If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ll remember how difficult networking used to be. In the past, the best way for REALTORS® to network was face to face. You’d go to events, exchange business cards, give a five-second elevator speech and hope that you were building good connections. Fast forward to the age…
DetailsIn keeping with my belief that the best tool to use is the one that you have with you…as long as it is a smart phone, I want to tell you about a couple of cool apps that should be on your phone. First up is an iPhone only app called iMeasure-Floor Plan which you…
DetailsAs your real estate business grows, you’ll find yourself having to manage dozens, or maybe even hundreds, of passwords. Client websites, shopping carts, email providers, hosting accounts, and nearly everything else you need to do for your clients – and your own business – will require a password. Keeping track quickly becomes overwhelming if you…
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The world is certainly a smaller place than it was when I began selling real estate in 1986! What I mean by that is these days you are just as likely to meet someone who does not speak English as you are to meet a native English speaker. This is especially common in my area…
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It turns out that most of the population learns visually, then auditorial and the kinesthetically. This is why it’s so important to use very high quality photos on your listings. What you place in the MLS gets syndicated around the world in a matter of minutes after you publish the listing on MLS. So…
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One of the issues that comes up when we write contracts is determining what dates things like contingency removals and inspection time frames actually occur on. Fortunately, there is a quick solution. If you were writing the contract on your computer, just go to https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html to start with the date of the contract and add…
DetailsHave you ever done a google search for a business and saw a box on the right side of the search results with a map and information about a business? If someone searches your name, do you have one of those boxes show up for you too? If you’d like to have that for your…
DetailsWhen was the last time you had a listing presentation? How did you do? Did you feel a bit rusty or out of practice? If you are like most agents, listing presentations are not a daily activity or even a weekly one, so it is not uncommon to feel a bit out of practice when…
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If you are a real estate agent, then you are constantly on the hunt for your next client. A fact of life in real estate sales is that if you don’t have someone committed to working with you on a sale of a home or a purchase of a home then you are out of…
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OK. It’s pretty much the middle of summer and we are still taking some vacations. Many of us are afraid to let our clients know that we actually take time off, but come on, do you really want people to believe that you are available 24/7? To me that broadcasts scarcity and that you don’t…
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