
May 20, 2013 | by RISMedia
Combine our technology-driven world and today’s evolving real estate market and you have a good recipe for one overwhelmed real estate professional. In addition to the daily challenges of listing and selling properties, you now have the added must-do’s of keeping your website up to date, blogging, creating and posting to your social media pages and sending mailers. What are... Continue Reading

May 15, 2013 | by Jess
While we are gearing up for the release of New Keystone, we’d like to take a moment to point out one of the lesser known features already available that you can start using right now! When you use Media Connect to upload your listing photos into Keystone, you are able to edit these photos while working in Keystone, too! It’s... Continue Reading

May 14, 2013 | by Celeste
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Celeste Starchild, VP, Sales and Marketing of ListHub. ListHub is the industry’s leading agent/broker syndication tool for managing the complexities of marketing your listings online. ListHub’s syndication marketing service is available to all MRIS customers for free. Learn more about ListHub on MRIS.com or at ListHub.com. Accurate online listing information has been a sore point for the... Continue Reading

May 1, 2013 | by Ellen
Inman News has started a weekly discussion on Twitter looking for the most extreme ways agents have marketed their properties or themselves. Every Thursday they ask people to tweet their most creative real estate skill using the hashtag #madreskillz. So far submissions have ranged from using drone photography to get aerial shots and using listing language that would make anyone... Continue Reading

April 29, 2013 | by RISMedia
By now, the majority of real estate professionals have realized that social media is a language that should be spoken fluently—not just in certain niche groups or generations. But being involved in social media and excelling at it are two different things, and many are using social marketing solely as a means to promote themselves and their business. If that’s... Continue Reading

April 24, 2013 | by Ellen
Social media can be so useful, yet so intimidating. Twitter can be especially daunting since it has an entire etiquette that can almost seem like a foreign language. Here’s one easy Twitter trick that can increase the chances of an active listing getting profiled on the neighborhood blogs without the agent having to pay a dime. It’s called, simply, the... Continue Reading

February 21, 2013 | by Jess
When trying to decide what products to buy to improve your business, have you tried searching social media? Sometimes searching Facebook for relevant information can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack, but there’s a new site that helps eliminate the chatter. Curaytor.com is a website that searches conversations in three large, well-moderated industry Facebook groups: Agent Support... Continue Reading

December 3, 2012 | by Jess
MRIS has launched two new affiliate products, Pop-a-Note and REsource, from RISMedia, the real estate industry’s leading source for industry news and information. Pop-a-Note helps agents to generate leads and stay top-of-mind with clients and prospects using the industry’s leading email drip marketing campaign. REsource offers agents robust library of fresh, relevant real-estate articles and videos for their consumers via... Continue Reading

November 30, 2012 | by Jess
Since I started blogging and tweeting and Facebooking for MRIS, I’m always on the lookout for useful tips to share with the MRIS community. This article appealed to me because I think many people feel they must make incredible promises to clients to get their business. However, that strategy quickly backfires as the agent realizes too late that delivering on... Continue Reading

November 20, 2012 | by Jess
Katie Lance, social media guru and frequent contributor to InmanNext, recently posted this article about the top 5 social media faux pas for real estate professionals. If you’re using social media and having lackluster results, check out her list and see how you’re doing. Katie’s post made me take a hard look at our own social media channels (Facebook and... Continue Reading