After several years of mostly enjoyable free-lancing and consulting I have decided that I am most happy (and productive) when working in a team environment! So, I am entering the job market. From all reports, the real estate industry in the San Francisco Bay Area is doing well and it is my hope to find…
One of my “secret” prospecting tools as an agent was to send thank you notes to people that I had met. My wrinkle was that I kept a box of thank you notes and a roll of stamps in my car so that I could write that note, address it and mail it immediately. Depending…
Last April I wrote a two part series about finding new clients using social tools, and in Part Two of that series I talked a little bit about working with only those people that you like. Here are links to those articles because I think that you should quickly review them as they will set…
A few weeks ago I attended a real estate BarCamp in Redwood City. Don’t ask me why it’s called that. Instead, go to http://rebarcamp.com/ and learn more about what BarCamps are all about. While I was in a session that was talking about marketing yourself online, the presenter was talking about how his team uses…
According to the USGS, the dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. (Here is the link http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/extinct.html) That same source claims that they had a good long reign of about 165 million years. That’s certainly long enough that if there were any sentient dinosaurs then they probably believed that they would be around for…
Last week I talked about your need to have a prospecting plan that brings you the customers that you want to work with, instead of always having to work with whoever shows up! Wouldn’t it be nice if we always had a steady stream of prospective clients moving towards us as we move towards them?…
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…
I was asked to complete that sentence the other day by a woman who had just received her real estate license and hadn’t yet made the choice of what brokerage to join. She wanted my take on what I would do to be successful in today’s real estate market. That’s a really good question, but…
Change comes to all of us in one form or another and in many different ways. Change can be welcome or unwelcome. It can be embraced or it can be fought. It can also mean many things depending on whether it’s a verb, noun or intransitive verb (whatever THAT is!). But, in my case, the…
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…
