Palo Alto CA - December 17, 2009 - Author, speaker, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki, recently named a Montana-based mobile technology startup, Goomzee, as one of his favorite applications in American Express' Open Forum for Small Business.  Kawasaki selected this mobile startup not based in California, or even Seattle, but from Missoula Montana.

Goomzee provides an easy-to-use software platform that allows marketers, including Guy himself, to create and manage text message marketing campaigns while tracking results in real time.  Goomzee's mobile marketing platform is used nationwide primarily by real estate professionals who advertise their for-sale properties.  The service delivers home pricing information and photos to potential buyers via text messaging.  At the same time, it can alert agents of buyer interest for prompt follow-up.  Shopping malls, retailers, auto dealers and others like Mr. Kawasaki have found creative uses for this technology as well.

"It's nice when someone like Guy Kawasaki recognizes innovative companies like Goomzee who are based outside the [Silicon] Valley.  As a former San Francisco resident myself, my Bay Area friends thought I was crazy to build a mobile startup from Montana.  Our location has challenges, but it forces continuous creativity and efficiency, ultimately building a much stronger company," explains Goomzee's founder and CEO, Mike Sparr.  "Montana's allure even helps in enterprise sales and perspective clients often joke about selecting Goomzee if it includes a trip here.  Our Governor often leads in speeches with 'Montana's On The Move' and I couldn't agree more; we're happy to do our part."

Montana is no stranger to technology startup success stories.  Bozeman's Right Now Technologies (RNOW) provides on demand customer experience management software and achieved a successful IPO and over $1 billion in revenues before Salesforce.com.  Kalispell's Semitool (SMTL) recently negotiated a sale to Applied Materials (AMD) for over $300 million and another Kalispell IPTV startup, Auroras, merged with Broadsoft to form Avail Media and secured over $25 million in venture financing from Novak Biddle, Columbia Capital and others.  Like the Rockies Region startups mentioned, and many others, Goomzee continues to impress Silicon Valley thought leaders like Guy Kawasaki.

About Goomzee
Goomzee Corporation provides a mobile marketing technology platform that connects buyers and sellers at the point-of-interest.  Goomzee's flagship product, Realty Connect®, and Mobile Virtual Tours, specifically assists real estate professionals to win more listings, acquire more leads and close more sales.  The Company was established in 2003 offering hosted online storefronts to small businesses as well as consulting for some of the world's largest companies and brands.  Goomzee is an industry leader in text message marketing and continues to innovate from a client first perspective.  We connect buyers and sellers at the point-of-interest.  To learn more, visit us online at http://www.goomzee.com or contact us at (877) 324 – 1796.

Missoula, MT - Goomzee Corporation, a national leader in mobile marketing solutions for real estate professionals, today released findings during a survey for multiple listing services, and their respective platform vendors, across the United States.  When analyzing the vendor distribution by MLS accounts, one might determine the ranking and market share of each vendor but upon further investigation, some interesting findings were revealed.  Read on.

Read the survey report to learn about MLS organizations and their platform vendor distribution.  Download Now. (3.1MB)

UPDATE: Many vendors shared their totals; thanks to Victor Lund of WAV Group for coordinating. 5 MLS Vendors provided their user / account totals and we charted these as well, plus compared to the original report.  There was no material change to the original report, just different numbers given vendor totals represent a larger sample size (compared to the 500 MLS who were polled).  View a comparison by downloading the following PDF.  Download Now (500K)

Thanks to all that participated both during our MLS survey, and upon sharing with others.

Missoula, MT - Sept 8, 2009 - Agreements with Intermountain MLS of Boise and Northwest Montana Association of REALTORs in Kalispell, plus two others, continue to grow Goomzee’s nationwide footprint.  Goomzee, a leading text message marketing and lead generation provider that connects buyers and sellers in real time, announces agreements with four more multiple listings services.

Intermountain MLS of Boise Idaho spans southern Idaho and eastern Oregon and is the largest multiple listing service provider in Idaho.  Northwest Montana Association of REALTORs spans Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake communities and is the largest multiple listing service provider in Montana.  Goomzee also has signed agreements with Missoula Organization of REALTORs and Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORs with respective deployments pending.

“It is the Intermountain MLS’s practice to provide our members with the best available information resources and tools, increasing their value to their customers and making them more productive,” said Greg Manship, CEO of the Intermountain MLS of Boise.  “Goomzee will be a great asset in helping agents connect with buyers using today’s mobile and web technology.”

Mike Sparr, CEO of Goomzee, celebrated the signings.

“The nation’s leading MLS groups are recognizing Goomzee’s unique value proposition and continue to move forward with implementations.  Recently in California, for instance, we’ve been selected as the provider of choice for three additional MLS groups totaling over 51,000 members.  The nation’s leaders continue to acknowledge that Goomzee’s service, agility, and dedication to helping their members is unrivaled and for that, I’m thrilled.”

With the addition of Intermountain MLS, Northwest Montana Association of REALTORs (NMAR), Missoula Organization of REALTORs (MOR) and longtime client, Billings Association of REALTORs, Goomzee has further secured its leadership position throughout the Inland Northwest.  Additional integrations in Pennsylvania, Texas and others pending in North Carolina, Ohio, California and other key markets continue to secure Goomzee’s leadership position nationwide.

Goomzee’s existing partners continue to rave about the power Goomzee’s technology delivers to their agents, and their organization.

“Goomzee has provided a cutting edge product to the membership with very little effort by MLS Staff while having developed many opportunities for rev share or site license to its partner,” states Rosemary Scardina, CEO of The Lehigh Valley Association of REALTORs.  “The Lehigh Valley Association of REALTORS MLS couldn't be more pleased to be working with Goomzee.  ALL MLS' SHOULD CHECK THEM OUT.”

Goomzee’s text message marketing solution, Realty Connect, compliments any MLS system and not only simplifies text message campaign publishing with their MLS Publishing Wizard, but also delivers valuable real-time market intelligence to the MLS organization on what buyers are looking at, when and where.  Before Goomzee, there was no efficient way to gather this information for a 360-degree picture of the market.

About Goomzee
Goomzee® Corporation, based in Missoula, MT, is a mobile and online service that connects buyers and sellers using text messaging technology.  Its industry-leading text message marketing platform, Realty Connect, delivers unmatched value and innovation to assist sellers, buyers and sales professionals by facilitating live interaction while delivering property information and photos to buyer’s cell phones.  Goomzee was founded in 2003 and services clients worldwide, including the world’s leading mobile technology and telecommunications firms, real estate brokerages and franchises, multiple listing services and REALTOR associations.  Learn more about Goomzee online at http://www.goomzee.com.