Many agents that I talk to just LOVE to HATE Zillow. When I question them about this I usually hear about inaccurate Zestimates® that their clients use to value their homes. Others rail on about Zillow selling leads back to them that Zillow gets because they advertise the agent’s listings. And I have heard some…
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The holidays are over and we are well into January, so it’s time to start thinking about getting ready for tax time. One of the joys of being an independent contractor is that we get to write off a number of business expenses against our income, effectively lowering the amount of federal and sate income…
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Have you ever been looking at your Facebook Newsfeed and see an unfamiliar name? That can happen when friends post things that appear on your Newsfeed as well as theirs. Their friends can make comments. That results in you seeing unfamiliar names. Wouldn’t it be cool to learn more about those people? Without having to…
DetailsI was fortunate enough to get to do a ride along with the Police Chief of a local community last week. We spent three hours together riding in a patrol car. We answered several 911 calls and made a traffic stop of someone who blew through a red light. It was all very interesting to…
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If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first week of 2016 is either underway or in the books already! Only 51 more weeks to make something happen this year! Over 300 Ways to Make 2016 Your Best Year … Ever! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you…
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Well, it’s that time of year again. The days are short and the time that is left to hit your income goals for 2015 is even shorter! The good news is that the days are getting longer and a new year and new opportunities are just days away. If you hit or surpassed your 2015…
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Now that we all have smart phones (you DO have an iPhone or an Android phone don’t you?) the ability to take pictures at any time has become a way of life. And I’m not just talking about “selfies”! I use my phone’s camera to take pictures of things that I want to have easily…
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Who is your email branding? I want to spend a few minutes with you today about email branding. Specifically, who are you branding with each email that you send? If you have an email address at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Comcast, Verizon, iCloud etc then with every email you send you are branding those companies and…
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I was helping an agent delete some online accounts recently and several of them proved surprisingly hard to delete. After some searching around on Google for the answers, I bumped into AccountKiller. This site has taken it upon themselves to compile a listing of many popular online sites(and some that I never heard of) along with…
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A few years back I told you about an app that you could use to send greeting cards form your phone (https://realtytechbytes.com/a-nifty-way-to-send-those-christmas-cards) and towards the end of that article, I off handedly mentioned another app (Postagram) for sending photo postcards. My idea at the time was to use the apps in lieu of sending Christmas,…
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