Every November the National Association of REALTORS® gets together to celebrate all things REALTOR®, debate issues, come up with new ideas and party like mad. All of which is only of mild interest to me. But, one thing does happen during this annual convention that I find absolutely essential to EVERY REALTOR®. And that is…
This week I want to tell you about an iPhone app that may be valuable to your clients. Often times we list homes for sale that a need a little TLC to get them ready for market. It’s amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do, but convincing the seller of the value of…
Over the past two weeks I ran a little experiment to see if I could get leads on potential home sellers. What I wanted to do was to get names, email addresses and street addresses of people who MIGHT be interested in selling their homes. I had some parameters that I wanted to observe. It…
There’s no doubt about it. The Internet has become the social meeting place for people from all walks of life. Whether they’re looking for a new place to live, need information on a certain topic or just want a little laugh, they’re turning to the social web to get what they need. In addition, search…
Do you use Facebook as a way to prospect for clients? Many agents that I know have used Facebook successfully to stay in touch with their sphere of influence. They do that in a variety of ways, some of which include, posting relevant, timely, engaging, funny and useful things. Many of them also look at…
I want to talk to you today about an incredible resource that I’ll bet you are not using. Heck, I’ll even bet that you aren’t even aware that it exists! I just spent a few minutes noodling around on this site and found the following things: A page that was loaded with some scripts to…
How good are you at staying in touch with your past clients? The ones that closed an escrow with you. The ones that would gladly tell their friends how awesome you are…if only they could remember your name… We often fall victim to our own successes. You know what I mean, when we close an…
If you are reading this then it’s safe top say that the first week of 2015 is in the books already! Only 51 more weeks to make something happen this year! For this week’s post I thought that I’d give you an easy way to mine the nuggets that this blog contains. I am sure…
As I write this it is December 26th, 2014. I have spent much of the day today thinking about business planning for real estate agents. My thought process has pointed me in the direction of searching for resources that I could tell you about. My original plan was to compile a list of resources that…
I’ll keep this week’s post short as I know you are probably crazy busy right now with holiday preparations. But, you really do want to read this all the way through because I have a heck of a deal for you! I was recently asked to evaluate a number of CMA products for one of…
