In this day and age of smart phones and easy accessibility to information, I don’t see the necessity of carrying around business cards. If I give my card to someone, chances are it gets lost or at best the recipient has to manually enter the info into their computer or phone. Consequently, when I started…
I recently got a phone call from a long time business acquaintance, and friend asking me to please take a look at his latest project. Because of my blog http://www.RealtyTechBytes.com, I get requests like this quite frequently. In most cases I don’t report on them because they don’t fit my criteria of something useful to folks in the…
I have become tired of carrying business cards around. So much so that I have no idea where my box of business cards are stored. The whole concept of exchanging small bits of paper that ultimately end up in landfills bothers me, so I decided some time back to forgo the whole process. But, this…
We are in the final quarter of 2023, so it’s time to start planning 2024! There are any number of business planning tools available to you, but most assume that you are actually prepared to get started. To ensure a smooth path forward in your 2024 business planning, I’ve compiled some crucial considerations with the…
I’ve talked about using ChatGPT several times now (Click here to see the past articles: https://realtytechbytes.com/category/artificial-intelligence/) and am seriously interested in continuing to explore it’s uses in our business, so I want to show you a case study I did with a new tool I discovered!! To follow along, you need to be using the…
What was in your mailbox today? Bills? Magazines? Postcards from other real estate agents? Other junk mail? If so, you are like everyone else! But, if by chance you got a hand written note from someone, how did it make you feel? I’ll bet it lifted your spirits! And once again you would be like…
Here we are in the final quarter of 2021! I hope that you have been having a good year in your business in spite of all that has gone on and is going on! Here in Contra Costa County, we have FINALLY been allowed to have indoor church/temple/mosque services and the same for indoor restaurants.…
More than a year ago we were told to shelter in place for two weeks to flatten the curve. Over time, as we learned more about the virus, we progressed to steadily more restrictions on what we could do and what we could not do. We lost much of our ability to interact with clients…
Imagine this, if you will. You KNOW that you should probably send out postcards around your new listing. Often times a new listing in a neighborhood will spark another home owner to put their home on the market, so sending out Just Listed postcards is a proven way to get the word out to…
If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ll remember how difficult networking used to be. In the past, the best way for REALTORS® to network was face to face. You’d go to events, exchange business cards, give a five-second elevator speech and hope that you were building good connections. Fast forward to the age…
