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Metro Brokers Inc. celebrates exceptional leaders in the real estate industry

Announces 2009 awards for outstanding achievements 

(DENVER, Colo.) October 5, 2009 - Metro Brokers, Inc. is proud to announce the list of brokers honored over the past year with outstanding achievement awards and/or leadership positions in the real estate industry. The company prides itself on it's prestigious members, many of which have been appointed director or board positions with the local and national Association of Realtors, as well as earning lifetime achievement and broker of the year awards. Each of the following Metro Brokers, Inc. real estate agents has gone above and beyond, and proven themselves as exceptional leaders in the metro Denver real estate arena.

Agents receiving awards and or leadership positions based on performance in 2008 - 2009:

John Asmussen - Director Boulder Realtors Association

Kaeti Bancroft - Director South Metro Denver Realtors Association (SMDRA)

Sunny Banka - CAR Director for Aurora

Karla Bielanksi - Past president Council of Residential Specialists

Ted Bryant - NAR & CAR Director, JCAR

Barb Cline - Past President for Aurora Board

Marilyn Durkee - Lifetime Achievement North Metro Denver Realtors Association (NMDRA)

Ed Hardey - Metrolist Director for Aurora Board

Rob Horton - CAR Director for Denver Board

Alanna Kimmel - Colorado Association of Realtors (CAR) Director for Denver Board

Steven Konecny - Director SMDRA

Jim Leto - CAR Director, JCAR

Stew Meagher - 2010 Chairman of the Board SMDRA

John Mitchell - Director for Aurora

Gary Morton - CAR Director

Mitch Myers - CAR Director for Aurora

Anthony Rael - Jefferson County Association of Realtors (JCAR) Director

Caryolyn Reeves - CAR Director Royal Gorge Board

Will Roberts - Past President for Denver Board

Sandy Trujillo - Realtor of the Year (RTOY) SMD, 2009 Chairman of the Board SMDRA

Kay Watson - North Association of Realtors (NAR) Director

"Metro Brokers Inc. is pleased to have the very best and brightest agents in the industry," said Maria Cook, Executive Director of Metro Brokers Inc. "Each year we're delighted to see so many of our brokers taking on leadership positions and earning achievement awards."

Metro Brokers Inc. provides real estate agents an independent framework to succeed through innovative technologies, continuing education courses and innovative marketing. Unlike other real estate companies, Metro Brokers Inc. is actually owned and operated by its brokers.

About Metro Brokers, Inc.

Metro Brokers, Inc. has been Colorado's leader in real estate, technology and services, for more than 30 years, offering independent real estate professionals a framework to succeed. Our network of nearly 2,000 highly experienced real estate professionals statewide specialize in residential, commercial and investment properties and have access to ground breaking technologies, continuing education courses, and innovative marketing that help buyers and sellers make the most of their real estate transactions. Unlike most other real estate companies Metro Brokers, Inc. is actually owned and operated by its brokers.

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Sandra Christiantelli
has joined Reeves Real
Estate, LLC offices of
Metro Brokers, Inc.
as its newest member. Sandra was previously an Associate Broker for RE/MAX and has over four years of experience as a Mountain Broker.  "I am thrilled to join the Metro Brokers team," said Sandra. "I look forward to utilizing their great resources to build a strong clientele and long-term practice in the Fremont/Chaffee County Area. She chose to join Metro Brokers Inc. because it provides real estate agents an independent framework to succeed through innovative technologies, continuing education courses and innovative marketing. Unlike other real estate companies, Metro Brokers Inc. is actually owned and operated by its brokers, a press release says. New member joins Reeves

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Hi, I am Maria Cook, Executive Director for Metro Brokers and we thought the best way to deliver this message would be using video.

Metro Brokers and MetroBrokersTV is truly thrilled to have been nominated for the 2009 Innovator award for a Media Portal.  We know firsthand that the Inman organization is at the leading edge of finding and presenting innovative products and services.  Metro Brokers is a 32 year old organization that is dedicated to keeping their 100% broker owned trade association on top of the cutting edge of business innovation, which has been demonstrated with our progressive tech partners like WhereTolive.com and Terabitz.  We have also enjoyed our involvement with Inman as a 2007 NY and SF Platinum Sponsor. It's been a great experience for our entire leadership team to attend  the Connect for three years running. Metro Brokers recognizes that Real Estate is the most innovative and changing business environments in the world. Therefore our vision was to create The MetroBrokersTV.com platform as a innovative media and Social PR product. It is so much more than a company website...it transmits the soul and essence of the brand in the most important market or brand space that we know of, SEARCH.

 
I would just like to share that Metro Brokers TV is an incredible brand building product for our organization in that new place in space we all want to be found in, "SEARCH."  From an innovative standpoint, we have been using MetroBrokersTV for well over 16 months, so this is not a new bandwagon product.  We are proud to have been way ahead of the pack in integration and use.   I would also  like to share a just few of the positive attributes about the product for our organization, some are not self-evident. 

 
In a nutshell, MetroBrokersTV is a custom built large category video player. It's also a single blog player and streaming player within a custom built blog.  We recognize that Television, live or video based, and Internet technologies are merging technologies and provide the opportunity of unbridled availability of content. Internet-TV  (IPTV) is the alternative for new content distribution models.  MetroBrokersTV beats  transmission cost of common broadcast technologies.  Metro Brokers recognizes the movement towards video and ITPV on hand held devices as well as delivering content to PC users and to the television set through set top boxes with Internet connectivity.  Additionally, we recognize that being found on the web is crucial.  Running an IPTV portal is difficult without having some type of "TV Guide".   Video is worthless if it cannot be found and there in lies the magic of MetroBrokersTV. The backend of the blog has integrated blog and video syndication allowing content to be distributed to over 30 social and video portals.

 
The use of the MetroBrokersTV IPTV Portal has allowed our organization to reduce the amount of Traditional Television spending,  while at the same time maintaining overall brand awareness, as people have moved form TV to internet.   A two year reduction on media buys from 1.2 M to approx $750,000 is a substantial cost savings for us.  Annual operating costs on the IPTV portal run around $72,000 a year. This includes all video hosting, video streaming, all syndication costs, video production, video editing, transcoding, transcribing, studio time and all professional talent.  In the past TV commercials only had relivance on Television.  MetroBrokersTV allows our advertising to be viewed 24/7/365.  In fact, some of our most viewed videos and posts are the Metro Brokers TV Commercials.  Additionally, it allows our broker population to link or imbed our current or past TV advertising campaigns, a huge plus for membership.  In a diverse market, MetroBrokersTV is a relevance building machine.
 

There other numerous benefits to our association through the use of this unique portal of which one is very important, association communication.  MetroBrokersTV is a true transparent corporate communications portal using traditional RSS, email subscriptions, video linking, video sharing and video imbeds.  One of the most important areas of communication is education. MetroBrokersTV serves as an excellent education platform.  The live streaming aspect allows live instruction as well as stored video instruction for numerous education topics.  An excellent example was a recent two day  recruiting seminar that provided a live stream show for our members throughout the state of Colorado.  Additionally, the video production has been edited and placed as a permanent seminar piece within the player.  
 

The live stream and recorded video players allow Metro Brokers to monetize the site by using a custom built feature allowing us to run industry standard pre-roll 15, 30 or 60 second video advertising spots in front of all video pieces whether the large category player, single player or live streaming.  These video pre rolls can be set on a multitude of display attributes.  This component is a crucial part of the MetroBrokersTV platform because it provides revenue to off set costs.  Today's vendors and sponsors are looking for high impact ways to get in front of and stay in front of large groups of real estate brokers.  MetroBrokersTV offers a perfect venue of video advertising  and video sponsorship. 
 
 
Lastly, we find that making our individual member brokers become relevant in search results in video form has a huge impact on members.  Video interviews geared towards recruiting, member participation in charity events, new office openings, new members, industry events are all part of making our members feel an important and vital part of the organization and part of the fabric of search.  MetroBrokersTV can be considered a corporate communications portal. However, B to B and B to C, are natural byproducts of a platform that is geared towards VIDEO and Social Media Syndication.  Many of our members are thrilled to see numerous first page placement on Google for their personal names, companies and geographic specialties.  The impact of consumers and brokers finding a video result  instead of a text based result is what an Internet protocol Television Blog is all about.  People want video.
 

We truly value our video productions as an asset to our association. They provide a continuous Return On Investment.  Unlike almost all other forms of media, socially syndicated video never stops giving.  We have custom produced pieces of video that are approaching 2 years old that keep getting play after play.  We would hope that you see as we do, the importance of such a innovative and forward thinking communications media product. We truly appreciate being considered for such an honor.  Should you have any questions or wish to learn more about our product fell free to give us a call.    
 
 

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Inman News announced their annual nominations for the Finalists for their prestigious Inman 2009 Innovator Awards. The category winners of the 12th annual awards will be announced in San Francisco in August during the Inman Real Estate Connect Conference August 5th - 7th. According to Inman, the award "honors companies that use technology and innovation to enhance the real estate transaction process and improve the overall experience for consumers and real estate professionals."

MetroBrokersTV.com was announced to be a finalist in the category of Most Innovative Media Site, which is an extremely exciting recognition. MetroBrokersTV is indeed an innovative corporate portal for Metro Brokers to take their Internet presence to the next level. It is a complete Web 2.0 PR machine - with built in video syndication,  custom SEO pinging services for Metro Brokers to increase their Internet brand presence. MetroBrokersTV is a custom built blogging platform, with custom built video players for all MetroBrokersTV productions.  In essence, it is a complete corporate IPTV portal to expose the organization in the totally new transparent media trend that is spreading throughout the entire real estate industry.

MetroBrokersTV was built to increase visibility of the brand in the new world of SEO and search.   Besides extensive online storage for the player videos, the built live streaming capabilities also provide unique educational and meeting experiences.  It also offers an easy outlet for that human touch through video that potential real estate clients are looking for - there is no learning curve. Brokers that are new to the tech side of life, so to speak, will be able to advance quickly and easily as well, and this has become such an important area of focus in today's competitive real estate arena. This is exactly what Colorado real estate consumers are looking for in their next real estate agent and we have it, all in one package.

Congratulations to all of the nominees. MetroBrokersTV is thrilled to be amongst such creative, innovative, forward thinking businesses throughout the entire real estate industry. And of course, MetroBrokersTV will be broadcasting live from the Inman Real Estate Connect conference here on MetroBrokersTV and BrokerIPTV, so tune in live as the winners of all of the categories are announced.

Here is the entire list of 2009 Inman Innovator Awards finalists:

Most innovative brokerage or franchise
@properties
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate
Coldwell Banker
John L. Scott
Nest Realty Group
Redfin

Most innovative new technology
Closing.com
Dwellicious
SmarterAgent
Walk Score
Zillow iPhone app

Most innovative Web service
Animoto
FranklyMLS.com
Proxio
SmartZip
Ubertor

Most innovative blog
Clean Slate Blog -- Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate
IanWatt.ca video blog
MyTechOpinion.com blog
The Phoenix Real Estate Guy blog
Trust Me I'm a Realtor blog -- Frankly Realty

Most innovative media site
Breaking News local media sites -- Domus Consulting
TheClozing.com
Coldwell Banker On Location
MetroBrokersTV.com
RealEstateTalk.com.au

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