Every November the National Association of REALTORS® gets together to celebrate all things REALTOR®, debate issues, come up with new ideas and party like mad. All of which is only of mild interest to me. But, one thing does happen during this annual convention that I find absolutely essential to EVERY REALTOR®. And that is…
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From time to time I get questions about using Twitter in a real estate practice. Most of the time I discourage the use unless someone has already built a Twitter presence and has followers who can be the audience that user is trying to reach. Another reason that I discourage using Twitter, is that unless…
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Way back when I started in real estate, nearly 30 years ago, no one in my market area had a car phone, let alone a portable cell phone. Consequently, when we got in our cars we actually were able to concentrate on driving. These days we make phone calls while driving and some of us…
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I recently spent three weeks on the beautiful island of Maui! Going to Maui is something that I done every year and have done for the past 20 years. Maui is my place to go to reflect, recharge, and stimulate my creative flow. I haven’t always been able to do three weeks at a time,…
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Some time ago I stopped using business cards. Frankly, I was tired of carrying them and I was even more tired of having to either save the cards given to me or manually transcribe them into my contact manager. So, I’ve been looking for some “hi-tech” solution. In fact, I’ve written a number of articles…
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This week I want to tell you about an iPhone app that may be valuable to your clients. Often times we list homes for sale that a need a little TLC to get them ready for market. It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do, but convincing the seller of the value of…
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I know that you have probably had your phone run out of battery more than once. It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. The solution has been to keep a spare charger and cable in our purses or briefcases and hope that we were near an outlet when the need arose.…
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Today I am high up on my soapbox. I want to rave and rant about about a pet peeve that I have and it’s one that you may have as well. You may have guessed from the title that I am talking about email. Specifically, I am talking about how email gets handled and why…
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Did you ever ever run into this problem? You scan some documents into a pdf and find out the resulting PDF file is too big to email? Or maybe you created a flyer for one of your listings and “printed” it to PDF and ended up with a gigantic PDF file that’s once again too…
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I can’t tell you how many times I have had to “coach” real estate agents about the dangers of sending mass emails from their personal email accounts. I understand why you would want to send your latest listing or fabulous newsletter to all 350 people in your farm via one email. After all, it is…
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