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MoxiCloud Partner Spotlight: LiveBy
At MoxiWorks, we’re committed to building integrations that bring value to brokerages, agents, and vendors by improving and streamlining workflows. We want to be the ubiquitous open cloud platform, which means anyone can join! That means even competitors to some of our very own products are integrated with the MoxiCloud. After all, we want the power of choice to stay with the brokerage.
We want our partners to share our vision and contribute to making the MoxiCloud even better. One of our more recent partners is LiveBy! They have a unique way of serving up content that benefits consumers during the home search and makes agents’ jobs easier.
So, what is LiveBy exactly?
LiveBy is an all-inclusive local data company that works with 200 of the top real estate brokerages across North America, four of the leading networks/franchises, and 118,000 agents. They are dedicated to streamlining the home search process by removing all ambiguity around location. By leveraging LiveBy, real estate websites drive robust, real-time, local content that increases SEO and provides an amazing search experience.
Essentially, LiveBy’s technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. Agents can provide their clients deeper insights into neighborhoods and streamline the discovery process.
Local content pages = hyper-local content, on demand
Neighborhood content is valuable when it comes to attracting visitors to agents’ sites, keeping them there, and building credibility in a particular area. However, it can be costly to gather, curate and maintain this content. LiveBy’s Neighborhood Pages deliver customized and dynamic content for all of your local communities…in seconds!
Enhanced websites. Showcasing local expertise.
LiveBy makes it easy for brokerages to launch hyper-local content on their existing websites. Their data and content become part of the site to help drive search engine optimization (SEO) and engagement. LiveBy also allows for brokerages to tap into a new kind of “neighborhood lead,” capturing potential sellers and buyers 12, 24, or 48 months earlier in their search process.
Agents can be the go-to source for all community and neighborhood information by:
• Providing local content
• Creating an interactive experience
• Capturing higher qualified leads
• Increasing website engagement
• Effective client nurturing
LiveBy Coverage
LiveBy supports local data and unique content for all 50 U.S. States, Canada, Bahamas and Cayman Islands. Their coverage includes access to the largest proprietary library of neighborhood boundaries, along with cities, subdivisions, school districts, zip codes and more. Companies can also create custom boundaries on the fly and offer insights that have never been seen.
We’re beyond excited to have LiveBy on the MoxiCloud – a great addition to our 50+ partners! If you’d like to learn more about the MoxiCloud, you can do so here.
Find out more information on LiveBy here.
How to Reach Your Sphere of Influence When It Matters Most
By Maddie Jostol, Senior Marketing Manager
Timing is everything. 75% of sellers and 68% of buyers end up working with the first agent they get in touch with (NAR). So, unless you’re already in flow with someone, it’s unlikely you’ll win their business. And that’s out of pure lack of visibility. You weren’t their first. It’s no longer good enough to be able to be found, but instead, you need to be actively communicating with your sphere of influence (SOI) in order to stay top-of-mind. This way, the next time one of your contacts is even toying with the idea of making a move, you’re the first one they’ll call, and you’ll be there to help before they even consider working with another agent.
Growing and nurturing your sphere of influence is a key tactic to business growth in today’s competitive landscape. Focusing on driving repeat and referral business could make all the difference in reaching your income goals and growing your business. A typical REALTOR receives 12% of their business from repeat clients, and 17% through referrals (NAR). Agents who do not make the effort to market to their sphere of influence are likely leaving money on the table. Growing and maintaining your personal database is a high-quality source of business that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Tips for reaching your sphere of influence
The art of long-term nurturing can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be as all-consuming as it may seem. The key is to apply a combination of timely, personal touchpoints with set-it-and-forget-it marketing programs. In order to effectively stay top-of-mind with your sphere of influence, the first step is to get a system in place that will support all of your marketing and sales activities. Embrace a system, whatever that system is. Any technology tool is only effective if you actually use it. If you’re just getting ramped up with MoxiEngage, here are some resources for getting started.
An easy set-it-and-forget-it marketing method that is a no-brainer for agents is to sign your contacts up for automated market snapshots. If you’re a MoxiEngage user, you know this as Neighborhood News. This type of automated marketing keeps you in flow with your contact database in a relevant, useful way, without you having to do a thing. When consumers receive market snapshots of their local market with your face on it, they’ll be reminded of who their real estate expert is and be appreciative of the high-value report that keeps them in touch with what’s happing in their own neck of the woods.
For more personal touchpoints, leverage data to keep tabs on everyone in your sphere of influence and build stronger relationships. Typical agents have hundreds of contacts in their database, so keeping up with what’s happening in everyone’s lives isn’t quite realistic. Insights, for example, is the predictive analytics tool available to MoxiEngage users that augments an agent’s database with public records data so they can get to know everyone in their sphere of influence better, faster. Most importantly, it pings you when someone in your sphere is likely to list so you can prioritize who you follow up with. When you have hundreds of people to stay in flow with, it’s vital that you find a way to prioritize who you should reach out to, check in on, and follow up with today in order to win more business tomorrow.
Special dates are another a great excuse to reach out to your old clients and contacts. Holidays and annual reminders are a great set-it-and-forget-it tactic, while reaching out to congratulate them on personal special dates such as house-versaries, birthdays, and anniversaries reminds them that they’re a priority.
To closing and beyond with your sphere of influence
Closing a sale is only the beginning. Once you delight your clients with outstanding service, you want to stay in touch with them long after the sale, remaining their go-to real estate expert so that next time they’re thinking of buying or selling a home (or they’re talking to a friend who is), you’re the one who comes to mind. Get a system in place, along with scalable marketing tactics, that enables you to effectively keep track of everyone in your sphere of influence, so you can grow that influence, and in turn, grow your real estate business.
MoxiWorks’ Clients and Partner Talk Power of Moxi Tools
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Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews MoxiWorks
Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®: See MoxiWorks Discuss Their Innovative Ways to Make Brokerages and Their Real Estate Agents More Profitable
Los Angeles, CA – April 23, 2019 — Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® is pleased to announce an exclusive interview with MoxiWorks CEO, York Baur.
MoxiWorks is a company that gives real estate professionals an open platform and technological tools that streamline sales and boost profitability. In 2018, MoxiCloud users transacted 13% of U.S. residential real estate, representing $267 billion in volume. The MoxiCloud syndicates 500,000 listings daily to publishers, including Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com and Juwai. MoxiWorks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Baur says that MoxiWorks’ new CRM tool is revolutionary for real estate agents. He explains, “Our CRM is our flagship or our cornerstone product. Its primary purpose is to automate so many of the tasks that a real estate agent needs to be able to do to perform their work. At the headline level, it makes an agent fifty-four percent more productive. It’s a real game-changer for many agents, and it does so by allowing them to concentrate on what they do best and let the machinery take care of helping them stay in touch with the four-hundred or so consumers that a typical agent knows and works with.”
JL Haber, Vice President of Programming for Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®, is honored to feature MoxiWorks. He says, “Real estate agents are so busy… often working with hundreds of clients at a time. But thanks to MoxiWorks, life is now easier for thousands of real estate agents around the country. MoxiWorks’ open real estate platform for residential brokerages has streamlined sales and boosted profitability immensely. We’re thrilled to have MoxiWorks on our show.”
For more information about MoxiWorks, visit MoxiWorks.com and tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored content on Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 5:30pm EST and Bloomberg International on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 7:00pm GMT and Sunday, April 21, 2018 at 10:00am D.F. and 3:00pm HKT.
About Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®
Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® is a weekly half-hour show featuring global executives sharing their business insights and framing the opportunities shaping their industries. Hosted by a business mogul, Kathy Ireland interviews some of the brightest minds in business today. The show broadcasts on Fox Business Network as part of their sponsored content line up and globally on Bloomberg International. Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® extends beyond the weekly on-air program with digital content delivered on various video platforms and across social media.
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For more information on this topic and other press inquiries at MoxiWorks, please contact Tiana Baur at tiana@moxiworks.com.
A Brutally Honest Look at Real Estate Safety
By Tiana Baur, Marketing Manager
You know that feeling? The feeling where your skin is practically crawling, and your hair is standing up on the back your neck. The feeling of being scared for your life. The feeling where you know the decisions you make in that very moment could have dire implications.
I’ve felt that way before, and chances are if you’re reading this, you have too.
Real Talk on Real Estate Safety
It seems real estate safety issues are only just stepping into the spotlight, although the industry has been plagued with it for years. Whether it’s sending your spouse every single address of the homes you’re showing that day, getting copies of licenses before giving home tours, or making sure you’re not the one walking down the stairs first, agents have tried to come up with ways to protect themselves. However, they can’t do it alone and unfortunately, given all of the recent headlines, it is just not enough anymore.
Safety Cannot Be Built in Isolation
We recently announced a partnership with wearable safety tech company, Revolar, to provide awareness around one of the life-saving options out there that agents should be aware of, and to give a more affordable option as well. Through the end of April, anyone in the real estate industry can get a Revolar Instinct device for 45% off using code “moxiworks” at checkout. These devices are not just a panic button, they provide a new level of safety and security in day-to-day life. With a three-click, easy-to-use system, they’re able to not only inform emergency services, but have the ability to let your loved ones, teammates, and anyone else that you’re where you should be and you’re safe. It creates an entire network of people that are now looking out for you and looking out for each other in a way they couldn’t before.
No, wearing a safety button won’t make someone not attack you. It won’t give you magic fighting skills. But wearing a Revolar device will contact help and give you a fighting chance. It will provide your location to your loved ones, so if you can’t send for help, they can. It will give you peace of mind, and it will give you strength and help you feel less alone when you feel it the most.
The thing is, whether you’ve taken self-defense classes or not, it’s a lot harder to be brave and bold and to remember what you’ve learned in that fight or flight moment. You might not be able to pick up the phone or dial 911, but you will be able to hit a button two or three times, and help could be just a few minutes away.
Continuing the Safety Dialogue
I’ve read some comments out there saying that this won’t work if you’re being attacked and that the only way to protect yourself is to carry a taser or something similar. Not everyone feels comfortable doing that though, and really, most weapons people carry around end up getting used on themselves because they’re not properly trained.
Revolar is a powerful, safe solution. It’s something anyone and everyone can use. You, your teammates, your children, your grandparents – they all can use this to call for help and possibly even save their lives. It’s one of the best solutions available out there, and the heart of this partnership is built around something our VP of Marketing, Marc Chouaniere, said: “If even one agent is helped from using a Revolar device, it will be worth it.”
MoxiWorks is doing this to push the dialogue, to try to come up with viable solutions. We’re not making one penny off of this. I want to call out and thank RISMedia, Inman, and RE Technology for covering and continuing to cover this important topic. Truthfully, unless we, all of us in the industry, continue to push this narrative and try to find solutions for real estate safety, it’s not going to get better.
It’s not.
2019 Swanepoel Mega 1000: Congrats to Our Clients!
The 2019 Swanepoel Mega 1000 just came out and we are thrilled to see so many of our amazing clients on it again this year! Of course, we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to give everyone a special shout out (and yes, we mean everyone).
Fun fact: 49 of our 72 clients made the list!
For those of you who may not be familiar with the 2019 Swanepoel Mega 1000, it’s the annual analysis of brokerages, franchisors and real estate holding companies that Swanepoel publishes. It’s a HUGE deal within our industry.
So, without further ado… here are our lovely clients that made the 2019 Swanepoel Mega 1000 in various categories, as well as the main Mega 1000 list:
For the Top 20 Franchisors category, four (20%) are our clients, including:
– Windermere Real Estate
– Realty ONE Group
– Howard Hanna Real Estate
– Crye-Leike
In the Top 20 Holding Companies category, seven (35%) are our clients, including:
– Windermere Real Estate Services
– HomeServices of America
– Realogy Holdings Corp
– Realty ONE Group
– Hanna Holdings
– William Raveis Real Estate
– @properties
In the top 150 of the Mega 1000, 19 (or 26%) of our 72 clients made the list, including:
1. NRT
2. HomeServices of America
3. Howard Hanna Real Estate
4. Realty ONE Group
5. The Agency
6. William Raveis Real Estate
7. @properties
8. Crye-Leike Realtors
9. Sereno Group
10. Watson Realty
11. Daniel Gale Sotheby’s Realty
12. Lyon Real Estate
13. Michael Saunders & Company
14. Realty Austin
15. J. Rockcliff Realtors
16. Zephyr Real Estate
17. Century 21 M&M and Associates
18. Bean Group
19. Gibson Sotheby’s Realty
And included in the Mega 1000 in total, 49 (or 68%) of our 72 clients made the list!
20. Better Homes & Gardens Rand Realty
21. Century 21 Scheetz
22. HomeCity Real Estate
23. Better Homes & Gardens Reliance Partners
24. RE/MAX of Boulder
25. Windermere Homes & Estates
26. Chase International Real Estate
27. Willis Allen Real Estate
28. McGuire Real Estate
29. J.B. Goodwin
30. Coldwell Banker Hallmark Realty
31. RE/MAX Metro
32. John Greene Enterprises
33. Realty ONE Group Complete
34. Keller Williams Sacramento
35. Berkshire Hathaway HS Verani Realty
36. Keller Williams Santa Rosa
37. Four Seasons Sotheby’s Realty
38. Jim Maloof
39. Kinlin Grover, Page Taft, & Randall Realtors
40. Coldwell Banker Kappel Gateway Realty
41. Phyllis Browning Company
42. Weidel Real Estate
43. Cressy & Everett
44. RE/MAX Direct
45. Terra Firma Global Partners
46. Intero Real Estate Services
47. Ascent Real Estate
48. Leading Edge Real Estate
49. David Lyng Real Estate
Congrats to all of these amazing brokerages and companies! It’s a pleasure to work with you as we continue to evolve the real estate industry together. We can’t wait to see what the future has in store for each and every one of you!
MoxiWorks Joins Be The Match
By Bryn Yasui, Customer Support Specialist at MoxiWorks
The key to a successful business is thinking outside of the box to help others. Every day we strive to improve the business of agents with our forward-thinking and dynamic approach to bettering the real estate market. But we also donate annually to a non-profit organization from our own paychecks and fundraisers as well as take an entire day off to do community service. Inside and outside of the office, we are continuously striving to better the lives of others.
This year, MoxiWorks decided to do something a bit out of our usual beneficiary sphere and help more than just agents, brokerages, and our local community. Last Friday, a representative from Be The Match came into our headquarters to offer Moxians the opportunity to join the world’s largest bone marrow registry.
Be The Match is a 30-year-old non-profit organization that connects patients with biologically compatible donors around the globe. With their groundbreaking medical technology, they have been able to transplant precious stem cells to blood cancer patients in critical condition.
William Linafelter, Senior Payroll and HR Specialist proposed the philanthropic idea after discovering he could put himself on the registry in the event that his bone marrow matched with a patient. William discovered how valuable a non-profit like Be the Match is for blood cancer patients after someone close to him spent part of their senior year of high school fighting Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a specific type of lymphoma which attacks the lymph nodes and inhibits the body’s natural ability to battle infections.
“This affects me personally because someone very close to me had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and although she didn’t need a transplant, if it did get a lot more serious, it could’ve been a case where that was the only option,” said Linafelter.
As a member of the registry for over two years now, William has felt honored to be part of such a huge movement to cure patients who went through similar cases like his sister’s. According to William, when a patient needs a bone marrow transplant, it’s a life or death situation, which is why the need for a robust selection of donors is so great.
Ring Nishioka, VP of Operations at MoxiWorks said, “We are really excited to be able to partner with Be The Match. Donating blood isn’t something everyone in our diverse workforce is able to participate in. We are adding Be The Match so that anyone and everyone can sign up to help out if it’s something that they’re passionate about.”
For a critically ill patient to find a compatible match, there is less than a 1% chance for a patient to match with someone on the registry. Although the chances are slim, MoxiWorks hopes to contribute our diverse demographic to the cause.
“I wanted to get [Moxi] involved because, in most cases, they want younger donors, since they have healthier marrow to pull from. Since we are a tech company, we have a lot of young people and minorities, making a diverse workforce,” said Linafelter. “Every new person who joins the registry increases the likelihood that patients in need can find a match. While even a single new registration counts as a win, I’m happy to report that several Moxians have elected to join the registry!”
MoxiWorks hopes to provide more ongoing support for non-profit organizations in any way possible. Stay tuned with our blog for more news on how MoxiWorks is making an impact!
Real Estate Agents: Stay Safe with Revolar Wearable Tech
By Maddie Jostol, Senior Marketing Manager
There are too many headlines about real estate agents feeling unsafe in their jobs. By the nature of the job, real estate agents are often alone, in unfamiliar areas, in public, and on-the-go. Unfortunately, there is a constant stream of stories of agents being targets of violence or harassment.
There are many steps you can take to ensure you’re safe while going about your daily grind, such as:
- Taking self-defense lessons
- The buddy system
- Safety technology
- Use your brokerage office for meetings with new clients
- Only show properties before dark
When you’re going into a vacant home, when you’re in an unfamiliar neighborhood, when you’re meeting with somebody new, or when you’re walking alone at night. Whether the situation is perfectly safe or not, it’s important to have peace of mind.
Everything MoxiWorks does is powered by the drive to make real estate a prosperous business to be in, from integrating all of a brokerage’s technology to reduce hassle, to helping you agents manage their database and taking the pain out of Facebook advertising. MoxiWorks is committed to making real estate agents more successful, and that means enabling you to do your everyday job with more ease. Feeling safe in your job and in your everyday life is not a perk, but a necessity.
So, we set out to find a way to help. Even though we aren’t experts in the field of physical safety, we knew those experts were out there and we knew there had to be something we could do. We partnered up with Revolar, an innovative safety device company, to help extend peace of mind to as many real estate agents across the U.S. as possible.
Through the end of April, you can get 45% off your Revolar Instinct purchase by using the promo code “moxiworks” at checkout.
Disclaimer: MoxiWorks is not making a dime off this partnership. It is not an affiliate marketing trap, or a perk for us, but truly an effort to give back to the community in which we operate, and it turns out Revolar wanted to do the same.
Revolar creates personal safety devices that connect you to emergency contacts with the click of a button. It’s a small piece of wearable technology syncs with your smartphone via Bluetooth technology. The simple 1-2-3 click alert system makes it easy to check in or request help in situations where you might not have the time to fish for your phone to call or text. The three types of alerts, each with a customizable message, is sent to your emergency contacts when you click the safety button. Whether it’s a check-in, an uneasy feeling, or an emergency, your designated contacts will receive your pre-set message via text, along with your GPS location so they can ensure you make it to your destination safely.
While we hope you never have to use it, we do hope that it gives you peace of mind and comfort as you go to work every day with the comfort of knowing you can reach someone for help if you need to. Take advantage of this promotion, stay safe, and know that MoxiWorks has your back.
MoxiWorks Provides Affordable Safety Option for Agents Nationwide with Revolar
SEATTLE, April 9, 2019 – MoxiWorks, a leading real estate technology company, has just announced a unique partnership with the female-founded wearable safety technology company, Revolar Technology Inc., to provide an affordable safety option to real estate agents. Through the end of April, MoxiWorks is giving 45% off the Revolar Instinct with code “moxiworks” to any agent across the nation that wants to feel safer.
“We were tired of seeing news stories about agents either feeling unsafe on the job or being attacked, sometimes even worse. Agents should never have to feel unsafe, let alone during their day-to-day jobs of making people’s home dreams come true. We wanted to help provide a solution to the industry that was affordable, easy to take with them, and actually works. Revolar checks all of those boxes and then some,” said Marc Chouaniere, VP of Marketing at MoxiWorks. “If even one agent is helped from using a Revolar device, it will be worth it.”
The Revolar Instinct wearable safety device has a unique 1-2-3 click alert system that provides protection and peace of mind not only to the agent, but to their teammates, friends, family and other loved ones who can receive status updates. All three levels of Revolar Alerts provide the user’s GPS location via both text and email. Whether an agent is setting up an open house, meeting new clients, or simply going out for a walk, Revolar is by their side.
“As an agent myself, I had to develop a lot of ‘procedures’ to try to keep safe, like never allowing someone to walk behind me up or down the stairs during a home tour or texting my husband with the addresses of all of the homes I was showing. Yet, I still found myself feeling uneasy with going into homes by myself, or with clients I didn’t know well,” said Georgia Perez, VP of Business Development at MoxiWorks, who still holds an active real estate license. “With Revolar, I am connected to more than just my husband to let people know where I am. It’s wearable tech that discreetly lets me keep safe – and literally can save my life if I need help to come right away but might not have time to call or tell someone my location.”
Revolar is the leader in the personal safety device industry and was founded on the belief that you have the right to feel safe no matter who you are. “We are excited about this partnership which will help us to continue our mission to help people stay safe in their daily lives. We applaud MoxiWorks for understanding the challenges faced by agents and are grateful for their support in allowing more agents to have access to this critical safety device,” said Steve Bachar, Revolar’s CEO.
Although MoxiWorks is a technology company, they are driven to make agents’ lives easier and are committed to their success. They are not making any profit off of this partnership. To purchase a Revolar Instinct safety device for you, your agents, teammates, or even your loved ones, simply go to revolar.com and use code “moxiworks” at checkout.
About Revolar
Headquartered in Denver, CO, Revolar was founded on the belief that you have the right to feel safe no matter who you are. That’s why we design discreet technology that connects people in meaningful ways every day of their lives and at pivotal moments. Revolar’s patented stylish, small and versatile device empowers individuals to stay safe through functionality that’s discreet and customizable. Find more information at revolar.com.
About MoxiWorks
MoxiWorks is a comprehensive open platform system for large residential real estate brokerages that serves over 72 brokerages and 120,000 agents nationwide that account for more than 13% of the transactions in the U.S. MoxiWorks’ integrated tools are centered on sphere methodology that increases agents’ repeat and referral business by 54%, while lowering overall technology, training, and support costs for the brokerage. The open platform known as the MoxiCloud has tools from more than 50 partners that plug and play to create unique brokerage solutions. MoxiWorks also powers the LeadingRE Cloud. Find more information at moxiworks.com.
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For more information on this topic and other press inquiries at MoxiWorks, please contact Tiana Baur at tiana@moxiworks.com.
