I’ve been in the prop tech space for 16 years. In this time, I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting some of the most creative, intelligent, inspiring entrepreneurs in the world. We have hustled shows together, we have learned together and we have grown together. In these 16 years I have been truly blessed to also have made some great friends.

As we head into 2020 I find myself thinking: Wow it’s a new decade! Can you believe it?

For me it’s a special time.

Personally, I have turned 40, my youngest is now a teenager, my oldest is 24. I have decided to focus on my health & personal wellness, my relationships & family (especially my marriage to my amazing wife) and I’ve found myself focused far more on what I can do to feel like I’ve done right by

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Real Estate Webmasters signs RE/MAX Europe

Mallorca, Spain | October 21, 2019
This month, Real Estate Webmasters (REW) reaches another milestone by signing their first major international enterprise client, RE/MAX Europe.

"We are very excited to announce that we have officially signed RE/MAX Europe," Morgan Carey, REW CEO, announced to employees and strategic partners today.

This international collaboration will start with a complete redesign of RE/MAX Europe's remax.eu, their franchise website.

"Our first goal is to help drive franchise sales, and broker agent recruiting for the Regions. Our job is to accelerate their already tremendous momentum," Carey asserts. "We will continue to advance the best real estate brand in Europe, assisting

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NEWS RELEASE

Canadian Tech Company Invests over $5M to Bring Modern MLS Technology to Europe After Landing Major Partners Real Estate Webmasters building a Pan-European MLS system with partner support from Google and the Government of Canada.

NANAIMO, BC (August 19, 2019) — The support of the Canadian government's elite Business Scale-Up & Productivity (BSP) program has brought Real Estate Webmasters one step closer to revolutionizing the European real estate industry.

In the Honorable Minister Navdeep Bains' announcement this month, Real Estate Webmasters (REW) has received a huge show of confidence from the Canadian Government towards the launch of an international, multilingual multiple listing service.

The government's Western Economic

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I've just returned from Inman Disconnect and it was an absolutely amazing gathering of real estate's most brilliant and engaged minds. Our group was dynamic, passionate and driven to try to figure out what the future of our industry might look like (in the next 5 years). 

One of the themes that was most prevalent in our discussions was change. Phrases like "we must adapt to new challenges," and "adjust our models to accommodate new competition," or "meet new expectations of our customers." Our customers in this case are agents, teams and brokers whether you are on the franchise side like RE/MAX or on the vendor side like Real Estate Webmasters Inc. 

We talked a lot about listening to our customers (our agents) and responding to those things that

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If you had any doubt before, it should be gone now: The Platform Wars Are Here 

Last week Gary Keller announced that KW Command was ready for prime time and that Keller Williams had a clear advantage over the competition when it came to “end-to-end” platforms provided by franchise to brokers & agents. I was given a tour of the platform and it is clearly not ready for prime time yet. I was also not a big fan of the hyperbole and the way Gary Keller oversells his platform. Granted it’s coming along, and it is better than what they have now, but it certainly isn’t the best of breed (and it’s not done).

You can read my thoughts on Gary Keller and Command here

RE/MAX has announced that they are looking to release their Booj acquired platform in Q2

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This past weekend, after much fanfare and 3 years of what seemed like a never ending circle of promises and delays, technology startup Keller Williams finally announced that they are launching their much hyped platform “KW Command”.....soon…..?

The actual date the public will see anything from Keller Williams is still unknown, but they’re close…..?

About Keller Williams: Keller Williams is a relatively new entry into the real estate technology space having announced their intentions to become a spin off of the wildly successful “Keller Williams Real Estate” which (at the time) had been the fastest growing real estate company by agent count in history.

Prior to their founder, Gary Keller’s bold announcement that “we are no longer a real estate

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For those of you who don't know, one of REW's smaller competitors in the enterprise space, Booj, has just recently been announced as acquired by RE/MAX.   I've actually known about this deal for quite a while, but I didn't want to publish as, honestly, the founder of Booj, Ido, is someone I actually think is a good guy and he deserves his exit.   Now that it's out there though, I think it's time to talk about it.   I mean, it's an obvious win for Real Estate Webmasters as we are their much larger competitor, and they have literally just sold a platform that was promised to be 100% market exclusive to independent brokerages (one per area) to the largest, most capable competitor they have.   It was their…

Are you a new to intermediate realtor / broker (or perhaps quite experienced but just late to the internet marketing game?) I'm writing this article for you. 

Now most folks know REW (Real Estate Webmasters) for our super high end, custom projects and working with clients like Barbara Corcoran (Shark Tank) and Fredrik Eklund (Million Dollar Listing New York) as well as powering many of the top teams and franchises in the country. 

This is what is known as our "elite / enterprise" category. And while it's true, the kinds of products and services that are used by this group is generally out of reach for those starting out with internet marketing our largest category of customer actually lives with another division of our company and that is what is

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At Real Estate Webmasters Inc we have 3 Core Values: 

Customer Success : Innovation : Always Be Awesome.

These values are critical to our mission and our culture.

Recently the management team has asked me to articulate and communicate these values for our staff for a new internal feedback tool we're working on. 

While taking on innovation - I realized that, while the basic definition is easy to grasp - "real life" application of the value is not as apparent to those who are not closest to code. 

So I decided to do provide a "non code" or non invention focused writeup on innovation inspired by a comment in "The Leadership Challenge" (Kouzes & Posner) which is what I happen to be reading here in the airport as I contemplate this post. 

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