As a real estate agent I think it's good to occasionally go through the same things our clients do. Liz and I have lived in the same home for almost 30 years. The only other personal real estate transaction in that time was a few years ago buying an acre from the neigbhor to expand our turf a b
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01/19/2021
When I blogged daily I had certain days for certain topics.The first of the month, a top line market snapshot, and those posts had two audiences: area consumers that want to know how the real estate market is doing (going up, down, sideways, should I sell or should I buy?) and less importantly I
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01/12/2021
Once upon a time...And thus starts many fairy tales. Meanwhile we're working in reality, a reality that often doesn't mesh with various sales pitches.While it may be true that some consumers use brand name to find their agent (we've been at the end of a "RE/MAX agents near me" search results tha
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01/05/2021
The world has shrunk a lot since I was a kid.If you wanted to contact someone across the country you wrote a letter or paid for a long distance phone call.If you wanted to learn from the best, you had to go to where they were.If you wanted a certain food, perhaps the only way to get it was to go
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12/29/2020
Is there only one way for blogging to generate business?Of course not, but what works for one may not work for another.There's a need to be authentic, to find what works for YOUR local market and what brings you the type of business you WANT to work.So let's say you understand your target market
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12/22/2020
I do it.You probably do it too.When I'm shopping online for a product or service, I'll read the reviews.An absence of reviews typically doesn't bode well, nor does a bundle of reviews with a heavily negative slant. I tend to sample reviews of both the highest and lowest scores. Sometimes it's o
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12/15/2020
Right now I'm more spectator than participant when it comes to social media. I've taken a sabbatical from daily blogging and for right now I'm just doing Tuesdays to honor a commitment I made years ago.Facebook? I've went from posting a photo almost daily to weeks with nothing new posted. Spar
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12/08/2020
If 2020 has taught us nothing else, it should have taught us being prepared matters.Even under routine circumstances, being a real estate professional requires a good level of preparedness.Business can ebb and flow.You can be a week from a closing and suddenly the tenant refuses to move out.The s
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12/01/2020
If you know me, you know I'm not much of a touchyfeely guy. What else would you expect from an engineer/agent? You run any personality test you want on me and it'll be conclusive, I'm an introvert, analytical, etc.My blogging tends to reflect a Sgt. Joe Friday approach: facts, context, interpre
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11/24/2020
When I first started in real estate, my potential for getting into real estate trouble was fairly limited. Direct interactions and direct mail kept the sphere of influence constrained. The Internet was just getting started and most of the tools we use today hadn't even been thought of yet.Obvio
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11/17/2020
