A Bird’s Eye View

Case Study Conducted By:
The WAV Group
www.wavgroup.com
Online property search for Dallas, Miami and San Diego
Online property search makes sense for consumers. Although the process of purchasing a home should always involve a licensed REALTOR®, shopping for a place to live or a home to buy can be done privately on an internet web browser. What are [...]

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The start of my real estate brokerage career just happened to coincide with the dramatic increased use of the Internet by home buyers and sellers. As a marketer, this sounded like the Holy Grail because unlike other advertising outlets (newspapers or magazines) the Internet is clearly a highly trackable medium.
As it was explained to me [...]

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It is always interesting as a company when you open the kimono and let someone with a video camera run around your office and shoot pretty much anything they want. Such was the case when Lai Saetern of Inman News showed up last month to check out our San Francisco digs for a piece she [...]

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Everyone knows that the Internet has expanded our reach, our knowledge and our possibilities. But is it ALL good? I’ll be the first to admit that it can be sometimes daunting to keep up with it all. I remember watching Shift Happens for the first time and being amazed by the exponential growth of unique [...]

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I’ve been in the real estate marketing/technology world for almost ten years now and one aspect of an agent’s life that I’ve always thought would be difficult for me is limited weekends. I was thinking this as I was taking the train into work this morning and thinking about my awesome weekend at the beach [...]

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So I was reading Marc Davidson’s 1000Watt blog post from last Thursday titled “Why agents will one day rule the real estate world” and I was in a little disagreement with Marc’s view of the real estate search world as it relates to consumers. Now Marc, who I’ve known for a few years, did not [...]

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So I was contemplating last night as I was adding Plurk to my repertoire of social media sites…Is this all worth it? Does it really pay off? Are the fruits of my labor going to reward me in the end? My answers to all are I really think so.
I’ve been actively involved in the social [...]

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When starting a new business in a crowded space, it is your first priority to just be recognized. Especially in the world of real estate search, which by most accounts is pretty crowded. The second priority is to gain partners to use your product to help improve their business. And the third priority you may [...]

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Back in mid-July, I attended SocialMediaCamp here is San Francisco and saw a killer application called Qik. It was demoed by Silicon Valley whiz kid Daniel Brusilovsky, the 15-year old podcaster, blogger, entrepreneur, and soon to be author. Basically, Qik allows you to stream live video from your cell phone.

After finding out my Samsung Blackjack [...]

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