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.…
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…
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…
We all know that getting reviews, testimonials and positive customer comments is hugely important these days. But, we also know how hard to is to get them. I ran across a new service called Effortless Reviews recently that has a way to get reviews on your Google My Business page. (Don’t have a Google My…
As I find myself in the waning years of my real estate career I am looking back over my 33 years in this business and I see that there were several contributing factors to my longevity. I am going to list them here for you. You may find that you may want to emulate some…
In fact, don’t do anything in the office at all! Except to meet your clients who want to meet in the office, attend office meetings and other management required office attendance. Other than that, you need to be spending your time where the clients are…and I have a news flash for you…they aren’t in your…
I constantly get this question (or some variation of it) “What CRM should I use? I think the reason that I get this question so often is because agents are finally getting the picture that they need some method to keep track of their leads and a method to stay in touch with sphere’s of…
In this age of social media, text messaging and other electronic means of staying in touch, direct mail still works! Don’t believe me, check your mailbox … I’ll bet that you get all sorts of direct mail from businesses (and even other REALTORS®). And I’ll further bet that you get mail from some of the…
From May 26th through June 23rd, I ran a series of posts on Video Marketing for real estate agents. That series laid out, in detail, things that you might want to do if you were interested in getting into video marketing. However, I realize that doing all of that may be more than you want…
The final efforts of video production for marketing purposes will shift to how the video will be distributed. Choosing the right distribution method is crucial to reaching your target audience. No one platform is the best for all types of videos so choose judiciously. Because of the abundance of websites where you can upload your…
