In this podcast Josh Phegan interviews Josh Symons, strategic industry principle with MRI Software, a global proptech platform player. Symons talks about the need to build trust with the customer through communication, consistency and visibility. They discuss digital trust and online security, tracking relationships using data lakes, and using AI to automate basic tasks and enhance human productivity, whilst recognising opportunities as well as the attendant pain of change.

In today's podcast Josh Phegan is joined by Steve Osborn, managing director with Identity Marketing. Steve describes several ways brands differentiate themselves, and how they position themselves and compete in the marketplace. Steve and Josh discuss brand strategy and representation, leveraging video and social media, moving traditional media into the digital space, challenger brands, and making your brand identifiable and accessible with great brand campaigns.

In today's podcast Josh Phegan is joined by Rahul Grover, general manager for iD4me, a proptech service provider that gives access to the power of data back to the agent. Rahul talks about ways iD4me supports and protects agents, their intuitive search technology, and levels of information they provide. Josh and Rahul discuss agent-generated items of value, making information relevant, profiling customers, and locating absent owners for potential property sales.

This podcast features Josh Phegan talking with Kahlia Cordony, founder and creative director for the Cordony Group styling agency. Kahlia shares CG's approach to making the process of owning, presenting and selling properties faster and easier, and defines what CG does end-to-end with an emphasis on styling. They discuss levels of agent support, options within the funding model, and tips for getting the most out of your styling team.

Today's podcast features Josh Phegan with Sean Scoffield of connectnow, a home moving connection service. Sean talks about how connectnow brings value to your brand and customer experience, real estate as an elevated service, and the 9 touchpoints for removing friction from the customer experience. They discuss protecting data privacy and personal information, how they use the net promoter score, the rebate schedule, and the important part connectnow plays in your business.

In this podcast Josh Phegan interviews Rhys Rogers and Jon McConkey of Before You Bid. Rhys explains how BYB streamlines access to pest and building reports, which enables quicker transactions. Rhys and Jon discuss some of the friction points with agents, available funding options, understanding digital intent, systems for identifying challenges in any market, integrating with the agency CRM, functions of BYB Assist, and how they remove the barriers to making the sale.

In today's podcast Josh Phegan is joined by Ali Vaez of Activepipe, which provides email marketing to businesses. Ali gives us 8 reasons why you should be using email marketing, and Josh highlights the rise of AI and the power of segmentation. They discuss targeted interactive emails that increase open and click-through rates, scalable cost-effective communication, optimising your datasets, and they step through how Activepipe works and what you can set it up to do.

In this podcast Josh Phegan interviews Angus Ferguson, head of customer solutions with Domain. Angus describes Domain as a holistic service that helps agents succeed with their businesses. Josh and Angus discuss using digital to streamline workflow, choosing tools vs. toys, integrating the data you have to find listings and make better decisions, and how to access and use the Domain services.

In this episode Josh Phegan interview Josh Symons of MRI Technologies. Josh's focus is on sales and property management, the lack of alignment between departments and teams, and the challenges of integration. He explains big data and exhaust data, servicing landlords as 4-dimensional customers, why PM needs automation and specialisation, the relationship between tech and PM, better ways to show properties, and how sales has already been using new technologies successfully.

In this podcast, Josh Phegan interviews Angus Ferguson, Commercial Director of Agent Solutions at Domain Group. In this episode, they look at the real estate process and the tools to help agents move through the processes, from agency agreements to settlement. They look at the future of how people access technology and become aware of the different solution providers available in the marketplace, and the different problems Domain solves in the digital workspace.