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MIAMI Association of REALTORS

Wednesday, September 25th, 2013


Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 11, 2013

In a real estate market thats robust and thriving, Realtors are taking advantage of a major new set of tools to reach and serve customers mobile Internet applications that allow on-the-go sharing of information about properties and agents. The MIAMI Association of REALTORS is at the leading edge of this trend, partnering with St. Petersburg-based SavvyCard to offer mobile networking and marketing tools to Association members. SavvyCard is a smartphone-optimized digital webcard that serves information on business contacts or products, and can be easily shared and tracked. MIAMI Association of REALTORS members will gain access to the SavvyCard service on September 26th, which will include individual digital business cards for all MIAMI Association of REALTORS members, as well as card customization services and the ability to build cards featuring specific properties.

Mobile marketing software like SavvyCard combines the immediacy of conventional business cards, brochures, or other promotional materials with the flexibility of the web, including the ability to feature multimedia and link directly to social media sites. SavvyCard makes immense sense for a word-of-mouth and referral-dependent industry like real estate. It makes it easy for clients who have had great experiences with our Realtors to refer them to friends, or pass along tips on great properties. It also lets our members follow up on those referrals quickly, which is vital in the current market, says MIAMI Association of REALTORS Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Boza-Valledor.

Data from the MIAMI Association of REALTORS illustrates that while the real estate market across the country is warming up slowly, Miamis market is on fire, with the average home staying on the market less than 35 days. In July, Miami single-family home sales were up 27.3% year-over-year, while home values rose an equally dramatic 25.7 percent, motivating Realtors to use every tool in their arsenal to snag new business. Meanwhile, tablets and smart phones are making mobile Internet usage increasingly prevalent according to the Gartner Group, 50% of all searches are projected to be from mobile devices by the end of 2013.

SavvyCard will help the 30,000 members of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS take advantage of these two huge trends. Association CEO Teresa King Kinney says, Were proud to offer our members an innovative digital tool to help them multiply the effects of the sales work they already do. The MIAMI Realtors have come to expect the very best in marketing tools and services and SavvyCard delivers a new and innovative approach to mobile marketing to reach and better serve more customers.

SavvyCard is a startup based in St. Petersburg, and Florida has proven a great test bed for the new technology. We couldnt have asked for better partners than MIAMI, says SavvyCard CEO David Etheredge. Our goal at SavvyCard is to add digital tools to traditional smile-and-handshake networking, with its foundation in personal trust. A customer has to put a lot of faith in their real estate agent, making SavvyCards referral system immensely powerful for real estate and similar trust-based businesses.

Members of the MIAMI Association of REALTORS will receive their free SavvyCard accounts in late September, along with tools for creating and customizing cards to showcase their properties.

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Helping Dogs Live Longer, Healthier Lives, One Swipe at a Time

Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) August 28, 2013

The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF), the worlds largest non-profit funder of exclusively canine health research, has partnered with Benchmark Payment Networks to offer DonateWiseNow as its point-of-sale fundraising application. The program enables retailers, merchants, and customers to easily and discreetly contribute to the effort to prevent, treat, and cure canine disease.

Through the AKC Canine Health Foundation/Benchmark partnership, businesses that accept credit/debit cards for payment and wish to support the Foundations mission can offer customers the opportunity to make a micro-donation that helps advance the health of all dogs. Those who choose to participate are prompted on the card processing terminal to contribute a small dollar amount or round the transaction up to the nearest dollar. The decision to make a contribution is completely voluntary and private, and processed electronically during check out.

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Pleasanton Realtor Doug Buenz Named One of Best Real Estate Agents in America

Monday, September 23rd, 2013


(PRWEB) September 13, 2013

Pleasanton Realtor, Doug Buenz of The 680 Group at Alain Pinel Realtors has been named one of REAL Trends Best Real Estate Agents in America in the newly issued national ranking report produced by REAL Trends. To qualify for inclusion, an individual agent must have closed at least 50 transactions or $ 20 million in sales volume in 2012. For real estate agent teams, the minimum is 75 transactions or $ 30 million in closed sales volume. Buenz closed in excess of $ 34 million in sales.

I am obviously pleased and honored to be ranked as one of the countrys top residential real estate agents by this prestigious publication, said Buenz. It represents the time and effort that I and my team put into each client that we serve and how much work it takes to build a successful real estate career. The level of sales it takes to qualify makes it a truly special recognition.

REAL Trends Best Real Estate Agents in America ranks nearly 6,500 residential real estate agents solely based on their excellence in real estate sales during calendar year 2012. The realtors are ranked in four categories: Sales Volume by Individual agent, Transaction sides by Individual agent, Sales volume by Agent team and Transaction sides by Agent team. All production numbers are independently verified by a third-party in order to ensure accuracy and report integrity. This group of highly successful real estate sales agents represents less than 1 percent of all real estate practitioners in the United States.

To say that Doug is an exceptional sales professional is an understatement, says Steve Murray, publisher of REAL Trends Best Real Estate Agents in America and editor of REAL Trends. The average residential real estate agent in the United States closed fewer than eight transactions in 2012 and had less than $ 1.5 million in sales. To attain this level of sales is truly outstanding

Information on those receiving this recognition can be found online at http://www.Realtrendsbestrealestateagents.com.

REAL Trends is a Castle Pines, Colo.-based real estate publishing and consulting firm that offers a wide range of research and advisory services to the residential real estate industry. Recognized as the leading source of trends in the industry, REAL Trends also publishes the REAL Trends/The Wall Street Journal The Thousand, the REAL Trends 500, which ranks the top brokerage firms in the United States and the REAL Trends Canadian Top 250, which ranks the largest real estate firms in Canada.







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New York Civic, Business and Communities Heed Call to Action on Education, Raise More Than $60,000 at UNCF A Mind Is Hamptons Summer Benefit

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013


East Hampton, NY (PRWEB) September 06, 2013

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New York business, civic and community leaders joined UNCF (the United Negro College Fund) the nations largest and most effective minority education association on Saturday, August 24, at the second annual A Mind Is Hamptons Summer Benefit. Held at the East Hampton Point Resort, the event celebrated education and called on supporters to invest in better futures for African American and other students of college by ensuring they receive the education they need and the county needs them to have as they prepare to become the leaders of the 21st century. The Hamptons Summer Benefit raised more than $ 60,000 toward that goal.

On behalf of UNCF and the students we serve, I want to thank everyone who came out and supported our young people through this wonderful event. They are the reason we are able to support more than 60,000 students each year through 13,000 scholarships under 400 programs, said Maurice Jenkins, senior vice president of UNCF. We need to invest in their dreams through a new philanthropy that will pay dividends for them, and for all of us.

The A Mind Is Hamptons Summer Benefit was hosted by the UNCF Leadership Council of New York. Sylvia and Kenneth Woods, owners of legendary Sylvias Restaurant in Harlem also attended, as did Camille Clark and members of the Metro Manhattan Chapter of The Links. Dr. Luther Clark, global director, Merck Scientific Affairs, Olympic fencing champion Keeth Smart and Nicole Christie of NBCs Fashion Star and H&M communications executive also attended the event.

Several key supporters were inducted in the A Mind Is Giving Society in recognition of their support for UNCF education initiatives. They were:

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Lang Realty Gets in the Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Boca Raton, Florida (PRWEB) September 18, 2013

Lang Realty, with 11 offices from Boca Raton to Port St. Lucie, will literally go pink for the month of October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and a donation to American Cancer Society, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, for each home closed from October 1 31.

As part of the month-long promotion, Langs branding and advertising will be pink; offices will reflect pink with d

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