Watch and Learn: 9 Broker Webinars from 2014

If you were a broker looking to discover new tech tools, 2014 was a banner year. During that time, we hosted a series of webinars that offered live demonstrations of cutting edge real estate solutions and featured real brokers sharing their personal experiences with technology.

Below is a list of all of these webinars. Each link features notes from each event and--even better--the full video recording! Revisit your favorite events, or catch up on those you missed, by clicking the links below.

1. How to Combat Misinformation about the Real Estate Market

Every day, real estate agents and brokers have to battle a consumer who has built their beliefs about trends in the market, from prices to home value, on misinformation. The only way to combat this is to be more vocal with the correct information for today's home buyers. In this event, we spoke with two brokers to explore this issue and discuss the steps they've taken and the tool they use to make changes for a home buying consumer experience.

2. Brokers, Accelerate Your Business with DocuSign for Real Estate

This webinar provided one of the first looks at DocuSign for Real Estate PLUS, Broker Edition. The new solution integrates "transaction rooms" into DocuSign's eSignature platform, giving users the ability to manage, share, eSign, and store transaction documents entirely within DocuSign.

3. Smarter Marketing of your Listings and Brand using Transaction Management

What does transaction management have to do with accurate listing data? Plenty. As a home base for all of your listings, your transaction management platform is the first to know whether a property's status has changed to pending, sold, and beyond. Search portals, however, are reliant on third party sources for data. We teamed up with "do-it-all" real estate solution Reesio and two brokers to learn how to efficiently manage data and business processes from the time a listing enters the brokerage to the day it closes. Find out how to avoid duplicate data entry, logging into multiple solutions, and how to take back control of your data.

4. Selling the Sizzle - The One Tool Your Agents Will Actually Use and You Can't Live Without

Real estate brokers are shifting their company resources from a tradition of supporting agents by marketing listings to supporting them with client servicing tools. No single product supports this shift better than electronic signatures. In this webinar, we explored how one e-signature solution, DocuSign, helps brokers do just that. If you are considering transaction management in your business, this is a webinar that you must take the time to review.

5. Sell Your Listings Faster with Showing Suite

The heart of any brokerage is managing showing appointments. Successful brokerages have solutions that manage that process for their agents so they do not spend hours of their data setting up showings. For broker Alan Shafran, a key benefit to showing software is showing feedback software. He trains his agents on how to take the feedback from both agents and buyers and share it with the seller. Check out this webinar for a round table discussion on showing solutions and how they contribute to success.

6. Want Each of Your Agents to Sell 1 More Listing This Year?

What would it mean to your brokerage's bottom line if each of your agents got 12 more warm leads this year? What if each agent won one more listing this year? We explored these questions and more in this RETechinar™ and took an in-depth look at a tool that can help agents nurture their contacts and close more business.

7. Mobile. Local. Social.

We sat down for a chat with Florida broker Richard Eimers to discuss the experience of the modern home buyer. We talked about consumer search behavior, the value of Internet leads to new agents versus seasoned agents, and the tools and resources that can make the buying process easier--and make you an indispensable resource along the way.

8. Convert Leads and Close Sales for Less

Converting leads into sales is both an art and a science. Finding leads and keeping them engaged through the buying takes both discipline and insight into consumer psychology. We teamed up with Onboard Informatics and Commissions, Inc. to uncover techniques that let consumers know us, trust us, stays with us right through closing. Check out this webinar for 21 actionable tips that will help you accomplish this.

9. The Real Estate Success Showcase

There are a lot of lead generation and management solutions on the market. It's easy for brokers to spend a lot of money trying out new solutions, but how wisely are you investing your money? That's what we asked broker Craig Reger. A self-described "non-tech savvy guy," he shared how he finally found one solution that he considers a wise investment.