Chickenhawk Scratchings
The idle contemplations of one of the up-and-coming real estate agents and trainers in Upstate South Carolina.
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2008
I'm looking forward to attending Keller Williams Mega Camp at the end of this month down in Austin, TX. Mega Camp is always a special event. Agents who are well out of the starting blocks and deep in the process of building their businesses converge to learn about techniques and ideas, and to s...
08/09/2008
One of the problems that agents in the Greenville, SC area are running into are buyers who expect to make a killing on selling prices of homes. This generally happens with out of state buyers who come from markets that have taken severe hits. Often times the buyer was hit hard as a seller thems...
08/09/2008
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Don Knotts. Bob Hope. Tim Conway. So many others. Legends in their time, and personal favorites of mine. I've enjoyed laughs from those three and MANY others for years, but I often wonder, are those laughs becoming a lost thing? We don't really have any comedians that I can point to that hav...
08/09/2008
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This is an update to a previous blog that I posted about Facebook. I was questioning at the time whether or not Facebook was a viable source of leads, or if it was just going to be more of a waste of time. The spirits have spoken, and I received my first listing from Facebook. It required very ...
08/09/2008
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Recently, a client of mine asked if I could start running ads for her house in the local newspaper. I explained to her that my internet advertising was much more effective, and cited the numerous studies that have proven such. It got me thinking, though... how much of a dinosaur is print market...
08/09/2008
I haven't even watched the last lecture series, but I got to see Dr. Pauch on a clip from Oprah. I was blown away. Here is a man who is dying (has died now, sadly), and he is telling folks how to be positive and optimistic. It made me wonder, how can I not always find positive things to focus ...
08/09/2008
I don't smoke, drink excessively, or do drugs stronger than Advil, but I have a vice that is getting the best of me. Caffeine. That nasty substance is causing me no end of troubles. My drink of choice is Dr. Pepper. I don't drink coffee, so all of my caffeine comes with an added friend - high ...
08/09/2008
Now that the Summer Olympic Games for 2008 have officially begun, it is time to start trying to digest the HUGE amount of information thrown our way. There are multiple channels covering various olympic games at all hours of the night. If you only want to see one particular sport, you've got to...
08/09/2008
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If your flying experiences amount to several trips inside a pressurized metal tube hurling through the air (i.e. an airliner), then you won't be able to relate to this. If you have NO flying experiences, you won't be able to relate... but I hope you all can visualize. I write this to share with...
08/08/2008
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When I was in Orlando, FL recently for a real estate superconference, I expected my favorite moment to be something in the seminar. I reasonably figured that it would be a new sales technique, or a great script, or a new website for lead generation. Boy was I wrong! As I was driving down the hig...
08/08/2008
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The idle contemplations of one of the up-and-coming real estate agents and trainers in Upstate South Carolina.