ShowingTime+'s Listing Showcase now available nationwide
Agents are using Listing Showcase, now available nationwide, to help them win more listings and attract buyers with a next-generation listing experience SEATTLE, Feb. 21, 2024 – ShowingTime+ announced today that Listing Showcase®, an AI-powered premium listing experience on Zillow, is now available nationwide for listing agents. Since launching in select markets last summer, the Listing Showcase product has been used by agents to elevate their brand presence and help them win more business through an immersive interactive media experience that delivers increased exposure and home shopper engagement on Zillow. Data from initial markets shows that Listing Showcase homes are selling faster than similar nearby non-Showcase listing homes. On average, Showcase listings on Zillow go pending almost 15% faster compared to similar nearby listings. Listing Showcase listings feature high-resolution scrolling hero images, room-by-room photo organization, interactive floors plans and more — all to give shoppers a deeper understanding of the home virtually before they ever step inside. Since the product was released, ShowingTime+ continues to make improvements. Most recently, a floor plan has been added to the map display within a listing, providing shoppers with a clear picture of the home's orientation and placement on the property. Listing Showcase gives agents the ability to customize their listings and provide the interactive, media-rich experience shoppers and sellers want to help attract more interest from buyers. These listings receive powerful exposure on Zillow, generating, on average, 68% more page views, 66% more saves and 63% more shares than similar non-Showcase listings. "Listing Showcase results are outstanding," said Carl Hawthorne, team lead, Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage. "Our views and saves on Zillow are making our listing stand out above the crowd. We are utilizing this marketing to win listing appointments… We are thrilled with this product." Listing Showcase is built to meet the unique needs of brokers, teams and individual agents. Brokers and agents nationwide can now purchase a Listing Showcase subscription on a flexible plan designed for businesses of all sizes. Agents can create Showcase listings by working with a photographer of their choosing or by using ShowingTime+'s in-house media provider, Listing Media Services, where available. "Listing Showcase is a first-of-its-kind experience that transports home shoppers into a home virtually, unlike anything else available today — saving time for home shoppers and attracting serious buyers," said Cynthia Taylor, vice president, ShowingTime+. "This product is a prime example of ShowingTime+'s work to provide tech solutions that make the whole process easier for everyone involved in a home sale." Listing Showcase empowers agents to market themselves and their listings in the best way possible while engaging consumers with information that helps them make informed real estate decisions. The entire ShowingTime+ software suite helps agents and brokers operate their businesses more efficiently, win more customers, and elevate the experience of buying and selling for their clients. About ShowingTime+ ShowingTime+℠ is modernizing real estate for the benefit of all agents, brokers and multiple listing services (MLSs). A brand of Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG), ShowingTime+ provides products and services to help real estate professionals streamline their businesses and deliver elevated experiences to their customers. The ShowingTime+ technology suite includes ShowingTime®, dotloop®, Bridge Interactive®, Listing Media Services and Aryeo ®. ShowingTime+ products are used by hundreds of MLSs representing more than 1 million real estate professionals across the U.S. and Canada. About Zillow Group Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow and its affiliates help people find and get the home they want by connecting them with digital solutions, dedicated partners and agents, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences.

Realay.com Is Modernizing How Referrals Are Done
MILFORD, MI - Nov. 1, 2023 -- Kaibo LLC today announced the launch of Realay.com, a new client referral platform that has eliminated multiple pain points in the existing referral processes. The Realay platform provides dashboard tracking, status visibility, is quick and easy to use, and automatically connects your client with a Realay-vetted Network Agent in a one-to-one handoff. As a result, referring agents save time looking for an agent and gain visibility into their client's progression, Network Agents receive high-quality referrals, and clients are promptly paired with a top agent. Unlike other networks that cost you hundreds of dollars per month, Realay is completely free to use. Sending a referral on the Realay platform takes no more than one minute. This platform is perfect for independent brokers and their agents. The exclusive Realay Network Agents are thoroughly vetted and already include many of the top agents and teams across the country, ensuring clients have a positive experience. Any agent or team can apply to be a Network Agent for a one-time fee of $89; however, agents must pass the vetting process, which includes how responsive they are throughout the application process. Realay's innovative approach is poised to redefine the referral process and improve the experience for all parties involved, seamlessly connecting clients with top-performing real estate agents and marking a significant leap forward in efficiency, reliability, and transparency in the referral process. "It's like having an oil well of qualified referrals on your front lawn," says Cliff Freeman, CEO of The Cliff Freeman Group and a Realay Charter Network Agent. Key features of Realay: Free for anyone to send a referral — referring agent receives 25% commission at close. Solves the black hole syndrome of current referral networks with full visibility and trackability in the Realay's dashboard. No hidden or recurring monthly fees. Saves you time and money — sending a referral takes less than a minute, and your referral is automatically paired with a vetted Realay Network Agent. Broker agnostic — Realay is for any agent regardless of location or broker affiliation. Realay's philosophy revolves around ensuring that the opportunities they provide are genuine. Realay is publicly available nationwide as of November 1, 2023. To learn more about Realay, visit www.Realay.com.

Zurple Launches Pipeline Boost: A Social Media Leads Product Offering Real Estate Agents Quick, Steady Growth
Its second product release in two months, Zurple's Pipeline Boost provides timely support for the many real estate professionals in need of a budget-friendly way to get more clients with a steady flow of home buyer leads. HUNT VALLEY, Md., Sept. 5, 2023 -- Zurple, a forward-thinking mainstay in the real estate software industry, today announced the launch of Pipeline Boost, its latest social media leads product. Using targeted Facebook and Instagram ads featuring MLS listings to capture interested prospects, Pipeline Boost connects real estate agents with a high volume of exclusive home buyer leads in their local market each month. Zurple's team of advertising experts work on the agents' behalf to launch, manage, and optimize ad campaigns using Meta's advertising platform. By targeting consumers who have recently searched for real estate listings, Pipeline Boost customers will connect with qualified, motivated prospects who are in the preliminary stages of their home search. Every Pipeline Boost lead is exclusive; they are delivered to a single Pipeline Boost customer rather than being shared with multiple agents. With the combined benefits of done-for-you advertising and automated client generation, Pipeline Boost maximizes return on investment by enabling real estate professionals to achieve quick and steady growth with a high volume of leads, all while saving time and keeping costs to an affordable minimum. Additionally, Zurple's automation platform further enhances Pipeline Boost customers' lead-to-client conversion potential. As the lead expresses genuine interest in moving forward with the home-buying process, Zurple's automated, intelligent system works like a personal assistant that monitors lead activity and sends tailored, timely property updates and email and SMS messages to spark conversations. When a lead makes an inquiry that requires personalized attention, the agent is notified and provided with the lead's accurate contact information as collected via the lead-capture form. Thus, the system works on the agent's behalf to provide prime opportunities for generating not only more leads but also more clients. "We're thrilled to announce the release of Pipeline Boost," said Kerm Foltz, Zurple's Vice President of Revenue Operations. "Since the start, we've been committed to using automated lead nurture technology to help real estate agents build authentic relationships with ready-to-engage leads. We're able to deliver on that promise now more than ever by offering a solution that both drives growth during today's low-inventory market and is priced accessibly for the many agents who are currently facing serious budget constraints." Zurple has been recognized industry-wide for combining lead insights with behavior-based follow-up to effectively convert leads into real estate clients. Most recently, HousingWire included Zurple on its 2023 "Tech100 List," recognizing Zurple as a business that is "changing the home sales process forever" and "leading the way toward a more innovative and efficient housing market." Following the successful launch in June 2023 of Auto Listings, Zurple's seller client generation solution, Pipeline Boost is now the company's third real estate leads product. With budget-friendly packages starting at $300 for a minimum of 30 exclusive leads per month, it is now available to all new and current customers. Learn more about Pipeline Boost on Zurple.com. About Zurple Working to simplify the agent's day-to-day life, Zurple has been a leading provider of intelligent real estate marketing automation tools since 2009, empowering thousands of real estate professionals across North America to generate leads, expand their sphere, and build their personal brand. Since 2015, it has been part of the Constellation Real Estate Group, a division of Constellation Software, Inc. Powering over 500,000 agents, brokerages, franchises, and MLSs across the U.S. and Canada, the Constellation Real Estate Group portfolio continues to offer the real estate industry's broadest set of technology solutions year after year. For more information about Zurple, visit Zurple.com.

RealtyCandy Launches HomeValuation.ai Leveraging Plunk's AI-Powered Analytics as a Lead Gen Solution for Agents and Brokers
Next gen widget offers agents an easy way to integrate the highly effective lead generation tool on any website platform BELLEVUE, Wash., June 28, 2023 -- Plunk, the most comprehensive AI-powered home analytics platform in the US, has announced its partnership with RealtyCandy, a developer specializing in building innovative websites, applications, templates and lead gen solutions for thousands of real estate agents nationwide. Leveraging Plunk's real-time valuation and local market insights, RealtyCandy has developed a first-of-its-kind lead gen widget for real estate agents and brokers, made available through HomeValuation.ai. "Real estate agents and brokers have been presented with a growing number of technology solutions to help streamline and grow their businesses — but some require complicated integrations," remarked James Call, Founder and CEO of RealtyCandy. "So, we built an elegant and simple home valuation lead gen widget, leveraging Plunk's AI-powered home ticker and local market metrics." Once a new client enters their address into a HomeValuation.ai widget, the data is immediately captured. A second call to action — for local market insights — captures a lead's phone number as well and the agent is immediately notified by text. "I've been a real estate agent for twenty years and have never come across a lead gen tool this simple. It took me five minutes to sign up for a plan and paste one line of code into my website," noted Darren Winston, a luxury agent at Sotheby's International Realty. "Having an AI-based home valuation tool has been an effective way for me to bring past clients and new homeowners to my website." Watch a demo of how to use RealtyCandy's lead gen widget here, or for more information, visit www.homevaluation.ai. About Plunk Plunk is the largest and most comprehensive financial analytics platform leveraging next generation applications of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and image analysis for the residential real estate industry. Plunk is revolutionizing the way investors, real estate professionals and homeowners value and invest in residential real estate. For more information, please visit www.getplunk.com. About RealtyCandy RealtyCandy provides unique website apps, templates and widgets to thousands of real estate agents nationwide. As a developer partner with IDX Broker, RealtyCandy also specializes in standard IDX Broker integration to create customized web pages and develop ways to enhance CRM and lead management tools. For more information, please visit www.realtycandy.com.

Chime Unveils Geographic Farming Innovation to Elevate Lead Conversion
New Geo-Farming Feature Combines Local Market Intelligence with AI-Powered Marketing Automation PHOENIX, Nov. 10, 2022 -- Chime Technologies, an award-winning real estate technology innovator, today announced Geographic Farming, a new feature in the Chime platform. A unique geo-farming capability, Chime's latest innovation combines deep local market intelligence with AI-powered marketing automation. Real estate professionals can now do more than simply blanket a neighborhood with mailers and instead make data-driven decisions about where to invest marketing resources, understand if and how they are gaining market share, and elevate lead conversion with fully automated marketing campaigns. Unlike other geo-farming solutions, Chime's Geographic Farming innovation provides a complete market analysis with deep local intelligence. After drawing a geo-fenced area on a map through the Chime user interface, customers can review the market analysis data on area sales volume, average sales price, competitor market share, potential gross commission income (CGI) and more. From there fully automated campaigns are easy to configure and are integrated directly into Chime CRM to maximize lead engagement, management, and nurturing. With Chime's geo-farming feature, real estate professionals can: Clearly identify areas of opportunity, potential sales volume, and GCI; Focus marketing dollars on the highest potential neighborhoods; Track engagement and leads by either text or QR code; Leverage Chime Smart Plans and automations based on lead engagement; Compare their progress versus competitors as market share is gained. "Geo-farming is not a new strategy for agents looking to boost brand awareness in a given area, but in today's dynamic market, it's not enough to simply target customers on a map," said Stuart Sim of Chime. "With our latest capability, real estate agents can dive deeper and clearly identify areas of opportunity based on potential sales volume or CGI. All that data and analysis ensures they have the insights needed to dominate their local market and do so cost-effectively." To learn more, visit chime.me. About Chime Technologies Chime is an award-winning real estate technology innovator headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Our AI-powered platform empowers real estate professionals, teams, and brokerages with the tools they need to automate lead generation operations, drive conversions, and grow their business. Chime Technologies operates as a US subsidiary of Renren, Inc. (RENN). For more information, visit www.chime.me.

Realtor.com Acquires UpNest
UpNest's platform allows people to compare agents and select the one that's best for their situation; acquisition advances Realtor.com's seller strategy SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2022 -- Move, Inc., the operator of Realtor.com, one of the most visited real estate sites in the U.S., announced today it has acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based UpNest. UpNest operates a marketplace that connects home sellers with highly qualified local agents who compete for their business. Move, Inc. is a subsidiary of News Corp. More than 5 million homes are sold each year, according to 2018-2022 data from the National Association of Realtors®, and 9 out of 10 sellers use an agent to assist them in the transaction (NAR 2021 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers). Realtor.com® already connects many of these home sellers with agents who can help them through the ReadyConnect Concierge℠ referral network. The UpNest acquisition will help Realtor.com® further expand its services and support for home sellers and the agents and brokers who can help them succeed. "Our open marketplace approach is all about empowering people with choices. While some of our competitors try to funnel buyers, sellers and real estate professionals into a specific set of services in a closed system, Realtor.com helps homeowners choose how they want to find and connect with an agent, and agents and brokers can decide which methods work best for them," said Realtor.com® CEO David Doctorow. "UpNest has a proven track record of successfully connecting homeowners looking to sell with the right agent for them, and we believe that its innovative model complements our existing ReadyConnect Concierge℠ program." Consumers who submit leads through UpNest's marketplace receive proposals from three to five agents within 12 hours. Those consumers can then decide to contact and interview any of those agents and select the agent they believe can best support them. Since launch, approximately 1 million agent proposals have been submitted on UpNest's marketplace, representing reputable brokerages such as Keller Williams, Re/Max, Compass, and many more. Sellers who prefer to be connected directly with an agent in Realtor.com®'s ReadyConnect Concierge℠ network can do so directly from the "List your home with an agent" link on the Sell tab on the Realtor.com® landing page. ReadyConnect Concierge℠ applies a proven process to screen and convert online leads, and 7 out of 10 of Realtor.com®'s concierge customers have said the program was critical or important to their business. More than 190,000 agents and 20,000 brokers in all 50 states participate in ReadyConnect Concierge℠. Realtor.com® also connects sellers with agents through Seller's Marketplace. Nearly a dozen companies in the Seller's Marketplace offer selling options that allow homeowners to sell their homes to an iBuyer; buy now, sell later; sell now, move later; or access equity. Visitors can compare the selling options available in their area, including listing their home on the open market with an agent. "Realtor.com has been growing momentum among seller audiences with products like Seller's Marketplace and MyHome," said Doctorow. "The addition of UpNest to our stable of seller-focused offerings is a key element of our strategy to deliver the best experience and value to home sellers as well as our agent and broker customers." "UpNest has helped hundreds of thousands of people sell their homes with the help of top agents over the past eight years," said UpNest Founder and CEO Simon Ru. "We're excited to join the Realtor.com® family. Realtor.com®'s audience reach and strong customer base will help us connect even more sellers with the agents who can best help them." Simon Ru and the company's 50+ person team will join Move, Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not made public. About Realtor.com® Realtor.com® makes buying, selling, renting and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago, and today through its website and mobile apps offers a marketplace where people can learn about their options, trust in the transparency of information provided to them, and get services and resources that are personalized to their needs. Using proprietary data science and machine learning technology, Realtor.com® pairs buyers and sellers with local agents in their market, helping take the guesswork out of buying and selling a home. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted provider of consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com. About Move, Inc. Move, Inc., a subsidiary of News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV], operates a family of websites and mobile experiences for consumers and professionals, including Realtor.com®. Move licenses the Realtor.com URL from the National Association of REALTORS®. Move also offers software products and services to help real estate professionals serve their clients and grow their business, including ListHub™, the nation's leading listings syndicator and centralized intelligence platform for the real estate industry. About UpNest Launched in 2013, UpNest is a real estate agent marketplace that matches home buyers and sellers with top local agents who compete for their business. Buyers and sellers receive personalized quotes offering competitive listing commissions, buyer refunds (when applicable), and services. UpNest was ranked on INC 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies and on Deloitte Tech 500.

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Chime Successfully Executes Strategic Partner Program to Bolster Real Estate Sales Acceleration Platform
Growing technology ecosystem extends value of CRM to support agents, teams and brokerages amid rapid industry change PHOENIX, Jan. 06, 2021 -- Chime Technologies, an award-winning operating system for the real estate industry, today announced the success of a dedicated technology partner program rolled out in 2020 and spearheaded by Randy Carroll, Strategic Partner and Channel Manager. Randy and the team at Chime thoughtfully identified seven innovative technology partners with complementary tools and services to offer a complete platform purpose built to support this industry. With an unwavering commitment to arming real estate professionals with the tools needed to most effectively do their job, the dedicated partner program is an extension of Chime's proven approach to truly integrating systems for the betterment of the real estate community. To learn more about Chime's partner program, please click HERE. With deep roots in real estate, the forward-thinking team at Chime keenly understands the challenges facing real estate professionals today. Through a thoughtful partner strategy, the team at Chime identified market leaders including Aidentified, Brokermint, Curaytor, Dippidi, PieSynch, Verse.io and Ylopo to bolster the platform and empower agents to focus on what they do best – market and sell properties. Unlike individual point solutions that lack the sophistication to deliver the efficiencies and automation needed to compete in today's market, Chime uniquely offers an all in one platform to address critical pain points, effectively scale the business and support agents despite the rapid pace of change. Chime's partner program goes beyond the status quo of surface level integrations and siloed point solutions cobbled together for show. Instead, the product team maximizes the full potential of each best of breed partner to deliver a powerful technology stack critical for success this year and beyond. With a continued focus on helping agents close more deals without having to work harder, Chime looks forward to expanding its partner ecosystem this year. "Automation across the buying and selling process has become lynchpin to safely and effectively doing business today. Through our valued partnerships, Chime is well positioned to support agents from lead generation to transaction management in one, integrated platform," said Randy Carroll, Strategic Partner and Channel Manager, Chime. "We will continue to seek out like minded organizations, built on innovative technology and dedicated to serving the real estate industry, to arm agents with the tools needed for long term success." About Chime Technologies Chime is an all-in-one Sales Acceleration Platform for the real estate industry headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Its award-winning productivity suite offers a robust set of features that help real estate professionals and teams of all sizes run and grow their business. Chime Technologies operates as a US subsidiary of Renren, Inc. (RENN). For more information, contact [email protected] or 888-682-4463, or visit www.chime.me.

Chime Partners with Ylopo to Enhance Lead Generation Capabilities and Drive Better Conversion through Data Driven Technology
Best of breed solutions delivered on one powerful platform built for real estate industry PHOENIX, Oct. 06, 2020 -- Chime Technologies, an award-winning operating system for the real estate industry, today announced a strategic partnership with Ylopo, a leading provider of digital marketing technology solutions for real estate agents, teams and brokerages. The ecosystem supported by this relationship will allow real estate professionals to gain access to Ylopo's best of breed marketing and lead generation tools and Chime's complementary award-winning lead conversion tools to more effectively convert prospects into clients. Through a thoughtful and strategic integration, Chime and Ylopo are helping arm today's agents with the most comprehensive platform, built on data driven insights, to drive the bottom line. To learn more, visit HERE. Historically, the real estate industry has suffered at the hands of technology companies trying to be all things to all people. In order to be successful, agents need access to both intuitive lead generation tools and powerful CRM capabilities to identify, manage and nurture leads. Recognizing the industry gap, Chime and Ylopo have integrated their best of breed solutions to support both lead generation and lead conversion. Through this partnership, Ylopo will manage lead generation and remarketing and feed all lead intelligence (property types, neighborhoods, amenities, price, etc.) directly into the Chime CRM. Now clients will be armed with actionable intelligence they can use to better serve the buyers and sellers in their CRM and grow their business. See how it works HERE. "We are thrilled to partner with Ylopo and extend the value of our powerful platform. By combining our best in class data driven solutions, we are helping customers stay ahead of their competition, better serve their clients and grow their business," said Mike McGowan, Vice President, Sales, Chime. "We keenly understand the real estate industry and what agents and teams need to be successful" said Howard Tager, Co-Founder & CEO, Ylopo. "Partnering with Chime is a strategic opportunity to combine our innovative digital marketing technology with Chime's market leading CRM platform to give customers the best of both worlds and ensure long term success." "As the CEO of Lab Coat Agents, I often get the opportunity to test new products and when I uncover powerful technology combinations, I am eager to share for the betterment of this industry," said Tristan Ahumada, CEO, Lab Coat Agents. "One of the best CRM and marketing integrations I've seen is the Chime-Ylopo partnership. The combined platform includes a number of essential tools needed to effectively run a real estate business today including AI, DARE Ads, PPC2.0, Facebook lead ads, A Dialer, Automation, Agent App, and more." To learn more visit, HERE. About Chime Technologies Chime is an all-in-one Sales Acceleration Platform for the real estate industry headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Its award-winning productivity suite offers a robust set of features that help real estate professionals and teams of all sizes run and grow their business. Chime Technologies operates as a US subsidiary of Renren, Inc. (RENN). For more information, contact [email protected] or 888-682-4463, or visit www.chime.me. About Ylopo Founded in 2016, Ylopo is in business to make property marketing and agent branding fast, affordable, and easy to manage. Co-founded by Howard Tager and Juefeng Ge, the privately funded company has grown by more than 300% since launch and is responsible for an array of innovations in real estate marketing, namely the proliferation of automated, budget-conscious online advertising campaigns for Facebook. For more information, contact [email protected] or visit www.ylopo.com.

Chime Technologies and Dippidi Partner to Help Real Estate Teams Attract and Convert Leads
Integrated solution drives opportunities at every stage of the sales funnel from lead generation to conversion PHOENIX, June 29, 2020 -- Chime Technologies, an award-winning operating system for the real estate industry, today announced a new strategic partnership with Dippidi, a done-for-you content marketing and social media ad agency. By combining Chime's platform with Dippidi's custom marketing strategies, real estate agents, teams, and brokerages can stop spending time chasing leads and attract the business they want. To learn more visit learn.chime.me/dippidi or register for our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, July 7th HERE. As the volatility of the market continues to wreak havoc on the real estate industry, the opportunity for agents and teams to build brand awareness and establish trust among potential buyers has never been more essential. And yet, for many realtors, finding the time and the right suite of tools to do so effectively is a real struggle. "The upheaval in the market has forced many to rethink how they are approaching their business and where they need to invest and prioritize in order to survive," noted Mike McGowan of Chime. "By expanding our partner network with organizations like Dippidi that uniquely understand the demands agents and brokerages are facing today, we can offer clients a one-stop-shop with proven solutions designed to usher in immediate revenue opportunities." Dippidi serves an in-house marketing team for realtors, creating custom marketing plans curated to entice more people and sign more clients. From listing promotions to blog posts, articles to social media campaigns, Dippidi's digital services give agents the confidence to know their marketing services are being handled professionally and consistently. By aligning with Chime to push potential clients further through the sales cycle, agents, teams, and brokerages can streamline their process and drive sales ready leads toward conversion. "I rely on Dippidi to build our awareness in the market and generate great leads – and they have delivered! But our business is not built on leads alone; the ability to convert them into signed contracts is critical. The Chime relationship will allow us to do it all with the industry's top solution," noted Michael Hines of Build Collective in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Our goal is to help our clients build their brand and their business. That includes leveraging the technology and web platforms realtors already have in place to maximize existing investments," said Tyler Auerbacher, co-founder of Dippidi. "We are excited to partner with Chime to offer clients an amazing ‘1-2' punch as we provide the fuel to fill the sales funnel and Chime provides the engine to convert them into leads." To learn more visit, learn.chime.me/dippidi. About Chime Technologies Chime is an all-in-one Sales Acceleration Platform for the real estate industry headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Its award-winning productivity suite offers a robust set of features that help real estate professionals and teams of all sizes run and grow their business. Chime Technologies operates as a US subsidiary of Renren, Inc. (RENN). For more information, contact [email protected] or 888-682-4463, or visit www.chime.me.

Free Lead Generation Bootcamp: Flex Your Real Estate Muscles
Generating leads is one of the most important tasks real estate agents must complete to create a thriving business. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most common reasons real estate agents don't succeed. It doesn't matter how great your marketing or negotiating skills are if you don't have clients to leverage them for. If you're looking for ways to strengthen your lead funnel, this free email bootcamp is for you. In this bootcamp, you'll learn: Where to Find More Real Estate Leads There's more than one way to generate leads. This bootcamp explores a range of lead generation sources you can use to generate new leads, work your current database, and leverage your extended contacts and network to generate leads for your business. How to Generate More Real Estate Leads Knowing where to find leads is just the first step. Once you know where to look, we'll go over the best way to attract those leads so that they will want to reach out to you for help. Convert More Real Estate Leads Once you have a buyer or seller's attention, you have to close the deal. Each lead source has a list of action items so that you can start working on generating leads from that source right away. Some agents have more leads than they know what to do with. Sign up for the free Lead Generation email bootcamp here to become one of them! To view the original post, visit the Homes.com blog.

CINC Dynamically Shifts Development, Product, and Service Focus to Address COVID-19 Crisis
MARIETTA, GA., April 6, 2020 -- CINC, the number one lead generation and conversion platform for elite agents and teams, today announced new releases in development, product, and service to address specific needs of clients affected by COVID-19, including enhancements to the full suite of CINC's offering. CINC has focused its efforts on creating tools needed to navigate the now virtual nature of home buying and selling and helping CINC clients better communicate with their consumers. "This is what CINC is all about – facing challenges with optimism," says Alvaro Erize, CEO, CINC. "We see this as an opportunity for our clients to lead the industry through this challenge." He continues, "People are starving for human connection like never before, and agents that have the means and the mindset to supply that connection will be doing a public service AND securing a lot of business through and after this situation. So, this package of features, content, and service we are releasing is meant to provide CINC clients more and better tools they need to establish deeper and more human connections, remotely." Updates Include: Immediately Request a Virtual Meeting: We've modified our "Request a Showing" feature so that a consumer can now immediately request or schedule a virtual meeting via video chat with an agent on both desktop and mobile via Etta, CINC's consumer search app. Schedule Virtual Open Houses: In the CINC properties dashboard, clients will now see a "Virtual Open House" button. Once activated, clients can schedule an open house and include either a pre-recorded video or live video stream. Message to all CINC Site Visitors: All updated CINC sites now include a message to consumers communicating safety and health updates. Updated COVID-19 Email Campaign Content: CINC's communication tools now have pre-built COVID-19 content. CINC clients can now be assured that automatic follow up scripts have been updated to timely, relevant messages addressing the new nature of home-searching and how these CINC product updates can fulfill the consumers' needs. Expanded Service Hours & Free Live Training: Service hours are extended to 8pm ET. In addition, CINC's live training team is now running virtual training sessions four days a week – free for all CINC clients to attend. "At CINC, the client always comes first," says Nate Jones , VP of Tech, CINC. "We are constantly innovating to meet their needs and the needs of the market — these updates are no different. It was important for our tech team to pivot quickly to complete these projects. A lot of late nights went into creating relevant content and updating current CINC features into something useful for the agent in today's virtual real estate environment, but that's what's most important to us, being a team our clients can rely on." CINC is committed to the health, safety, and success of its clients, partners, and employees. As public and global public health authority recommendations and specific housing market conditions and regulations evolve in this crisis, CINC will continue to adapt to the needs of its community.

Chime Partners with Verse.io to Arm Real Estate Professionals with High Quality Leads
Bundled solution addresses lead generation surplus and effectively generates, manages and nurtures sales ready leads for improved bottom line growth PHOENIX, Ariz. , Feb. 10, 2020 -- Chime Technologies, an operating system for the real estate industry, today announced a strategic partnership with Verse.io (formerly Agentology), a leading conversational marketing platform revolutionizing lead engagement across verticals, including the real estate market. Together, Chime and Verse.io will offer an end to end sales acceleration platform purpose-built for the real estate industry to effectively generate, manage and nurture high quality leads. Powered by both highly trained humans and artificial intelligence, this unique bundled offering, which has been developed to address the biggest pain points facing realtors today, will empower modern agents with the critical tools needed to eliminate time consuming tasks, strategically focus on sales ready leads, and effectively compete in today's market. To learn more about this partnership, visit HERE. To be successful, real estate professionals need to generate high quality buyer and seller leads, but lead generation within the real estate industry has become unwieldy. Over the last five years the number of real estate leads generated online has skyrocketed, while the number of homes sold year over year in the same time period has moved less than 5%. Recognizing this growing industry gap, Chime partnered with Verse.io to effectively engage and nurture the right leads for customers, helping to fill the funnel with sales ready buyers and sellers and get to a close faster. Verse.io's revolutionary lead engagement platform is powered by both real people and adaptive technology, saving valuable time, creating a better experience for both leads and sales and most importantly, helping to close more deals. By fueling Chime's sales acceleration platform with high quality leads, Verse.io will help agents feel even more confident pursuing identified leads and allow them to focus on their efforts on revenue generating activities. By eliminating time consuming tasks – countless phone calls and text messaging with low success rate – agents are empowered to strategically focus where it matters most and improve the bottom line. "Technology is a critical enabler to addressing our industry's lead conversion challenge and can dramatically help improve the number of closed deals," said Mike McGowan, Vice President, Sales, Chime. "The team at Verse.io shares in our mission to modernize the real estate industry by empowering today's agents and teams with innovative technology and best practices for sales and marketing. Together, we offer the most comprehensive sales acceleration platform on the market today, purpose built for the real estate industry and designed to improve the bottom line." "We're thrilled to partner with Chime to help give their real estate agents and brokers the leverage they need to accelerate sales efficiency," said Steve Gottlieb, Chief Marketing Officer at Verse. "Chime cares deeply about its partners, saving them time and helping them be more successful, and we're excited to help bring forward this unified solution to the industry." "The Chime/Verse.io solution is a tool all agents must have to be successful. The 'qualified' leads have proven to be legit and my conversion rates have increased dramatically," said Chad Lummus, Realtor, Coldwell Banker The Legacy Group. "By streamlining the process of vetting and scrubbing new leads, the bundled solution ensures I don't have to worry about wasting my time with bad phone numbers or emails. I recommend the Chime/Verse.io solution to any serious agent looking to increase efficiencies and productivity, eliminate time consuming tasks and improve the bottom line." About Chime Technologies Chime is an all-in-one Sales Acceleration Platform for the real estate industry headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Its award-winning productivity suite offers a robust set of features that help real estate professionals and teams of all sizes run and grow their business. Chime Technologies operates as a US subsidiary of Renren, Inc. (RENN). For more information, contact [email protected] or 888-682-4463, or visit www.chime.me. About Verse.io Verse.io is the leading conversational enablement platform that helps businesses engage, qualify and nurture prospects across multiple channels to drive full-funnel lead conversion and bridge the gap between marketing and sales teams.

Homes.com Fine Tunes Listing Detail Pages to Create More Leads for You
Homes.com is committed to your success and we're always looking for ways to attract more high quality leads for your business. With that goal in mind, we've recently upgraded the listing detail pages on Homes.com. These pages now have more contact forms in easier to locate positions to make it simpler for buyers and sellers to request information on the property they're in love with. What's New Simpler Forms – In the past, we listed the listing agent as well as up to three advertising agents on the main contact form at the top of the listing details page. Now, we've removed all agent names, photos, and phone numbers from the contact forms. This makes the forms easier to understand and has, so far, proven to increase the number of buyers and sellers filling out the form. More Contact Options – We've added additional ways for buyers and sellers to reach out to agents on the listing details page. In addition to the primary contact form, which will remain in view as users scroll down the page, buyers and sellers can contact an agent from the Local Experts section, a call to action in the Home Details section, through the Schedule a Tour tool, and in the Similar Homes section of the page. On mobile devices, "Call Now" and "Request Info" options remain at the bottom of the page so leads can easily reach out to an agent. Direct Connect #s – Having too many phone numbers on the listing detail pages confuses buyers and sellers who want to find out more about a specific property, so our listing pages now offer just one phone number at a time on the primary lead form. This number will be rotated based on an agent's share of Local Connect advertising for the zip code. Any leads coming through this Direct Connect phone number will go directly to the agent and be exclusive opportunity for that advertiser. Local Experts Section – Agents using the Local Connect advertisements now receive special exposure in the Local Experts section of the listing details page. Up to three subscribing agents will have their name, phone number, photo, and a link to their agent profile. If the Local Expert also subscribes to Preferred Listings or Lead Concierge, the corresponding badges will also display under their name. Schedule a Tour– It's easy to fall in love with a listing online. When that happens, buyers want to schedule a tour as soon as possible. We've made it easy to request a tour with this new tool. It offers a variety of times buyers can request a showing and sends that information over to the advertising and listing agents for follow up! Homes.com is always looking for ways to generate more high quality leads for real estate agents, but no matter one thing never changes at Homes.com is our position that the leads your listings generate should always go to you. As such, every time a lead form is submitted on your listing, you will get that lead. To learn more about how Homes.com's advertising opportunities can benefit your business, click here. To view the original post, visit the Homes.com blog.

W+R Studios Announces Cloud Agent Suite Will Be Free to Try Until 2020
This special promotion, beginning October 1st includes free access and an extended trial to Cloud CMA (including Homebeat), Cloud Streams, Cloud MLX, and Cloud Attract. Huntington Beach, CA (October 1, 2019) - Privately held software company, W+R Studios, announced today a nationwide campaign to offer their popular Cloud Agent Suite free to all real estate agents through the end of 2019. Beginning October 1st, agents can get up to 3 months of free service on real estate's most popular tools. The Cloud Agent Suite includes Cloud CMA (plus Homebeat), Cloud Streams, Cloud MLX, and Cloud Attract. Cloud CMA helps agents generate awesome reports designed to win more listings. Homebeat allows agents to automate their Cloud CMA reports to stay top of mind with past clients and homeowners. Cloud Streams is a listing alert tool built to send alerts faster than any portal. Award-winning Cloud MLX is a modern MLS front-end that allows agents to search the MLS similar to how you search Google. And last but not least, Cloud Attract creates lead generating landing pages in seconds that agents can share with their sphere of influence to generate leads. "We've had an incredible year," stated W+R Studios' co-founder Greg Robertson. "And we wanted to finish it off with something big, so we thought why not let everyone try ALL our products free" continued Mr. Robertson. "Many of our customers already get access to Cloud CMA as part of their MLS membership, but we wanted to make it easy for them to try all other products - including Homebeat - and see how well they all work together as part of the full Cloud Agent Suite." Homebeat—the newest add on for Cloud CMA—launched in August 2019 and is already a hit. Agents love the ease of use for setting up clients on automated online CMAs. Homebeat CMAs update in real time and leverage an agent's best asset: MLS data. "Automated CMAs has been a requested feature of Cloud CMA for many years and we were very excited to be able to build Homebeat this year and fill the need that agents have of staying top of mind after a transaction has closed." concluded Mr. Robertson. To find out more, visit cloudagentsuite.com. Product availability depends on MLS participation. The cost of the Cloud Agent Suite will be $99 per month (or $89/mo with an annual commitment) after the free trial promotion ends. There are no contracts and agents can cancel or change their level of service at any time. About W+R Studios‍ Founded in 2008, W+R Studios is a privately held web software company located in Huntington Beach, California. The company focuses on creating the next generation of web-based software solutions for the real estate industry. By providing a "less is more" approach to software design, elegant user interfaces, and using the latest in agile programming, W+R Studios' software applications are at the same time powerful, yet accessible to everyone. Co-founders Dan Woolley and Greg Robertson have over 26 years of experience each developing and marketing real estate software solutions.

ReferralExchange Releases Directory of Real Estate Lead Sources
Guide aims to simplify and compare lead purchasing process for agents SAN FRANCISCO -- ReferralExchange, the real estate industry's leading referral network, today announced the release of their new online directory of 22 of the most active real estate lead sources in their network. The directory is made available July 22, 2019 through the ReferralExchange LIVE service to help agents see the various choices available for leads. "There are over 100 million real estate leads generated each year, yet only 11 million home transaction sides closed in 2018 according to N.A.R. It is evident that real estate agents face a daunting challenge of focusing on the right lead sources," said Myron Lo, Chief Strategy Officer, ReferralExchange. "Balancing the tradeoff between quality vs. quantity and exclusive vs. non-exclusive leads is a real problem for real estate agents - our directory will alleviate some of this burden by giving agents a head start on where to focus." Information provided in the directory includes company overviews; lead sources for each company; whether the company scrubs leads; pricing structures; and the platforms each company can integrate with. "The new ReferralExchange directory helps to address one of the biggest pain points that real estate agents face – leads," said Dave Garland, Managing Director of Second Century Ventures, "The market for real estate leads is vast and varied. With many sources and pricing models to choose from, the directory is a great start for real estate agents who are looking to grow their business through leads & referrals." ReferralExchange LIVE scrubs leads for their member agents. The company reported that 81% of these leads come via email to the real estate agent, 16% of the leads come to the real estate agent into their chosen customer relationship management platform, and 3% of the leads are manually entered. Of the lead sources they have seen, they reported that the best quality of scrubbed leads from come from Boomtown, Zillow, and kvCore. LIVE is a ReferralExchange service that manages third-party leads for agents by filtering, qualifying and live-transferring back interested prospects. LIVE currently manages leads from all of the sources in this directory. You can download your copy of the leads directory here. About ReferralExchange ReferralExchange, the nation's top agent-to-agent real estate referral company, is dedicated to creating great real estate experiences between real estate professionals and customers. Founded in 2005, ReferralExchange has built an invite-only, nationwide network of over 140,000 top-performing real estate agents in the US and Canada. In 2018, the network helped generate over $4 billion in sales. To learn more, visit https://www.referralexchange.com.

Constellation Real Estate Group Acquires offrs.com
BELLEVUE, WASH. JULY 9, 2019 -- Constellation Data Solutions Inc., part of the Constellation Real Estate Group (CREG), announced today that it has acquired offrs.com (offrs), a market-leader in predictive analytics and lead generation in real estate. offrs leverages Big Data and its proprietary machine learning algorithm to predict future home sales and transactions, otherwise known as "Smart Data". offrs distributes its Smart Data to real estate agents and other financial verticals including mortgage and title companies. "With data and artificial intelligence at the forefront of innovation in the real estate industry, offrs' robust platform, predictive analytics and Smart Data deliver truly advanced data and insights that move the industry forward," said Scott Smith, President of Constellation Real Estate Group. "offrs has a strong team with powerful technology, and we're excited to welcome them to the Constellation Real Estate Group portfolio." "As offrs continues to grow and expand the impact our technology has on the real estate industry, we're excited to have found a long-term owner with Constellation Real Estate Group," said Mark Dickson, co-founder at offrs.com. "Our unique and innovative data and analytics products are a great fit with the Constellation Real Estate Group, who shares our vision of focusing on customers, employees, and our innovative technology." The acquisition of offrs aligns with CREG's strategy of investing in vertical market software solutions with a focus on strong solutions and a commitment to be long-term, stable technology partners for the real estate industry. "Predicting future real estate transactions is the key to building a world-class lead generation service. There is no better team to join when it comes to innovation than Constellation." concludes Rich Swier, co-founder of offrs.com. The CREG platform offers the real estate industry's broadest set of technology solutions including data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, front office sales and marketing tools including lead generation, back office software such as accounting, relocation management, eSignature, transaction management, and mortgage loan origination and servicing solutions. The CREG portfolio powers over half of a million real estate agents, brokerages, franchises, and MLSs across the U.S. and Canada and 100s of mortgage companies and banks. Following the acquisitions of Mortgage Builder and TORCHx earlier this year, offrs marks Constellation Real Estate Group's third new portfolio business in 2019. About The Constellation Real Estate Group The Constellation Real Estate group acquires and invests in real estate software brands that are committed to providing long-term solutions and partnerships with franchises, brokers, agents, MLSs, and banks. CREG provides a suite of market-leading technology solutions designed specifically for the real estate industry through its brands, which include: Market Leader, Constellation Web Solutions, Sharper Agent, Zurple, Z57, Diverse Solutions, Birdview, ReloSpec, Real Estate Digital, Baynet World, Inc., Mortgage Builder, TORCHx and now offrs.com. Over 500,000 real estate agents, brokerages, franchises, MLSs, and banks across North America rely on CREG's products and services to power, manage, and grow their businesses. Constellation Data Solutions Inc. is a part of the Constellation Real Estate Group, which operates as a part of the Perseus Operating Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. For more information, visit: https://www.constellationreg.com Offrs.com Since 2012, offrs.com has been a leader in Big Data and Predictive Analytics for real estate agents and brokerages nationwide. offrs.com serves thousands of real estate professionals from major national franchise brands and large independent real estate brokerages across the U.S. For more information, visit http://offrs.com/

ReferralExchange Brings Expert Real Estate Agent Matching and Referral Service to Canada
Company launches the first of its agent success services in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary ahead of a nationwide expansion SAN FRANCISCO--ReferralExchange, the leader in real estate referrals, has expanded the company's popular agent-matching service to Canada, beginning in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto. In the United States, ReferralExchange is known as one of the most trusted sources of referrals and lead-gen management to experienced real estate agents. "We are very excited to be entering the Canadian market," said Scott Olsen, CEO of ReferralExchange. "By combining our matching algorithms with a seasoned and licensed outreach team, we have connected agents and clients around the United States. We've been asked by many agents to bring our service to Canada. We know it will be a real benefit to consumers searching for a trusted agent." The Greater Toronto Area, Calgary, and Vancouver markets have seen record prices and sales during the past several years. Activity in these markets has remained strong and although sales were down in 2018, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported that sales were up by 3.6 percent in January 2019, making this an ideal time for ReferralExchange to enter the marketplace. The first referred sale took place in Mississauga, Ontario in the greater Toronto area. Through the website TopAgentsRanked.ca, consumers can easily share what they are looking for and what location they are looking in, and then be matched with agents who fit their specific needs. Each agent in the network has been personally selected for their skill level and experience. ReferralExchange matches over 200,000 leads a year and completes over three million calls. By devoting time and care to each individual inquiry, ReferralExchange is able to present agents with verified prospects. Agents looking to be part of ReferralExchange's Canadian network should email [email protected] to apply. About ReferralExchange ReferralExchange, the nation's top real estate referral and lead-gen management company, is dedicated to creating great real estate experiences between real estate professionals and customers. Founded in 2005, ReferralExchange has built an invite-only network of over 25,000 top-performing Realtors. In 2018, the network created nearly 250,000 agent-to-consumer matches. Learn more at www.referralexchange.com.

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News Corp Agrees to Acquire Opcity
Market-leading tech platform will enhance realtor.com® and lead generation offerings to benefit real estate professionals and consumers New York, NY – Aug. 29, 2018 – News Corp today announced that its subsidiary Move, Inc., operator of realtor.com®, has entered into an agreement to acquire Opcity, the market-leading real estate technology platform that matches qualified home buyers and sellers with real estate professionals in real time. The planned acquisition of Opcity, based in Austin, Texas, will broaden realtor.com®'s lead generation product portfolio, allowing real estate professionals to choose between traditional lead products that offer professionals the opportunity to work leads themselves or a concierge-based model that provides highly vetted, transaction-ready leads, which is the expertise Opcity brings to realtor.com®. The acquisition purchase price is $210 million, subject to adjustments. Digital real estate services has become the fastest growing segment of News Corp, the most global digital property company. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, Move, Inc.'s real estate revenues grew 20 percent, with total revenues up a healthy 15 percent for the year. Move, Inc. has nearly doubled its revenues since News Corp's acquisition in 2014 to $452 million in fiscal 2018. News Corp also owns 61.6 percent of REA Group Limited, the operator of the leading Australian residential property website, realestate.com.au. REA holds a 20 percent stake in Move, Inc. "Through product innovation and powerful media platforms, News Corp is increasing its presence and capabilities in the burgeoning digital real estate services market," said Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp. "We are absolutely focused on providing high quality services to real estate professionals and to consumers seeking to make an investment that is profoundly important to every family." "Consumers and agents use realtor.com® for one primary purpose – to buy or sell a home," said Ryan O'Hara, CEO of Move, Inc. "This acquisition will help us bring buyers, sellers and agents together with as much simplicity, efficiency and choice as possible. The addition of Opcity to our portfolio will align with our strategy to enhance the experience of consumers, while providing our industry partners with more opportunities to connect with clients and grow their businesses." Opcity leverages proprietary data sets, applied analytics and machine learning to more effectively capture online leads and instantly connect transaction-ready clients with the right agents. Utilizing a broker-centric model, Opcity has grown its U.S. client base to over 5,000 brokerages and more than 40,000 agents since 2015. Its customers include a number of franchised brands, such as Better Homes & Gardens, Keller Williams, ReMax, Century 21, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and leading independent brokerage companies. "This is a natural fit. Both realtor.com® and Opcity share a common purpose of simplifying a consumer's home buying journey, while helping real estate professionals connect and close more transactions," said Ben Rubenstein, CEO of Opcity. "Together, we'll provide an enhanced consumer experience and more choices for brokers and their agents to grow their business." O'Hara added, "Both response time and matching a consumer with the right agent results in a great consumer experience and ultimately increases the likelihood of a closed transaction. By pairing personalized outreach with cutting-edge technology, Opcity has built a best-in-class platform that delivers close rates three to five times the industry average. That's why Opcity has been so widely embraced by real estate agents and brokers and that is why it's a perfect fit for what we believe is the best digital real estate platform in America, realtor.com®." After closing, Rubenstein will remain CEO of Opcity, reporting to O'Hara. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval and approval by holders of the majority of Opcity shares. About News Corp News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, and subscription video services in Australia. Headquartered in New York, News Corp operates primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and its content is distributed and consumed worldwide. More information is available at: http://www.newscorp.com. About Move, Inc. Move, Inc. provides access to unsurpassed real estate information, tools and professional expertise across a family of websites and mobile experiences for consumers and real estate professionals through all stages of the home journey. It has a perpetual license to operate realtor.com® from the National Association of REALTORS®. The Move network includes realtor.com®, The Home of Home Search℠, as well as Doorsteps®, Moving.com™ and SeniorHousingNet℠. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate 20 years ago, and today helps make all things home simple, efficient and enjoyable. Move also offers a complete solution of software products and services to help real estate professionals serve their clients and grow their business in a digital world, including ListHub™, the nation's leading listings syndicator and centralized intelligence platform for the real estate industry; Top Producer® Systems; FiveStreet℠ and Reesio as well as many free services. For more information, visit realtor.com®. About Opcity Inc. Based in Austin, Texas, Opcity is modernizing the real estate industry by matching top real estate professionals with transaction-ready home buyers and sellers in real-time. Using proprietary data sets and applied analytics, Opcity's unique technology and matching algorithm turn online inquiries into transactions, drive increases in conversion, and provide real estate professionals with centralized insights to effectively manage their pipelines. Opcity's growth has been fueled by investment from Silicon Valley-based Icon Ventures, with participation from artificial intelligence-focused Georgian Partners, and Texas-based LiveOak Venture Partners. For more information, visit http://www.Opcity.com.

Realtor.com Leads Are Ready to Go
Broker Sterling Hall speaks to the readiness of the prospects he meets from realtor.com. Watch the short video above to learn more!

Elm Street Technology Announces Acquisition of Agentjet
Latest Acquisition Is the Fourth in the Company's Two-Year History and Will Provide an Online Lead Generation Complement to the Firm's Highly Successful Elevate Technology Platform February 12, 2018 – Greensboro, NC – Today, Elm Street Technology (EST) announced the acquisition of Agentjet, Inc., a digital marketing, lead generation and technology provider for top producing agents and teams. Today's announcement marks the fourth transaction in the company's two-year history and provides a scalable lead generation compliment to the company's Elevate productivity suite of technology and client servicing platforms. This acquisition is just the latest in a series of strategic moves EST has made to create a portfolio of products and services that, when integrated, create a technology solution that will provide everything from lead generation to client retention services for agents, teams, brokers and more. Previously, the company acquired Listingbook, a collaboration and client servicing platform, RLS 2000 a real estate-focused social media marketing service provider and Consolidated Knowledge, a premiere creator of real estate technology and MLS data management solutions. "Agentjet has been providing real estate professionals with a proprietary and highly proven digital marketing program that delivers high-quality leads and clients to their real estate customers" said Prem Luthra, Elm Street Technology's President and CEO. "We're looking forward to offering this service to the tens of thousands of Elevate customers nationwide." "Our Ann Arbor, MI based Real Estate Technology team is excited to join the portfolio of Elm Street Technology companies, which is led by an incredibly experienced and respected leadership team," said Eric Pointer, Co-Founder and COO of Agentjet, Inc. "As a veteran REALTOR® myself, I can tell you that the vendor landscape in the real estate vertical is incredibly fragmented and inefficient. Real estate professionals and brokerages, large and small, find it extremely difficult to vet technology and tools and often just end up wasting time, energy and resources. Elm Street Technology is devoted to developing or acquiring all the best-in-class technology, services and products and placing them under one roof, thereby reducing the burden and increasing the efficiency of the selection process." "We're excited to include Agentjet's solutions in our growing portfolio of integrated technology and service offerings for real estate professionals," said Randall Kaplan, Chairman of EST. "Our vision to create a single platform for our customers to accomplish everything from lead generation to client retention has made great progress over the past twenty-four months and we're looking forward to adding more companies and products in the coming months." About Elm Street Technology Elm Street Technology offers a portfolio of real estate technology and marketing services companies that provides one vendor, one point of contact, one solution fully fused into one platform to deliver a single source for new leads, client relationship management, and client retention tools for agents, teams and brokerages. Elevate from Elm Street Technology is the single solution that real estate professionals need to handle the marketing while brokers and agents handle the business, including high end IDX websites, lead generation tools, powerful CRM and incubation tools, mobile app, social media management and blogging, and client retention tools. About Agentjet Agentjet, Inc. provides digital marketing and lead generation services to agents and small brokerages throughout the United States and Canada. Agentjet employs a proprietary lead capture process making it one of the most efficient of its kind in the real estate vertical with connecting in-market home buyers and sellers with real estate professionals. Agentjet technology tracks consumer behavior online and delivers this vital information real-time to its customers and simultaneously annotating, scoring and prioritizing consumer behavior in the backend CRM so that customers can efficiently connect with prospects at just the right time.

Metro Brokers Rolls Out SmartZip's Comprehensive Suite of Home Seller Analytics, Predictive Marketing and Referral Solutions to its Brokers and Agents Across Colorado
In a low inventory market, SmartZip offers Metro Brokers a competitive edge DENVER (NOVEMBER 28, 2017) - Metro Brokers, Inc., Colorado's leader in real estate and services for more than 40 years, has partnered with SmartZip, the pioneer in predictive analytics and multi-channel marketing automation solutions for the real estate ecosystem. With this partnership, more than 850 brokers and agents at 42 independent offices will be equipped with powerful home seller analytics and targeted, turnkey marketing tools to gain an edge in their market by accelerating their listing wins, building their online brand, and amplifying their recruiting efforts. The partnership with Metro Brokers - one of the latest to include the complete SmartZip Enterprise Real Estate suite - was born out of the company's interest in Automated Valuation Models (AVMs). Metro Brokers' CEO, Millard H, "Rip" Ripley's desire to use AVMs to provide home value estimates as a way to generate home seller leads on his corporate website led him to SmartZip, whose analytics have been powering home values and other insights for leading consumer portals and products for several years, including ZipRealty.com, RealtyStore.com, foreclosure.com, Envestnet|Yodlee, and others. While evaluating SmartZip's AVMs, Metro Brokers became enamored with SmartTargeting, the company's flagship predictive marketing platform. SmartTargeting leverages predictive seller analytics to automatically identify and nurture homeowners most likely to sell with personalized, broker- and/or agent-branded marketing messages through direct mail, online ads, Facebook ads email and more. In turn, the system gives brokers and agents a competitive advantage and maximizes their chances of winning listings in their local area and/or their own sphere of influence. "SmartZip's leading-edge solutions help us offer highly differentiated tools to our brokers and agents," explained Ripley. "This is especially relevant under our unique franchisor model. Our brokers and agents are independents who license and leverage our brand, but retain their unique identities. This means we can't dictate which products they should use. So when it comes to technology solutions, our model challenges us to find a plug-and-play platform with families of products that can work in an integrated as well as a standalone format, so franchisees can choose what works best for them. SmartZip's suite of tools allows us to do just that." "A three-year inventory low has made Colorado a seller's market, so a listing lead here is as good as gold," explained Ripley. "Our people need to be able to quickly and efficiently identify listing targets and optimize their time and money to reach and cultivate them, using a system they can trust. SmartTargeting is that system." SmartTargeting readily meets the unique needs and skill levels of each agent. The more tech-savvy agents can draw upon its advanced features, while others can start small and grow with the system. SmartTargeting Basic, which helps agents generate repeat and referral business from their own sphere of influence database, has easy upgrade paths for agents to expand their sphere by adding custom territories or "farms" in their local area of choice. With proven accuracy, the system continuously processes data on homes, home owners and their neighborhoods to identify the homeowners most likely to sell. SmartTargeting's built-in and customizable marketing tools, consistently nurture such owners with precision-targeted online and offline messages that ensure the agent's brand stays top of mind, thus maximizing their chances of winning that listing. SmartTargeting Enterprise also includes the integrated Reach150 tool set, which automatically requests testimonials from satisfied customers when transactions close. Agents are able to vet these testimonials before publishing them with one-click to their own personal, branded Reach150 reputation website, as well as across the web with highly targeted pay-as-you-go online ads. This strengthens their online reputation, boosts their SEO, and generates more referrals. Reach150 will also help franchisees recruit new agents by aggregating testimonials from satisfied agents on their individual Reach150 recruiting websites. These testimonials are then turned into powerful online ads that are strategically and automatically targeted to the agents they aim to attract. Once recruited, Reach150 will rebrand the newly hired agent with his or her personal network. Metro Brokers has already witnessed the winning impact of this tool in a beta release for a select number of offices, receiving nearly 100 testimonials. "When I came to Metro Brokers three years ago, the company was almost technology-phobic," said Ripley. "Our search for AVMs led us to SmartZip, but ultimately it was their complete package that sold us on the enterprise offering. SmartTargeting, Reach150, and the manner in which their organization understands our needs and works with us to fulfill them, solidified the fact we couldn't find a better solution." "We are thrilled to be partnering with one of Colorado's most influential names in real estate," said Avi Gupta, CEO of SmartZip. "Our SmartZip Enterprise suite is the right solution at the right time for Metro Brokers, and we are committed to supporting them every step of the way, so they leverage the full power of SmartTargeting to get a leg-up in the fiercely competitive Colorado real estate market."

Danny Rebello discusses 2-5x ROI through systems and attention to detail
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Realtor.com® Hosts Annual Results Summit with Focus on Agent Productivity
More Than 50 Top Sales Professionals and Keynote Speakers Will Reveal Insights for Success SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2017 -- Realtor.com®, a trusted source for real estate information, operated by News Corp subsidiary Move, Inc., a leading provider of online real estate services, will host its annual Results Summit on Sept. 18-19 themed "Break / Through," to help agents re-imagine, re-define and refresh their businesses. The two-day event at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will focus on agent and team productivity and include more than 50 agent presenters who have demonstrated remarkable business results. Breakout sessions on important topics such as lead generation and conversion, developing engaging content for today's social world, expanding the digital footprint and creating dynamic listing presentations will impart tactical advice that agents can use in daily business. In addition, the conference will celebrate the unique personal characteristics that differentiate each agent from their competition, and offer strategies that help agents infuse their digital persona with authenticity to boost success. "Realtor.com® continues to generate record consumer engagement approaching 60 million unique users coming to the site each month," said Ryan O'Hara, chief executive officer of realtor.com®. "Connecting the agent, who we believe must remain at the center of the transaction, to that consumer is our job and the tools and resources we offer do that so well. We have hundreds of thousands of industry customers across our platforms and the Results Summit is another way for us to increase their success." Keynote presentations at the Results Summit will be delivered by: New York Times columnist and senior editor Charles Duhigg, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for his series on Apple dubbed, "The iEconomy." He also is the best-selling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. Sales communication expert Chris Helder, who travels the world helping sales professionals utilize proper communication techniques in varied situations. Laura Schwartz, the former White House Director of Events and author of best-selling Eat, Drink & Succeed, will offer her signature keynote presentation, and also serve as Master of Ceremonies. Additional notable speakers include Garry Wise, Co-Founder of The Paperless Agent, Krisstina Wise, Creator of WealthyWellthy, Steve Pacinelli, CMO of BombBomb, and Dolly and Jenny Lenz, CEO and Managing Director, respectively, of Dolly Lenz Real Estate. Realtor.com® Chief Marketing Officer Nate Johnson will also reveal agent marketing makeovers performed by the realtor.com® marketing and design teams. Real estate professionals can register for the Results Summit at www.realtor.com/summit. About realtor.com® Realtor.com® is the trusted resource for home buyers, sellers and dreamers, offering the most comprehensive source of for-sale properties, among competing national sites, and the information, tools and professional expertise to help people move confidently through every step of their home journey. It pioneered the world of digital real estate 20 years ago, and today helps make all things home simple, efficient and enjoyable. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. under a perpetual license from the National Association of REALTORS®. For more information, visit realtor.com.

Onboard Informatics Launches Powerful New Automated Valuation Model Designed for Millennials
New system aggregates real-time market data to provide instant property valuations for a new generation of sellers. NEW YORK, NY (AUGUST 02, 2017) - Onboard Informatics, the leader of data-driven real estate solutions, launched a powerful new tool today that targets the majority of the real estate market. myAVM, the first automated valuation model for millennials, is designed to significantly increase seller leads. It consumes thousands of data points to create an estimated property valuation. Property values are calculated using multiple models and inputs including assessments, sales, on market prices and trends. All data is updated monthly using the data aggregation methodology Onboard has perfected after 15 years. myAVM was created for the next generation of home-owners with a dynamic interface and interactive design. It presents critical property information in a fun and inviting way. "This is a huge segment of the real estate market. There are 80 million millennials in the US today and over 50% own a home," said Dean Soukeras, Senior Product Manager. "We saw an opportunity here to create a product that appeals to this valuable segment." Automated Valuation Models are a proven way to generate seller leads, but many of the turnkey options available today are either cost prohibitive or difficult to digest. myAVM is a reaction to this trend, providing attractive, accurate reports that are priced to appeal to any size real estate company. "In addition to helping our clients generate more listings, we are using myAVM to go after a new, exciting market," said Jonathan Bednarsh, Onboard Informatics President and Co-Founder. "Clients can feature myAVM on an independent web page or directly on their website. Because of its versatility, it can be used as part of any digital marketing strategy." The AVM asks for an email to view the report, so real estate professionals capture more home-sellers. The responsive report looks great on any device and can be printed and shared by both agents and sellers. Once a lead is captured, they automatically receive alerts on their property in the form of Onboard's neighborhood updates. myAVM not only captures new leads, but continues to nurture those leads until they are ready to make a decision. "I wanted something with a real ‘wow' factor," said Soukeras. "The purpose of most AVMs are to generate valuable leads for real estate professionals. I thought conversion rates would increase if we could maintain contact with these leads with information they care about." For more information on myAVM, visit onboardinformatics.com or email sales(at)onboardinformatics(dot)com today.

Kick Back, Relax, and Watch Your Business Grow this Summer!
It's hard to kick back and enjoy the summer when you're constantly hunting for leads and trying to build your business. However, Homes.com can help. With options available to help your business from the time a person starts thinking about buying or selling to years after the sale has been closed, our programs can free up your time, allowing you to focus on converting only the best leads, leaving you plenty of time to relax. It all starts with an online presence. Whether it's a buyer searching for a home or a seller trying to figure out their home's value, the first step they take is usually an online search. Homes.com can help you generate a stronger online presence by managing your SEO and posting engaging social content on your behalf. Homes.com's SEO Fuel program is compatible with most websites and can help you show up higher in search results. The increased website traffic that comes with an improved search ranking will mean less time spent bringing in new leads to keep your sales funnel full. The Social Fuel program, which creates and posts content on your behalf, can save you hours of time each week. No more banging your head against the wall trying to figure out what to post, no more stressing over how to create a Facebook Ad, and no more worrying about whether your social accounts are optimized for your business goals. Our team of social media experts can take care of all of that and more, freeing you up to focus on converting your followers into clients. Once someone has found you online, we can help you sort out and prioritize the hottest leads with our Lead Concierge program. Our team of lead concierges will screen your phone and email leads from your website, Homes.com, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, and any other source to ensure your leads are answered quickly. Serious buyers and sellers are then forwarded directly to you! Once you have a serious seller under contract, they'll want to see how you're marketing their home. We have your marketing materials covered. The Homes.com Automated Marketing program can email you a premade single property website, Facebook post, ePostcard, flyer, and postcard for each of your listings. Just click the links to download your marketing materials! We can also help you take care of your buyers. The HomesPro Learning Center has tons of free, downloadable consumer guides to help you educate your buyers. Each consumer guide has editable fields for you to quickly and easily add your contact information. This feature allows you to share these resources online, in person, or via email and know that no matter where it ends up, leads will know how to contact you. Once you've converted your lead, use the free Email Marketing Center to enroll them in drip email campaigns to effortlessly keep in touch with them for years to come. Choose from the dozens of premade campaigns available to instantly enroll your leads and clients in automated emails that come straight from you. With all these great time-saving options, we hope you'll find some time to kick back, relax, and enjoy some R&R with your friends and family this summer. If you would like to learn more about how Homes.com's extensive suite of tools and resources for agents and brokers can help your business grow, give us a call at (888) 651-8956 or send an email to [email protected]. To view the original post, visit the Homes.com blog.

How to Get Exclusive Leads on Homes.com
By upgrading to Preferred Listings on Homes.com you gain exclusive leads and Preferred Agent branding. With Preferred Agent branding, all preferred listing lead inquiries are sent to the listing agent only. Additionally, no further advertisements (like Local Connect) will show on Preferred Listings. With Preferred Agent branding, your agent profile receives prioritized placement in your coverage areas, boosting your visibility for buyers and sellers doing an agent search. You also get the “Preferred” badge next to your name in the agent directory and on any Local Connect Ads you subscribe to, helping you stand out to buyers and sellers on Homes.com. Use these great benefits to grow your business, highlight your brand, and generate quality leads. Preferred listings are offered in tiered packages—1 listing slot, 5 listing slots, etc.—making it easy to customize your preferred package to meet your needs. Choosing which listings you display as preferred and when they are preferred is easy through your Homes.com dashboard. As a preferred agent, you will have access to the “Preferred Listing Priority Settings” control panel. Through here you can easily choose how your listing preferences will be assigned. The four options for this are listed below. Random Rotation (Default) – Available slots will be filled with your listings at random. Every 24 hours a new set of preferred listings will be selected. Highest Priced Listings – Available slots will be filled with your listings with the highest price. Newest Listings – Available slots will be filled with your newest listings. Manual Mode -You manually determine which of your eligible listings will be marked as preferred. Click here to learn more about Preferred Listings or contact us by phone at (888) 651-8956 or email at [email protected]. To view the original post, visit the Homes.com blog.

It’s springtime and leads are in the air!
  Are you ready for the spring house hunting season? Don't miss out on any more springtime leads by putting your brokerage in the app stores! If you don't have a real estate app in Google Play and the App Store already, now is the time to get one. As mobile home-search traffic picks up this spring, you want to be as accessible to clients as possible. Last week alone, 260,000 people carried out home searches using Smarter Agent apps for brokers and teams. In that same week, over 15,000 leads were generated for these brokers – all because they were positioned in app stores. Both our company app plans – Office and Power – come with: Client search access to all listings via IDX, not just your listings The ability to set up lead routing options Built-in app distribution and marketing methods The option to set up customized agent apps linked to your company app Multiple search filters and ways for your clients to refine search results Contact us today to learn more by emailing gomobile[at]smarteragent.com! To view the original post, visit the Smarter Agent blog.

Turn Your Buyer Data into Profits with Buyside and Moxi Works
Buyside has officially teamed up with Moxi Works to deliver agents a great source for seller leads via the Moxi Works open platform. Buyside brings over 175 years of combined real estate experience to assist brokerages in turning their buyer data into leads, listings, and profits. With an impressive list of clients and a great team, we couldn't be more thrilled to have them with us. How does it work? Each agent receives a seller lead-gen marketing suite complete with a landing page that has multiple home valuations in order to drive homeowners to seek the guidance of a professional agent. Their intelligent system cross-references against every actively searching buyer to alert your listing agents of matches. All of these leads drop right into Moxi Engage for little to no effort for agents. "Buyside is a powerful and easy add-in to any broker website that turns your traffic into seller leads. Using Moxi's open platform API, Buyside automatically sends these new leads into Moxi Engage for an agent to nurture and grow their sphere with zero effort," said Mike McHenry, VP of Channels and Partnerships at Moxi Works. Buyside is a seamless solution that easily integrates with how your brokerage does business and by that we mean: they get it. It's easy to set up, launch and use. Plus, like all Moxi products, Buyside uses Single Sign-On (SSO) so agents don't have to remember yet another password. Agents can track online activity for active listings and send seller clients a weekly report on their listings activity. Buyside believes buyer data is the largest untapped asset within a brokerage and represents the final frontier in the digital transformation today in real estate. "Buyside prides ourselves on delivering quality service to the brokerage community and so it was a no brainer to partner with someone like the Moxi Works team who share the same vision" said Buyside CEO, Charles Williams. If you want more seller leads, Buyside will get you there. Agents generate thousands of buyer leads every month and Buyside uses that buyer data to capture seller leads. Grow your sphere of influence by letting the data do the talking. To view the original post, visit the Moxi Works blog.

zipLogix, HomeActions, Onboard Informatics and CurbCall Create Integration to Give Real Estate Agents an Edge
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla., Feb. 6, 2017 -- HomeActions LLC, an e-prospecting and client relationship platform for real estate agents, has signed agreements with zipLogix™, Onboard Informatics, and CurbCall to create a new product called Just Listed Service. This product empowers agents to get their Just Listed properties in front of potential buyers ahead of competitors. Each company will be applying technology solutions to an email solution that will help them come to market faster than ever and provide unique communication and property information. Users of zipForm®, zipLogix™'s electronic forms software, must sign up for a HomeActions account if they wish to utilize the Just Listed marketing service. Through zipForm®, agents and brokers can access HomeActions' collection of marketing tools and services including email campaigns and templates that are branded to the real estate professional. zipForm® users will also have access to HomeActions' monthly newsletter, which they can customize to their brand and send to their clients. The integrated CurbCall Connect™ feature will enable potential homebuyers to contact the agent directly via text messaging or phone calls. The data-driven engagement system from Onboard Informatics engages prospects with elegant property reports featuring the critical information real estate consumers care about. "With this arrangement, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts," said Barry Friedman, CEO and co-founder of HomeActions. "Real estate agents will get the best of all worlds: the extraordinary efficiency of the zipForm® transaction management system, the powerful contact features of CurbCall, neighborhood information from AddressReport and the database and communication system that comes with HomeActions." About HomeActionsHomeActions LLC is a digital marketing and lead generation solution with compelling content for real estate agents. The HomeActions platform provides automated prospecting, marketing and communications delivered bi-weekly via email to a professional's sphere of influence (SOI). HomeActions professionally written articles portray agents as trusted advisors looking out for readers' interests by helping them care for the biggest investment in their lives. With instant lead access, CRM capabilities, and robust reporting and metrics, the system has the capability to generate real-time leads and top-of-mind awareness while nurturing relationships that lead to long-term success and more referrals. HomeActions is a virtual company that employs more than 35 people and is headquartered in Green Cove Springs, Florida. www.homeactions.net About zipLogix™zipLogix™, creators of zipForm®, is a technology company working for real estate professionals to improve productivity and efficiency industry-wide. Its software automates and simplifies the repetitive and complex steps of real estate transactions, and is used by more than 650,000 real estate professionals across the country. www.ziplogix.com About CurbCallFounded by veteran real estate professionals, Boston-based Curb Call Inc. develops innovative technology for real estate agents. Its CurbCall Connect on-demand lead routing platform offers the built-in intelligence to instantly connect consumers with agents available to serve them now, plus reporting and analytics for accountability. www.curbcall.com About Onboard InformaticsOnboard Informatics is a leader in data-driven consumer engagement. Founded in 2002, Onboard uses data on all 150 million US properties and their immediate areas to create sales opportunities for some of the largest companies in real estate, technology and publishing. For more information on what data-driven engagement can do for your business visit www.onboardinformatics.com

Offrs.com Announces Strategic Partnership with CRMLS
SARASOTA, FL - December 19, 2016 - Offrs.com announces today its strategic partnership with California-based California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS). The partnership will provide CRMLS subscribers with offrs.com's territory-exclusive Smart Data, lead nurturing platform and lead verification services. A special rate for CRMLS subscribers has been secured through the partnership and will be offered via the CRMLS Marketplace where subscribers will gain access to the platform and services as well as a series of instructional webinars which detail the features of offrs' R.O.O.F. (Real Estate Office of the Future) program. The CRMLS Marketplace inclusion will also provide CRMLS subscribers with the offrs+ lead verification service that verifies home sellers' intent to sell their property within the next 12 months then directs the verified lead exclusively to the agent licensing the territory. "offrs has been active in leveraging Big Data to provide exclusive, verified home seller leads, for agents around the country," said offrs.com Regional Rep Lee Henderson. "We are truly excited to work with CRMLS and to welcome CRMLS subscribers to our platform." As the nation's largest subscriber-based MLS, CRMLS will be providing partner-discounted access to the offrs.com platform to over 81,000 real estate professionals across 33 Associations, 3 Boards of REALTORS® and 1 MLS that comprises the CRMLS subscriber base. About offrs.com Since 2012, offrs.com has been a leading creator and provider of Smart Data and marketing tools and services for real estate agents and brokerages nationwide. With flagship programs like R.O.O.F. (Real Estate Office of the Future), offrs.com leverages artificial intelligence to automate lead generation and qualification for real estate brokerages and agents. offrs.com serves thousands of real estate professionals from all major national franchise brands and large independent real estate brokerages.

The Real Estate Accelerator: A Contactually Exclusive
Here at Contactually, our mission is to help grow the businesses of our customers. Whether we're on the sales team, marketing team, product and engineering team, the customer success team or anything in between, we come to work every day with one goal: Figure out what our customers need to be successful, and then deliver it directly to them. In the last few months, we've talked to hundreds of real estate professionals in an effort to understand exactly what they need. We've had conversations with brand new agents, agents with thirty years of experience under their belts, buyer's agents, seller's agents, team leads, brokers, assistants...we've covered them all! It quickly became clear to us that real estate agents needed more than what we were already providing in our professional plan at Contactually, so we turned around and spent months coming up with a solution. We are so excited to announce our newest plan: The Real Estate Accelerator. After hours of talking to hundreds real estate professionals, it was clear they want and need three things: They want to save time They want to communicate more effectively They want to grow their business How Will the Real Estate Accelerator Help Me Save Time? As an account executive here at Contactually, my job is to learn everything I can about my client's business goals, so that I can help them determine whether or not Contactually will be a good fit for their business. After thousands of conversations, the one resounding similarity between real estate agents is that they're very, very busy. And they don't have time for busy work. Good news, real estate agents. At Contactually, we heard you. You want to nurture cold leads, open house leads, new internet leads, past clients and everything in between. But sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day to cover all that. You want an excellent CRM that helps you close more deals without sitting down for twenty hours a week to send out emails. You want to have more time to do what you do best: meet with clients. We heard you. The real estate accelerator combats your lack of extra time with two solutions: Training Automation First, we help you set-up your account entirely. We'll consolidate your database and import your contacts. We'll set you up with our resident real estate expert, Bradley, to train you on the system. No need to spend hours and hours guessing where to click next; we'll teach you what you need to know. Next (and here's the exciting part!), we'll set up all your workflows and drip campaigns (tailored for you and your business) and put them right into your account. Three complete business systems will be yours within minutes: Internet leads engagement workflow Referral generation workflow Open house follow-up workflow With twenty minutes a day, you'll be closing more business and all those forgotten leads you lost track of? We'll help you rekindle the relationship and make sure no one falls through the cracks again. You don't have time to waste with administrative work, so we take it out of your hands to give you more time to spend with clients. How Will the Real Estate Accelerator Help Me Communicate More Effectively? When we were creating this plan, we asked ourselves these questions: What does it take to get a lead to respond? What does it take to build a relationship with a cold lead so that they do business with you in two years when they are finally ready to buy or sell? What does it take for an open house lead to convert? Contactually's answer: personalized, authentic and consistent engagement. On the Real Estate Accelerator plan, we'll curate email templates just for you. Once we've learned all there is to know about your business, our marketing experts will write ten templates in your voice and make sure you have them to send right from your account. Those workflows mentioned above also include 100+ email templates, so you never run out of things to say, and it never sounds canned. With the Real Estate Accelerator, you'll be communicating more effectively in no time How will the Real Estate Accelerator Help Me Grow My Business? Have you seen our post about where real estate professionals' business comes from? We saw teams spending thousands of dollars on internet leads, when their rich networks and spheres were where the majority of their business was coming from.  But regardless of where your leads are coming from, you want to convert every single one of them, right? We saw that realtors tend to have leads (hot, warm and cold) that slip through the cracks. With the Real Estate Accelerator, every lead gets touched effectively and consistently. Automatically. In order to ensure your business' success and growth, we are also giving you two free coaching sessions with a seasoned and professional real estate coach. We don't claim to know everything about real estate (although sometimes we like to wish!), so we're bringing the true experts on board to support you in your new endeavor. Thought that was all? Not quite. On the real estate accelerator, you are also being granted access to a dedicated customer success manager who will proactively check in on your success and be your point of contact if you ever get stuck. We are here to help you grow your business, and consistent support you can count on is our promise as you move through the accelerator. To find out more about our real estate accelerator, you can call our team at 202-888-3291 and get started today. To view the original post, visit the Contactually blog.

CRS Marks One Year Anniversary of Qualified Consumer Leads Program with Over $7 Million in Commissions Earned
CHICAGO, Oct. 6, 2016—The Council of Residential Specialists (CRS) celebrated its first year anniversary of the CRS Qualified Consumer Leads Program. CRS partnered with real estate referral service, ReferralExchange, to offer the program beginning last September to all CRS Designees. CRS agents have been pleased with the CRS Qualified Leads Program's capabilities, which provides consumer leads that have been pre-qualified exclusively for CRS Designees. The service uses a combination of technology and personal service that connects qualified clients with CRS agents who best fit their needs. Over 3,700 CRS designees have enrolled and nearly $250M in home value has been sold/purchased by CRS agents directly through the program. "I closed five or six deals using the CRS Qualified Leads Program," said Patrick Lilly, CRS, a broker associate with CORE in New York City. "I get leads twice a month and I land about half. Sixty-five percent are listed at more than $1 million and I've had several priced at more than $2 million." The CRS Qualified Consumer Leads program delivers pre-qualified buyer and seller leads to CRS Designees using a combination of advanced technology and personal service that connects qualified prospective clients with CRS agents who best fit their needs. It is offered as a benefit of CRS membership for all CRS Designees living in the U.S. "Our CRS agents are always looking for quality lead sources," said Lana Vukovljak, CEO of CRS. "This partnership has given our CRS Designees an enhanced benefit in driving more qualified prospect directly to them, and assisting consumers in identifying the best agent to meet their needs." "It's an honor to work with CRS to provide consumers with a great real estate experience," added ReferralExchange CEO Scott Olsen. "We are very pleased with the success of the program and look forward to our continued partnership." About The Council of Residential Specialists (CRS) The Council of Residential Specialists is the largest not-for-profit affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS® comprised of more than 31,000 members supporting them with education, networking events, and practitioner developed tools and mentoring. It also awards the CRS Designation to experienced REALTORS® who have completed advanced professional training and demonstrated outstanding professional achievement in residential real estate. About ReferralExchange ReferralExchange, the nation's top agent-to-agent real estate referral company, is dedicated to creating great real estate experiences between real estate professionals and customers. Founded in 2005, ReferralExchange has built an invite-only, nationwide network of over 17,000 top-performing real estate agents. In 2015, the network participated in 8,700 transaction sides.

Keller Williams Realty International Announces Launch of hgTouch for Keller Williams at Mega Camp
  AUSTIN, TX--(Aug 9, 2016) - Happy Grasshopper, one of the most popular email marketing services in real estate, today announces their new service hgTouch for Keller Williams. The service, available this fall exclusively to Keller Williams associates, is unique because it uses feedback loops to continually improve the variety and effectiveness of messaging available inside the service. Dan Stewart, co-founder and CEO of Happy Grasshopper says, "It's easy to send email, but very hard to send email that people want to read and reply to. hgTouch for Keller Williams solves that problem by supplying a constantly updated and continually improving library of content for every segment of an agent's database. For the first time ever, agents will be able to send messaging they know will work before they press send. It's revolutionary. There's nothing else like it," Stewart says. Email has long been regarded as the highest ROI-producing marketing tool, and hgTouch for Keller Williams can help agents increase their sales volume by engaging every segment of their database -- from past clients and friends, all the way through brand new leads and even vendor relationships, the content agents need is available inside hgTouch for Keller Williams. Within the platform, agents have the ability to choose, edit and send content for: Setting appointments, marketing new listings and marketing open houses Generating referrals from past clients, sphere of influence and vendors Sending follow-up content to cold leads Gary Keller, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, of Keller Williams Realty said, "Your database is your business." With the launch of hgTouch for Keller Williams, Happy Grasshopper is making it easier than ever for Keller Williams associates to generate more business from their databases. To learn more about hgTouch for Keller Williams and where to enter reservation information, visit kw.hg-touch.com. About Happy Grasshopper Happy Grasshopper writes and delivers amazing follow-up email for the world's best salespeople. Founded in 2010, Happy Grasshopper has written, tested and optimized lead conversion and follow-up campaigns for thousands of salespeople and businesses. From instant automated responses to long-term keep-in-touch campaigns, Happy Grasshopper's unique approach to email follow-up is proven to help salespeople convert more leads and generate more referrals easily. For more information about Happy Grasshopper, visit happygrasshopper.com.

Onboard Partner CINC (Commissions Inc) Getting 18% Conversion Rates from New Seller Suite
CINC (Commissions Inc) has been part of the Onboard partner program for years. This week, they announced the redesign of their popular Seller Suite that includes Social Sell. The solution is powered by the local and property data from Onboard and is a great example of how to use that data to create a complete consumer engagement experience. The Suite provides home owners with an Accurate Home Valuation, a comparable list of recently sold properties, and a Neighborhood Pulse with Trend recapped in monthly updates. Early results from this redesign are impressive: 4% conversion rate (visitor to lead) for seller leads at CINC 270% increased lead generation over 60-day trial 18% Facebook Ad Conversion Rate By offering a complete solution that's modern and personalized, we've seen staggering results. "We really wanted to create a complete experience for consumers on behalf of our clients," said Mike Gullo, CINC Director of Product. "Our Marketing Services Team places ads designed to drive leads to a specific landing page and capture their contact information for ongoing nurture campaigns around their neighborhood of interest. By offering a complete solution that's modern and personalized, we've seen staggering results." CINC's Seller Suite gives potential home sellers a better understanding of the current value of their home using Onboard's property API. A personalized report is generated for each user in just 30 seconds. Upon sharing the home's address and answering a few additional questions, home owners are also able to receive an accurate home valuation, a list of recently sold properties, and monthly updates so they stay in the know. Within the first month of using Social Sell we doubled that number to 28 and in the last month we have brought in 39 seller leads. "Since advertising with Seller Suites, just over 3 months ago, my Team has seen a significant improvement in both our volume of monthly seller leads and our contact and close ratio. Prior to using Social Sell, we averaged between 12-16 seller leads monthly. Within the first month of using Social Sell we doubled that number to 28 and in the last month we have brought in 39 seller leads. We noticed a bump ranging from 5-9 new seller leads monthly from the remarketing campaign with CINC as well," said CINC client, Brent Chapuis, Team Owner of Coastal Realty Group located in Biloxi, MS. CINC is a sponsor at Inman Connect this year where they'll be demonstrating this solution among others. While you're there stop by our kiosk as well. It's an exciting time in real estate technology. To view the original post, visit the Onboard Informatics blog.

Smartguy800 Announces Integration with Top Producer® to Streamline Telephonic Lead Generation and Management Functionality
Sep. 15, 2015, LOS ANGELES—SmartGuy800.com, a leading virtual phone system for real estate, mortgage and other business professionals today announced that it has integrated with Top Producer®, the real estate industry's leading sales and marketing system. The integration will enable real estate professionals using enhanced toll-free numbers provided by SmartGuy800 to transfer live caller data into member's Top Producer® Back office, including the address of the property called, the marketing source that triggered the call and the caller's phone number, even if it is unlisted or blocked. "The integration of our two systems is an exciting leap forward in the industry-wide transformation towards more efficient operations," said Jordan Wexler, CEO of SmartGuy800.com. "Real estate agents are looking for quicker and more efficient ways to generate, manage and close more deals." Within minutes of signing up at SmartGuy800.com and selecting a toll-free number, members can record their listings, set their direct connect and notification options and click a few buttons to sync their leads in real time directly into Top Producer®, and Fivestreet which would then connect with several other systems down stream. This allows real estate agents to automatically generate more leads, track the exact cost-effectiveness of their advertising, digitize their phone leads and then manage the lead in a robust and well-integrated follow-up system. "This kind of integration can be a game changer for a lot of agents and teams", states Colin Burton of Top Producer®. Being able to generate telephonic leads from sign rides, flyers, as well as online and offline marketing efforts and have them populate directly into our member's back office provides a turnkey solution to one of the hardest problems real estate agents face – where to get the leads and how best to manage them." About SmartGuy800 SmartGuy800 is a leading cloud-based virtual phone system with integrated lead generation and tracking capabilities. For over 20 years, this technology has helped thousands or small business professionals nationwide generate more calls, track the cost-effectiveness of their advertising and never lose a lead again. (Check out our video on YouTube.) SmartGuy800 is a collaboration of SmartGuy.com, one of the largest exclusive business networks in the USA, and Information Now, Inc., a leader in interactive voice response solutions. About Top Producer Systems Top Producer Systems is a leading provider of real estate sales and marketing software solutions. The Company's flagship products, Top Producer® 8i™, Fivestreet, and Market Snapshot have become the de facto industry standard. Top Producer has relationships with large brokers and six of the largest international franchises: RE/MAX International, Keller Williams Realty, Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA and GMAC Real Estate. Top Producer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Move, Inc.

Zapelo Launches at Real Estate Connect
San Francisco, CA – August 3, 2015 – America's one-million-plus real estate brokers and agents use separate technology systems for email, CRM, lead generation, calendar scheduling and task tracking, document storage, electronic signatures, transaction management, and drip marketing. Zapelo is looking to disrupt real estate technology's silo approach with the industry's first cloud-based, wholly integrated and end-to-end mobile real estate management system. "Zapelo is like taking the right pieces from Gmail, Dropbox, MailChimp, dotloop, REESIO and Top Producer, putting them together and making it affordable for any brokerage," says Jack Berube, CEO of Zapelo. Zapelo is a simple-to-use, fully integrated, mobile real estate management system that offers a CRM, lead generation, transaction management, email, calendar and task tracking, workflow checklists, integrated electronic signatures and shareable document storage – all on the cloud. "It's the first system that truly manages the real estate sales funnel from top-to-bottom," Berube says. "Everyone is paying for technology no one is really using. For the technology you actually use, most brokerages will subscribe to multiple products, log in and out of various systems, and re-enter the same damn data again and again. It's nuts," Berube adds. Zapelo launches tomorrow at Inman Real Estate Connect in San Francisco, and is featured as part of the conference's coveted Startup Alley. Real Estate Connect, the real estate industry's preeminent gathering of the leaders in real estate and technology industries, has launched some of the real estate technology industry's biggest brands. Rhonda Duffy (duffyrealtyofatlanta.com), who is ranked as the number one listing agent in the U.S. and the number one agent in Georgia, calls Zapelo, "The Swiss-Army knife" of real estate technology. "Vendors keep pushing single apps or bloated software with features that agents will never use," Duffy said. "Zapelo has created a 'right-sized' technology to include only the features a broker or team needs to manage their real estate pipeline." "Zapelo has made the complex simple and affordable, which is exactly what agents must have," Duffy adds. "Agents don't have time to sit in a training class to learn every new product and most agents can't afford to pay $30 to $100 a month for a dozen different services. Zapelo solves both of these problems." Zapelo integrated product features: Email system: Full-featured email system leverages your email address (IMAP) throughout all these features and connects email to tasks, schedules, documents, and more. CRM tool: Agents can quickly add prospects and clients to a new marketing campaign; everything is synchronized, time stamped and trackable. Transaction management: A fully collaborative system that allows agents to interact with their clients – no exporting or importing, everything is all on the cloud in this single environment. Lead generation: Leads generated from any source can be automatically imported into the platform. Drip marketing: Fast, easy to use templates to stay-in-touch with prospects and past clients. Calendar and task tracking: Everything agents needs for scheduling their daily routine and track tasks throughout the transaction process to help agents keep on top of their pipeline. Electronic signatures: Fully integrated into the platform and ultra secure, works just like the most popular eSignature systems but is completely integrated, storing everything in one place (for brokerages, Zapelo is designed to work in concert with their current solution in most cases). Document storage and sharing: Features a secure and easy way to securely share documents so your customers don't need to open a third-party account to access their files. "White label" for brokerages: The platform is designed to promote the brokerage's brand, not Zapelo's brand, with a 24-hour "White label" offering to customize the platform to the look and feel of the brokerage's brand. "White label" customized branding includes color scheme, corporate logo, and customized task lists.   Today the Beta version of Zapelo is available to real estate brokerages, teams and agents. Brokerages pay a one-time setup fee, which includes their "White label" customized branding, for $500 and $199 a month. Individual agent accounts are $49 per month, and volume discounts are available for brokerages. Zapelo CEO Berube is also offering MLS firms and Realtor associations their own branded versions of Zapelo to offer their members a new potential source of revenue. About Zapelo Zapelo, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is the real estate industry's first fully-integrated mobile real estate management system. This cloud-based platform features just the right tools active agents need to manage their business, including CRM, lead generation, transaction management, drip marketing, email, calendar and task tracking, workflow checklists, integrated electronic signatures and shareable document storage. Zapelo offers brokerages one system to reduce operating risk, boost efficiency and improve the overall customer experience. Discover Zapelo online at http://www.zapelo.com.

Solving the Lead Generation Dilemma for Real Estate Professionals
Promote Social is a new generation software tool built from the ground up for real estate industry professionals to help generate leads through word-of-mouth referrals. It's a streamlined and digital way for friends to tell friends about the great real estate experience they had with a particular agent or broker. We know that 90 percent of consumers say word of mouth referrals is the leading influencer in their purchase behavior. Promote Social magnifies this for agents, allowing them to get more leads from happy clients. We provide real estate professionals with a cost-effective and proactive way to generate warm market leads. It can be incorporated into all of your daily communication and advertising efforts and it provides in-depth analytics to measure results. Promote Social takes a completely unique approach to social media advertising. Instead of paying for ad space, the software magnifies positive testimonials from clients, spreading the word organically through social media sites to generate new leads and clients. It also provides subscribers with a professional, customizable lead capture page to allow people to connect with the agent online. Because Promote Social uses a business's existing customer's social media contacts, targeting is locally focused and allows for lead capture within the actual community real estate agents and brokers conduct business. "Real estate agents can spend thousands of dollars a month to advertise online without ever hitting their target market," said Lee Moraitis, co-founder of Promote Social. "Traditional online advertising platforms--Google, Facebook, Twitter--have very complex and expensive systems that sometimes require years to master. We wanted to make digital advertising more accessible to agents and brokers without six figure marketing budgets." If you would like more information about Promote Social for Real Estate, visit www.psocial.co/realestate/info. If you would like to schedule an interview with Lee Moraitis, call Jon Shihadeh at 313-778-6260.

Move, Inc. Becomes a RE/MAX Approved Supplier
SAN JOSE, CA, April 22, 2014 -- Move, Inc. and RE/MAX, LLC have announced the signing of an Approved Supplier agreement designed to maximize lead generation and lead conversion for RE/MAX agents, teams and brokers, with the goal of quadrupling an agent's book of business. Move's program, named 4X for RE/MAX, combines multiple Move technology and training solutions into a single, customized solution for RE/MAX professionals. The program focuses on the compounding effect of increasing brand reach, audience acquisition and lead volumes, while simultaneously improving conversion rates to achieve higher volumes of closings and business from past clients and relationships. The theory behind the 4X program is compelling in its simplicity. By putting a greater emphasis on prospecting, quality lead generation systems and sophisticated lead follow-up and nurturing systems agents, teams and brokers could theoretically double the number of prospects they engage with each year. Similarly, conversion of client engagement could double through optimized leads response, cultivation, nurturing and closing methods applied to existing prospects, past clients and relationships. The compound effect could create a "4X" increase in overall business. The customized training program teaches agents to layer the quality lead sources from realtor.com® and TigerLead®, the cultivation power of Top Producer®, and other offerings selected based on the specific needs of each agent. For the first time, agents can leverage the power of these industry-leading products and services together with training and support in a comprehensive program designed for optimal performance. "RE/MAX agents are at a point in their career where they can expertly manage their prospecting and lead generation in parallel. Their challenge is to maximize conversion results within the available time of any given day," said Mike Reagan, senior vice president, Business Alliances at RE/MAX. "Move's 4X program combines training and systems that empower agents to accomplish more with less time and effort." Move has a strong reputation in the real estate community for providing quality leads through realtor.com® and TigerLead® and a powerful lead cultivation system in Top Producer®. "We are proud to be a RE/MAX Approved Supplier and excited to be working with RE/MAX on a program that combines Move's best tools, lead products and training for optimal results," said Ray Picard, executive vice president of sales at Move. "This effort merges the best of our technology with the day-to-day insights of the most productive agents – it's the ideal formula for success." The 4X program emphasizes training and implementation through videos, webinars and one-on-one consulting, based on examples from successful RE/MAX brokers, teams and agents who use Move technology to manage large volumes of leads with healthy conversion rates. "We have worked with RE/MAX in the past and have a strong working relationship –particularly with our technology series," said Max Pigman, a national speaker and technology expert at Move who previously ran a RE/MAX office. "We're already seeing success with the new version of Top Producer®, which is allowing smaller teams to grow by integrating quality leads from remax.com and realtor.com®." The new 4X program takes successful best-practices and adds scalability through formal training and resource integration, with the goal of allowing others to achieve similar results. About Move, Inc. Move, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE), a leader in online real estate, operates: realtor.com®, the official website of the National Association of REALTORS®; Move.com, a leading destination for new homes and rental listings, moving, home and garden, and home finance; ListHub™, the leading syndicator of real estate listings; Moving.com™; SeniorHousingNet; SocialBios; Doorsteps®; TigerLead®; Top Producer® Systems and FiveStreet. Move, Inc. is based in San Jose, Calif.

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Do internet customers buy the property they called on?
We are aware some consumers find a home on the internet and bring the property to the attention of an agent or broker they are already working with. And historically consumers would get interested in a property, call an agent who is associated with the listing, but then move on to a different home while working with that agent. Not every internet search results in a double ended sale for the listing agent. But here is one changing dynamic. The unprecedented increase in consumers finding the actual home they buy, online, by themselves. This happened 11% of the time in 2003. Specific homes are now found by the consumer, online, almost 44% of the time, according to the NAR home buyers and sellers study released in November. A fourfold increase is a milestone, and it may be time to reassess this relatively new skill consumers have developed, (as they continue to get better at it). Capturing the consumer at the critical moment when the home has been found that they might actually buy can be a critical action for the agents who are ready at the right place and the right time. It's one thing if internet inquiries are vague and the consumer is indecisive. It really gets your attention when these buyers are ready to move on a specific house when they call. Watch this video from Rosemary Allison who reports double digit results in selling her own listings. She is normally present on her cell phone and reacts quite quickly to the leads she receives from her listings she markets through the realtor.com® Showcase Listings Solution. It might make you take another look at the double opportunity that could be lurking in those internet leads!

Not All Leads Are Equal
At realtor.com®, we take great care to focus on the outcome for the brokers and their agents when we provide lead solutions. Leads come in all shapes and sizes; and it is not until you back out the intent of the consumer who submitted the lead, that the quality over quantity issue becomes apparent. How ready are they? Where is the consumer in their life cycle? While it is good business to follow-up with all inquiries—at this time of year, the demand seems to be for leads where the consumer is past the research phase and already has a house in mind. If your source of leads is funneling in lots of consumers who are just curious about the state of the market, these potential consumers can convert, but this requires that your agents use good customer relationship practices. Instead of a drip marketing campaign that only sends emails without something personal, that will fall flat. We train with Top Producer® to send auto emails, but filter in lots of personal interactions and references to previous conversations which we store for the agent to refer to. Where is the loyalty? If your leads are being distributed to your agent—and a few others simultaneously, you can argue that this assures that the consumer will get a call. But it can also be uncomfortable for both your agent and the prospective client. We have anecdotal evidence that this hurts lead conversion significantly—from what our customers tell us, and studies done independently by PAA research will back this one up as well. Who answers the phone? Phone leads are great—there is no scrambling to get back to the customer and if done well, an appointment or next step can be produced in a single action. But if your agents have not instrumented a system for sending a personal text when they are busy or capturing the lead on their cell phone, the results can be devastating. When we tested what happens when a consumer reaches a voice mail, only 30 percent left a message. In these cases, we would recommend email leads—or upgrading the systems used to manage the leads the way FiveStreet does it. We offer phone leads and email leads so this is something to consider when every closing makes a difference—especially when your desire is to finish the year strong! To learn more, click here.

Homes.com and MLS Partners Generate Significant Leads for Brokers and Agents
  NORFOLK, Va., (November 8, 2013) – Homes.com, the online real estate resource and leading provider of enterprise-level solutions for real estate professionals and brokerages, has released six-month results for its first six fully integrated MLS partners. Those partners are MetroList Services, Inc., California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS), Intermountain MLS, Bay Area Real Estate Information Services, Inc., MLS Listings, Inc., and Houston Association of Realtors. For the six-month period ending October 2013, agents and brokers from these MLS partners received as a member benefit more than: 223 million online impressions for listings 16 million property detail views 167,000 leads "Homes.com is focused on providing quality traffic and leads to brokers and agents in cooperation with our MLS partners," said Brock MacLean, executive vice president of Homes.com. "Our recent recognition in REALTrends 2013 Online Performance Study verified Homes.com as the clear front-runner in quality leads over other national real estate sites, illustrating that not all leads are created equal." "CRMLS is committed to partnering with companies that are aligned with our vision of making a real difference in the day-to-day business of real estate professionals. Homes.com not only adheres to our strict data policies, they also believe that consumers should work with a licensed real estate professional with local expertise, and that consumers should be able to easily determine the listing broker and agent for all listings without confusion," said Art Carter, CEO of California Regional MLS. "Having a direct relationship with Homes.com not only benefits brokers and agents, it also benefits consumers by providing them with accurate and timely listing information and a direct path to connect with a licensed real estate professional." MLS Strategic Partner benefits include: All leads from listings are sent back to the listing agent. Exclusive branding and clear attribution for the listing brokerage and agent on listing detail pages. No competing advertising from other real estate professionals on listing detail pages. Partners can choose to display the MLS Trusted badge, promoting the accuracy and timeliness of the property data. More timely and accurate listing data. Data feeds are updated at least four times daily. Lead conversion tools including: Lead & Contact Manager, Email Campaigns, Task Manager and Calendar, Homes.com MyHomes Profile with Question & Answer Access, the Homes.com Facebook Listing App, and more. "When it makes better sense to buy technology solutions than to build them, we look for partners who have real estate in their DNA. Homes.com has been a proven partner with a variety of broker and agent solutions that our subscribers appreciate," said James Harrison, president and CEO of MLSListings, Inc. "Homes.com also brings us the ability to provide economies of scale to nearly 15,000 northern California real estate professionals who rely on us to support their businesses." REALTrends 2013 Online Performance Study is available here. About Homes.com Homes.com is a leading provider of real estate marketing and media services, including brand advertising, property listing exposure and syndication, search engine marketing and instant response lead generation. Homes Connect by Homes.com offers the real estate industry's first-ever all-inclusive marketing platform for agents and brokers featuring single-login convenience. Over 12.5 million consumers visit Homes.com each month to search nearly 3 million properties for sale or rent, to locate real estate agents in their area and to find useful home buying tips. For more information, visit www.Homes.com.

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Free White Paper: The Recent Shift in Real Estate Lead Engagement
Real estate lead engagement is evolving faster and faster these days. Not only have lead sources trended away from traditional marketing methods, but the emergence of Web 3.0 has changed the ways in which leads are being generated online. In fact 20% of web leads are now being generated from sources that didn't even exist just four years ago. In this white paper, Delta Media Group marketing experts explore the recent eye-opening trends in online engagement-backed by traffic statistics from over 35,000 websites. Click here to download your free copy About Delta Media Group, Inc. Serving over 600 real estate brokerages, 35,000 agents and 225 MLS's across the nation, Delta Media Group is the enterprise marketing and business management solution for real estate professionals. Delta partners with companies and top-performing agents where marketing meets technology, helping clients efficiently grow their businesses from lead to close. For more information about Delta Media Group, visit www.DeltaGroup.com.

How to Become a Top 5% Producer and Income Earner
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iHomefinder Launches SEO-Friendly IDX/MLS Search
BERKELEY (MMD Newswire) March 16, 2011 -- iHomefinder today introduced iSearch Optima IDX, a new search engine-optimized version of its market-leading real estate property search. By using Optima IDX as part of their websites, real estate agents and brokers can greatly improve their chances of being found by consumers and converting leads into valued clients. Moreover, Optima IDX is easy and engaging for consumers to use, compelling them to return time and again. Many real estate professionals know that search engine optimization (SEO) is important because the vast majority of homebuyers begin their home search process on the Internet, most starting from a search engine like Google Web Search™ or Bing™ search. This makes it critical that a real estate website's content be fully discoverable by search engines; Optima IDX ensures that property listings are found and fully indexed by search engines. Optima IDX pages are designed and coded to facilitate search engine discovery and indexing, including the use of universal resource locators (URLs) with full property address details and enhanced listing information. Optima IDX also makes it easy for consumers to share listings across their social networks with Facebook and Twitter integration, expanding a real estate professional's ability to generate word-of-mouth promotion and further improving SEO. Some of iHomefinder's key web design partners are already raving about Optima IDX. "I love the usability of the Optima interface and its focus on lead conversion," said Josh Galvin, Owner of Tizish, a prominent real estate website design firm. "This definitely stands out above other IDX systems that load their systems with marketing features at the cost of usability and lead generation, which are really what we need from an IDX system." Optima's usability features include a unique new multi-city selection interface, expansive property photographs, and a wealth of page customization tools that web designers can leverage. Optima IDX extends iHomefinder's reputation for superior lead generation. Proven marketing tools such as listing alert emails, the consumer property organizer, and showing request forms have been honed for even better usability. In addition, iHomefinder has added a new suite of consumer engagement tools, including Walk Score®, Great Schools™, and Google Maps™ Street View. These engagement tools help ensure that real estate websites with Optima IDX not only attract consumers and keep them coming back, but that consumers are compelled to reach out to the real estate professional using these effective tools on their website. "iSearch Optima IDX is the fruition of iHomefinder's fourteen years of experience in the online real estate space, serving thousands of brokerages and agents," said Alon Chaver, CEO of iHomefinder. "Optima's SEO capabilities and social media integration build upon the WordPress and mobile IDX innovation we've recently rolled out, keeping our clients at the forefront of online real estate technology." iSearch Optima IDX fits best in websites with a 720 to 750 pixel-wide container, making it perfect for WordPress applications and websites with a vertical navigation bar. The new product is a free upgrade for all existing iHomefinder customers. A demonstration website using Optima IDX can be viewed at http://www.anyhomesrealty.com/optima. To learn more about Optima IDX, please visit http://www.ihomefinder.com/optima.cfm. About iHomefinder, Inc. iHomefinder, Inc. is a leading national provider of hosted online property search technology, serving thousands of real estate brokerages and real estate professionals in every major U.S. market. Using the IDX standard, iHomefinder displays timely and accurate MLS content in full compliance with the local rules of over 150 MLSs. iHomefinder also provides MLS licensing, compliance and technology services to hundreds of web design and online marketing companies, as well as brokerages, technology vendors, Associations, and MLSs. Privately held and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997, iHomefinder maintains collaborative relationships with hundreds of innovative companies serving the real estate industry. Learn more at http://www.ihomefinder.com.