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Back in March we distributed a 25 question member satisfaction survey to all active Broker Owners, Office Managers, Realtors, Assistants, and Appraisers from 24 of our 25 current client organizations. We offered surveys to 42,587 individual users via email and unique URLs, published within the MLS. Responses were restricted by a combination of IP address [...]
Throughout life there are a few things that are consistent. Three of those that I readily acknowledge are death, taxes, and change. Change is the one that I’ve realized over the years that you can embrace it or get owned by it. Change is a lot like death and taxes in that sense. You ignore [...]
So it’s been a rough week at Solid Earth. Over the last couple of years we have tried to communicate to our customers that transparency in our communication is critical. To deliver enterprise software well, our company must disclose everything to our customers: our capacity, our strategy, our mistakes and our successes. They need to [...]
In the next year or two, your MLS must be able to receive new listings from outside sources – sort of “syndication in reverse”. That’s because in April of this year, RESO passed a new data specification: RETS 1.8. Since then, there have been several good posts about it, like this one from my friend [...]
Regional data sharing is a hot topic for at least two good reasons. First, where there is market overlap, Brokers are forced to pay for two MLSs memberships. Second, when consumers view properties on MLS sites, they only see part of the inventory since listings are segregated into the local markets. Solid Earth has tackled [...]
The Emerald Coast Association of REALTORS and Solid Earth have released a new consumer-facing property search application optimized to work with smartphones such as iPhones, Blackberries and phones running on the Android operating system from Google. There is also a new agent-facing application available exclusively to members of the Emerald Coast MLS. The new agent [...]
The Emerald Coast Association of REALTORS and Solid Earth have released a new consumer-facing property search application optimized to work with smartphones such as iPhones, Blackberries and phones running on the Android operating system from Google. There is also a new agent-facing application available exclusively to members of the Emerald Coast MLS. The new agent [...]