I spent much of last week at Inman Connect in San Francisco. I am generally NOT a fan of these conferences because too often they are slanted towards industry outsiders who come and speak and try to tell us how to do our business. They all seemed to have the idea that they could re-invent…
How many times have you heard that direct mail is dead as a method for growing your business? You’ve probably heard from well meaning peers that either haven’t really used it, or tried it once and didn’t get the results that they had hoped for. In truth, Direct Mail does work if done correctly. I…
As I write this post, October 2016 is nearly behind us. Just two more months and 2017 will be here! It’s amazing to me how fast time seems to fly by these days and I often wonder how I can make the most of each day that I spend in my business. Over the years…
Have you ever thought of using Facebook to find new buyer or seller leads? It’s only the number one social network on the planet and pretty much all age groups are users of the platform. Perhaps you have subscribed to what all of the gurus have been teaching and have been disappointed by the results…
I’m often asked by new agents what can they do to get started or how can can I get my first sale? I have a standard litany of responses which include calling or mailing your sphere of influence, starting a farm, holding open houses and so on. They all work to the extent that the…
A few years back I told you about an app that you could use to send greeting cards form your phone (https://realtytechbytes.com/a-nifty-way-to-send-those-christmas-cards) and towards the end of that article, I off handedly mentioned another app (Postagram) for sending photo postcards. My idea at the time was to use the apps in lieu of sending Christmas,…
How many passwords are you juggling these days? How many different logins? What about the question of which login and password did you use with which website? I often wonder if I am the only person going slowly nuts trying to juggle all of this and still be effective at what I do, and…
With apologies to Andy Williams and the song “It’s a most wonderful time of the year”, because this surely is not the most wonderful time of the year! Here in the US, it’s tax season, with the April 15th deadline for filing income taxes looming large on the horizon, many of us are going through…
Over the last three weeks I have been talking about how a real estate agent can make a living in the Web 2.0 world. We started by setting the stage, talking about phones, then computers. This week I want to talk about the software that you will need on your computer. There is a wide…
I wanted to buy my first house in 1984. I had absolutely no clue about how to go about the process, so I started by going to open houses. I met lots of real estate agents, but sadly, none that I trusted enough to want to “hire”. So, I started taking real estate courses at…
