Austin's Goodlife Team Wins Industry's Top Honor, 2010 Inman Innovator Award in the Brokerage/Franchise Category

The Goodlife Team, an Austin real estate brokerage that continues to push the envelope in its adoption of up-to-the-minute technological innovation for its Austin-based clientele, is thrilled to announce it has won the Inman Innovator Award in the Brokerage/Franchise category. The award – recognized as the industry's highest honor –was announced today at the 2010 Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco.

For nearly 15 years the Inman Innovator Awards has recognized companies that apply technology and innovation to enhance the real estate experience for consumers and real estate professionals. The 2010 Inman Real Estate Connect conference brings together the leading companies, start-ups, sponsors and speakers focused on the future of technology in real estate.

"The GoodLife Team refers to itself as 'the real estate brokerage of the future,' a description that is validated today by our selection for the Inman Innovator Award," said Krisstina Wise, founder and owner of The GoodLife Team. "At Goodlife, customer care and a rewarding real estate experience are non-negotiable. More than a decade ago we realized that a Web-centric business model would help us enhance the customer experience, and in recent years we've gone even further, adopting the latest social media, SEO, instant messaging and cloud-based technologies. When you combine these tools with the best agents in the Austin area, you have a powerhouse real estate business that continuously delights customers."

Always striving to incorporate new technologies in its daily practice, The Goodlife Team has just introduced a new service, "Goodlifestyle Search," allowing customers to search for real estate based on specific search criteria, such as proximity to a public elementary school, community park or gym. Small wonder it has long been recognized in Austin as the most tech-savvy real estate business, delighting clients with the latest innovations.

The Goodlife Team is a real estate business focused on the central Austin real estate market. It consists of a 10-person sales team of Austin realtors and a full admin support staff operating out of their headquarters office in East Austin. As early adopters of Social Media marketing and Web 2.0, The GoodLife Team has embraced the leading technologies including lifestyle search, real estate blogging, listing syndication, text and instant messaging, video and interactive mapping to leapfrog the competition and empower buyers and sellers in the Austin area with the tools they need to make finding, buying and selling real estate as simple and as fast as possible. Its principal Krisstina Wise has gained national attention speaking at conferences about the future of real estate, the change in consumer expectations due to the Internet and social media, and how real estate needs to adapt to meet customer expectations in the 21st Century.