Colette Stevenson is the CEO of REsides, an MLS in Hilton Head, South Carolina, that has historically been a leader in promoting RESO standards for the industry. In fact, all of the MLS’s data partners are required to be RESO members in order to access their data.
In this video, Stevenson shares her first experience at a RESO conference and explains the value of RESO conference attendance for MLS CEOs.
“It’s imperative that we be ahead as much as we can of what the trends are, and the only way to know what they are is to see them coming,” said Stevenson.
She said that the conference exposed her to several interesting and exciting new ideas – takeaways that she could immediately use.
Stevenson cautioned her fellow MLS CEOs that while RESO conferences can seemingly be intimidating to nontechnical people, it’s still helpful to get exposed to the lingo. She said that CEOs can gain a clearer understanding about “what players are needed in development, how many are needed, their responsibilities, what tools they’re using, who they’re working with and so forth.”
“You don’t necessarily need to know coding,” she added.
In fact, one of the big motivations for making the conferences as business-focused as they are technical was to offer sessions to help business leaders understand the value of RESO standards to the real estate industry ecosystem.
RESO conferences also offer innovative products and services for brokers and agents powered by RESO standards, as well as exceptional networking with the best minds in the business.
So take a seat at the table to help shape the future of real estate!
