We're going to Vegas, baby! Real Estate Webmasters is thrilled to announce that this year's REW Summit will be taking place during Inman Connect Las Vegas 2019. Our team is proud to offer two value-filled days of hands-on learning in afternoon sessions on July 24 and 25. Learn from industry leaders as they discuss lead generation, lead conversion, website optimization, marketing strategy and all the latest technologies coming out of product development.  Attendees will a...

Real Estate Webmasters is happy to announce our first new platform release of Fall 2018! This update includes several features requested by our incredible clients related to Discover, REW CRM, and the REW IDX mobile app experience. And if you read all the way to the end, you'll see a revolutionary new home search feature that we've added to the REW IDX app. Discover Updates Here's what's new and exciting with Discover: Map Pins Highlight on Hover This suggestion origina...

The 2018 REAL Trends Real Estate Website Rankings are here. And once again, Real Estate Webmasters clients dominate the list. REW is proud to have more clients featured on the REAL Trends list than any other real estate technology provider. The annual REAL Trends rankings serve as a wonderful showcase of some of the most beautifully designed websites in the industry. Websites are judged in a number of categories including: Best Overall Website Best Community Best Des...

Real Estate Webmasters is pleased to announce our third and final product update release of the Summer. Yes, it's technically two weeks into Fall, but that's because we spent two extra weeks incorporating new client feedback and suggestions into the platform—making this an even bigger and better release. This update focused heavily on Discover—our newest and most innovative website platform yet. This update brings a combination of exciting new features, new color themes, an...

Real estate technology is constantly evolving. We live in a world that's downright obsessed with smartphones, tablets, and overall screen time. Yet, mobile apps are still a highly underutilized marketing channel for real estate businesses, often ignored completely in even the most competitive of online strategies. But they're starting to gain popularity. Zillow, Realtor.com, and Redfin now have mobile apps. So it's time for agents to step up and take advantage of this new mar...

People no longer measure distance in miles or kilometers. We measure distance in time. In this post, we'll explore how this will impact real estate in a big way. We'll also explain how adding the ability to search by drive time to your REW website will have huge benefits to home buyers and your real estate business. We Measure Distance in Minutes, Not Miles Test yourself: If you were driving to work and your boss called you, would you say, "I'm 1 mile away," or "I'm 5 minutes...

So this month I decided to join our sales manager in a really fun sales contest against our entire sales team. You can read about the contest at this facebook post (please feel free to share). As I've started to discuss projects (especially large custom projects or upgrades) the subject of the "queue" comes up. IE what is the wait time to get a project started / completed?People are often surprised by the answer (and that is there is a pretty long waiting list) and someone today asked me ...

REW is happy to announce our second product release of the Summer. This update includes exciting new features to Discover, the launch of INRIX Drive Time™, improvements to the REW IDX App, and bug fixes to REW CRM. Here are some of the biggest updates you'll see over the next few days: New Updates to Discover We designed Discover to offer the best real estate listing search experience in the business, and that's only improving with our latest release. So what's new with Dis...

At Real Estate Webmasters, we are constantly creating new features and tools. I was recently in a conversation with one of our most progressive and innovative clients Davis Bass from Florida (we were discussing REW's new "Home Search App") and he challenged me with this question: "Sell me on the App" As I replied to him, I realized that this was probably a question many folks are going to ask, so I decided to put some additional effort into a more robust response—one that all REW ...

One of the most common questions we receive from our clients is, "How do I become the top-ranked real estate website in my market?" Perform a quick Google search for real estate in any U.S. market, and you'll almost undoubtedly see search portal giants like Zillow and Trulia holding the top ranking spots. How have these search portals come to dominate the search results? And what can you do as an agent to surpass them? Why Do Users Love Real Estate Portals? To start, we must ask ...