About Matthew Collis

Matthew Collis is the Marketing Manager at IXACT Contact Solutions Inc., a leading North American real estate CRM firm. In addition to overseeing many of IXACT Contact’s key sales and marketing programs, Matthew works with Realtors to help them achieve their real estate goals through effective contact management and relationship marketing. IXACT Contact is a web-based real estate contact management and marketing system that helps REALTORS® better manage and grow their business. The system includes powerful email marketing capabilities and a professionally designed and written monthly e-Newsletter.

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Disorganized? You Don’t Need to Be

Disorganized? You Don’t Need to Be

You’re working with a REALTOR®  who’s late for appointments, forgetful, never  has the information you’re asking for (always  has to “get back to you,” which sometime never even happens), is disorganized, and lets certain things fall through the cracks in the listing and closing process….

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5 Ultimate Real Estate Contact Management and Marketing Tips

5 Ultimate Real Estate Contact Management and Marketing Tips

In this blog post I’m going to outline five excellent real estate contact management and marketing tips that will help you build stronger relationships with your sphere, benefit from a consistent stream of referrals and repeat business, and become a more successful agent both short…

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4 Compelling Lead Generation Offers REALTORS® Can Provide

4 Compelling Lead Generation Offers REALTORS® Can Provide

Good marketers know that lead generation offers can be powerful tools to rein in that next big lead and grow a business. A lead gen offer on a website usually consists of a box on the sidebar of a page asking for the prospect’s name…

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Two Key Trends and Why They’re Important For YOUR Business: Cloud-based Real Estate CRMs and Going Paperless

Two Key Trends and Why They’re Important For YOUR Business: Cloud-based Real Estate CRMs and Going Paperless

Want to increase productivity? Cut costs? Maximize the safety and security of your data? If so, you’ll want to learn more about two key trends that have hit the real estate industry: cloud-based real estate CRMs and running a paperless business. Cloud computing can equal…

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Uncover Deep Insights into Your Business through Your Real Estate CRMs Reports

Uncover Deep Insights into Your Business through Your Real Estate CRMs Reports

There’s one key component of real estate CRMs that’s often neglected – reports. The reporting functionality in a CRM is instrumental to better understanding your business and improving in the appropriate areas.  It’s one way to become a better REALTOR® and exponentially grow your business…

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Using Your Real Estate CRM to Convert Leads into Clients

Using Your Real Estate CRM to Convert Leads into Clients

As a REALTOR®, the reality is that you likely spend a lot of time and money getting new real estate leads. But once you acquire these leads, do you have a plan in place to convert them into clients? As you know, not all leads…

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3 Ways Email Campaign Reports Will Improve Your Real Estate Marketing

3 Ways Email Campaign Reports Will Improve Your Real Estate Marketing

The best real estate contact management software and email marketing solutions offer Email Campaign Reports. These reports give you insight into your email marketing efforts; they provide you with data on who and how many people opened a mass email you’ve sent out, who and how many people…

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Email Marketing the Right Way

Email Marketing the Right Way

Like you, on a given day I receive a lot of email. Some of that email is marketing related and from companies whose products and services I use. Now, while I read many of these emails, I delete a lot of them without really giving…

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Build Relationships with a Monthly e-Newsletter

Build Relationships with a Monthly e-Newsletter

Is email marketing dead like some have claimed? Or is it alive and well, proving more effective and beneficial over other key channels of communication? As you’ll see below, email communications should not be underestimated and e-Newsletters in particular, combined with Email Campaign Reporting, can…

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iPhone, iPad, and a Real Estate CRM – Making Them All Work Together

iPhone, iPad, and a Real Estate CRM – Making Them All Work Together

Are you a Mac user? If so, this article is for you. You have a Mac computer, probably an iPhone, and there’s a good chance that you have an iPad or plan on getting one in the near future. Now, as a REALTOR®, you’re wondering…

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