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W&R Studios launch new landing page and special promotion for Cloud CMA in September..

We’ve been working on developing a new landing page for Cloud CMA for a long time now.  After our last round of product improvements we had some time to focus and finish it up.

To check it out just visit http://CloudCMA.com

Dan and I are super happy with the results.  Now we’ll see how well it performs!

If you are a MLS provider give me a shout.  We would love to have Cloud CMA working with your MLS or give you a quote on a Cloud CMA site license.

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W&R Studios announces special September promotion for Cloud CMA.

New reduced pricing plan and free trial with no credit card required option.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA August 31, 2010 – Web software company, W&R Studios, announced today it is starting a special promotion in September for its innovative product, Cloud CMA.

Cloud CMA, launched in January of 2010, is a web-based software application designed for real estate professionals to create reports for their buyers and sellers.  Cloud CMA is available on a monthly subscription basis.

For the month of September, Cloud CMA will be free to try without a credit card.  Cloud CMA will also have lower pricing plans for subscribers who wish to continue the service after the free trial period.

“The response to Cloud CMA has been extraordinary.  We wanted to do something special so that everyone could try Cloud CMA with no strings attached,” stated Greg Robertson, co-founder of W&R Studios.

Cloud CMA is now available in several metro markets in the United States including Southern California, Phoenix, Dallas-Ft. Worth, and Portland areas.  These areas comprise over 175,000 real estate professionals.  Additional markets are expected to be announced soon.

“As part of this special promotion, we have revamped our Cloud CMA landing page and announcing Cloud CMA Weekly Webinars,” concluded Mr. Robertson.

For more information about Cloud CMA, or to sign up for a free trial, please visit http://CloudCMA.com.  To sign up for a Cloud CMA Weekly Webinar, please visit http://CloudCMAWeeklyWebinar.eventbrite.com.

About W&R Studios
Founded in 2008, W&R Studios (http://wr-studios.com) is a privately held web software company. W&R Studios focuses on creating the next generation of web applications for real estate. By providing a “less is more” approach to software design, elegant user interfaces, and using the latest in agile programming, W&R Studios’ software applications are at the same time powerful, yet accessible to everyone. W&R Studiosʼ products include Dwellicious, a social book-marking site for real estate, Dwellicious Pro, and Cloud CMA. Co-founders Dan Woolley and Greg Robertson each have over 18 years experience developing and marketing software solutions.

For more information please contact:

Greg Robertson

greg at wr-studios dot com

(714) 924-4219

Leads not cheese!

Very funny video put out by RE/MAX, executed perfectly.

MRMLS to announce name change this week.

Word on the street is that Art Carter is going to announce a new name change for MRMLS this week.  Since the “merger” of calREDD and MRMLS speculation has been high if they would keep the MRMLS moniker or possibly switch to the calREDD branding.

My guess is that they will come up with something entirely new.  Anybody on the Interwebs have a guess on what the new name might be?

Must have web apps for real estate vendors!

I thought I would share with you my top web apps for real estate vendors.  I use all of these myself and are worth taking a look at yourself.

TripIt is a great app to keep track of your travel.  You simply forward your e-mail travel confirmation e-mails (air and hotel) to plan@tripit.com and it parses each e-mail and gives you an easy to read format to help you keep track of all your travel plans.  The app is free (they also have a “pro” version.  You can also choose to share your trips with others (or keep trips private) to see who else is coming to the next conference or trade show.  They also have a great iPhone app (as well as Blackberry).

Expensify is a great app to help you create expense reports.  Their tagline is “Expense Reports That Don’t Suck!”.  You can link your credit card to transfer expenses digitally or use the camera on your phone or e-mail to track receipts.  This is also a free app and has great iPhone and other mobile native apps too.

Tired of showing up to a training or office meeting and wondering if anyone will show?  Eventbrite is a great tool to set up quick landing pages for events and track attendees.  It will also send out reminder e-mail to attendees 48 hours before the event starts.  It has a great iPhone app that allows you to check in attendees at the event.  And since you can capture contact information at sign up there is no need to collect business cards, you will have all contact info on your attendees for follow up.  This is also free app.

So these are my top 3, it would be great to hear from anyone else who can add to the list.

“Thanks, Buy Owner!” – You’re bankrupt

This story might only be interesting to anyone living in the Southeast but these guys had television commercials running all the time while I was living in Boca.  The ad would be a real life couple recounting about how much money they saved by using the “By Owner” service and would always end with them looking at the camera saying “Thanks, By Owner!”

Buy Owner service is in liquidation

Scary.

via the Palm Beach Post

It’s official, this will be the largest CMLS Conference ever produced.

I’m not sure my liver will be able to handled this…

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CMLS 2010 – THE Multiple Listing Service Conference of the Year

LISLE (August 19, 2010) – When the Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) scheduled its annual conference for this fall, they had no idea how big a conference it would turn out to be.

A little background first. Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is this year’s host, and CMLS 2010 is being held at the Westin River North in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

Whether it is the attraction of a great city, the central US location, or the number of hot issues in the industry today, registration and sponsor/exhibitor participation has gone through the roof! This will be the largest attended multiple listing service organization conference of the year, and the largest CMLS conference ever.

CMLS 2010 will be held Wednesday, September 29th through Friday, October 1st. Registrations are still being taken, and additional hotel rooms have been blocked. Sponsors and exhibitors stepped up so early that by the end of July all the available slots had been filled.

Headlining the event will be noted speakers such as futurist and prolific real estate trends author Stefan Swanepoel, technology evangelist Brian Boero of 100watt Consulting and Rob Hahn aka blogger extraordinaire Notorious R.O.B. Interspersed throughout the conference will be interactive panels and cutting edge information sharing sure to make the trip to Chicago well worth anybody’s time.

Those interested in more information about CMLS 2010, including registration, are directed to www.cmls2010.com, or please contact Gayle at 630-955-2768.

Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) is the premier forum and resource for Multiple Listing Service associations.

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is a real estate data aggregator and distributor that provides the largest multiple listing service in the country (by listing volume) to over 40,000 customers, with property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.

Vacation

Sorry for the lack of posts.  I’ve been on vacation.  Will be back next week, in a big way.

More on Listingbook acquiring Cyberhomes

Here’s the official press release from LPS.

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Press Release

Listingbook LLC Enters into a Definitive Agreement with LPS Real Estate Group to Acquire Cyberhomes.com

Listingbook will continue to operate the website as a ‘best-in-class’ online real estate destination powered by LPS’ premier data aggregation services

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and GREENSBORO, N.C. – Aug. 3, 2010 – Lender Processing Services, Inc. (NYSE: LPS), a leading provider of integrated technology and services to the mortgage and real estate industries, announced today that its subsidiary, LPS Real Estate Group, Inc., and Listingbook LLC, a leading provider of broker and agent client servicing applications, have signed an agreement for Listingbook to take over the operations of Cyberhomes.com, LPS’ leading online real estate valuation and listing portal.
As part of this agreement, LPS will continue to support the Cyberhomes.com platform by providing public records data, automated valuation models (AVMs) and residential property listing data aggregation, as well as a national advertising sales platform.
“After an extensive search to identify a partner that shared our vision for operating a leading consumer portal that represents and benefits organized real estate, we are pleased to have found a trusted and respected leader in Listingbook to take over the operations of Cyberhomes.com,” said Jay Gaskill, president, LPS Real Estate Group. “We remain focused on providing data, analytical tools, data aggregation and technology to power leading real estate websites throughout the industry.”
“Listingbook’s value proposition of optimizing agent’s productivity, increasing their clients’ satisfaction levels, and ultimately helping them generate more profit is exponentially progressed with Cyberhomes.com,” said Todd John, chief operating officer of Listingbook.
“This acquisition enables us to generate many more leads for agents and help turn these leads into lifelong relationships with Listingbook’s premiere client management system all while creating significant incremental national advertising opportunities. We are thrilled to be partnering with LPS and their team of professionals on this initiative and embrace the opportunity to optimize Cyberhomes.com for both the agent and consumer.”

About Lender Processing Services
LPS is a leading provider of integrated technology and services to the mortgage and real estate industries. LPS offers solutions that span the mortgage continuum, including lead generation, origination, servicing, workflow automation (Desktop®) portfolio retention and default, augmented by the company’s award-winning customer support and professional services. Approximately 50 percent of all U.S. mortgages by volume are serviced using LPS’ Mortgage Servicing Package (MSP). LPS also offers proprietary mortgage and real estate data and analytics for the mortgage and capital markets industries. For more information about LPS, please visit www.lpsvcs.com.

The LPS Real Estate Group has relationships with more than 300 MLS organizations, 250 broker companies, settlement services companies, and more than 350,000 real estate professionals. The technology applications include innovative tools such as Paragon™; the reInsight™ collection; rDesk® Broker & Agent Suite of products; TransactionPoint®; DocCentral; the Real Estate & Living Media Network that generates revenue for its publishers; as well as a robust real estate property and tax database that includes 400 million residential and commercial property, ownership, sales, assessment and mortgage records. This represents detailed information on at least 92 percent of U.S. property ownership records in more than 2,000 counties with over 675,000 new ownership records added monthly. To learn more, visit www.lpsreg.com.

About Listingbook
Listingbook® LLC, based in Greensboro, N.C., is an online service that connects real estate agents and their clients through an integrated platform of client management, sales productivity and direct marketing tools. Listingbook has qualified users who gain access only through their licensed real estate agent. Listingbook is the first-ever web based community of qualified buyers and sellers, brokers and agents and home service professionals.

Designed to complement MLS systems, Listingbook automates, tracks and analyzes client activities in an agent-managed, real-time environment that facilitates efficient collaboration and communication between agents and clients, making buying or selling a home easier and more enjoyable. Additionally, the system provides brokers and agents with important data on client activity and the ability to turbo-charge listing promotions in a highly targeted manner. The company was founded in 1999 and has agreements in place throughout the Continental US. For more information about Listingbook, call 336-722-3456 or visit www.listingbook.com.

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For More Information:

LPS Media contact:
Laura Buser
949.681.4852
Laura.Buser at lpsvcs dot com

Listingbook LLC Media contact:
Hugh Siler
949-646-6966
hugh at silerpr dot com

Listingbook acquires Cyberhomes.

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Cyberhomes has found a new home and it’s Listingbook! That’s right it looks as though Listingbook has gotten out the check book again and purchased Cyberhomes from LPS. More details to follow next when this news is officially announced.You heard it here first!

Big news this week.

Just as many have predicted the online real estate space is starting to consolidate. Those of you with a password to the Champagne Room already know the details

More to follow.

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