Chris Smith

Chief Evangelist & Contributing Editor, InmanNext, Inman News

Twitter: @inmannext | @Chris_Smth

Chris joined Inman News in June 2011 as chief evangelist. When you meet Chris there is one word that often comes to mind: passion. His love of technology and social media and his desire to help real estate agents of all levels succeed with today’s tech savvy consumers led him to create the Tech Savvy Agent website.

Chris’ background includes working for the largest Internet lead generation mortgage company in the country and then spending time working with an international Search Engine Optimization firm whose clients included Facebook and Pepsi.

Previously, Chris worked as an Internet marketing and social media consultant for Move, Inc., a publicly traded company that owns and operates Realtor.com, and Top Producer Systems. The combination of his technology/social media knowledge and the industry insight provided by Move has made Chris a sought after speaker and coach who is known as an innovator within the real estate industry.

Chris is married to Anna Smith and they have two young children, Lucas and Maya.

Katie Lance

Social Media Director & Contributing Editor, InmanNext, Inman News

Twitter: @inmannext | @KatieLance

Katie brings her experience as the managing editor of FOREM, the hugely popular and top-rated Future of Real Estate Marketing blog, to her role as contributing editor of InmanNext. You can read Katie’s posts from FOREM on InmanNext, as FOREM is now integrated with InmanNext. Katie also serves as Inman News’ social media director, where she oversees the social media strategy and implementation for Inman events, including Real Estate Connect® and Agent Reboot™.

With more than 15 years experience in marketing, sales and training, Katie is an expert in creating strategic, creative and practical marketing programs for real estate agents, having previously served as marketing manager for a San Francisco Bay Area real estate brokerage. She is a recognized expert in content creation, blogging and social media, real estate technology, Web 2.0, mobile technology and search.

Jimmy Mackin

Founder, MLSApp.com & Frugyl

Twitter: @jimmymackin

Jimmy is the co-founder of The MLS App, a tool that allows agents to market their real estate listings on Facebook. He specializes in Facebook marketing for real estate professionals, and he has a passion for technology. You can connect with Jimmy on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jimmymackin.

Jim Marks

President & Internet Anthropologist, Virtual Results

Twitter: @jimmarks

An enthusiastic and engaging speaker, Jim Marks has spent his career studying the lives, habits and expectations of the Internet consumer. In Jim’s world, Internet marketing is easy. “Simply Create Traffic and Convert it.”

Unlike many so-called Internet strategists, Jim’s strategic vision has been formed by the systematic analysis of millions of clicks of data and backed up by the success of myriads of clients. Jim has served as an Internet marketing strategist to some of the largest and most successful Internet companies in the country and the list of Jim’s real estate clients reads like the who’s who of successful real estate professionals. If you get an opportunity to see Jim speak, take it. You will learn something that you can use to create business, forever.

Steve Pacinelli

VP, Real Estate Events, Move Inc.

Twitter: @stevepacinelli

Over the past decade, Stephen Pacinelli has delivered presentations to thousands of REALTORS® on the benefits of sales automation and online marketing. Stephen’s strategies come first hand from some of the best REALTORS® around the country, which he has had the pleasure of working with. His insights on consumer behavior as well as his grasp on social media strategies make him a leader in these quickly changing times.

Stephen has built businesses around several of his successful websites and blogs and wants to show you how to do the same. His information is cutting edge and is delivered in a manner in which anyone can learn, internalize and then take action to apply to their own business.

Glenn Sanford

Founder & CEO, eXp Realty LLC

Twitter: @ceoglenn

Since early 2002, Glenn has been actively involved in the online real estate space. In early 2007, he launched BuyerTours Realty, which combined virutal and bricks and mortar offices. After the drop off of the market in late 2008, Glenn and his executive team went back and rewrote the entire business model in recognition of the “perfect storm” of lower revenues, fixed or rising overhead costs, and a consumer with more information and access than ever before.

eXp Realty LLC was launched in October 2009 as the first truly cloud-based national real estate brokerage, which meant giving up the traditional bricks and mortar environment and moving to a fully-immersive 3-D virtual office environment where agents, brokers and staff collaborate across borders while learning and transacting business from anywhere in the world. Since that time, eXp Realty has quickly grown to 25 states throughout the United States and is in the process of expanding internationally.

In 2011, eXp Realty was nominated by Inman News as a 2011 Innovator Awards Finalist in the Innovative Brokerage category and was also among the small number of brokerages profiled in the 2011 Swanepoel Trends Report.

From 2005 to 2007, Glenn ran a large mega-agent team and consulted to Keller Williams International as a member of the Agent Technology Council in the areas of online client acquisition, client conversion and technology. Glenn was also a significant contributor to Keller Williams Internet Lead Generation Masterminds.

Prior to real estate, Glenn was active at the executive level with a number of technology-related companies. In 1998, Glenn founded eShippers.com, an online e-commerce and logistics company which was subsequently sold to a public company where he continued to work as president through September 2001.

Darin Persinger

Founder, ProductivityJunkies.com

Twitter: @darinpersinger

Licensed in 1997, Darin has been involved in management and leadership positions of real estate brokerages since 2001. He has conducted over 1,000 training sessions and has done 3,000+ hours of one-to-one coaching.

He is the founder of ProductivityJunkies.com, a real estate coaching and training company that helps agents increase their productivity and business development, while utlizing social media and technology to enhance the strategies.