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[May 15, 2017]
5 Strategies To Help Legacy Industries Avoid Technological Growing Pains
Although real estate struggles with fragmentation, its biggest issue is the same one many legacy industries grapple with: applying and updating long-entrenched processes. Implementing…
[May 4, 2017]
How To Manage Expectations with a Growing Team
Startups must let go of the management reins as they accelerate toward their desired destination by building specially designed teams with smaller-than-normal numbers. The…
[March 22, 2017]
Colorado MLSs embark on ‘highly charged’ merger talks
“REcolorado and IRES are pleased to announce the two MLS organizations have joined together to appoint T3 MLS … to explore and facilitate discussions…
[March 16, 2017]
3 ways real estate brokers can improve their agent quality
The National Association of Realtors’ 2015 DANGER report cited the number of “nominal agents” as a major industry concern. The report’s author, Stefan Swanepoel,…
[March 16, 2017]
Zillow Group’s Bridge Interactive vs. Upstream: A data management arms race?
Their products include UpstreamRE’s Upstream, Zillow Group’s Bridge Interactive, CoreLogic’s Trestle, Black Knight’s Paragon for Brokers, Instanet Solutions’ Instanet Forms, and Realtors Property Resource’s…
[March 13, 2017]
Is your brokerage taking full advantage of technology?
It isn’t that there are fewer tasks, but rather that “technology can now do more than one of those tasks,” said industry expert Stefan…
[March 7, 2017]
Wendy Forsythe joins T3 Group
Speaking of new gigs, looks like Wendy Forsythe has joined Swanepoel T3 Group. They have just announced a new brokerage consulting division, dubbed T3…
[February 23, 2017]
5 Ways To Use Dual Strategies And Plans To Keep Every Piece In Play
Life and business are both like a game of chess. They require identifying hurdles, evaluating options, organizing priorities, and deciding on execution. Playing chess…
[February 21, 2017]
5 Steps to Communicate More Successfully Across Cultures
There are many cultures, tribes, nations, and languages across the world. As someone who has lived in four countries and visited more than 40,…
[February 16, 2017]
Shortcuts: Zillow Group’s power play, actual intelligence, and NAR’s next move
Build or buy? Zillow Group has clearly been leaning toward buying for its data management platform. Paul Hagey (of Inman fame) and I took…
[February 14, 2017]
Three factors that will affect the Real Estate Industry under a Trump Presidency
2016 has come and gone — but not without its share of surprises. First, the Brexit vote shocked the world as the European Union…
[February 1, 2017]
Spencer Rascoff most influential person in US real estate
Spencer Rascoff, Chief Executive Officer, of Zillow Group, has been named as the most influential person in United States real estate in 2017. Mr…
[January 14, 2017]
Real Estate Leaders Honored in Swanepoel Power 200
The top leaders in residential real estate were recently honored in the annual Swanepoel POWER 200 2015/16. Innovators from all the largest real estate…
[January 12, 2017]
2017 Inman Influencers List, SP200 Honors WAV Group Clients and Leaders
The impact of the annual reveal of both the Inman Influencer List and the Swanepoel Power 200 is like a social media cannon shot:…
[January 11, 2017]
Phil Soper wrote this article on Linkedin
Stefan Swanepoel, best-selling author and Chairman & CEO of the Swanepoel T3 Group, is the man behind the Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200), the most…
[January 9, 2017]
Swanepoel announces 2017’s most powerful people in real estate
What defines power? Certainly not popularity, Stefan Swanepoel opines in his 2017 list of residential real estate industry heavyweights, released today with Zillow Group…
[January 9, 2017]
Swanepoel Power 200 includes over 10 MLS executives
Well its that time of year again. The 2017 Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) was released today. “Each year the Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) holds…
[January 9, 2017]
Swanepoel Announces 2017’s Most Powerful People In Real Estate
What defines power? Certainly not popularity, Stefan Swanepoel opines in his 2017 list of residential real estate industry heavyweights, released today with Zillow Group…
[January 4, 2017]
I’ve given over 1,000 presentations in the past 30 years — here are my 5 best public speaking tips
Glossophobia — better known as a fear of public speaking — affects 74% of people, according to a National Institute of Mental Health survey….
[November 9, 2016]
4 Ways Storytelling Can Make Your Personal Brand Pop
There were many reasons for the company’s success throughout the years, but one important factor was the use of storytelling to elevate the personal…
[October 19, 2016]
The Amazon Effect: 3 Strategies to Start Killing it in Your Category
The retail landscape is changing, and it all can be traced back to a phenomenon dubbed the Amazon effect. This trend, in which online…
[October 18, 2016]
The Lead-Generation Technique You Probably Haven’t Thought Of
Creating helpful and relevant gated content can give your business a boost in terms of sales. Pieces of gated content like white papers or…
[August 8, 2016]
Machine Learning Is Redefining Real Estate Search
By teaching computers how to interpret the visual world, MLS photos are starting to unlock an enormous treasure trove of listing data that was…
[July 26, 2016]
How Executives Can Navigate the ‘Old Meets New’ Mindset of Tech Disruption
Technology’s forward movement is nothing new. It’s simply a question of whether you will allow it to disrupt you or whether you can ride…
[July 21, 2016]
Language Barrier: How Words May Impede Problem-Solving
Positive words can’t completely solve a problem. They certainly can, however, help a message be better received. Let your words be confident, energetic, committed,…
[July 7, 2016]
Real Estate Search Redefined
By teaching computers how to interpret the visual world, MLS photos are starting to unlock an enormous treasure trove of listing data that was…
[May 31, 2016]
How VC Funding Is Transforming the Real Estate Industry
The real estate brokerage business is one of America’s last cottage-type industries. In 2015, the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) estimated…
[May 16, 2016]
How Entrepreneurs Can Use Predictive Analytics to Ride the House-Surfing Wave
When Zillow launched its website and Zestimate system a decade ago, home-buying veered onto a new track: Consumers felt empowered with the abundance of…
[April 23, 2016]
3 Standards Necessary for Increased Smart Home Security
The world is getting smarter, and houses are no exception. With nearly 80 per cent of Millennials rallying around smart home technology, the industry…
[April 15, 2016]
Commissions of 6 percent for home sales once were the norm. That’s changing.
In 2015, the National Association of Realtors’ “DANGER” report — which stands for the Definitive Analysis of Negative Game Changers Emerging in Real Estate,…