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  • [guest post] What’s Networking Worth to You?

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    The following is a guest post from Jonathan Schultz, Founder And Managing Principal At Onyx Equities Networking and collaborating happens on a daily basis. You search for people, their connections and what they can offer you, what you can offer them, with a simple click of a button. With sites like LinkedIn and in other cases, Facebook, connections can be made quite easily, but how many of those connections lead to your end objective? How many of those connections went no further than the initi…

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  • Keycafe: A Uniquely, Novel Idea

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    In real estate, we have to manage a lot of keys to a lot of houses. It can be cumbersome, confusing, and sometimes a total pain in the rear. But Keycafe, a Vancouver startup, thinks it can change all that. Using RFID-enabled keys and carefully-designed lockboxes, Keycafe wants to turn neighborhood cafes into key-exchange locations. Why, you may ask? Keycafe founders, Clayton Brown and Jason Crabb, created an easy way to manage access to your home or rental property online, “without any upfront …

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  • ProHatch Enters Crowdfunding Real Estate

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    In just a few short years, crowdfunding has become a household name with contributions raises proving that anyone can raise money for anything. Everyone’s heard of Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and GoFundMe; great stuff for consumers, but it’s not quite investment. Enter the JOBS Act, new SEC exemptions, and general solicitation, and crowdfunding comes out of the kitchen to take a seat in boardrooms as a truly viable alternative for capital formation and investment.  Early adaptors are proving that reg…

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  • FAA Awards Real Estate Companies Commercial Use Drone Exemption

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    The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced that they have issued a drone permit to a company in the real estate sector for the first time. Tierra Antigua Realty in Tucson, AZ, was the lucky real estate group given such a permit specifically for “enhanced aerial footage of buildings.” However, the exemption specifies that the commercial drones must an observer watch both the drone and the on-ground pilot at all times, and that a drone must not leave the operator’s line of sight. Tierr…

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  • A Proper Domain Name is Valuable Real Estate

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    A website is a major step in creating brand awareness and visibility. It establishes your identity for search engines, sure, but it’s much more important for creating both clients and potential partnerships. What people don’t often know is how critical choosing a proper domain name can be when it comes to carving out your own bit of digital real estate. And whether you like it or not, the moment you choose your domain name is the moment your customers start associating your domain to your real n…

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  • Ascendix: A Commercial Real Estate CRM Solution

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    Ascendix Technologies is a legacy provider piloting a rocket ship to success for those in the field of commercial real estate. Having revamped their image and their products, they no longer limit themselves to merely large and enterprise customers; instead, they’re creating a platform for everyone to use! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1TMWEgGTUk Ascendix has made even more considerable changes to their offerings, now providing professionals CRE and CRM, customized on both Dynamics and Salesfo…

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  • Cyber Security: Protecting Your Investments

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    Data breaches are more and more common in today’s technological world, and the more we invest in cloud storage and mobile access the more we leave every company, large or small, vulnerable; just ask Target, Home Depot, or JP Morgan. It may seem that the real estate industry wouldn’t be an attractive target to cyber criminals, however, with a growing reliance on creating, storing, and sharing personal and sensitive information, all in the digital sphere, we’re opening ourselves up to risks that w…

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  • Reonomy: The Validated Commercial Real Estate Property Information You Need

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    Public sources. Red tape. Yuck. While it can be difficult enough to compile all of the specific information about a property, or set of properties, that you need as a commercial real estate professional, insuring that this information is accurate and up-to-date is a whole different ballgame. Reonomy, a research and data startup based in New York, is out to simplify the tedious and time-consuming due diligence process that often ensues when it comes to analyzing specific properties or groups of …

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  • Develop a Base of Operations with Basecamp

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    When you’re a real estate agent that’s doing it all on your own, it can be difficult, and downright frustrating, to stay organized. That’s especially true when it comes to transaction management. Thankfully, technology is here to help you out by offering you a personal digital assistant called, Basecamp. Arguably one of the best project management tools around, Basecamp makes managing real estate transactions considerably more efficient by giving you all-around control for every aspect of a proj…

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  • Creating a Real Estate Newsletter using MailChimp

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    If you’re even remotely successful as a real estate agent, you’ve probably figured out that you need to be as engaging as possible when it comes to your target audience. However, if you’re still spending hours stuffing envelopes and wasting money on expensive postage, you haven’t come around to technology in 2015. It’s time to get that yucky stamp taste out of your mouth—it’s time to use MailChimp. MailChimp is a web-based email marketing service that helps you design your email newsletters, int…

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