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December 18, 2019

A new measure of success for your agent partners

Do your agent partners know about this? A mobile app designed to help real estate agents make the most of their network has added a new update to save time and increase productivity by matching client property information to MLS listings.

Mortgage Professional America

November 19, 2019

First Launches Personal Network Efficiency for its Intelligent Coaching Platform

Today First.io introduced a major enhancement to its First mobile application — Personal Network Efficiency™. Personal Network Efficiency completes the sales funnel - reporting how much listing business has actually been won and lost across a real estate agent's personal network. For the first time, agents can quantify the business occurring across their entire personal network, illustrating both their potential business and missed opportunities.

How to tighten your belt and cut unneeded expenses

Whether you’re a rookie agent, a rising team leader or an established veteran broker, we can all benefit from sharpening our skills. Follow our “Back to Basics” series to learn fundamental strategies, tactics, philosophies and more from real estate pros across the industry. The practice of real estate is expensive right out of the gate. First you must take classes to get licensed, then pay to take the test to get licensed, then pay to get the license, then pay to have the license.

The Data Advantage: Innovation For The Broker Of Today

According to NAR, 48 percent of all real estate firms cited keeping up with technology as one of the biggest challenges facing their firm in the next two years. With this widespread concern, how can firms stay competitive when up against heavy hitters such a Compass and Coldwell Banker, who utilize technology to recruit, facilitate and grow their client base? In a space where technology is still uncharted territory, but also celebrated, where can startups make the most impact and how will ...

Nine Four Nine Ventures

AI Will Impact And Disrupt The Real Estate Industry In A Big Way

There has been a continual rise in the revenue generated by AI (as seen in the figure above), but sources reveal that this exponential growth may go nowhere in the near future. The impact of AI is set to increase in the real estate industry, and it is about to face severe disruption. The current market size of the real estate industry is over $480 billion, and its size will only become bigger in the time to come. However, the nature of the sector is set to disrupt with a considerable sum...

Evolving Sciences

Aiming to help vets, Durham’s Veteran Capital partners with Google for Startups

Former Army company commander Tim Horan knows firsthand the challenges that many veterans face transitioning from army to civilian work life. So he’s doing something about it. Enter Veteran Capital – a modern military transition company that he co-founded with his childhood friend and finance manager Brian Abrahamson, 34, earlier this year – which connects veterans with high-growth tech companies through immersive fellowships.

WATCH: The New Kids on the Block

(Video) Hear from Roofstock’s Gary Beasley, Punchlist’s Rich Estes, ShelterZoom’s Chao Cheng-Shorland, PrestoIntelligence’s Vernand Morency, Echovate’s Matthew Gough, Jane.ai’s David Karandish, Commersh’s Kayla Jane, MapTrack’s Hunter Stevens and First.io’s Molly McKinley about their businesses in under a minute onstage at Inman Connect New York. Watch the full conversation above on Inman Select.

February 4, 2019

How to Do Relationship Marketing the Right Way

(Audio Interview by James Carbary) In this episode we talk to Molly McKinley, Marketing Consultant at First.io and Founder & CEO of Intentionaliteas. James Carbary is the founder of Sweet Fish Media, a podcast agency for B2B brands. He’s a contributor for the Huffington Post & Business Insider, and he also co-hosts a top-ranked podcast according to Forbes: B2B Growth.

Sweet Fish Media

February 1, 2019

The key to building a personal brand from scratch

Whether you’re a new agent just starting out or a seasoned broker looking to sustain and grow your business, branding yourself in an era filled with personal brands is key. But how to go about getting started with developing, refining or changing your personal brand? A panel of experts debated this question at the Inman Connect New York 2019 real estate conference on Thursday.

January 29, 2019

5 marketing trends you can't miss in 2019

Now is the time when business owners start planning for the year, considering new marketing methods and reflecting on what did and did not work. While I can’t predict what the real estate market is going to do, and I can’t give you the silver bullet to get more clients this year, I can share the top five real estate marketing trends to pay attention to this year.

January 24, 2019

First Co-Founder & CEO, Mike Schneider, Is Named A 2019 Game Changer By REAL Trends

These are the people, in our opinion, who are the thought leaders of the industry. They are innovators, visionaries and doers. We did not ask for submissions. The REAL Trends team built a comprehensive list of over 125 industry professionals and researched what they and their companies have planned for the coming year. Some are on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, some are launching new, promising products and services, some are innovative in their growth strategies; all are influencers.

November 19, 2019

First Launches Personal Network Efficiency for its Intelligent Coaching Platform

Today First.io introduced a major enhancement to its First mobile application — Personal Network Efficiency™. Personal Network Efficiency completes the sales funnel - reporting how much listing business has actually been won and lost across a real estate agent's personal network. For the first time, agents can quantify the business occurring across their entire personal network, illustrating both their potential business and missed opportunities.

December 12, 2018

First.io Gains Traction With Tech-forward Brokerages

First.io, a data science startup that uses artificial intelligence to help real estate agents connect with prospective home sellers ahead of their competition, today announces significant new partnerships with tech-forward real estate brokerages. Following a successful rollout with @properties, First.io is now partnering with Ansley in Atlanta, C21 Advantage Gold in Philadelphia, Climb Real Estate in San Francisco, PLG Estates in Los Angeles, West+Main in Denver, and others, expanding among

CISION PR Newsire

First.io Closes $5M Series A to Expand Artificial Intelligence Platform for Real Estate Professionals

Chicago-based startup investors, MATH Venture Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and @properties' co-founders Thad Wong and Mike Golden, led a $5 million Series A investment round in First.io, a technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to help real estate agents connect with prospective home sellers ahead of their competition.

CISION PR Newswire

December 18, 2019

A new measure of success for your agent partners

Do your agent partners know about this? A mobile app designed to help real estate agents make the most of their network has added a new update to save time and increase productivity by matching client property information to MLS listings.

Mortgage Professional America

How to tighten your belt and cut unneeded expenses

Whether you’re a rookie agent, a rising team leader or an established veteran broker, we can all benefit from sharpening our skills. Follow our “Back to Basics” series to learn fundamental strategies, tactics, philosophies and more from real estate pros across the industry. The practice of real estate is expensive right out of the gate. First you must take classes to get licensed, then pay to take the test to get licensed, then pay to get the license, then pay to have the license.

The Data Advantage: Innovation For The Broker Of Today

According to NAR, 48 percent of all real estate firms cited keeping up with technology as one of the biggest challenges facing their firm in the next two years. With this widespread concern, how can firms stay competitive when up against heavy hitters such a Compass and Coldwell Banker, who utilize technology to recruit, facilitate and grow their client base? In a space where technology is still uncharted territory, but also celebrated, where can startups make the most impact and how will ...

Nine Four Nine Ventures

AI Will Impact And Disrupt The Real Estate Industry In A Big Way

There has been a continual rise in the revenue generated by AI (as seen in the figure above), but sources reveal that this exponential growth may go nowhere in the near future. The impact of AI is set to increase in the real estate industry, and it is about to face severe disruption. The current market size of the real estate industry is over $480 billion, and its size will only become bigger in the time to come. However, the nature of the sector is set to disrupt with a considerable sum...

Evolving Sciences

Aiming to help vets, Durham’s Veteran Capital partners with Google for Startups

Former Army company commander Tim Horan knows firsthand the challenges that many veterans face transitioning from army to civilian work life. So he’s doing something about it. Enter Veteran Capital – a modern military transition company that he co-founded with his childhood friend and finance manager Brian Abrahamson, 34, earlier this year – which connects veterans with high-growth tech companies through immersive fellowships.

WATCH: The New Kids on the Block

(Video) Hear from Roofstock’s Gary Beasley, Punchlist’s Rich Estes, ShelterZoom’s Chao Cheng-Shorland, PrestoIntelligence’s Vernand Morency, Echovate’s Matthew Gough, Jane.ai’s David Karandish, Commersh’s Kayla Jane, MapTrack’s Hunter Stevens and First.io’s Molly McKinley about their businesses in under a minute onstage at Inman Connect New York. Watch the full conversation above on Inman Select.

February 4, 2019

How to Do Relationship Marketing the Right Way

(Audio Interview by James Carbary) In this episode we talk to Molly McKinley, Marketing Consultant at First.io and Founder & CEO of Intentionaliteas. James Carbary is the founder of Sweet Fish Media, a podcast agency for B2B brands. He’s a contributor for the Huffington Post & Business Insider, and he also co-hosts a top-ranked podcast according to Forbes: B2B Growth.

Sweet Fish Media

February 1, 2019

The key to building a personal brand from scratch

Whether you’re a new agent just starting out or a seasoned broker looking to sustain and grow your business, branding yourself in an era filled with personal brands is key. But how to go about getting started with developing, refining or changing your personal brand? A panel of experts debated this question at the Inman Connect New York 2019 real estate conference on Thursday.

January 29, 2019

5 marketing trends you can't miss in 2019

Now is the time when business owners start planning for the year, considering new marketing methods and reflecting on what did and did not work. While I can’t predict what the real estate market is going to do, and I can’t give you the silver bullet to get more clients this year, I can share the top five real estate marketing trends to pay attention to this year.

January 24, 2019

First Co-Founder & CEO, Mike Schneider, Is Named A 2019 Game Changer By REAL Trends

These are the people, in our opinion, who are the thought leaders of the industry. They are innovators, visionaries and doers. We did not ask for submissions. The REAL Trends team built a comprehensive list of over 125 industry professionals and researched what they and their companies have planned for the coming year. Some are on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, some are launching new, promising products and services, some are innovative in their growth strategies; all are influencers.

January 10, 2019

Connect the Speakers: Christine Kim on how innovation builds growth at Climb Labs

When Climb Real Estate, one of the hippest independent brokerages in the San Francisco Bay Area, was acquired by Realogy’s NRT, questions emerged about what it all meant — would Climb be able to continue to innovate in the same way? Christine Kim, who’s been an agent with Climb for years and was recently named the brokerage’s president, says that the brokerage has been able to maintain its pace of trying new, different strategies and technologies, which has been one key to its success...

September 29, 2018

As Real Estate Tech Investments Rise, Here Are The Tools To Watch

Investment in real estate technology is at an all-time high. In 2017 alone, venture capital firms invested nearly $13 billion in the space. And with a number of new VCs now specializing in the arena (Camber Creek, MetaProp and Fifth Wall, to name a few), that number’s only going to rise in the coming years. What does that equate to for buyers, sellers and those who work in the industry?

September 17, 2018

Agents reap the spoils of new technology, not consumers

Artificial intelligence and other innovations rarely offer consumer benefits such as lower fees or streamlined services. Artificial intelligence debates tend to fall into two camps: the optimists who believe AI will save us from disease, eliminate dangerous work and end climate change. On the other side: the doomsayers argue AI will wipe out jobs, control our minds and destroy the last vestige of our privacy.

Inman Connect San Francisco Live Coverage: Wednesday

Join us throughout the day as we share what’s happening behind the scenes, on stage, and in the hallways at Inman Connect San Francisco. 4.03pm: Thanks so much for following along today – what an amazing set of sessions. Make sure you tune-in at 9am PDT tomorrow morning for more live coverage, and for those of you that want to watch the main sessions, remember there’s also our exclusive livestream.

Real estate tech startup First.io raises $5M in Series A funding round

Tech startup First.io announced Tuesday it raised $5 million in its Series A funding round. First.io utilizes artificial intelligence to help real estate agents connect with prospective home sellers ahead of their competition, according to the company. Chicago-based startup investors, MATH Venture Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and @properties’ co-founders Thad Wong and Mike Golden, led the Series A investment for First.

Artificial intelligence startup First.io raises $5 million

Launched in 2016, the Durham, North Carolina-based company develops software that predicts when people are likely to buy a home based on salaries, spending behaviors and major life events. Through machine learning and artificial intelligence, First.io organizes the contacts in a real estate agent’s database and tells agents the best time to reach out about a potential home sale.

December 20, 2017

This Real Estate Startup Uses Data Science to Predict Home Listings Before They Happen

It’s well known in the real estate business that agents get most of their work through personal relationships. When someone needs help selling their home, they’ll often turn to the agent who lives three houses down the street or did a great job selling a friend or family member’s property two years ago.

December 14, 2017

Special Report: How to make online leads work for you

You can be a master of contracts, closing guru, housing market expert and negotiator extraordinaire and still fail as a real estate professional. The make-or-break, end-all-be-all piece of every agent’s business is lead generation. Without clients, you’re without a job. Real estate agents generate leads from a wide array of sources. An agent’s network of personal contacts or “sphere of influence” together with referrals represent the cream of the crop

January 19, 2017

Contactually Announcement: A New Partnership with First.io

We're very excited to announce the launch of our partnership with First.io, a great step forward for Contactually as a whole in intelligence and real estate agent productivity. This partnership will generate a new Contactually product, powered by First, that will give real estate agents unseen, proactive knowledge about their network and will automatically provide recommendations to users when a contact is likely to list their home in the next six months.