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So, I was watching Shameless, tonight. And they talked about a really expensive Scotch (McCallum 1939), which the bartender sold them for $10,000. That's right, $10,000 for a bottle of Scotch. Now I like Scotch as much as the next man... well, really I prefer Bourbon, but I've been known to dri...
03/29/2015
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Active Rain is a microcosm of the world at large. There are lots of people who sit on the sidelines, and watch others blog, post, converse (or conversate, as a few of my colleagues like to say), and participate in general. Some are regular members. Some have chosen to be rainmakers. Many will si...
03/29/2015
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I just learned that the Hawaiian word "Koa" (Ko-ah) means strength. Amazing what you can learn watching Saturday morning television. I also know that the Hebrew word "Koach" (Ko-ach) also means strength. Goodness, the useless trivia I keep in this massive melon of mine. Coincendence? I think not....
03/28/2015
There's been a fair amount of conversation, lately, about door-knocking as a marketing plan, or as part of a marketing plan. Personally, I don't do it, never have. When I first started in this business many of my mentors suggested that as a newbie, I should do cold-calling (this was well before t...
03/27/2015
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Apparently the cell outage that knocked out my cell phone may have had something to do with a 2.9 earthquake that ocurred in the Chicago area at 6:08 this evening. I tried to make a call at 6:10 and couldn't get through for the next three hours, or so. The U.S. geological survey reported that the...
03/25/2015
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I have Sprint for my cell phone service, and have had Sprint for many years. Tonight, for some unknown reason, circumstances have conspired to keep me from making any phone calls. Fortunately, my computer service and cable service are still working. I checked to see if there is an outage in my a...
03/25/2015
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I don't get it. What do they show each week? Dancing with Catharine the Great? Waltzing with Ivan the Terrible? Tango with Feodor the Second? I mean, how exciting can it be... all the Tsars (or Czars, if you insist) have been dead for many years. What? you'd just be dragging them around the ...
03/23/2015
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This year, for the very first year since.... uh... ever... Millennials are scheduled to spend more money than the baby-boomers for the very first time. Most of the Realtors I know... er... my age-ish.... need a lot of retraining to communicate with millennials. I've been trained (Brian Buffini, ...
03/22/2015
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. It's a famous quote by author Kurt Vonnegut, best known for Slaughterhouse 5, and Breakfast of Champions... among other great books. Many of us had to read Vonnegut in high school. A very clever way of saying... "prove it". There are lots of "sho...
03/21/2015
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The security guard worked at the gate of the major manufacturer for many, many years. One Friday night, an employee was leaving work, and walked through the checkpoint pushing a wheelbarrow. The guard suspected he might be trying to steal something from the company, so he stopped him, and check ...
03/20/2015
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