The Real Estate Shrink Analyzes Why Brokerages Operate Inefficiently Despite Their Technology

Having spent almost a year being Broker’s therapist, Real Estate Shrink (RES) has learned a lot about the real estate industry and has marveled at how horribly inefficient Broker and most of his peers operate their businesses. This is the focus of today’s session.  Let’s listen in. RES:  Broker, you know, in the past few [...]

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Terabitz Continues to Innovate and Grow

Terabitz posts another record year, continues to enhance brokerage platforms for real estate websites Terabitz, a leading provider of enterprise web platforms for real estate brokerages and their agents, recently announced another impressive year of new client engagements and further enhancements to its three large broker platforms. Innovative and forward thinking companies such as Bean [...]

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2012 Client Update: Look for Even More Value and Support

Providing even more value and support to our clients. Thank you for your business and loyalty to PCMS Consulting and our technology partners! I want to take just a few minutes to update you on several things we have in store for you in 2012. We are constantly assessing how we can improve our business. [...]

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Why We Are Reinventing Business at PCMS…Again!

We believe in pushing our clients to be proactive.  We help them target business practices that are outmoded and ineffective. This is how we make our living, so it is critical that we take our own advice. Our own business strategies warn us to avoid to complacency.  So despite continuing to grow and experience success, [...]

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PCMS Consulting to Offer Broker Operating Systems

Partners with Pulse Realty Software to help deliver a better agent & consumer experience In an effort to help clients differentiate themselves by offering outstanding agent and consumer experiences, PCMS Consulting has signed a partnership agreement with Pulse Realty Software. Pulse was founded in 2006 with the goal of streamlining brokerage operations. By eliminating inefficiencies, [...]

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The Real Estate Shrink Analyzes … Enabling Poor Performance

Targeting poor performance in your managers and agents. This month, our BROKER takes another look at poor performance. After a few months off he recently scheduled this appointment with the Real Estate Shrink because he continues to struggle with profitability, accountability, and the market in general. RES:  Welcome back! BROKER:  Thanks.  I thought I needed another [...]

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The Realty Alliance tackles the manager of the future

Leading industry group engages PCMS Consulting The Realty Alliance has invited Jose Perez, founder and Chief Visionary of PCMS Consulting, to lead a session tackling the all important topic of what role the office manager of the future should play at their bi-annual conference in Portland, OR this week. In addition to this session, geared [...]

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How do you get agents excited about the technology you have invested in?

Brokers spend tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars driving traffic, upgrading sites, creating marketing tools, and doing everything to help keep agents as productive as possible yet can’t get more than a handful to embrace and appreciate what’s been done for them. Sound familiar? Join Jose Perez, founder and Chief Visionary of PCMS [...]

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There’s an app for that: Creating consumer confidence and maintaining relevance.

 How Steve Jobs’ impact on music, film and publishing is a lesson for real estate. Consumer confidence in our industry has plummeted and brokerages of all sizes are having a hard time maintaining their relevance. We need help, and we need it NOW! So what does Apple and Steve Jobs have to do with real [...]

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Value and support – why aren’t we delivering?

Given the lack of value and support in our industry, do we deserve bad press we get? Probably, given that: We generally have a bad reputation; We have not kept up with innovation; The real estate bubble was real after all; And the internet has put information and power in the hands of the consumer. I [...]

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