Press (2017)
November 06, 2017
New Step-by-Step Merger Guide Tackles MLS Dysfunction
CHICAGO — More and more, brokers and agents have been calling for their MLSs to merge … and MLSs are listening. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) and t...
September 27, 2017
3 Simple Things You Must Do to Create a Rock-Solid Business Plan
Many people dream of becoming an entrepreneur — and making the millions that can come with owning a business. The only problem: There’s a huge gap between dream...
September 27, 2017
How to Create a Pay Structure That Promotes Team and Company Growth
No matter which compensation structure you use, match it to the needs of your employees, their efforts and successes, to incentivize business growth....
August 25, 2017
3 Tips for Balancing the Needs of Your Investors and Customers
Juggling all of the elements required to keep a company moving in a fiscally responsible direction can be daunting, even for executives with considerable experi...
August 08, 2017
5 Ways to Budget Your Time to Ensure Long-Term Success
Knowing how to budget your time wisely can mean the difference between a streak of short-term wins versus long-term successes....
July 10, 2017
3 Lessons in Communication From 2017 PR Gaffes
In a time when even the most ordinary post can go viral, leaders can no longer afford to ask their PR departments to craft a crisis-specific response. Nor do th...
June 13, 2017
It’s Never Too Early to Plan Your Business’s Succession Strategy
The previous 12 months and the next 12 months will bring more significant shifts in leadership in the residential real estate brokerage industry than ever befor...
May 15, 2017
5 Strategies To Help Legacy Industries Avoid Technological Growing Pains
Although real estate struggles with fragmentation, its biggest issue is the same one many legacy industries grapple with: applying and updating long-entrenched ...
May 04, 2017
How To Manage Expectations with a Growing Team
Startups must let go of the management reins as they accelerate toward their desired destination by building specially designed teams with smaller-than-normal n...
March 22, 2017
Colorado MLSs embark on ‘highly charged’ merger talks
“REcolorado and IRES are pleased to announce the two MLS organizations have joined together to appoint T3 MLS … to explore and facilitate discussions between al...
March 16, 2017
3 ways real estate brokers can improve their agent quality
The National Association of Realtors’ 2015 DANGER report cited the number of “nominal agents” as a major industry concern. The report’s author, Stefan Swanepoel...
March 16, 2017
Zillow Group’s Bridge Interactive vs. Upstream: A data management arms race?
Their products include UpstreamRE’s Upstream, Zillow Group’s Bridge Interactive, CoreLogic’s Trestle, Black Knight’s Paragon for Brokers, Instanet Solutions’ In...
March 13, 2017
Is your brokerage taking full advantage of technology?
It isn’t that there are fewer tasks, but rather that “technology can now do more than one of those tasks,” said industry expert Stefan Swanepoel of T3 Group and...
March 07, 2017
Wendy Forsythe joins T3 Group
Speaking of new gigs, looks like Wendy Forsythe has joined Swanepoel T3 Group. They have just announced a new brokerage consulting division, dubbed T3 Broker, t...
February 23, 2017
5 Ways To Use Dual Strategies And Plans To Keep Every Piece In Play
Life and business are both like a game of chess. They require identifying hurdles, evaluating options, organizing priorities, and deciding on execution. Playing...
February 21, 2017
5 Steps to Communicate More Successfully Across Cultures
There are many cultures, tribes, nations, and languages across the world. As someone who has lived in four countries and visited more than 40, I can tell you we...
February 16, 2017
Shortcuts: Zillow Group’s power play, actual intelligence, and NAR’s next move
Build or buy? Zillow Group has clearly been leaning toward buying for its data management platform. Paul Hagey (of Inman fame) and I took a deep dive on the dev...
February 14, 2017
Three factors that will affect the Real Estate Industry under a Trump Presidency
2016 has come and gone — but not without its share of surprises. First, the Brexit vote shocked the world as the European Union suffered an unexpected loss, and...
February 01, 2017
Spencer Rascoff most influential person in US real estate
Spencer Rascoff, Chief Executive Officer, of Zillow Group, has been named as the most influential person in United States real estate in 2017. Mr Rascoff, who s...
January 14, 2017
Real Estate Leaders Honored in Swanepoel Power 200
The top leaders in residential real estate were recently honored in the annual Swanepoel POWER 200 2015/16. Innovators from all the largest real estate companie...
January 12, 2017
2017 Inman Influencers List, SP200 Honors WAV Group Clients and Leaders
The impact of the annual reveal of both the Inman Influencer List and the Swanepoel Power 200 is like a social media cannon shot: you can hear the buzz everywhe...
January 11, 2017
Phil Soper wrote this article on Linkedin
Stefan Swanepoel, best-selling author and Chairman & CEO of the Swanepoel T3 Group, is the man behind the Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200), the most comprehensive a...
January 09, 2017
Swanepoel announces 2017’s most powerful people in real estate
What defines power? Certainly not popularity, Stefan Swanepoel opines in his 2017 list of residential real estate industry heavyweights, released today with Zil...
January 09, 2017
Swanepoel Power 200 includes over 10 MLS executives
Well its that time of year again. The 2017 Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) was released today. “Each year the Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) holds a mirror up to the i...
January 04, 2017
I’ve given over 1,000 presentations in the past 30 years — here are my 5 best public speaking tips
Glossophobia — better known as a fear of public speaking — affects 74% of people, according to a National Institute of Mental Health survey. So it’s no surprise...