Easy and low cost way to send those Just Listed and Just Sold postcards!

Imagine this, if you will.   You KNOW that you should probably send out postcards around your new listing.  Often times a new listing in a neighborhood will spark another home owner to put their home on the market, so sending out Just Listed postcards is a proven way to get the word out to…

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Is this you? I sincerely hope not!

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” The AA Big Book You may be wondering why I have started this post with a quote from the…

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Little known method to find your next client

I spent a lot of time this week coaching agents on alternative ways of finding new business leads. A recurring theme was the frustration that they were feeling with some of traditional methods that we have been using for years. Some common remarks were “I don’t want to come off as sales-y”, or “”I don’t…

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A unique plan for 2020!

Well the first two weeks of 2020 are almost in the books!  How is it going so far? Are you working your plan or are you still wrapping up the holidays? But, maybe you are wondering what the plan for 2020 is going to be.   If that’s you, read on. I recently received an…

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Data Detox Kit

Lately I’ve been thinking about online/digital safety and privacy.  Mostly because this blog was hacked recently and it was being used to host phishing websites! This caused my hosting provider to suspend my account until I managed to find and remove the malware!  It hasn’t been a fun experience and I’m not sure that I…

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Happy New Year

Good advice for real estate agents for 2020

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.…

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Got a new iPad? Updated your old one? Read this to get the most out of it!

Christmas is a few days away as this is being written and I am thinking that you may be getting a new iPad as a gift!  It will come with the new iPadOS and of course it will have the latest hardware. Even if you don’t get a new iPad, the new iPadOS has a…

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A novel way to find distressed property listing opportunities

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…

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Would You Play Marco Polo with your contacts? Read this and maybe you would!

Last week I was working with a couple of agents in one of our offices and we were watching some of the videos from the recent NAR convention in San Francisco in November. The topic of discussion was basically staying in touch with past, present and future clients. We got around to video eventually and it…

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Crush it in 2020 with one of these plans

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…

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