Here in the United States we are celebrating the Labor Day Holiday this coming Monday. For many this holiday has become the last big fling of the summer. Its passing marks the end of summer (Actually, Summer doesn’t end until the autumnal equinox) and the return to school for many kids. For adults it has…
Are you caught up in iPad fever? Is every one you know buying one and you are feeling left out? Well, bunky, you are not alone. I was feeling the same way, even though I had made up my mind to wait it out until the second version comes out. But the constant onslaught of…
I have long held the belief that in order for me to be happy in my business life, that I really need to work with people that I like and to avoid those people who seem to make it their mission in life to grind down my soul. I discovered that working for other people…
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 past 6 weeks I have been positioning you to make money as a Realtor® through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Admittedly, I haven’t really touched on Web 2.0 or Social media that much in the process. But, all that has gone before was to set the stage. We first talked about what…
In the first part of this series I detailed the 6 traits of successful agents (as I se it) and in the subsequent posts I have focused on trait number 5 at least as it pertains to some of the hardware and software systems they use. In this post I want to talk some more…
I’ve been a licensed real estate agent for over 23 years. For most of those years I have been licensed as a broker. I have spent over 15 years as a manager of real estate offices. One of my four primary roles in that position was to train agents. (The other three primary roles of…
Did you ever have one of those days where all of your carefully crafted plans just flew out of the window? Today was such a day for me. I was planning on getting a number of things done that got put off because I was out of town all of last week, but a number…
2008 is finally over and 2009 is here. The New Year has always felt like new opportunity for me. I always enter January with high hopes for the things that I want to accomplish in the year ahead and this year is no different. Many of you journeyed with me last year on my quest…
We are knee deep in the holiday season and as I travel around real estate offices I see fewer of you around. My assumption is that you are out showing houses, looking at the inventory, meeting new clients and otherwise working on your business in order to be ready for 2009. One of the things…
