A wise man once told me that if you have to swallow a frog, do it first thing in the morning. That way the rest of your day will be a cake walk! He, of course, was referring to have to do a task that you don’t want to do. Prospecting is one of those…
As a broker and office manage, I often find myself in the position of having to answer the question “How do I become a successful real estate agent?’ Over the years my answer has changed. But these days I believe there are five steps to mastering real estate as a career. Over the next five…
One of the hot topics at the recent Inman Connect show in San Francisco was predictive analytics. You probably have heard that term before. You may have also heard about machine learning and data mining. If you haven’t and even if you have, you may not know what it means. Let me explain, these are…
In the area where I live, kids went back to school this past week! Even if I didn’t have school age grandkids, I would know that this is true just based on how awful traffic around here has become almost overnight! If it hasn’t happened in your area yet, it’s on its way! On the…
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot Why set goals when you can live life without it? Isn’t it that unguarded moments and spontaneous decisions are the ones that give color to one’s numbered days? Those are the questions that might be playing in your mind when…
When someone succeeds in life, people often ask, how did you do it? It’s the same old question from everyone aspiring to achieve something to everyone who already did it. Some would tell you it’s luck or hard work but when you listen to them closely, you’ll hear their enthusiasm about their dreams. I can…
It’s always easy to blame other people or other things when you fall short of reaching your goals or when you lose the will to pursue them. You might have gone through this kind of frustration before, and you probably just can’t afford to look at yourself as someone to blame for the said disappointment.…
If you feel hopeless while working towards your goals and you need some motivation, read this. These are the people who don’t need to introduce themselves anymore because of their achievements in their lifetime. These people are particularly inspiring because they’ve gone through rejection and failures too, but that didn’t stop them from becoming who…
As I write this, it’s the first day of July, which means the year is half gone! It seems like the year is flying by! The fact that the year is at the halfway point has caused me to wonder if you are halfway to the goals that you set for yourself at the beginning…
Live video is currently an exciting topic among technologists and futurists and it’s widely expected that it will play a big role in the way we communicate online going forward. And for agents, live video is also very exciting. That’s because it presents us with an entirely new audience to market ourselves to, an entirely…
