I spent a lot of time this week coaching agents on alternative ways of finding new business leads. A recurring theme was the frustration that they were feeling with some of traditional methods that we have been using for years. Some common remarks were “I don’t want to come off as sales-y”, or “”I don’t…
Well the first two weeks of 2020 are almost in the books! How is it going so far? Are you working your plan or are you still wrapping up the holidays? But, maybe you are wondering what the plan for 2020 is going to be. If that’s you, read on. I recently received an…
Lately I’ve been thinking about online/digital safety and privacy. Mostly because this blog was hacked recently and it was being used to host phishing websites! This caused my hosting provider to suspend my account until I managed to find and remove the malware! It hasn’t been a fun experience and I’m not sure that I…
As I write this, the new year and the new decade are only days away! This year seems to have flown by and I wonder what next year is going to hold! You may be feeling the same way and like me, may be looking for some worthy goals or resolutions to make for 2020.…
Christmas is a few days away as this is being written and I am thinking that you may be getting a new iPad as a gift! It will come with the new iPadOS and of course it will have the latest hardware. Even if you don’t get a new iPad, the new iPadOS has a…
I was cruising through the Apple App Store yesterday while I was waiting for my wife to get ready to go out when I ran across the “Deal Machine”. With a name like that I HAD to take a closer look. OMG! this is an amazing platform for real estate investors to contact home owners…
Last week I was working with a couple of agents in one of our offices and we were watching some of the videos from the recent NAR convention in San Francisco in November. The topic of discussion was basically staying in touch with past, present and future clients. We got around to video eventually and it…
By the time that you read this Thanksgiving will have come and gone and we will be on the final countdown to 2020! So, it’s really time to start thinking about next year’s business! I have spent the better part of a day doing some research to find what I think are the best resources…
For many of use it’s time to renew your Board or Association of REALTORS® dues. Some of us grumble about this annual assault on our bank accounts and often wonder what we are getting for this outflow of cash. I’m here to tell you that we get a lot. Some of it is well hidden…
The 2019 National Association of REALTORS ® convention has come and gone. Since it was in San Francisco this year I decided to attend and to tell the truth, I was glad that I did. I ran into many old friends from across the country, made some new friends and attended a dozen or more…
