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RESAAS Brings Social Networking Super Powers to MREDpalooza

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that RESAAS is sponsoring and attending MREDpalooza as a ZAP! level Sponsor.

RESAAS provides a social network designed to allow real-time updating of property listings as well as the ability to sync with social media sites such as Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter.  Known as “real estate broadcasts”, RESAAS’s reblast engine automatically generates all of an agency’s real estate workflow into social content that is instantly pushed out to the RESAAS platform and other social networks.

Those registered to attend MREDpalooza will be given RESAAS profile pages and will be networked together into a private MREDpalooza group to communicate, network and share information during the live event.  In addition to having a booth at MREDpalooza, RESAAS will be introducing its real estate social network and profile pages in training classes throughout the day.

dynaConnections, ListHub, agileTel and Top Producer Systems have also joined the MREDpalooza sponsorship lineup.

“RESAAS is excited to be participating in MREDpalooza not only as a ZAP! level Sponsor but with the ability to provide all event attendees with a real estate focused social network to communicate on the day of the event,” said Danielle Sissons, Director of Corporate Communications at RESAAS. “This is RESAAS’s first exposure into the Chicago market and we look forward to participating in this MLS-hosted real estate tech expo.”

“Consistent with our mission at MRED and the vision of MREDpalooza, we are thrilled to bring RESAAS into the fold as a major sponsor and integral part of MREDpalooza,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron. “I’m excited to give our attendees an innovative way to freely network and communicate during the event.”

MRED has only a few sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities left, and encourages those interested to get in touch as soon as possible.  All MREDpalooza participants will enjoy significant interaction with thousands of MRED’s customers.

About MREDpalooza

MREDpalooza is the largest free real estate tech expo in the country.  Taking place Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED’s customers to learn, at no cost,  about a myriad of real estate products and services to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom, like RESAAS, have already committed to attending.  Training sessions and demos will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products and services.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza are asked to visit MREDpalooza.com for free registration and sponsorship information.

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com.

All Indications “Point” to MREDpalooza Being a Great Success

Point2 Joins with MLS Industry Heavyweights for Major Event

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that Point2 is sponsoring and attending MREDpalooza as a ZAP! level Sponsor.

Point2 provides real estate marketing and lead management software to brokers and agents in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa, as well as listing data aggregation and syndication solutions to real estate multiple listing services in the United States, and Boards and Associations across Canada. Point2’s solutions also include the consumer real estate listings portal, Point2 Homes, in addition to property management software for small to medium size organizations managing up to 1000 units.

Real Estate Digital (RED), another Zap! level sponsor, will be unveiling its line of MRED SelectSites, state-of-the-art agent and broker websites, at MREDpalooza. RED is a leading provider of integrated technology, media and data solutions to real estate franchisors, brokerages, agents, MLSs and Realtor® associations.

In addition to having booths at MREDpalooza, both Point2 and RED will be demonstrating and explaining their full lines of products throughout the day in their own private training rooms.

”Point2 is excited to be participating in MREDpalooza,” said Saul Klein, Industry Principal of Point2.  “MRED is recognized as an industry leader and the quality of their programs always exceed expectations.  You’ll kick yourself if you miss this one.”

“We are thrilled to be part of MREDpalooza this year, which promises to be Chicago’s tech event of the year,” said John Hensley, Chief Product & Technology Officer of Real Estate Digital (RED).  “There’s no better place to launch the MRED SelectSites web platform than at this premier event!”

Market Leader has also joined the MREDpalooza sponsorship lineup. Market Leader is a real estate software company providing a full suite of solutions from lead generation to customer relationship management.

“Not to sound too over the top, but we have been astounded by the reaction of the real estate industry to MREDpalooza,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron.  “Clearly vendors and MRED customers alike see MREDpalooza for the wonderful opportunity it is, and we’re looking forward to seeing everybody at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont on June 18th.”

MRED has a few sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities left, and encourages anybody interested to get in touch as soon as possible.  All MREDpalooza participants will enjoy significant interaction with thousands of MRED’s customers.

About MREDpalooza

MREDpalooza is the largest free real estate tech expo in the country.  Taking place Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED’s customers to learn, at no cost,  about a myriad of real estate products and services to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom, like Point 2, have already committed to attending.  Training sessions and demos will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products and services.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza are asked to visit MREDpalooza.com for free registration and sponsorship information.

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com.

100 Million Online Consumers to Attend MREDpalooza

Top Real Estate Websites On Board For Huge Summer Event

LISLE, ILLINOIS (May 6, 2013) – Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that national home search websites Zillow, realtor.com, and Homes.com are sponsoring and attending MREDpalooza, the largest free real estate tech expo in the country.  Zillow and realtor.com are ZAP! level sponsors, and Homes.com is a ZOINK! level sponsor.  They join Trulia.com, which MRED earlier announced as a POW! sponsor, MREDpalooza’s highest level of sponsorship.

Also sponsoring at the ZOINK! Level and attending are mega real estate brokerages Coldwell Banker Residential and Baird & Warner.  Each has a significant presence in the Chicagoland real estate market with their own web-based home search tools.  Combining the number of visitors to each of these major player’s websites delivers over 100 million consumers every month.

“We are pleased to participate as a sponsor of MREDpalooza and looking forward to seeing many MRED members at this event,” said Susan Young, Senior Manager of realtor.com, Industry Relations.  “We will demonstrate the many free realtor.com benefits that they will want to use, especially the new Find application.  MRED members will want to take full advantage of this free research tool when it becomes available to them next week.

“Zillow is the leading home and real estate-related marketplace on mobile and the Web, dedicated to helping home shoppers, sellers and renters find vital information about homes, and connect with the best local professionals,” said Chris Crocker, Vice-President of Partner Relations for Zillow.  “We are excited to be a sponsor of MREDpalooza and showcase our newest suite of tools to help real estate agents attract and retain new and current clients.”

“Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage is proud to partner with MRED and sponsor MREDpalooza,” said Fran Broude, President and Chief Operating Officer of Coldwell Banker Residential.  “In one of the most rapidly changing eras of real estate technology, tools and training, an event such as this championed by one of the most forward thinking MLS organizations in the country is exactly what all Chicagoland real estate agents need.”

“We’re pleased to support MRED in its efforts to provide a continued focus on technology,” said Jennifer Alter Warden, President of Residential Sales for Baird & Warner. “We’re especially excited for this opportunity to introduce our suite of innovative tools that enable broker associates to work whenever, wherever and however they want.”

“We are thrilled that all of the major players in real estate share our conviction that MREDpalooza is the place to be this June” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron.  “MRED customers are going to have the opportunity to meet, be trained by, and learn about the greatest real estate organizations and tools in the business.  MREDpalooza is officially a ‘can’t miss’ event.”

MRED still has a few sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available.  All MREDpalooza participants will enjoy significant interaction with thousands of MRED’s customers.

About MREDpalooza

MREDpalooza is the largest free real estate tech expo in the country.  Taking place Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED’s customers to learn, at no cost, about a myriad of real estate products and services to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom have already committed to attending.  Training sessions and demos will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products and services.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza are asked to visit MREDpalooza.com for free registration and sponsorship information.

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com.

Cloud CMA Part of MREDpalooza June Madness

REALTOR® Associations Also Step Up To Support Major Real Estate Tech Expo

 LISLE, ILLINOIS (March 19, 2013) – Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that Cloud CMA by W&R Studios is supporting MREDpalooza as a ZAP! Sponsor.

Cloud CMA is easy to use software that creates amazing reports for buyers and sellers.  It uses a blend of MRED data and top information from real estate websites to create CMAs, Flyers, Property Reports and Buyer Tours.  Most amazing is the ease by which MRED’s real estate professionals can create and deliver these documents to mobile devices.  MRED highly recommends attendees fly into Cloud CMA training at MREDpalooza.

The Illinois Association of REALTORS® (IAR), Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS® (MORe) and Chicago Association of REALTORS® (CAR) have also leapt into MREDpalooza sponsorship with a single bound.

”The buzz on MREDpalooza has been incredible, and with good reason,” said Greg Robertson, Co-founder of W&R Studios.  ”You’ve got a great location, hosted by the one of the largest MLS providers in the country.   I can’t wait to see the show Russ and his team will put together.”

“The response from the MLS industry to MREDpalooza keeps getting better and better,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron.  “The excitement is already building, and we can’t wait for MREDpalooza to arrive.  This truly will be a great informational, training, and educational opportunity, the likes of which our customers have never seen.”

MRED still has sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities available.  All MREDpalooza participants will enjoy significant interaction with MRED’s real estate professionals.

About MREDpalooza

MREDpalooza is one of the largest MLS tech expos in the country.  Taking place Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED’s real estate professionals to learn about a myriad of real estate products and services to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom have already committed to attending.  Training sessions will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products and services.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza are asked to visit MREDpalooza.com for registration and sponsorship information.

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com.

MREDpalooza Sponsors Stepping Up to the Plate

Support for Major Real Estate Tech Expo is Streaming In

 LISLE, ILLINOIS (March 6, 2013) – Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), announced that support for MREDpalooza, the real estate tech expo event of 2013, has already started flowing in.  Product vendors and service providers are seizing the opportunity to participate in an event hosted by one of the largest MLSs in the country.

ShowingTime was the first to commit to sponsoring MREDpalooza.  The ShowingAssist™ product equips MRED real estate professionals with showing management tools enabling them to schedule showing appointments, generate feedback and create listing activity reports for sellers.   Having had some significant enhancements over the past year, MRED highly recommends attendees Zap into ShowingAssist™ training at MREDpalooza. Together, ShowingTime and MRED make quite the dynamic duo.

Listingbook AI, CoreLogic Realist, and SentriLock are a few of the other companies that have leapt into MREDpalooza sponsorship with a single bound.

“ShowingTime is proud to be a sponsor of the first ‘MREDpalooza’,” said ShowingTime President Michael Lane. “We’ve seen strong adoption of all of our products in MRED – from our front desk software, to our appointment center service, to our online scheduling products – and look forward to being at MREDpalooza to meet many more MRED customers in June.”

“Our industry partners and sponsors have a sense for the best opportunities with which to inform clients and prospects about their products and services,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron.  “We have already seen terrific response from those deeply involved in real estate and the MLS business.  I am confident that our customers are about to experience a great informational, training, and educational opportunity at MREDpalooza, the likes of which they’ve never seen.”

MRED still has sponsorship opportunities available.  All MREDpalooza participants will enjoy maximum exposure to MRED’s real estate professionals.

About MREDpalooza

MREDpalooza is one of the largest MLS tech expos in the country.  Taking place Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED’s real estate professionals to learn about a myriad of real estate products and services to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom have already committed to attending.  Product training sessions will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza are asked to visit MREDpalooza.com for registration and sponsorship information.

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  For more information please visit MREDLLC.com.

MRED Bringing Industry Headliners to MREDpalooza

Top MLS Industry Product Providers to Attend Chicagoland MLS’s Tech/Training Expo

LISLE, ILLINOIS (February 19, 2013) – Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that MREDpalooza, one of the largest MLS tech expos in the country, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 18, 2013.  The event will be taking place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Providing services to nearly 40,000 real estate practitioners, MRED delivers over twenty products and services to its customers, complementing connectMLS™, the top-rated MLS system in the country per the latest WAV Group MLS Technology Survey.  MREDpalooza will be a great opportunity for MRED customers to get up close and personal to a myriad of real estate service providers.  The environment will be conducive to learning about its products and services and other ways to enhance their businesses.

MRED is planning for several thousand attendees and scores of vendors, many of whom have already committed to attending.  Product training sessions will be offered throughout the day, providing more in-depth understanding of many of the products.  Those wishing to attend or exhibit at MREDpalooza have been asked to visit www.MREDpalooza.com for registration and sponsorship information.

“It is exciting to stage an event of this magnitude that will benefit all attendees – our customers as well as our important business partners,” said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron.  “The opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of all these great products and services, at an excellent and easily accessible venue, will be invaluable to the real estate professional.  Our product partners and other participants will enjoy maximum exposure to thousands of brokers and appraisers.  This will be the real estate technology event of the year.”

About MRED

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is the real estate data aggregator and distributor providing the Chicagoland multiple listing service (MLS) to nearly 40,000 brokers and appraisers and 8,000 offices.  MRED serves Chicago and the surrounding “collar” counties and provides property information encompassing northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana.  For more information please visit www.mredllc.com.

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