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Feature Highlight: Contacting Agent & Scheduling a Showing

Many of my Newsletter subscribers are also clients and I starting to highlight different functions in the tools that I offer.  This month I’ll be highlighting a function of the FlexMLS.  Often when I email a listing to you, it will come from the FlexMLS, either by an automated search or a property I found [...]

Reverse Prospecting Etiquette

With our new system (FlexMLS) in place, we’re discovering a whole new set of tools that will help us do our jobs better at helping our clients sell and/or buy real estate.  Often this will also lead to new policies and procedures to maintain order and professionalism.  One area that I feel will be the [...]

Client Feedback on the new FlexMLS System

In a week, the ARMLS Committee will re-convene after a break that allowed the staff to implement the new system. I start to reflect on our conversion and prepare to bring to the committee any and all concerns and appraisals that I receive from other agents. There is another voice that I like [...]

FlexMLS Reverse Prospecting

During the beta testing, I ran across the menu option of Reverse Prospecting.  Hmm, this looks like fun, I thought to myself.  Coming from a background in building and designing Marketing systems for companies of the like of MBNA and American Express, I knew how Reverse Prospecting could be used and was excited about the [...]

FlexMLS the wireless Agent connection

One of the exciting options that I’m looking forward to with FlexMLS that I currently don’t have, or at least not a good solution is the wireless access to the system from my iPhone (or a smartphone). I don’t believe that I have shown a single client (okay, just thought of one) that while [...]