Find out how this brokerage struck gold with a well-thought-out tech strategy, a near flawless platform rollout and record numbers of agent adoption.
What tech really matters to agents, and what doesn’t? Invest wisely.
There seems to be an unspoken agreement that the single most important piece of technology a real estate professional can have is their website. Looking further into this belief many think that the website alone will produce an infinite amount of leads and business as long as it is a unique, one-of-a-kind custom site that has video and parallax elements throughout. So if a single tech asset, namely your website, is not your best tech asset, what is?
When a real estate brokerage, team, or agent is asked about what they are doing regarding their own individual marketing efforts the answers might surprise you. The majority of agents in the United States have an almost even distribution of their marketing dollars between print and digital marketing. To shed some light on how agents spend their precious marketing dollars, it is important to identify exactly what constitutes print vs digital.
Throughout the years, RE/MAX Advantage Plus has remained one of Minnesota’s revered and multiple award-winning real estate firms, primarily because of their commitment to cutting edge technology and redefining the real estate process.
Having strong technology at the foundation of your brokerage isn’t something "nice to have". It’s a necessity. Here are some of the benefits of incorporating great technology tools into your brokerage landscape.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
Are you nurturing leads at the right time and in the right way? Here's what you should know about the journey your clients take when buying a home.
The leading provider of hyper-local school, demographic, and lifestyle data, Local Logic makes it easy for brokers and agents to help customers search by local qualities that matter most.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In real estate, the million-dollar question is, ‘How do I make more money?’ The easy answer: close more deals. Unfortunately, it’s not always as easy as it sounds, otherwise, we’d all be rolling in the dough. By automating some of your most important and time-consuming processes, you can become more effective in cultivating leads, keeping in touch with clients, and managing your active listings. So, what does your brokerage automated look like? Here are a few ways that a real estate CRM can automate your marketing and team activities to help you work smarter and become more profitable.
Text messaging is the most popular application on smartphones, and 40% of home buyers prefer communicating with an agent by text over phone calls. Additionally, text messages have an open rate of 98%. How can real estate agents harness this opportunity and use text messaging to capture leads? Here are some best practices for when and what to text your real estate leads.
Why is it that you run into so many old-fashioned “CRM” systems? What a brokerage, successful team, or large real estate company truly needs is high integration and high automation around some very simple tools that make your life easier. For today’s post, we have brought together some of the ways that working leads and contacts in an old system or process contrasts with the way they can (and should) be worked in a new technology system.
The effectiveness of real estate lead generation programs for brokers and teams is 100% reliant on how they track and report to drive higher conversion rates. The Inside Real Estate team focuses on bringing the data and tips together that really allow you to maximize your team’s effectiveness on conversion. Here are the top 3 factors in improving real estate lead conversion.
The trick to taking advantage of the leads you have as well as driving more conversion out of new leads is all about well-placed automation and strict tracking. Here are 4 things you should have in place in order to achieve the highest conversion rates on current and new leads.