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The 50/50 Social Media Strategy for Agents & Brokers

There are plenty of ways for real estate agents and brokers to automate their posts. But there is an important balance between automation and personalization. Simply posting your listings is not enough. Having a “robot-like” social presence is not effective in building client relationships. That’s why a 50/50 strategy between personalization and automation is so important for today’s agents and brokers. It solves the need for automation for the ever-busy agent, while also putting some of the focus on personalization.

5 Key Features Needed for Agent Adoption

We’ve narrowed the list down to the top 5 value propositions needed within a CRM platform to have the highest success of Agent Adoption.

Inside Real Estate Soars 149% Over Previous Year

In the effort to support its 149% year-over-year revenue growth and massive demand for its leading cloud software, Inside Real Estate has made some recent high-profile hires. These hires are well-known and well-respected within the real estate and tech industries, and position Inside Real Estate as a powerhouse brand with solutions for real estate brokers, teams and agents at every stage of their business.

Leads are Easy, Converting Them is the Challenge (And 5 Ways to Fix That)

In today’s real estate market, finding leads really isn’t the problem, it’s converting them. There are multiple ways to help you cultivate your list. But it’s what you do with those leads that really matters. Even in hot real estate markets, you’ll find plenty of potential clients who need nurturing. How are you going to nurture them all the way to the closing table?

3 Ways AI Can Help You Close a Deal

There’s a big misconception around what artificial intelligence (AI) really is and how it can impact your real estate business. To make matters more confusing, many of today’s real estate software platforms have latched onto the term but fail to explain what’s really behind the curtain. So what is AI, exactly?

10 Questions to Ask Your Tech Vendor About Your Data

You’ve most likely heard about the recent news in the industry calling to question the safety of your personal contacts, sphere, leads or other data that belongs to your real estate business. Many tech platforms expect you to freely hand over your private sphere data in order to use their solutions. And there lies the question: How safe is your data when you hand it over?

5 Keys to Winning at Lead-Gen as a Brokerage

Running a cost-effective lead-generation program is as difficult as anything else brokers will do. Follow these five lead-gen strategies to maximize deal flow and increase ROI for your in-house lead generation program.

3 Essential Tools That Will 10X Your Real Estate Marketing

Spraying your message high and wide does not breed online marketing success; rather, standout results emerge when you pair smart, strategic decisions with the right tools. The software you use to help you do this is critical. Here are 3 essential components your software platform must have to drive more leads, dramatically increase your conversion rates and accelerate your marketing success.

Rich Broker, Poor Broker: Breaking Free and Building Wealth in Real Estate with the “Cashflow Quadrant”

We all know the mantra, “Work smarter, not harder”. However sick of the expression you may be, as a professional in the real estate industry, can say that you actually consider this concept on a regular basis and actively practice it?

3 Hard Truths About Building Your Brokerage

Real estate is hyper-competitive. According to the 2012 Economic Census, there are 86,004 real estate brokerage firms operating in the United States. This means you have competitors around every corner vying to overtake your market and your business. However, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is focussing on your competition. Successful brokers focus on determining their own strengths and figuring out how to build a solid foundation for their agents and clients. Here are some key facts that are moving forward-thinking brokerages in the right direction.

Straight Talk: Why Agents Leave Your Brokerage

Only two metrics really matter to your brokerage: recruitment and retention. Why is retention so important, aside from the obvious that top producers continue to produce? Because it is an indisputable, impossible-to-fabricate metric that reflects your brokerage’s core values. We’ll cut to the chase. If you have an agent retention problem, It’s not them, it’s you. You may be falling short in a variety of areas, including the ones below. Review them to see how you stack up and where you could improve.

To Our Friends and Industry

Inside Real Estate will be here, independent, and leading the way, arm in arm with you, keeping your data secure and driving the innovation that champions the agent, and empowers you to serve this industry every day.

Does Tech Increase Transaction Volume? Yes—And There’s Proof

The data is indisputable. Inside Real Estate’s kvCORE Platform is getting more business for real estate professionals across the board.

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Real Estate Teams Get What They Deserve

Teams just scored the most sophisticated solution ever created thanks to the latest release by the newly combined Inside Real Estate and BoomTown teams.

Does the Real Work Start After the Real Estate Transaction? The Numbers Say Yes.

Post Close Companion is your answer to client nurture after the transaction. And it makes it easier than ever. 

See why top agents and teams are flocking to brokerages with kvCORE

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Elite-Level Marketing Materials Don’t Need to be Time or Labor Intensive– Here’s Why

kvCORE is innovating tools that allow agents to do it all, without having to do it all.

Will 250k Agents Leave the Business Next Year?

What can you be doing to make sure your agents stay loyal with you and stay productive?

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Pulling back the curtain: How top independent brokerage, Samson Properties, recruits over 100 new agents per month.

“Once agents see and hear about our tech stack, and find out it’s free to them, the deal is done,” says Donny Samson, CEO of Samson Properties. "The tech stack offered by Inside Real Estate's kvCORE Platform has been a game-changer for us."

Canvas Real Estate Sees Massive Growth Through Independent Tech & Training

Canvas Real Estate is among Florida’s leading independent real estate firms. Spanning the east coast from their base in Ft. Lauderdale, the firm is generating over $13 million in gross commission income across 800 agents. WAV Group founding partner, Victor Lund met with Canvas CEO Ernesto Vega to learn about the key strategies that are powering success at Canvas.

One More Time, with Pam Johnson O'Connor

Pam O’Connor retired only two years ago from Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, where she was more than its President and CEO, she was an industry leader and a mentor to many. Inside Real Estate was thrilled to have her join us on the second edition of Insider Spotlight.

5 Takeaways from 7 Talking Points on Making Your Brokerage Profitable in a Shifting Market

In an insightful and candid discussion with Inside Real Estate’s Executive Vice President of Marketing and Enterprise Sales, Alissa Harper, and REAL Trends President Steve Murray. They offer slew of suggestions on how brokerages can cope with the inevitable changes that the COVID-19 crisis will bring to the industry.

How Weichert is Supercharging its Engine for the Future

National real estate powerhouse, New Jersey-based Weichert Realtors® has a long history of innovating to grow...50 years to be exact. With the recent launch of its brand-new technology ecosystem—myWeichert, powered by kvCORE—the firm has upped its value proposition for the more than 13,000 company and affiliated sales associates it serves.

What we learned in 2019 and what it means for you in 2020

With the landscape more crowded and confusing than ever, we reflected on the lessons we all learned last year, uncovering three ideas that we believe can lead us back to a path toward service, collaboration, and smart growth. And, it favors the agent-based model that’s worked for more than a century.

Homes of Idaho

Homes of Idaho experiences record growth by breaking the "one-size-fits-all" mold. “We’ve been able to build our own tech ecosystem that fits our culture and brand, so even if another brokerage in our market is using kvCORE, it isn’t going to look like our kvCORE.” -- Colby Lampman, Broker/Owner, Homes of Idaho

Small and Midsized Brokers Power Recruiting with CORE BackOffice

Actually working out the commission program needed to recruit agents presents much less of a challenge than tracking these unique commission programs designed for each agent on something other than an Excel spreadsheet. Small and midsized firms need to support variety in their compensation plans in order to recruit and require an affordable solution that integrates with QuickBooks. In 2016 and 2017, entrepreneur Jeremy Shoenig developed software for exactly this purpose, called BrokerSumo.

Real estate teams should demand more. Here’s why.

Teams are often the highest contributors to brokerage sales volume and one of the fastest-growing segments in real estate. This makes teams a critical part of today’s real estate landscape, so it’s important for brokers to make an effort to do whatever they can to recruit and retain teams in their organization. Fortunately, industry technology has improved in recent years and there are solutions today, like kvCORE Platform from Inside Real Estate, that effectively support teams and individual agents on one platform. Now, broker-owners have complete control, but can also allow their teams and agents to customize the platform to fit their needs and create their personal and private platform within the broker platform.

Tapping the Zillow Gap - Competing on Consumer Experience

Ah, Zillow. The real estate portal we all know and love? It’s no secret that many homebuyers leverage the “Z word” to begin their initial stages of the homebuying process. Due to the popularity of Zillow with homebuyers, many brokerages and agents alike feel they must be committing a dedicated monthly budget to the platform for a perceived fear of missing out on a potentially limitless stream of leads. Many real estate professionals also feel there is an unspoken expectation they need to be present on the search portal to truly compete with those who are also on Zillow. However, often the cons/disadvantages of advertising with Zillow outweigh the perceived pros.

Two Industry Leaders Team Up on 'A Journey to Tech Perfection'

REAL Trends and Inside Real Estate set out to answer an age-old problem for brokerages: How do you get agents to use the wonderful products and services that you offer? Many times, the technology is complicated, or the agents don’t want to invest the time into learning a new program. However, much of the time it’s due to a lack of management support, few training opportunities, and a dearth of incentives for sales associates to commit to your brokerage tech platform.

What Wins the Broker Tech Battle - Exclusive Interview

Joe Skousen, Founder/President of Inside Real Estate weighs in on what’s really behind the broker-tech battle, and how brokers can win the war.

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