gabriela Carter, 43, “falsely represented her clients’ income and…
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Machine v. Realtor, making DoJ go away, and staying on the right side of the law

Loquacity on machine v. Realtor As I perused Trulia’s 2014 annual report (just posted on the SEC’s website this morning), I was struck by the staggering amount of data the online real estate giant generates and keeps track of. Trulia says it manages “over one terabyte of data on a…
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Safety app turns smartphone into security camera

The latest app aimed at protecting real estate agents in the field, “Agent.Watch,” turns your smartphone into a security camera. When a real estate agent activates the app from an iPhone or Android device, their smartphone begins capturing videos and photos. That media is uploaded in real time to the cloud where…
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Zillow Group’s game of ‘chicken’

For months now, the rumor mill has been flying with talk of Zillow and Trulia (now Zillow Group) ending the featured listings placement for brokers and franchisors by the end of 2015. Large brokers and franchisors who pay $5 to $10 to feature a listing, with all competing agents stripped…
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Mysterious ‘Upstream’ initiative won’t be consumer-facing

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Details of the mysterious Project Upstream remain sparse, but whatever it is, it will not be public-facing to consumers. That’s according to Craig Cheatham, president and CEO of The Realty Alliance, which is spearheading the project. Cheatham spoke on a panel at Clareity’s MLS Workshop this week.…
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Innovative broker touts new ‘mobile-first’ website

Marking the broker’s latest effort to use technology to better serve and attract clients, San Francisco-based Pacific Union has unveiled a “mobile-first” website and set of mobile applications that it says will provide richer content, including updated information about “micro-markets” throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Pacific Union contends that the new website’s focus…
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Melissa Kwan: ‘Movements never happen with just one person or company’

The Spacio CEO talks about why transparency is paramount and reveals which cross-continental move helped her business. The post Melissa Kwan: ‘Movements never happen with just one person or company’ appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
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Artificially low interest rates hurt job growth, housing sales

Companies get a better return on investment buying back shares than hiring employees or investing in capital equipment. Buying back a company’s own shares is so attractive, it even makes sense to fire employees and reinvest the savings to do so. But what are the larger economic consequences of this behavior…
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