Since I often write about products that I think will help your business, occasionally competing products will be featured in the weekly postings. Of course this leads to the question: “Which one should I buy/use/get? That’s a great question so I thought that I should spend some time this week outlining how I choose a…
I have yet to meet the real estate agent who doesn’t like free stuff! After all, we are constantly shelling out for E&O, desk fees, lock boxes, MLS access, Board Dues, franchise fees, phone bills and other tools that we need to run our businesses. No wonder that free stuff is so popular! One of…
I happened to be helping an associate with his iPhone the other day and saw that he had over 12,000 UNREAD emails in his email inbox! How does this happen? His explanation was that most of those were spam that he received as a result of online shopping, online inquires and so on. When I…
One of the issues that comes up when we write contracts is determining what dates things like contingency removals and inspection time frames actually occur on. Fortunately, there is a quick solution. If you were writing the contract on your computer, just go to https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html to start with the date of the contract and add…
OK. It’s pretty much the middle of summer and we are still taking some vacations. Many of us are afraid to let our clients know that we actually take time off, but come on, do you really want people to believe that you are available 24/7? To me that broadcasts scarcity and that you don’t…
Last week was Inman Connect in San Francisco. This is billed as the best real estate technology conference on the planet. Until you get the Inman Connect Conference in New York City in January. Then THAT conference is billed as the worlds best real estate technology conference. In my opinion both shows are no where…
I’ll bet that if you go to your favorite browser and look in the Bookmarks folder that you’ll find tons of bookmarks that you created. You probably created them so that you wouldn’t forget the website . But, then you forgot to look in the book mark folder for it or it got buried in…
Have you ever wondered what kind of data is being stored about you? If not, you might want to consider learning about it! With data breaches occurring with awful regularity, knowing what information is being stored about you by some of your favorite websites could be important if they get breached! Many companies will make…
I found a fun little, online tool that scratches an occasional itch. Sometimes we need to send pictures to a client or to another agent. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could dress them up a little before we send them? Screely instantly turns your screenshot into a beautiful image that you can share on…
If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first four weeks of 2018 are in the books already! Only 48 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains. I am…
