Insider Blog
Fuel your real estate business and brand with technology insights,
news, product updates, and advice from the Insiders.
Attract, nurture, and retain your ideal recruits seamlessly with IdealEstate, now part of kvCORE
Tap into IdealEstate's pool of 1M+ real estate professionals and provide a seamless candidate journey from the top of the funnel all the way to your team or brokerage.
Putting indie brokerage savvy into the launch of an uber successful team
How this successful team leader of Urban Nest Realty is using experience and technology to drive team growth.
A best-in-class tech stack starting with kvCORE Gives the 3600+ agents at Samson Properties the tools they need to succeed
For Donny Samson, CEO of Samson Properties, kvCORE has been a game-changer. He wanted the best tool out there — and he wanted to offer it company-wide for free. He tells his agents, “I can't hit the home run for you, but I can give you as many times as bat as possible.” Here’s why Samson and his agents love kvCORE.
CORE Video gives you powerful new video messaging tools to build your business the human way
CORE Video powered by BombBomb helps your real estate business build and maintain meaningful relationships with video marketing integrated right into the kvCORE platform.
How dashCMA can help you break through the hyper-competitive real estate market
dashCMA is the modern real estate listing presentation tool that drastically simplifies the process and lets you easily customize home pricing presentations.
Achieving an audacious goal: Royal LePage's future-focused digital transformation with rlpSPHERE
Royal LePage is once again shaking the industry’s foundations as a technology innovator with the launch of its ground-breaking digital ecosystem, rlpSPHERE. Powered by kvCORE, the platform features a suite of fully integrated proprietary and industry technologies.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Market Leader for Sale & Real Estate Websites/CRMs: What You Should Know
If you haven’t heard, the acquisition baby of Trulia-then-Zillow, Market Leader, is for sale. But what does this really mean for real estate professionals, and especially Market Leader’s customers? I can’t claim to be unbiased in my view on the technology, but there are some clear, facts that are important for Market Leader customers and others around the industry to know.
Mix It Up: Why Smart Brokers Diversify Their Real Estate Lead Sources
As real estate professionals, we talk a lot about finding the fastest (and least labor-intensive) path to generate real estate leads. And when a certain lead gen strategy has been producing consistent results for your team, it’s hard to think that there’s any reason to diversify. But if you are siloing your efforts to only one source, you are placing an extremely risky bet. Where do you expect to get your best real estate prospects this year? Here is where agents, team leaders, and broker-owners are finding success with online real estate leads in 2015, as reported in a recent survey by Inman.
Drip Marketing 101: Put Your Real Estate CRM to Work
Without a real estate CRM, the process of tracking and segmenting communication with various leads manually can be painstaking. Because successful agents know that they need to stay productive in order to be profitable, the task of sending a series of emails often gets pushed to the back burner. However, when done effectively, drip marketing has shown to increase sales opportunities by an average of 20%. Here are a few best practices for determining who should receive what type of email, and when they should receive that message.
What's the Score? 4 Ways to Track Real Estate Lead Generation Activities
To succeed and grow your brokerage, you need to do several things at the same time: generate leads, recruit and train effective agents, and track agent activity with full accountability, all while utilizing the right tools to convert leads into sales. Here are four ways you can keep your agents accountable by tracking their lead generation activities from first-contact to closed-deal.