Issue: 61
July, 2014
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Can You Trust your Digital Signatures?
WAVinar Emails
Marketing Trauma
Road Map to Listing Syndication
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By Marilyn Wilson

It's not always easy to sort out what those tools are, however. A simple search for "electronic signatures" on the App Store or Google Play will yield dozens of results. How can you know which solutions to trust and which to avoid? Knowing what questions to ask and what elements are most important in an eSignature solution is a great place to start.   

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WAVinar eMails
By Marilyn Wilson

Our industry is moving really quickly these days.  There are so many challenges facing MLSs today threatening the viability of the entire industry!  Lawsuits, new players, technology revolutions, economic shifts....It is difficult and expensive to keep MLS leadership teams up to speed on the myriad of events, trends policies and legal issues and research affecting the business. MLS organizations and their leadership need to keep up on all of the trends so they can make proactive decisions to keep their organizations relevant.  That's why the WAV Group created its new WAVinar series. 
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Marketing Trauma
By Victor Lund

MLSs, with their consumer-facing websites, long to find ways to make their sites more engaging, attracting more visitors and ultimately more exposure to their member's listings. The Houston Association of REALTORS�, arguably one of the most progressive and gutsy Associations in America today, has done it again.  They have become the first MLS consumer site in America to allow listings from brokers around the state of Texas via Listhub. 

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 Listing syndication to online portals is in the throws of a revolution in real estate today. Listing syndication has followed a philosophical pattern first envisioned by the German philosopher G.W.F. Hagel in his triadic process - thesis, antithesis, and then synthesis. This paper will walk though the first two phases of the process, discussing the evolution of the original thesis of listing syndication followed by the new roots of today's chaotic antithesis. The industry is developing a plethora of new models to transmit listings for online advertising at a pace that is eroding the effectiveness of the process in a significant way. However, out of this chaos of antithesis we are beginning to see a glimmer of new publishers who seek to be the best possible partners to brokers. A new synthesis is on the horizon.

 

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