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…
Last week I showed you 5 Quick Marketing Tips and promised some additional resources to help you implement those tips. So this week’s post will be a list of Resources that you can use to help you get to where you want to be as regards those tips. If you missed last week’s post, go…
Internet marketing is an excellent solution for real estate agents. Proper use of the Internet will allow you to reach people that you otherwise may not have reached Here are five tips to help you reach your potential customers: Create A Professional Web Site For Your Real Estate Business. You need to present a professional…
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…
A couple of weeks ago I told you about something I discovered at Inman Connect that was a hi tech way to do a low tech old school method for staying in touch. In can you missed it, here is the link https://realtytechbytes.com/hi-tech-spin-low-tech-method This week I want to tell you about a hi-tech way to…
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…
I spent much of last week at Inman Connect in San Francisco. I am generally NOT a fan of these conferences because too often they are slanted towards industry outsiders who come and speak and try to tell us how to do our business. They all seemed to have the idea that they could re-invent…
Recently I was having a “bull session” with a handful of agents in my office. We had just returned from lunch and we were sitting around the conference room table. The conversation turned to an experience that one of the agents had with a seller that was proving to be difficult and unreasonable in their…
I want to recommend a book this week. In the past I have recommended books, but they have all been real estate specific books. This one is not. The author of the book is Admiral William H. McRaven (U.S. Navy Retired) and is titled “Make Your Bed – Little Things That Can Change Your Life…
If you were in the market to buy a used car you’d probably go to CarFax.com and buy a report that would tell you a variety of facts about the car so that you could make an informed buying decision. You’d pay anywhere from $20.00 to $39.99 for the report and would consider that a…
