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Maya J. Paveza is a full-time, award winning REALTOR in Delaware with Coldwell Banker Preferred. She has gained national acclaim for continuously redefining the role social media plays in her business. Her ability to maneuver the changing landscape allowed her to become the top Coldwell Banker agent in volume in Delaware in 2009.

She is a frequent speaker on how the Web and social media have created new opportunities to build brand awareness, generate leads and increase profitability. Not confined to the real estate industry, Paveza is often asked to share her views in such prominent social media forums as the Future of Marketing: 60 in 60 , where she presented with such innovators as Tony Hsieh (Founder of Zappos), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Guy Kawasaki (co-founder Alltop), Jeffrey Hayzlett (former CMO Kodak), Bonin Bough (Director of Social Media for Pepsico) and others.

She is also invited to discuss her viewpoint at many other business and entrepreneurial events, including the Delaware Department of Economic Development Entrepreneurial Conferences, Xplode, various 140 Character Conferences (NY, DC and Detroit), Real Estate Technology South, Ignite Events, PodCamp Philly, ActiveRain RainCamp, as a speaker and educator for Coldwell Banker Generation Blue Conference, and many others.

Her understanding of how technology impacts business dates back to her years working as a senior web developer and designer at such prestigious firms as AIG, FirstUSA, AstraZeneca, WingspanBank.com. Her team won the 1998 Smithsonian Award for Innovation for their work on the AIG Online Auto Insurance Quote site.

This background, along with her entrepreneurial spirit, have paved the way for her real estate success since she joined the industry in 2001.

Helping her real estate colleagues better understand and utilize the “New Web” remains her passion. She has joined forces with social media innovator Chris Brogan, the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Trust Agents, and his company Human Business Works and has launched The Hip Roof, a real estate education and community site designed to enhance agent productivity through social media. The site offers eBooks, webinars, teleseminars and much more.

Paveza is also currently the Curator for the Social Media section for RAW: Real Estate and Women, a community for women in real estate created by Lavina Gaucher, of Kelowna, BC.

Paveza lives in Wilmington, DE with her husband Gary and their children (Katarina 7 and Lindsay 4).