I’m more than a little fascinated with AI (Artificial Intelligence) and last week’s post explored a tiny bit of the AI technology. (Read it here in case you missed it: https://realtytechbytes.com/what-is-artificial-intelligence/) One of the leaders in the race to perfect AI is an organization called OpenAI (https://beta.openai.com/). They recently released a research module called ChatGPT. …
Back in the good old says of real estate, a smart agent kept a written record of every conversation they had with their buyers or sellers, inspectors, contractors, title people, lenders and so on. If the conversation had anything to do with a transaction we wrote it down. Eventually those records became Conversation Logs and…
Have you done a listing presentation via Zoom yet? How about working with buyers going over reports? (Or any other “conference style” meetings with clients?) If not, you probably will sooner or later. Zoom seems to have insinuated itself into all aspects of our customer and colleague facing business. One of the issues that I…
In my current “day job” as a coach and mentor at Dudum Real Estate Group in the San Francisco East Bay, I have the enviable opportunity to work with agents one on one. In one hour meetings I get to hear the frustrations, problems and issues that agents face in their day to day real…
Do you have any professional designations or certifications? If so, congratulations! You are showing your commitment to providing the highest level of expertise to your clients by spending the time and money necessary to remain at the top of your professional career. If not, you may be wondering if it is worth it. The California…
Introduction To Using WordPress You’ve read in many places on the Internet that it’s important to build your own blog and or website. Whether it be for personal or business use, people tell you to get your own website. But you don’t know how it’s done. You don’t know anything about building websites, and you…
As I find myself in the waning years of my real estate career I am looking back over my 33 years in this business and I see that there were several contributing factors to my longevity. I am going to list them here for you. You may find that you may want to emulate some…
In fact, don’t do anything in the office at all! Except to meet your clients who want to meet in the office, attend office meetings and other management required office attendance. Other than that, you need to be spending your time where the clients are…and I have a news flash for you…they aren’t in your…
Back in the old days of real estate, keeping a written phone log of our conversations with our clients, inspectors, appraisers, the other agents, title companies, etc was an important part of of our risk management process. Those of us who have been around for a while still do this with calls we make and…
About a month ago, I was on a tour of some historic areas of Boston with a group of people from the town where I live. Since home prices here have done nothing but go up over the past few years, everyone is interested in the prices of homes, Good for me as a real…
