My thanks to Rapattoni for sponsoring another year of Vendor Alley. Rapattoni Corporation will be at the National Association of REALTORS® Party Convention & Trade Expo May 12 – 16th. Go see their exciting new Rapattoni MLS “Touch-Based” Mobile Interface for tablets and smartphones (click here for a video demo), and their new Integrated Website Service (click here for a video demo) for Magic and MLS customers. Please call 800-722-7338, extension 3 to set an appointment, or simply stop by our booth (#323) to learn more about Rapattoni’s products and services and enter to win a Rapattoni lion cub! For more information, visit us at: www.rapattoni.com/nar.
Clareity Store
My thanks to Clareity Store for sponsoring Vendor Alley. This is from their site:
“The beauty of the Clareity Store is that it enables approved sellers to sell in every store in our system. Since Clariety is building new stores throughout 2013, sellers can rest assured they will receive maximum exposure to working real estate agents. The more stores you sell in, the more sales you will make.
The application process to become an approved seller is simple, and the terms are straightforward. The entire process is designed to take less than 48 hours to complete, including integration, testing and deployment.
As an approved seller, you will need to integrate with our single sign-on technology, so Clareity can sell and provision your product using the same user credentials agents already use to access their MLS.”
Sounds good to me!
Sponsorships available now for Vendor Alley
I’ve got a few spots available if you are interested. They go pretty fast, as most of them sponsor for the entire year.
Plus something new this year. If you really want to make a big splash you can replace the iconic Vendor Alley “brass balls” image, on the upper right.
For more information please visit our Ad Sponsorship Page.
Advertise on Vendor Alley in 2012
I’ve expanded the ways you can support Vendor Alley by advertising. Check out my updated Ad Sponsorships Page.
Email me if you are interested:
N-Play to give interactive presentation next week
I wanted to mention and thank N-Play for sponsoring this month’s Vendor Alley. Looks like a lot of you may get to see this new concept in action next week a the RETechSouth conference in Atlanta.
The concept is deceptively simple. It will be interesting to hear the feedback from the event.
Full Press Release Below:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Kristi Bolton
N-Play RE LLC
904.680.1283
904.564.1023
www.N-Play .com
Kristi at N-Play dot com
N-Play Hosts Groundbreaking, Interactive Presentation at REtechSouth
Attendees are in for an eye-opening experience on the future of real estate negotiations
Jacksonville, FL – N-Play is gearing up as Elite Sponsor for one of the largest real estate technology conferences in the country. RETechSouth (RETSO) hosts the most powerful conversations in the real estate industry and is about delivering the technological tools and knowledge to help Agents, Brokers and their referral network partners become more effective in their business. This is a Can’t Miss Event in Atlanta!
N-Play is hosting a featured session on Friday, April 1st at 11:20 a.m. Brokers and agents will experience first-hand how changing their traditional approach to the market will open up new buying and selling opportunities previously thought not possible or nonexistent. Through audience participation, N-Play will demonstrate how engaging consumers online in a real-time offer and negotiation process will ultimately deliver more and better opportunities to agents and with less hassle, stress and overhead.
Attendees will leave the session knowing that when the market thinks there are no buyers, there are. And, when one thinks they have the best price for a property, they don’t. The technology solution is here today and it’s an innovative approach every agent needs to know about.
For more information about the conference please go to www. Retechsouth.com
N-Play RE LLC
N-Play is the residential real estate industry’s first online offer management service where buyers shopping for homes can make and view non-binding, online offers on MLS properties. N-Play partners with real estate brokers and agents to offer the service through their Web sites via The Offer Centersm, N-Play’s featured search widget. The company uses full RETS feeds to keep all properties, agents and offices in sync with their Multiple Listing Service and all information is current. Buyers can also access N-Play through the company’s own search portal at www.n-play.com. N-Play is partnered with top brokerages in Atlanta, GA, Las Vegas, NV and South Florida offering over 100,000 searchable listings.
Advertise on Vendor Alley
I’m increasing the size of the ads on Vendor Alley starting next month to 125 X 250 and adding two spots. I have two spots open for April. One in May and June. And a few in July and August.
For details check out the Vendor Alley Ad Sponsorships page. They are going fast!
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!”
-Ted Turner
Put your listing “in play”.
These guys are worth checking out. And not just because they are sponsoring this month’s Vendor Alley. : )
The name of the service is “N-Play” (http://n-play.com), as the title of this post suggests its a play on the phrase “in play”. In a nutshell the service has a simple way for an online buyer to make an offer (and view other offers) on any listing on a real estate website. The offer is non-binding, anonymous, and the buyer can choose their own agent.
I got a demo of the service from Daniel Fuchs. The process seems easy enough. The buyer answers a series a questions that fills out a grid. Although one thing I think they were a little weak on was choosing your own agent. You basically get a photo on an agent and a short plug they write about themselves. I’d like to see some sort of integration with a peep.ly (now http://socialbios.com/) type service.
You can check out their interactive demo here.
I’ve seen these types of buyer’s marketplace sites before, but N-play has really thought the process thru. I believe the owner has a patent on the process.
One of their key elements is their “Make/View Offers” link/button. These can be placed right on the home page or next to every listing. They have a excleent page where they have mocked-up popular listing portals to show how the implementation would look. Check this out at http://n-play.com/demos/.
So go explore. Their site is full of videos and interactive demos that will allow you to explore.
PocketListings
My thanks again to PocketListings for sponsoring this month’s Vendor Alley. As many of you know I’m a big supporter of innovation in this industry and its great to see new players stepping in with fresh ideas.
pocketListings part deux
My thanks again to pocketListings for sponsoring this month’s Vendor Alley.
pocketListings is a mobile real estate search application that agents can distribute to their prospects just like business cards. They offer…
Agent branded search application with contact, picture, logo and personal banner message.
Optional Viral promotion using social networks integration for prospect-to-prospect referral.
App on various device specific app-stores for secure and trusted downloads.
“Schedule Visit” feature for sending showing request to you with MLS id of a property being viewed on phone.
Your own mobile app promotion web-page.
“Contact” button on app to send all leads to you
They’ve just announced a 1.5 production release:
– Facebook Integration – Prospective home buyer can post the app on their wall now.
– Walk score Integration – Home searchers can see walk-ability to the property
Plus a little birdie told me that they may be partnering with a major data provider soon. So stay tuned!
Inman RE Connect NYC-Top 5 sessions I’m looking forward to.
I was taking a look at this years agenda for Inman’s Real Estate Connect in New York City and I must say this year has a lot of great sessions. But with so many sessions I thought I would put together my Top 5.
1. ConnectTech Wednesday, January 12. 8:30AM to 12:25PM
Moderated by Dan Woolley.
Interested in APIs? Will Flash make it? Tablets? UX/UI? Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Dan and Joel have put together some of the best tech minds in one place. If you are interested in real estate technology than this is the place to be.
2. Welcome Address from Brad Inman. Wednesday, January 12 at 2:15 to 2:40PM
I’m a sucker for these. I’m always curious to see what’s Brad and his team come up with, it sets the vibe of the conference for me.
3. New kids on the block: Meet six new companies you may not have heard of – but should know. Thursday 9:30AM to 10:00AM.
I’m a sucker for these too! Great to see what fresh ideas and faces are coming in to the industry.
4. Innovation Track: The MLS. Moderated by Mike Wurzer 2:00PM to 5:00PM
Gahlord Dewald is moderating the media and technology track at the same time but since I’m an MLS geek I’m going to the The MLS session. Mike Wurzer does such a good job moderating these sessions its a hard one to miss. One session that really has me intrigued is the “Trends in media and technology with Curt Beardsley from Realtor.com. Curt always has a an interesting take on things.
5. Data, traffic and profits. Friday, January 14, 2011 9:25AM to 10:00AM
Ever since we launched Dwellicious I’ve been keeping track of all the major portals. This session has some big names, Pete Flint, Ian Morris (good to see him back in the mix), Spencer Rascoff and Errol Samuelson.
There’s lots and lots and lots of sessions. You can see the full agenda here. The conference starts on Wednesday the 12th, so come to New York and buy me a drink!
