If I had to come up with something good to say about the recent pandemic, there are some things that stand out as being “good”. In my mind, the best thing that came about was the nearly universal adoption of using Docuisgn and its analogs for our transactions. It’s so widespread that newer agents coming…
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I don’t know about you, but these $100.00 trips to the gas station are getting to me. It would be more than $100.00, but Wells Fargo, in its infinite wisdom, cuts me off at $100.00 and stops the pump. I have a 2008 Lexus LS460, which on a good day gets about 20 miles to…
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Recently two friends experienced similar computing “disasters. They both had hard drive failures on our computers! This wasn’t because of no name computers, both systems were name brand, top of the line machines. Both of them are very accomplished computer “geeks”. One friend has been a Mac aficionado for many years and runs his very…
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Ever Since Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of Facebook to Meta, many of us have been wondering what the big deal is with the Metaverse! So what is the metaverse? The metaverse brings together, in one experience, a number of technologies that include Virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and the ability to to track…
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By now you must have come to the conclusion that social media has to be part of your client acquisition and client nurturing process. For those of us who started in the days of MLS books and face to face meetings, keeping up with the demands of new age, electronic marketing can be a…
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While doing some research on the web the other day I ran across a statistic that was a bit astonishing. In essence, it was claimed that the data collection forms used on real estate websites were only 1~1.5% effective in producing a lead. What this means is that for every 100 people who visit your…
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Lately I have been thinking about “what is the cost to an agent to acquire a new client?” That lead me to wonder about the different ways we use to attract new clients. From there I started thinking about ways to measure the effectiveness of the various ways we use to find new clients. Our…
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By the time you read this, January 2022 will be in the books One twelfth of the year is gone! So here is a question for you: have you achieved one twelfth of your 2022 financial goals? If you haven’t, then maybe you need to take a look at how you are getting business. You’ll…
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Just the other day I was asked by a woman who just got her license what I would do if I was just starting out today. This was my answer. She wanted my take on what I would do to be successful in today’s real estate market. That’s a really good question, but at the…
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Are you paying for leads? If so, why not generate your own? I’ll hazard a guess…it’s too hard to generate the volume of leads that Zillow can give me. Or, I don’t have a clue how to go about building a lead generator. Or Even If I did build it, how would I get people…
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