I just wanted to say thanks to Rebecca Jensen and the staff at MRED for putting on a great show this week. They had some big shoes to fill based on the last time they did the event and I have to say, MREDpaloza was off the hook fantastic!!
It was a “who’s who” of industry peeps. We had a ton of REALTORS visit our booth and attend our sessions. Sales were great and MRED members are some of the biggest fans of Cloud CMA in the industry! Thanks again!
Looking forward to catching up with everyone next week. I want to highlight a few events that I’ll be attending/participating in.
Tuesday
CMLS BRINGS IT TO THE TABLE WORKSHOP : CERTIFIED
May 12, 8 a.m. ?12:45 p.m.
The City Club of Washington
555 13th Street, NW
Columbia Square
Washington, DC 20004
Registration ends today, so hurry and register if you haven’t already. It includes lunch people, get on this!
Wednesday
MLS Association Executives Session
May 13, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
I just spoke to Chris Carillo and they have a strong session planned. They have asked me to moderate a panel on Syndication (what else?) at this session. My esteemed panelists include the Cameron Paine, the Jim Harrison and Matt Consalvo. Should be fun so get there early for a good seat.
Thursday
We (W&R Studios) are co-sponsoring the ListHub Party (Cirque du Mystique)
May 14, 8:00PM to 1:00am
Maimasion
3401 Water Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
Also I’ve got a few slots left open for meetings about Cloud CMA and our newest product Cloud Streams. Katie and I would love to give you a demo and show you the latest. Just contact Katie at the link below:
katie@wr-studios.com
See you there!!
Yesterday MOVE slapped the newly formed Zillow Group with the news that as of next week they won’t be providing listing to Trulia any longer. This seemed to be in response to Zillow’s earlier rebuke of continuing the ListHub agreement past the contract date.
Now it appears that Zillow is seeking a restraining order to keep listings flowing to Zillow.
Oy Vey!
A few observations:
Welcome to the team!
Tough first week for Paul Levine, newly appointed president of Trulia.
The Velvet Glove
I’m going to start calling Celeste Starchild, “the velvet glove”, because she always seems to be delivering the bad (good?) news, but tries to downplay the consquences.
Shit Sandwich
And going back to Zillow’s earlier refusal to re-sign with ListHub, can you really blame them? ListHub was basically forcing them to use a data feed their very own company won’t use on its own site (realtor.com). Zillow take is that ListHub was was serving them a shit sandwich, telling them to eat, and that they better like it.
Lobby bars
Good thing the Clareity’s MLS Executive Workshop next week is serving great popcorn, because the show has just begun!
#ICNY If that was a blizzard then I am Brad Pitt
— Brad Inman (@bradInman) January 27, 2015
UPDATE:
So far my flight hasn’t canceled. Fingers crossed. Hope to see everyone tonight in New York!
On my way!!
I was lucky enough to be included on David Charron’s panel, “Does Big Data Make Us Stupid?” at Inman Connect NYC next week.
The panel is set to start on Thursday at 2:35PM. John Heithaus from RBI, and Matthew Shadbolt from the New York Times are also panelists. Which leads me to believe they wanted some comic relief by inviting me to join all these big brains on stage!
David is moderating all panels on the MLS Track at Inman Connect NYC this year again. All of them are not to miss. I hope he and Inman keep this going, David does a great job of preparing and keeping things interesting.
One that also stands out to me is David’s interview with new CMLS CEO, Denee Evans, on “How I Plan to Build on the Success of CMLS” This session is right before mine at 2:00pm.
See you there!!
Super excited that Rupert Murdoch will be the Keynote Speaker at @InmanConnect on Thursday AM!
— Brad Inman (@bradInman) January 15, 2015
Whoa….
Stephan Swanepoel just released his list of “the most powerful people in residential real estate 2014/15”. Dubbed the “Power 200” the list includes many MLS executives, consultants and vendors in real estate.
Bob Hale, David Charon, Art Carter, Jim Harrison, Merri Jo Cowen, Tom Phillips, Kathy Condon, Teresa King Kinney, and Kipp Cooper made the list under (Organized Real Estate).
Denee Evans, new CEO of CMLS, also made the list.
A few industry consultants and publishers made the list as well under the “Thought Leader” category: Brad Inman, Marilyn and Victor Lund, Gregg Larson, Brian Boero, Marc Davison, Ann Bailey, Brian Larson and Lani and Benn Rosales.
The list also includes many vendors, such as Andy Rapattoni, Rich Lull, Michael Wurzer, Jay Gaskill, Curt Beardsley, Chris Bennett, and Lorne Wallace.
I was also very honored to be included on the list in the “Technology” category no less! I just squeaked in at #199 (as it should be), just beating out Morgan Carey of Real Estate Webmasters! I’m sure this will cause Morgan to lose a lot of sleep at night. ; )
The list was curated by Stefan Swanepoel and Rob Hahn. So my thanks to them.
Which gives me a great segue to plug the T3 Summit Conference. The conference is being held April 8th to 10th this year at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas. The conference is 3 years old now and I’ve been to each one. I’ve written about it in the past and I think this latest conference will be their best one yet.
Here’s a highlight reel from last year.
My favorites include Stefan’s interviews, and when Rob Hahn takes the stage with his “black swan” conspiracy theories.
Katie Smithson and I will be attending this year so I hope to see you there.
There are some limitations on registrants (I think it sold out last year) but you can find out more info here. http://www.t3summit.com/register/
My thanks again to Stefan and his team. Nice surprise to wake up to!
RE/MAX Holdings Announces CEO Transition, Replaces Margaret Kelly with Board Chairman Dave Liniger
“Liniger said, “We owe Margaret our deepest gratitude for the contributions she has made over the last three decades. Her leadership during her tenure as CEO allowed us to emerge from the recent financial crisis as a stronger company and led us through an initial public offering. Due to Margaret’s management, our business is performing exceptionally well and we’re positioned to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead.”
Whoa! This is interesting a lot of levels. As many of you know Dave Linger went through some major health issues is the past few years. I remember being at the T3 Summit in Las Vegas earlier this year. In an interview with Swanepoel, Dave recounted part of his recent health scare, along with some other great stories. He got a standing ovation at the end. Dave is the real deal and a true bad ass. So I gotta believe this means his health is back. Good news for him, not so much for his competitors.
Nice scoop for RIS Media on this story. Although it seems like the nice bow they put on Margaret’s departure is a bit too perfect.
Calling all Real Estate Technology Developers – It’s Time to Light it Up at NAR!
“The Spark Platform is the only way that (approved) real estate technology Developers can plug into 100+ MLSs via a RESO standards-driven listings API with one Terms of Use agreement , no up-front fees and gain product exposure with 100,000+ Agents via an App Store within the Agent’s MLS System.”
Not the post I was expecting to read from reading the title. I thought NAR’s Annual Conference had moved to Colorado.
So here’s the situation, you are packing up the booth and putting everything back in their boxes. If your marketing team was smart enough they included packing tape so you could tape all the boxes up.
But then you need scissors to cut the tape. Not anymore! Enter Scotch Tear-by-hand tape! Totally works too.
You’re welcome.
#protip
