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CONTACTSBennett Washabaugh, Founder/CEO, TenantBaseMike Zei, Founder/COO, TenantBaseKailey Faber, Director, TenantBaseTHE SCOOPHad the pleasure of connecting with Bennett and Mike and learned about their really impressive site TenantBase. The site does what I had been thinking about for a while could be a really good niche in the marketplace… a site focused on small tenants to search, find and lease office space. TenantBase is a free, tech-enable brokerage servic…
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Think back ten years. How did commercial real estate professionals conduct daily business? Contact data spread across multiple spreadsheets, tracking sales pipelines required several days (or longer) of analysis and finding the right listing still needed time working the phone. How far technology has come! Databases automate, big data is generated in real-time in easy to read charts, and finding the right CRE space can be done with the click of the button. Women played a significant part in stre…
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One person talks. Everyone else listens.When I think about the event business, I realize that they are all alike. Sure, some have more glitz than others. Some have cooler venues. And many have big time speakers as the draw. And that’s what I really hate about events. There are speakers and there are listeners. And then there are the folks that display stuff. Many event companies try and dress it up or market it differently… but for the most part they are all the same.And post event, you can gu…
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ClientLook is returning for it’s 4th year as an exhibitor at CRE // Tech. ClientLook is a refreshingly simple CRM software for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry utilized by brokers, owners, investors and many more.Our team at CRE // Tech recently caught up with ClientLook to learn more about their site, strategy and vision.What does your site do?ClientLook is the most actively used customer relationship manager (CRM) in commercial real estate.Who are your customers?Customers are brokers,…
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The largest event platform in the CRE tech industry will help WeWork enhance visibility and connectivity within the entire commercial real estate industry New York, NY (April 11, 2017)– CRE // Tech (cretech.com) announced that WeWork has signed to come on board to be the leading commercial real estate technology event platform’s Innovation Sponsor. WeWork is the pre-eminent shared workspace solution for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses. With this partnership with CRE …
Michael Beckerman
Recently, I had the great pleasure of meeting with Maya Prosor, Founding team member of Lemonade Insurance, one of the hottest startups in the tech world. I was absolutely blown away by Maya and her team. Besides raising a crazy amount of money and assembling an all-star team, what really impressed me was their approach to how they are going about to disrupt the insurance industry.“How should insurance look if you had zero legacy and needed to build it today and not 100 years ago?”That’s how May…
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It is no secret shopping centers have experienced some big hits over the last decade with the exponential growth of online retailers and revolutionary changes in shopping behaviors. What shopping centers need to focus on now more than ever is the new imperative brought about by Millennials and intensified by Generation Z: shopping must be convenient and customized. Of course, today’s convenience uses technology to individualize experiences and one thing Generation Zers know more than any precedi…
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The evolution of modern retail spans a spectrum of strip malls, shopping centers, and big box standalones, yet never has it found itself at the crux of change as it is today. While many long-time favorites, like Macy’s, Kmart, and Office Depot, suffered significant losses in terms of profits and store closures in 2016, the retail industry remains optimistic that the mall will not die in 2017. In fact, what consumers can expect and have been instrumental in shaping is the resurrected mall and, as…
Michael Beckerman
In my opinion, this newsletter from NAI Global Newslink is a really, really smart marketing tactic. …
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Connecting the right people at the right time is what successful business is about. Officespace.com is a nationwide service that connects brokers representing office, retail, and industrial properties to the tenants searching for the right space based on their business needs. OfficeSpace.com is a completely free and open platform – tenants and brokers can search the database as often as they want and without any paywalls.Over 200,000 tenants visit OfficeSpace.com and make thousands of inquiries …
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