Today, many agents who are taking high end listings use professional photography to showcase their listings with the best possible images. These photographers use special lighting, special cameras with special lenses, tripods, filters and other photographic hardware to take the best possible pictures. And they go back to their studious to use Photoshop and other…
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Lately it seems that there is an epidemic of people crying that their Facebook accounts have been hacked. In fact, in most cases they haven’t been hacked, but someone unknown to the them is using their picture and name to build up a new Facebook account. The person doing this sends out friend requests to…
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I know that we are all area specialists! At least that seems to to be the popular claim! And, if we are talking about the homes in a particular neighborhood we probably are. But, how well do you know the services that are nearby? Do you know how far it is to the nearest gas…
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If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that the first two weeks of 2017 are in the books already! Only 50 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…
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If you are considering beefing up your social media presence as part of your 2017 marketing plan, read on! RISMedia is a 35 year old source for real estate related news that has built a reputation as being one of the few news sources that can be trusted to really keep the focus on the…
DetailsOk, here we are at the first day of the year, There are 364 more chances to kill it in real estate this year. The question is how are you going to do it? I’ve been doing this business for over 30 years now and although technology has changed a lot of things, several things…
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As 2016 draws to a close I hope that you are thinking about ways to find more business in 2017. I often hear agents talking about how to get more business and I keep waiting for them to ask me! So, I wrote this last year (and have updated it for this year) and I’d…
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Planning claims to have many benefits. One in particular is that it gives you more control over your day. Planning helps you focus on what needs to get done, in other words the activities that drive your business, so that you can make sure that they actually get done! Another way to describe planning is…
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Social media has to be a part of your online presence, prospecting and client retention toolkit. If it isn’t you are probably falling further behind those agents that are using the new tools. We have an amazing assortment of Guru’s trying to tell us what to say, when to say it and who to say…
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