Over the course of my career serving the real estate industry, I have spoken to thousands of agents and brokers and there hasn’t been one that ever said their consumers were “national”. Not one has told me they want to attract a consumer located 10,000 miles away nor have they told me they do not …
“Put down your phone. Stand up. Introduce yourself to someone near you that you don’t know. Look them in the eye. Tell them something about yourself that has nothing to do with business.” This is exactly what I said on January 27,th 2015 at the beginning of my keynote session at the Inman Connect Agent Reboot real …
In our previous article “Is a Chromebook for You?” we reviewed what a Chromebook is and debated whether a Chromebook is a tool or a toy. I presume most of you may still believe Chromebooks are toys. But some of you I know have made a decision and decided to take the plunge. You have …
For years now, we’ve been debating about online portals changing the real estate industry and displacing REALTORS, for fear that they will become a real estate company or franchise. But as my colleague wrote in an article last week: http://nexthome.com/2014/11/my-first-90-days-on-the-brokerage-side-thoughts-from-a-former-trulia-executive/, the online search is only about 5% of the process for buying real estate and …
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