tips: Just a Few Suggestions that Might Help - Real Estate Sales Tips - 12/27/08 09:57 PM
I had a few recent experiences that made me want to write a post with tips for new and newer real estate agents who are trying to make it in this challenging business.
TIP #1 - MLS PHOTOS
Keep in mind that the goal of your MLS photos is to get … (94 comments)
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tips: How ActiveRain's Re-Blogging Can Help Us All! A basic SEO concept that I finally appreciate now - 09/24/08 07:57 PM
Not too long ago, ActiveRain launched the "Re-Blog" feature, which allows members to designate posts that they will allow others to post on their own blogs. I have been fortunate enough to have had about 8-10 of my posts re-blogged since this was launched. Each time this happens, I get an … (54 comments)
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tips: ActiveRain 101 - A Wealth of Tips for Newbies and Veterans Alike - 09/22/08 11:52 AM
This may not be new ground for most veteran members, but if you are new to the site, you will probably find this information very helpful.
I first started blogging back in 2004 on another website, although it was not for business at all. Rather, it was just an assortment of personal … (166 comments)
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tips: Real Estate 101 - Handling Tough Situations Gracefully - 05/18/08 10:35 PM
Over the years of my real estate career, I have grown a thicker skin, as it were. In some ways it has simply become easier to accept when things don't work out the way that I had hoped. I once lost a $213,000 commission when my buyer was snagged for … (71 comments)
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tips: Did I miss an opportunity to sell a home to Jennifer Aniston? Take a risk - it might just pay off! - 03/11/08 02:00 PM
About nine or ten years ago, when I was still pretty new in the real estate business, I had a couple of luxury listings that I was advertising in some national magazines (Robb Report, DuPont Registy, etc.). I wrote a post back in late September about some of the odd characters … (31 comments)
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tips: How to generate and track backlinks for your Active Rain profile - A few basic SEO tips - 02/15/08 12:56 PM
The first comment I made on Active Rain was August 5th, 2007. Since then, I have amassed 7404 comments made over the past 182 days. That means that I am averaging 40.68 comments daily here.
I could write (and have written) posts about the friendships that began as stray comments on AR, or the … (412 comments)
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tips: I am a WYSIWYG kind of guy who can't stand working with HTML clients. - 02/11/08 11:52 AM
If you read my blog regularly, you can see that I don't have a lot of secrets. I share my life pretty openly here, and this is really very much like my online diary at times, although I feel that I do contribute some solid real estate information as well.
Basically, … (54 comments)
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tips: Are you a Google Juicer? ActiveRain Offers You Some Incredible SEO Power - 02/03/08 09:44 PM
I read Jeff Belonger's post from earlier today (Bah Humbug, just SHOW ME the MONEY, not the points...... ), and while I was commenting, it inspired me to write this one. I wanted to take a minute to explain how powerful the ActiveRain "Google juice" really is, and how you … (73 comments)
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tips: Excuse me for asking, but do you have any intention of doing ANYTHING correctly during this negotiation? - 01/21/08 06:42 PM
My business partner has been working with some high-end home buyers over the past several months. As you might well imagine, the buyers are very...particular about their needs/wants, so it took awhile to find the perfect home. They made an offer about a week ago on a brand-new custom home, and … (81 comments)
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tips: So, You're Going on a Listing Appointment? How to Win Almost Every Time - 01/13/08 03:35 PM
Over the years, I have gone on hundreds of listing appointments. These days, it seems as though I am competing less and less often, since they probably found me through a friend of mine or a past client. When I do compete, I haven't really kept track of the percentage … (157 comments)
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tips: A couple of Active Rain tips for newbies (and perhaps some veterans, too) - 12/28/07 11:33 PM
I have discovered a couple of items here at Active Rain during my time here, and I thought it might be valuable to share this information with my friends.
I am probably not the first to write about this, but I only recently figured out that it is possible to invite … (82 comments)
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tips: Cake in One Hand, Eating it in the Other Hand - You Must Choose! - 10/19/07 01:03 PM
I have had some interesting and frustrating experiences with sellers in our market lately. It seems that clients just don't seem to "get it", sometimes. We are still in the slower winter season (at least it is slower here in Austin typically).
At any rate, it seems logical that if they are buying … (56 comments)
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tips: The ER Nurse and the Convenience Store Employee - Where do you see yourself? - 10/17/07 02:21 AM
My wife and I both had a rather long day today. I took care of our three kids and ran various errands with them, and visited a friend of mine who is in the hospital with a second bout of cancer (this will probably be a separate post of mine soon). … (58 comments)
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tips: You've Got them in the Car - Now What? - 10/03/07 06:26 PM
In today's market, getting a buyer into the car with you to look at property is difficult enough, so you want to ensure that your trip is as productive as possible. I have probably taken 500 or more buyers in my car since I first started in real estate in early … (51 comments)
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tips: How to Present and Use Buyer's Representation Agreements - 09/07/07 11:39 PM
As the broker and owner of a company with almost 20 agents, I have mulled over the topic of buyer's representation agreements with fellow brokers and Realtors for years. Not to toot my own horn (well, maybe a little), but I have represented buyers in almost every area of Austin … (44 comments)
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