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Meet The Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Joe Chen from Chime

Meet The Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Joe Chen from Chime

In this week’s founder interview, we’re bringing you Joe Chen from Chime. Without further ado… Who are you and what do you do? I am an investor and a serial entrepreneur, having invested in close to 70 companies and started nearly a few dozen new venture projects…

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A CRM that Helps You Follow Up

A CRM that Helps You Follow Up

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the GEM. Today’s showcase: Follow Up Boss] A CRM that centralizes leads and supports follow-up tools for high-growth real estate businesses, Follow Up Boss provides calling and dialer; individual and group texting;…

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Outsource Lead Generation While Keeping Humanity

Outsource Lead Generation While Keeping Humanity

[Note from editor: The “Mastermind Showcase” highlights companies and news from members of the Geek Estate Mastermind. Today’s showcase: BoomTown] It’s not easy to respond to every lead, leaving potential valuable relationships and commission dollars to slip through the cracks. An automated response lacks the…

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Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: David Anderson from LionDesk

Meet the Real Estate Tech Founder: David Anderson from LionDesk

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with David Anderson from LionDesk. Without further ado… What do you do? Hi, I’m David Anderson, founder and CEO of LionDesk.  At the core, LionDesk is a customer relationship management system (CRM) that makes it…

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Is the CRM History?

Is the CRM History?

Congrats to Chris Smith and the Curaytor team for launching “Convert”. A lead conversion manager. Here’s the backstory on Convert: I’ve written about CRMs in 2011, 2014 and again in 2016. It’s a tough, tough….TOUGH space to crack. It seems everyone has an CRM. But…

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Geek Estate Mastermind Founding Member Spotlight: Rick Orr from RealSavvy

Geek Estate Mastermind Founding Member Spotlight: Rick Orr from RealSavvy

We’ve now published eight Geek Estate Mastermind founding member interviews; Jennifer Kjellgren, Sep Niakan, Eileen Romito, Ryan Coon, Caroline Pinal, Joel Leslie, David Harris, and Seth Siegler. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being a Geek…

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Is Loyalty a Diminishing Commodity?

Is Loyalty a Diminishing Commodity?

“Whoever solves the loyalty problem wins the future” – Brian Boero Is loyalty a diminishing commodity? A variety of studies have sought to determine whether or not millennials are brand loyal with some finding them more brand loyal than the Generation X and Baby Boomer…

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Compass and Big Plans

Compass and Big Plans

I watched the video of Robert Reffkin’s vision for real estate’s future (via Inman)… Compass’ goal is 20% market share in the top 20 cities by 2020. How are they going to do it? Invest in their team (meaning buying agents), and build a…CRM? Say…

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A Few More CRM Thoughts

A Few More CRM Thoughts

As you probably already know, I’ve been evaluating CRMs the last couple weeks. The use case we were looking to solve for 360modern is tracking leads/prospects and convert them to buyer/seller clients — giving us visibility into future cashflow (closings) in the process. We were specifically not looking…

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Local Real Estate Marketing Tips

Local Real Estate Marketing Tips

Bad real estate marketing tips can feel like a hamster wheel. It is just going around in a circle with no real direction. PPC campaigns and social media advertising is great for exposure,but they often have horrible conversion rates. Recent content on GeekEstate has done…

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