Max, the HomeGain Gorilla is doing some advance rest and relaxation in preparation for his second appearance at the National Association of Realtors Convention in Orlando. 

Last year at the NAR Convention & Expo in Las Vegas, Max, a virtual unknown, made his stunning debut, turning him into an overnight sensation.

Over 2000 Realtors lined up at the HomeGain booth to meet Max and to take their turn at trying win a Max.

If you missed Max at the  recent Texas or California  Association of Realtors Conventions, you will have a chance to meet him in Orlando from November 7-10 at the HomeGain booth 3231.

Here is Max kicking back in Miami and the Florida Keys: Continue reading this post

HomeGain folks Matt Malmgren, Salvatore Giammarresi and Kevin Malmgren are off to Long Beach, California today to meet up with Realtors at the California REALTORS^® Expo this week.

Real estate agents and brokers who visit the HomeGain booth #820 will have an opportunity to:

• Win giveaways, including Max, the HomeGain gorilla, and a Flip Ultra™ camcorder
• Hear about the latest marketing products and strategies to help their business grow, including AgentView
• Get a discount on new memberships
• See demonstrations and takeaway free tools like the Home Sale Maximizer™ guide

We look forward to seeing all you California Realtors there!

A certain “not so unknown” orange gorilla!

Max Wearable Button

Max was in high demand as he appeared at this year’s Texas REALTORS® Convention and Trade Expo. At the top of each hour Realtors® had a chance to take the loveable primate home!

That’s not the only reason it was such a big day for Max; HomeGain was selected to be the TAR Expo’s “Mystery Booth,” in which one lucky real estate agent won a cool $500 gift card courtesy of TAR® just for dropping her business card in Max’s bowl.

Plus, a Flip Ultra camcorder was up for grabs. Drum roll, please! The winner was Erica Sanchez of American Dream Realty in Texas.

We would like to thank everybody who stopped by our booth, including those sporting their chic HomeGain button (shown here). Request your free Max button.

A special thanks to Jennifer Perez and Kevin Malmgren for a terrific job at the booth. Next stop: California REALTORS® Convention and Trade Expo October 14th-16th. Hope to see all you CA agents there!

The 2008 Texas REALTORS® Convention and Trade Expo starts tomorrow in San Antonio, TX. HomeGain will be present for the kick off of the convention, exhibiting at booth #224 all day.

Stopping by our booth gives you a chance to win a free Max—every hour! As well as a Flip Ultra camcorder to help you showcase your business online.

We are featuring our new product, AgentView, and giving free demonstrations to show all the ways that it can showcase your business as a real estate professional.

Don’t by shy and come on by! The next shows we’ll be visiting are C.A.R. in Long Beach, CA, next month, followed by NAR Expo in Orlando, FL in November. Hope to see you at one of them!

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On Monday, August 18th, 2008 HomeGain.com kicked off its 2nd Annual Office Olympics. Coincidentally it was also the official Summer Olympics this year!

The kick off meeting was held in HomeGain’s Emeryville Employee Lounge, and we had numerous events throughout the week, including:

• “How Many Pieces of Candy are in the Jar” – each team had to guess how many pieces of candy were in the jar and the closest without going over was the winner.
• “Word Find” – the contestants were read a question with the answer being the word they needed to find. These questions were based on HomeGain facts or people.
• “Max needs a Roommate”- each team turned in their Roommate applications as well as a Model Roommate for Max. All teams was giving a bag of supplies and the Ad that Max placed in the paper for a Roommate. Each team then needed to “create” a roommate for Max. As you can see from the picture, Max had a lot of great options!
• “Paper basketball” – the goal was to get the paper basketballs into the waste paper basket. Each team had one person holding the basket with the others tossing ten paper basketballs into the basket – or at least attempting to get them in the basket! This is an event we also did last year. Since this is an outdoor event sometimes there are issues with the wind, but this year we had nice weather so the wind was not a factor. Continue reading this post

HomeGain Gorilla Snags Emeryville AgentView Zip Code

It is a tradition at HomeGain to send Max away when we release new products. Prior to the release of AgentView we sent Max to Paris.

Max, not only took the product launch in stride, he even signed up to be the feature Realtor in his hometown of Emeryville.

Max also enrolled in the HomeGain Blogging School that comes with his AgentView subscription.

As you can see, by Max’s listings, his specialty is tree houses!

Louis Cammarosano

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