Category: CRE Trends
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Using Social Media to Manage Risk
Social media has completely changed business communications, forever altering the way organizations both field and respond to people experiencing problems with their products or services.
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Building Engines’ Benefits Touted in BOMA Magazine
“The ability to view and analyze data in the field is only the beginning of better building operations,” CRE industry expert Phil Mobley wrote in his latest cover article for BOMA Magazine, Big Data, Big Rewards.
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Driving the Product Roadmap: Customer Wish Lists
Like most people, I use quite a few software products in the course of a normal work day. (I’ve used eight different software products so far today, but who’s counting?)
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4 Common Deployment Data Questions (and Answers!)
Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite subject: data. There’s a saying out there which goes, “Stuff in, stuff out.” Well, maybe it doesn’t go exactly like that, but you get the idea.
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How to Recognize Good Customer Service
Great service is the lifeblood of any business. You can sell anything to anyone once, but unless you support those sales with stellar customer service, that sale won’t stick around for long – and you certainly won’t be able to sell that customer anything else.
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3 Tips for Mastering Your Property Management Software
Congratulations! You’ve decided to implement a brand new property management system. After carefully reviewing numerous operations service providers and applications, license agreements have been signed; tenant and equipment data has been collected; and you’ve set a target date for your tenant launch. The next (and most critical) step in the deployment process is to prepare…
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“What’s the ROI of Property Management Software?”
I hate this question and that’s probably why the marketing folks here asked me to write about it. They’re a cruel bunch at times. It’s not the premise of determining ROI that I take issue with, it’s the generic nature of ‘so what’s the payback for your software?’ It bothers me because the honest (and…
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9 Ways to Fall in Love With Your Data
Your business, like your life, is surrounded by legions of data of varying shapes, sizes, values and heritage. Finding your dream data requires the same skills you use in a courtship. Okay, so the impetus and methods may be different, but the identical instincts and judgments apply. Here are 9 secrets to success:
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Google Glass & Oculus Rift: CRE Tech Trends Just Got More Interesting
We were excited to be able to attend the NAIOP Trend & Technology Marketing Conference in Boston last week. The two-part conference highlighted innovative marketing trends and technologies that have been recently adopted in commercial real estate.
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Building Engines Announces New VP of Engineering, Rob Ehlert
We’re excited to welcomes Rob Ehlert to our senior management team as Vice President of Engineering. His appointment is a seminal step in the expansion of our engineering efforts and heralds an innovative era of product and platform enhancement.