Remembering September 11th, 2001
It’s hard to believe that 7 years have passed since the horrifying day none of us will ever forget. The images will never fade, the
It’s hard to believe that 7 years have passed since the horrifying day none of us will ever forget. The images will never fade, the
Photo by JOE M500/Flickr.com Posted by Nicolai Kolding I’m an insomniac. That hardly makes me unique around here – it’s a bit of a running
Posted by Sherry Chris In a meeting this morning, Alex Perriello eloquently stated, “I feel like I am in Imelda Marcos’ closet – the shoes
The advantage of implementing these ideas is that they’re relatively easy and provide measurable results. Plus, I would think that positioning your company for the future would include shifting advertising dollars to online sources, eliminating faxes and excessive printing, and limiting your footprint.
5 Ways to Recruit More Effectively: Know Your Audience, Hang Out Where Your Candidates Hang Out, Have Success Systems, Have A Distinct Company Culture and Be Able to Share It, and Set Clear Mutual Expectations and Deliver.
The study was conducted by the Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research that claims that “familiarity with and usage of social media within the Inc. 500 has nearly doubled in the past 12 months.”
* Professional sports teams have managers and coaches. The reason for this is because these are two different jobs. In most real estate offices, the leader has to wear many hats. If you want to attract and retain Gen X and Gen Y agents you have to wear your coaching hat, not your manager’s hat.
I’d look at all of my leases and see if I could get ever leaner and meaner. I would challenge every last square foot of space, not only because it cuts back on a big line-item but because having a 4,000 square-foot cube-farm isn’t how I’d want to position myself for the future. At the same time, I’d be looking around my market to see who was not in a position to survive the winter and look to acquire. My goal wouldn’t be to stretch myself into a new market, but to strengthen my operations with good, productive, reputable agents.
That is a significant “somewhat” captive audience out there who will drive the real estate market in the years to come. They will be our customers, our broker owners, our real estate agents, and they will be looking for us on all of these social networking sites and on others that haven’t yet been conceived. What we say and how we present ourselves, and whether we are even participating will be a large factor in our business success. In the past several weeks I have received franchise inquiries from Twitter, comments on YouTube videos, employment inquiries with resumes and franchise inquiries from LinkedIn, suggestions, meeting requests, comments, friend requests, links to products we might be interested in and general messages from FaceBook.
Posted by Jason Steele Two weeks ago, my wife and I resumed our home search. This time we were exploring a new county. Yes, “county.”
One thing that agents want to have is a decisive leader. Yes, they want us to hear ‘both sides of the story’ and we must be always be good listeners, but when all is said and done a decision must be sometimes be made solely by the leader. This is what General Norman Schwarzkopf calls Rule #13…”When put in charge, take charge.”
Posted by Wendy Forsythe It was a lazy Saturday afternoon of rest and relaxation until the blinking red light of the Blackberry caught my eye
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