Starting this week and for the next two weeks, I want to “talk” to you about Public Relations or PR. Public relations or PR is about communication and reputation. It governs how the public perceives your organization and has a significant impact on who engages in business with you because people make half their buying…
I was meeting with an agent (in person) the other day when I noticed that she has over 4,000 unread emails in her gmail account! (The total number of read and unread emails was staggering!) When I asked her about it she replied that her email has become almost unusable. Further questioning revealed that her…
If you have been following this blog for any length of time, or if you have ever taken a class from me, then you are already aware of how much I value prospecting for business! My belief is that if you don’t have someone lined up ready to do business with you, then all of…
Last week I told you about a cool way to make videos using your computer. In case you missed that post, here is a quick link to it: https://realtytechbytes.com/cool-way-to-make-killer-videos/ This week I want to tell you how to use those videos using YouTube! Why YouTube? There are a couple of really good reasons. First is…
Today is July 4th, so if you are reading this in the United States, Happy 4th of July! We celebrate this day to commemorate our independence from England. This independence was won by ordinary citizens armed with guns who stood up to an oppressive government and won. If you are reading this in the UK…
2021 is already half over! I hope that you are on track to hit your goals for 2021. If not, I may have some information on this blog to help you get there. To make it easier for you to mine the nuggets that this blog contains, I’ve done some searches for you and and…
We have all received them…official looking emails from banks, major companies, even government agencies. But wait, are they REALLY coming from the bank, company or agency? How can you know? I’ve put together a few tips that will help you to decide whether or not to believe what you are seeing. First of all, no…
Back in the good old says of real estate, a smart agent kept a written record of every conversation they had with their buyers or sellers, inspectors, contractors, title people, lenders and so on. If the conversation had anything to do with a transaction we wrote it down. Eventually those records became Conversation Logs and…
Did you ever read a book that changed your life? I did. In my first year in real estate I was turned on to “Real Estate Listing Magic” by Gael Himmah. Gael was a northern California real estate broker that wrote and published this book in 1964 and it eventually became the “bible” for…
I met the future of real estate agents today, and I have to say that I am impressed. First a little background on why I would say that. By the way, that statement was made 10 years ago in 2011. Yet the issues that I describe below are still rampant today. Much of the problem…
